EMPOWER -Empowering Digital Citizenship Through Media Literacy and Critical Thinking

EMPOWER is designed to significantly improve the ability of young people to critically assess their engagement with digital & social media and to make responsible choices about how they wish to consume and share online. Empower aims are:

• Encorage knowledge sharing and peer learning among education and youth sector stakeholders to develop a Good Practice Catalogue of leading and innovative approaches to teaching media literacy and critical thinking as linked to healthy online behavior and active citizenship.
• Create and promote Digital Citizenship Education Toolkit comprising open, online resources that Teachers and Educators can use with young people to explore the topic and strengthen their own skills.
• Develop and widely disseminate a Teacher’s Guide to Digital Pedagogy as a user-friendly, interactive online resource to support teaching staff in developing their own digital competences and mainstreaming digital literacy skills in their teaching and youth work activities.

Empower impact

To enable young people to developthe critical thinking skills to better assess the motives and interest behind online content thereby empowering them to become responsible, confident digital citizens.

• Good Practice Gatalogue
• Digital Citizenship Toolkit
• Digital Pedagogy Course