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Digital Generation Gap in Migrant and Low educated Families
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Mira Media, Ervet, the Migrant Resource Centre and Active Watch work in multicultural and socially marginalized neighborhoods in Utrecht, Amsterdam, London, Bologna en Bucharest with schools, migrants, Roma and socially marginalized families on media literacy- and education related issues. They observe the growing attention for safer Internet use and digital skills in general, but also notice an apparent lack of attention and information for parents from Migrant, Roma parents Socially marginalized families (MRS – parents) concerning these issues . Based on a joint investigation they found that MRS parents are not always able to support their children in their use of Internet as they themselves do not always have the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience. Existing information on Internet use of children, is not appealing to them and sometimes not understandable because of language used. Conversations with (multicultural) schools, educational - and media literacy professionals showed little experience in working with MRS parents.
DGGMLF aims to provide MRS parents with alternative pathways to improve their knowledge, competences and skills by giving them new opportunities to access adult education. It reaches out to MRS parents which normally do not participate in activities and aims to support these parents to cope with their educational challenges regarding the internet use of their children and their basic (digital) skills needed to support their children and to participate in the digitalizing societies. By training intercultural media coaches and MRS Cyber parents, DGGMLF is involving the expertise from within the communities itself, which will both offer schools and adult education the needed intercultural support and the communities the necessary accessible support from within their own community. In order to do so, DGGMLF aims to create to sustainable local adult learning offers for MRS parents by using and improving the quality and local co-operation between organizations involved in adult- and school education and between the MRS communities and these educational institutions .
1200 Migrant, Roma and parents from Socially marginalized families (MRS – parents) are the direct target groups of the project. 500 Educational professionals , policy makers and other professionals are the indirect target group.
All partners will conduct a national research on the internet use of MRS children and their parents. They will recruit and train ten intercultural media coaches, which will facilitate educational information- and follow up meetings with MRS parents and the coaching and training of MRS cyber parents. DGGMLF develops and executes in four pilot neighborhoods five educational workshops for parents about the internet use of their children. Ten MRS cyber parents will be selected and recruited. They will be trained on how to anticipate on educational questions from fellow parents, how to support schools in involving MRS parents. Five follow up thematic workshops and digital skills courses for MRS parents will be developed and executed. In the second transnational DGGMLF Academy implementation plans will be discussed on how to establish and maintain and on how to implement the project to neighborhoods in the rest of the participating cities. Based on this, in local conferences existing educational networks will be encouraged to participate in implementing DGGMLF in schools and community centers . Ten more educational information meetings, selection, recruitment and training of new cyber parents, twenty follow up information meetings and courses improving digital skills will be realized . Moreover, each city will establish five flagship digital support points in schools and public spaces. The implementation process will monitored and evaluated based upon the joint transnational Quality Assurance (QA) plan. A transnational DGGMLF toolkit will be produced , which will be presented and disseminated during the Final European DGGMLF conference in the Netherlands. DGGMLF develops a bottom up approach, by using intercultural media coaches who know the cultural background of the MRS parents and are, if needed, able to speak their languages. MRS cyber parents are from the same communities and will be able to identify problems in an early stage and are able to answer simple questions. The educational activities will take place in trusted environments during convenient timeslots and the materials used in the information meetings, workshops and courses are directly linked to and recognizable for the MRS parents. The flagship digital support point will be supported by volunteers and MRS cyber parents. Planned results : 40 intercultural media coaches; 80 MRS cyber parents; 500 involved educational professionals and policymakers. 20 flagship digital support points. 4 national reports. Transnational DGGMLF toolkit. Durable implementation DGGMLF in 4 major EU cities.