During October 2020 - February 2021, the staff of the Department of Ukrainian Philology together with students of the first and second levels of higher education of the Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages SHEI in cooperation with Sumy State Pedagogical University. AS Makarenko is carrying out an interuniversity grant "MEDIA & TEACHER CAMPUS". The project was made possible by the support of the Council for International Research and Exchanges (IREX).
The purpose of the project: formation of infomedia literacy of future tutors, in particular in the introduction of blended learning, on the basis of academic integrity and interregional partnership of philological departments of pedagogical universities of Ukraine, institutions for training future journalists and general secondary education; promoting the functioning and popularization of the use of the Ukrainian language in the media in Bakhmut, Donetsk region and in Sumy, Sumy region
At present, effective, as our activities have shown, regulations on the educational and research center "MEDIA & TEACHER CAMPUS", creative association "MEDIA & TEACHER", regulations on the competition of methodological developments with an information component; created the current pages of the center on the sites of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after AS Makarenko, Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages, Donbass State Pedagogical University, blog of the Department of Ukrainian Philology.
The webinars "Infomedia literacy as an important component of teacher's professionalism" (29.12.20), "Infomedia literacy: a suitcase for exercises for a linguist" (4.01.2021), "How to write a methodological development" became relevant for participants who testify to numerous posts on social networks. infomedia component ”(January 9, 2021),“ Dictionary Workshop ”(January 15, 2021), moderated by N. Ponomarenko, O. Semenog, M. Nadutenko, O. Muratova. Webinars brought together more than 200 participants: students of higher and professional higher education, teachers of vocabulary, school principals, research and teaching staff from different regions of Ukraine (Bakhmut, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Sumy, Hlukhiv, Poltava, Kyiv, Pereyaslav, Lutsk, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhia, Kostiantynivka, Myrnograd, Vinnytsia, Soledar, Kryvyi Rih, Chasiv Yar, Paraskoviivka, etc.).
Topical issues such as: fact and judgment, how to distinguish them in everyday communication were considered; methods and techniques of formation of infomedia literacy of pupils / students in the conditions of blended learning; skills to counter falsifications, fakes; positives and risks of creating information products; critical thinking; netiquette, social tolerance, visual and digital literacy, etc.
In January 2021, a competition for the best methodological development with an information media component was held, based on the results of which the winners were determined and an online collection of methodological developments was prepared. Active work is underway to prepare a multimedia dictionary on media literacy.
The "MEDIA & TEACHER" navigator has been created to search for and analyze information messages with elements of violation of journalistic standards and norms of the modern Ukrainian language in the media for a wide range of users.
The results of the grant project were presented during the conference "Cultural-speaking personality of the specialist" (10.12.2020).
Preparations are currently underway for the final festival, which is scheduled for February 21, 2021.
The project is coming to an end, but we want to say with confidence in the words of Lina Kostenko that "every finish is, in fact, the start"! Work on improving the skills of information media literacy will continue, because without it, everyone who has at least once had to visit a friendly media literate family, no longer thinks of a full life.
