Contents

1. Acknowledgement

The Get It Right Course Handbook, a media literacy non-formal learning guide, is an outcome of the Get it Right project. The main aims of this Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project have been to develop skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of media literacy, develop new abilities, such as critical thinking, how to interpret/analyse an article, how to use social media in a responsible way, for the young people during the implementation and to raise awareness among people from the European countries about the importance of media literacy. In doing so, the project involved hundreds of trainers, youth workers and young people who participated in the development of the methods described below. Spanning 28 months, from 1st September 2018 to 31st December 2020, going through the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the project has involved participants from Romania, Greece and Ireland and it was structured starting from the needs of the beneficiaries, going to developing, testing and promoting the final result. In the first part of the project, the three partner organisations have realised a field research in order to find out media literacy education practices, online behaviour of the young people and the main risks they are facing when they use the internet. In the second part, the course was developed in accordance with the findings of the research, this phase going side-by-side with testing the educational methods developed. 18 trainers, youth workers and youth leaders (6 from each participating country) have been informed in media literacy and taught to use the developed course, and each of them held experimental laboratories in order to test and review it. The course handbook offers a selection of 32 non-formal learning methods to enhance media education among young people. The descriptions of the methods provide the, duration, group size, materials needed, concrete steps to do the work questions for Debriefing & Reflection, Learning Outcomes and other additional resources.

We hope that the course handbook will help trainers, youth workers, teachers and any interested person or organisation working in media education to contribute to the raising of the level of critical thinking of future generations.

The Get It Right Course Handbook would not have been possible without the contribution of all the partner organisations, Romanian Youth Movement for Democracy, Donegal Youth Service and Inter Alia. Thank you for your commitment and enthusiasm during the partnership and for implementing and testing the modules in your projects and local communities.

Thanks to the staff and volunteers of the organisations involved – for their support to the editors and layout team during the final editing process. Thanks to the participants who attended the training seminars and the local workshops in Romania, Ireland and Greece. Your ideas and input have been incorporated in this toolkit! Our sincere thanks goes to the European Commission which co-funded the project and offered us this great opportunity.