Between April 2021 and March 2022, experts from ARC Fund (coordinator of the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre) and the CEGA Foundation conducted three trainings for teachers from all over the country on how to identify fake news, misinformation, and media manipulation and how to develop information assesment skills and digital and media competences in their students.
The trainings were provided within the “Care for Truth” project implemented by CEGA Foundation (coordinator of the project), Applied Research and Comminications (ARC) Fund, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), and Roma Lom Foundation, and co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) of the European Union.
Because of the pandemic situation, the first training of teachers was held online on 21 April 2021. During the training, an expert from ARC Fund intoduced to the participants the main objectives of the Care for Truth project and the methodology for development of digital and media literacy in students, elaborated within the project.
Next two trainings were held live in the town of Bankya, in strict compliance with the anti-epidemic measures. Teachers from schools in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Kyustendil, Svishtov, Pomorie, Oryahovo, Dalgopol, and Kesarevo participated in the trainings. The first face-to-face training was conducted for 12 teachers from all over the country between 8 and 10 October 2021. It was focused on how to recognize fake news, and misinformation (including anti-Roma misinformation). The second practical three day training was provided for 24 teachers from different towns, cities, and villages of the country between 11 and 13 March 2022. It was focused on how to develop information assessment skills and other digital and media competences in students. During the training, the teachers were introduced in more datails to the methodology for development of digital and media literacy in students included in the guide for teachers elaborated by Bulgarian SIC experts within the Care for Truth project.
As a follow-up of the training, the teachers will pilot lessons from the guide at their schools and will provide their feedbacks on their work in class with it.
