The Sanchis Guarner school in Ondara has been awarded the first prize in the Mentes AMI Awards (Media and Information Literacy) of the Atresmedia Foundation, with the Educational Research and Innovation Project #Stop Cyberbullying: the right way to ICT and the Internet. The main objective of this Project is to raise awareness and sensitize both students and families because they use technologies correctly and responsibly and, in addition, that they know the risks and dangers of the Internet and social networks such as grooming, phishing, impersonation of identity, addiction to screens, from a cybersecurity point of view and against cyberbullying.
With a methodology based on peer-to-peer learning, volunteer 6th-year students called ICT Helpers (Information and Communication Technologies) are the protagonists of the Project, who help students achieve this goal with their talks and reflections on the rest of the classes, in the use of videos, sheets and presentations created by them and them.
The Mentas AMI meeting took place on October 1 in Madrid at Kinepolis, Ciudad de la Imagen, and consisted of two complementary actions aimed at the educational community: a call for prizes to recognize and disseminate initiatives developed in classrooms that encourage thought critic, they drive creativity and promote values and coexistence by fostering in their students the skills and competences in Media and Information Literacy (AMI) through specific projects, and a great educational meeting aimed at teachers, as a space for meeting, reflection , motivation and exchange of ideas and trends among the teaching community at the national level.