DRONE Project: A European Network to Combat Misinformation: Training Teachers and Empowering Young People

What is the DRONE project? The DRONE project (Training for Teachers and School Leaders to Promote Digital Literacy and Combat the Spread of Disinformation Among Vulnerable Groups of Adolescents) emphasizes that a one-size-fits-all approach to training teachers and students in digital literacy cannot address the growing diversity of students and that more and different types of data are needed for the supplementary training of educators , which is based primarily on an epistemological approach.

What are the project's objectives? Based on the above premise, DRONE is grounded in a three-pronged ecosystemic approach: an ecosystemic approach to misinformation, which examines its viral spread as part of the interaction between broader digital and human ecosystems - an ecosystemic approach to human development, which examines how specific parameters of the youth ecosystem related to decision-making—such as risk perception, perception of time, and resilience resources, interact with their digital literacy and their ability to identify misinformation—an approach to the entire school ecosystem, which engages school principals and parents in dialogue and considers students’ digital literacy and their ability to identify misinformation as critical components of preparedness and crisis management in school communities.