Promoter
Blue Globe Media
Aim
The organization's objective is to encourage children and young people to learn to inform themselves through the correct information channels.
To this end, Junior Report designs workshops, didactic resources and information channels, including a student-produced media outlet, to promote media education.
Their activities facilitate young people's awareness of the need to be well informed. In addition, the elaboration of news and the search for information sources is a very effective way to develop critical thinking.
Scope
To consume information critically, choosing truthful media and contrasting information to combat disinformation and fake news.
Target-group
Children and young people
Short Description
The organization designs informative channels, workshops and didactic resources to bring current affairs closer to first-time readers and to work on current affairs in the classroom. They create languages and projects to explain complex topics in a simple way. They encourage the critical spirit of young people. They create a global news item every day, explained in a didactic and contextualized way, to encourage reading the press and work on the information in class. They also offer an educational platform under subscription for academic centres, with materials and pedagogical resources to work on current affairs in the classroom. It includes slides and exercises that complement The Daily News and a catalogue of Didactic Units with activities to read, discuss and give opinions in class.
Junior Report's classroom workshops encourage critical reading of the media, teach how to identify fake news and promote the responsible use of news content. The Revista Escolar Digital (RED) project is a network of school newspapers managed, directed and edited by primary, secondary and high school students with the support of professional journalists. Students participating in the RED project report on current events in their environment and learn to identify 'fake news' based on a Work Plan and a virtual Activity Plan. In addition, the best content is published in the collaborative journal RED Report.
The organization also develops workshops on media education with materials created by teachers and journalists, adapted to different educational levels. They accompany the material with teacher guides that include criteria for evaluating the news and links to external resources. Some of the workshops are: Journalism and Gender Equality. Journalism and refugees. Journalism and fake news.
Results
The initiative is currently active in 96 educational centres, reaching more than 8,500 students who learn to be better informed through appropriate channels.
