Building safe, aware and inclusive schools in the digital era. Guidelines from the MEET project

We are living in a world where something like a ‘cognitive war’ consisting in systematic manipulation of information is taking place. It is not a case that post-truth and fake news have been declared as the «words of the year» for 2016 and 2017 by some international dictionaries such us the Oxford and the Collins Dictionaries. When this tendency encounters discriminatory and anti-elitism discourses, new digital media risk to become the platforms through which certain organizations spread out hate speech making the web an unsafe and uncomfortable space. In this context the European project MEET (Media Education for Equity and Tolerance, Erasmus Plus, KA3, 2016-18) developed a methodology and a set of educational tools to tackle the new challenges raised by the information society focusing on the building up of more safe, aware and inclusive schools in Europe. The workshop will provide the opportunity to get acknowledged with these tools and reflect on their transferability in specific school contexts. Project website: https://meetolerance.eu/