What is needed besides Books and Readers?
Venue
A comfortable space with seating arrangements for private conversations.
Support Staff
Volunteers to manage the groups of readers, time conversations, and offer assistance.
Workshop Facilitation
Participants will be split into small groups led by youth educators. These workshops are all about teamwork and collaboration to dream up and design solutions or responses to some head-scratching fake news scenarios we’ve all heard about. Whether it’s a bogus social media post or a sneaky piece of news, you’ll learn how to respond in smart, effective ways.
Creative Output Development
Learning how to recognize fake news – enhancing their critical thinking and media literacy, means that the participants are ready to work on their social activism. Therefore, once the Meet Up session is finished, participants should engage into creative workshop on collaborative output development. You can choose or allow participants to develop their own format of activism – be it if we speak about physical activism or creation of some digital forms that will raise awareness and educate people on the Internet about the social challenge in question.
So, now the really fun part starts: making your ideas come to life. This phase is all about creating something tangible out of your brainstorming sessions. It could be anything from a short video, a digital poster, an eye-catching infographic, or even a mini-podcast debunking a piece of fake news. For this to happen, Youth Educators are taking the place and facilitating workshop with young people. Youth educators should:
- Introduce participants into social activism and its importance.
- Present participants with vast range of forms of social activism, allowing them to relate with most interesting once.
- Establish a setting for collaborative work of the small working group on the development of the creative output assigned or selected, on the topic of fake news which was/were previously discussed with MPE(s).
- Support participants in finalization of idea for creative output – be it if we talk about the sketch, scenario, picture or any other form of draft of the idea. Participants should be allowed to present their ideas to one another and engage into dialogue of merging the most interesting parts together into one final solution.
Number of creative workshops should be the same as the number of Meet Ups – they are the follow up activities from the Meet Ups serving to transform newly acquired knowledge into creative activism.
In the framework of the EAF project, each event was different as it always involved new and different participants and lead them toward creation of a different creative output. In-person EAF events used different methods and had various creative outputs, from creating graffiti to, using Escape Room method and the flash-mobs. Online event had an aim to work with participants on enhancing their media literacy and critical thinking skills and develop 24 Memes (each addressing one of the fake news analyzed at the event). These memes were later exhibited as a part of the 360 virtual guided exhibition.
