Online and offline security
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.
