UNESCO launches Young Digital Creators Educator’s Kit
11-07-2006 (Paris)
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Enabling young people to using ICT creatively to address global challenges of development, cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialogue is the aim of UNESCO’s Young Digital Creators Educator’s Kit that is now online available.
The Kit is designed to help teachers and educators working in schools, youth clubs, community centres, and training institutes to generate and manage project-based learning activities with young people.
Young Digital Creators initiative is a web-based programme designed for young people of different cultures to gradually construct, through a collaborative process and creative tools, a deeper understanding of each other's cultural values and shared perspectives on global issues of our time.
The first part of the Kit explains some basic concepts of the initiative. The second part introduces a detailed lesson plan with a number of learning activities that are expected to be implemented in sequence. The kit also includes a Glossary with a set of definitions and its comes with a CD-ROM that contains a selection on Free and Open/Source Software that can be used in creative projects.:
The kit is was prepared within the framework of DigiArts, UNESCO’s major initiatives aiming at the development of interdisciplinary activities in research, creativity and communication in the field of media arts.
DigiArts aims at disseminating historical, theoretical, artistic, technical and scientific research in the field of electronic and digital arts, including interdisciplinarity study of the arts and the sciences. It promotes information exchange, dialogue and communication among artists, scientists and technicians from different geo-cultural regions, especially enabling developing countries to develop their own approaches and practices in various disciplines and fields of knowledge connected to media arts. And it supports existing institutions and networks throughout the world in the transfer of knowledge.
Young Digital Creators initiative is a web-based programme designed for young people of different cultures to gradually construct, through a collaborative process and creative tools, a deeper understanding of each other's cultural values and shared perspectives on global issues of our time.
The first part of the Kit explains some basic concepts of the initiative. The second part introduces a detailed lesson plan with a number of learning activities that are expected to be implemented in sequence. The kit also includes a Glossary with a set of definitions and its comes with a CD-ROM that contains a selection on Free and Open/Source Software that can be used in creative projects.:
The kit is was prepared within the framework of DigiArts, UNESCO’s major initiatives aiming at the development of interdisciplinary activities in research, creativity and communication in the field of media arts.
DigiArts aims at disseminating historical, theoretical, artistic, technical and scientific research in the field of electronic and digital arts, including interdisciplinarity study of the arts and the sciences. It promotes information exchange, dialogue and communication among artists, scientists and technicians from different geo-cultural regions, especially enabling developing countries to develop their own approaches and practices in various disciplines and fields of knowledge connected to media arts. And it supports existing institutions and networks throughout the world in the transfer of knowledge.
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