Maltas for children and youth centre youth media literacy seminar 3 rd place on video story

On December 1, the first day of the last month of 2017 in the Rēzekne Technology Academy (RTA), in collaboration with the MINISTRY of Culture of LATVIA, an interactive seminar “365 days with mass media” invited students of classes 8-12 and their teachers to learn what “media literacy” is, as well as to find the winners of the “story force” of the video competition.
In the introduction to the event, THE Prorectore Angelika Jusko-Štekele, Prorector of RTA Studies and Sciences, stressed that the 10 th International Latgalistic Conference, which also spoke about the future of media, was held on 30 November and 1 December, and one of the knowledge was that more should be done with young people: “but in this hall, seeing you in such a large number of cases, seeing the unique collection of world newspapers collected BY Maltas BJC journalist group teacher, and what is being done with young people, as well as what is being done with young people, i understand that everything is happening. So we can only wish to have patience and satisfaction for what you do! '
The organizer and manager OF the seminar, RTA Doc Sandra Murinska, quoted the astonishing fact of Google's representative Erika Schmidt: in two days, there is so much information as from the start of civilisation until 2003. Similarly, the attention of young people to fake profiles (e.g. in social tickets Facebook – “League returned” etc.) and information on media literacy, as well as statistics on media literacy (e.g. the worst situation in Latgale, where ONLY 31% people believe that the information in different media is different) is addressed. A Maltas youth initiative was said – to conduct a mini-survey among their peers on the most frequently used homepages and the reliability of information (the results were presented by League Runchis). MS Murinska called for the subjective perception of young people to be accompanied by factual verification and other opinions.
During the seminar, pupils took part in a critical thinking masterpiece, led by Solvita Pošeiko, and in which they were likely to be so scrupulously active with texts (trying to compel a puzzle, think of a title and visualize content). Young people were active in the interactive team “media detective”, where Agent James Bonda, under close supervision and with the help of “the most knowledgeable” website “Google”, defined the word “media literacy”, called public media and Latgale mass media, decrypted the abbreviation NEPLP (National Electronic Mass Media Council), and finally, trying to track media content-making techniques, analysed some text from the magazine. (Maltas BJC girls in this play helped Rezekne Technical School Stefans Vlasov!)
This seminar also organizes a video competition “the strength of the story”, allowing pupils themselves to feel the role of content builders and to discover their vision of how the top and how often and very often – consciously misleading – can be stories around us. 9 teams have been submitted to the competition: three teams from the Shuttle Secondary School, as well as from the 1 st Gymnia of Rezekne, the Rezekne Technical School, the Eastern Latvian Technology Secondary School, Maltas Children's and Youth Centre (BJC), the Jçkabpils 2 nd Secondary School, the Rugar District High School. THE LRT journalist Esma Spruukte gave the prizes on behalf of the jury: the promotion prize for the 9 th class of the School Secondary School; the diploma for 3 rd place – Maltas BJC for the team of journalist group (League Runchis, Daira Aleksandroviča, Krista Grace); 2 nd place – for the team of the 2 nd High School of Jacob and 1 st place – for the secondary school team of Jçkabpils. It should be noted that all four video videos were in line with the basic criterion, and the distribution of locations was likely to be in detail, as it was obvious that the 1 st place winners had devoted more time and attention to this work than the rest of the team. However, this is the real time that the most important thing is not the prize, but the participation – a new experience and conclusions that are, by this way, an informatively saturated and active workshop that is certainly for each pupil!
Skaidrite Squicky,
Maltas BJC journalist group teacher