Address: Tršova 27

Country: Montenegro

 School website


Project: Digital citizen

 

Working language during the project:

  • Montenegrin
     

Themes of the Council of Europe project “FREE to SPEAK, SAFE to LEARN - Democratic Schools for All” covered:

  • Making children’s and students’ voices heard
  • Addressing controversial issues
  • Preventing violence and bullying
  • Dealing with propaganda, misinformation and fake news
  • Tackling discrimination
  • Improving well-being at school
     

Competences from the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (CDC) addressed and where / how they were integrated:

  • Valuing human dignity and human rights
    In round tables, workshops-peer education, collecting the necessary material for a guide/brochure, designing and implementing a show by students.
  • Cooperation skills
    In round tables, workshops-peer education, collecting the necessary material for a guide/brochure, designing and implementing a show by students.
  • Civic mindedness
    In round tables, workshops-peer education, collecting the necessary material for a guide/brochure, designing and implementing a show by students.
  • Knowledge and critical understanding the world: politics, law, human rights, culture, cultures, religions, history, media, economies, environment, sustainability
    In round tables, workshops- peer education, collecting the necessary material for a guide/brochure, designing and implementing a show by students.
     

Target group age range:

  • 15 - 19

Level of education:

  • Upper secondary education

Short description of the project:

With this project, students and teachers will improve their digital competences, parents and the wider community will understand the importance of developing digital competences. Students will develop digital competences, they will become media literate and take into account anti-discrimination attitudes online.

We will send a written notice to all local media (portals, Pljevlja`s newspapers and Pljevlja TV) about all project activities and the implementation plan.

We will organize round tables online, using viber groups for parents and students of our school. Due to the new epidemiological situation and the limited number of participants in the viber group, we will organize 16 online round tables (for the 16 classes we have in the school). It will be a mini round table, where we will introduce students and their parents to the project and planned activities

Four workshops - peer education, we will also organize online, using the application Microsoft Teams for one class from all four classes of our school. We will turn the new situation to our advantage, because students will see in a practical way how important it is to be a digitally educated citizen.

Students will begin to collect all necessary material for the development of the guide/brochure, under the supervision of a professor-mentor. We will make an electronic version, and later a printed one.

We will also organize a round table for teachers of our school through the Microsoft Teams application and inform them about project activities and the importance of digital citizenship.

We’ve already established cooperation with the Secretariat for Social Activities/Municipality of Pljevlja. We will formalize the cooperation by signing a memorandum of cooperation between our school and the Secretariat, which will provide help and support for the promotion of the project in the wider local community.

Students will design and implement a TV broadcast, taking care not to violate the prescribed epidemiological measures. The broadcast will be a kind of collage because we plan to record everything we did and put it together in one suitable TV broadcast.

The project evaluation will be carried out online. We will get feedback from students and their parents.

At the end of the school year, we will have the teachers' council to launch a new school section called Digital Citizenship. Under this section, we will continue to work on the promotion of digital citizenship, raising awareness of appropriate communication on the internet and protection of human and minority rights.
 

Aims/objectives

Goals and outcomes

The aim of the project is to improve the digital competences of students and teachers, to introduce parents to the importance of developing digital competences, as well as the wider local community. The goal is to improve students' digital culture, point out the importance of media literacy and anti-discrimination rhetoric.
 

Expected results/outcomes

With this project, students and teachers will improve their digital competences and parents and the wider community will understand the importance of developing digital competences. Students will develop digital competences, they will become media literate and take into account anti-discriminatory attitudes online.
 

Changes

Improve digital competences of students, teachers and parents.

Challenges you faced

The current pandemic situation.
 

Time-frame of the project:

April 2021.
 

Council of Europe materials on citizenship and human rights education used while preparing or implementing your practice:

  • Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture
  • Democratic governance of schools