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Open Your Eyes
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About the project

Open Your Eyes

“Open Your Eyes: Fake News for Dummies” is a two-year KA2 Erasmus+ project that seeks to improve the digital literacy of adult learners by providing them with tools to identify fake news and fight the spread of disinformation online. In the New Media Age, we are constantly surrounded by all kinds of information, from political issues to advertisements and marketing, which gets to us with no filter other than our own capacity to critically assess its validity. Biased information appears to be particularly difficult to decode for the less media-literate demographics; while the rates of digital literacy have proved to disregard age or educational level. The Open Your Eyes project targets specifically adult learners and educators and seeks to improve their digital literacy by providing them with tools to identify fake news and fight the spread of disinformation online. Some of these needs that have been identified, such as lack of literacy and competences to detect fake news and biased information and lack of digital skills, are intertwined and the project will try to address them by collecting and developing quality materials for adult educators which they will later use for the organisation of “Check IT Out” Labs for adult learners.

EU Disclaimer
The Open Your Eyes project addresses directly a lack of critical thinking skills found in society to read, understand, contrast and evaluate the information as well as the ability to analyse the way you think and present evidence for your ideas, rather than simply accepting personal reasoning as sufficient proof. The project supports improving digital literacy of adult learners which will be implemented through an exploration of news feeds and building up digital source criticism, i.e. the skills of adults/adult learners of identifying the values and principles underlying media texts and discriminating objective from subjective information.

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