Mit den Krim e-Buddies für mehr Fairness im Netz

Topic(s) addressed

This project highlighted the importance of the wellbeing of children and teenagers in the digital age, focusing on the tension between the need for young people to engage with new technologies and the risks, such as cyber bullying, as well as what schools can do.

Target group(s)

The project activities involved students and teachers, including from partner schools in Italy and Spain, as well as a Viennese media artist who taught media production skills to participants.

Methodologies

The project’s methodology combined job shadowing and mobility for students with workshops held by external experts and the involvement of different external stakeholders, such as the safer internet and dis:connect-me initiatives.

The activities were both live and blended/digital in format.

Students undertook multidisciplinary activities, including role-playing and teamwork, analogue and digital, as well as art and media.

Innovation environment

It was very important to utilise the Austrian Board of Education’s Digital School initiative for the project, as educators must be aware of the potential risks of new technology to students’ wellbeing, the staff and a positive school climate.

Teachers’ role

A group of teachers (including the head of the school) had the chance to acquire new information and communication technology and media teaching competences and to learn more about new teaching methods with digital devices during a job shadowing activity at a German tablet-expert school, and during workshops and trainings held by external experts. In addition, a steering group was established with expert teachers for each level and led to useful teaching material being shared on a digital platform.

Impact and output

Peer-learning activities and training for teachers and students offered direct and low-threshold access to spread and share the new competences acquired during the project.

The project was showcased at the Bezirks-Jugendgesundheitskonferenz (District Youth Health Conference) in January 2023 and to the school community at a school-end show.