education@home

Project Number: 2018-1-DE02-KA204-005033

Every year, more than 3.7 million children are born in Europe and grow up into a densely surrounded media world. The demand for media literacy education, but especially for media education aids, is increasing across countries. Today, children and young people are not only at home in digital media at an ever earlier age and find increasingly complex online worlds and possibilities. Consumption also largely escapes parental control, unlike in the real world. Although this growing need for parent education exists, the form of support parents need appears to be changing. Parents' evenings at schools are on the decline, and online seminar rooms are in demand because there is no travel involved and additional childcare does not need to be funded or organized either. Anonymity is a given, which can be especially helpful with sensitive topics. Digital media can make learning even more active and individualized. The Erasmus+ project "You, Media and Me" ("YouMMe") responds to this demand. In a consortium of Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia and Germany and with the involvement of policy makers and parents themselves, a multilingual digital parent consultation service is being developed in the form of a web-based APP.

This will provide instructional videos in 5 languages that address the parents' own critically reflective use of media and concrete, current issues in media education. The website will feature working materials, a question repository, and a monthly expert roundtable. The partner countries will also organize multiplier events and a final symposium in Graz.