Dinara Sagadatova, researcher from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan speaking at the special session "Global Conversation on Media and Information Literacy with Teachers" on 26 October

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The role of Media and Information Literacy for Science Teaching: A Teacher's Perspective

The Global Media and Information Literacy Week thematic conference was held from 24-31 October 2022 in Paris. Dinara Sagadatova, a young researcher from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Head of the Department of Natural Sciences at Quantum STEM School, spoke at the special session "Global Conversation on Media and Information Literacy with Teachers."

During the session, educators from China, the Philippines, the UK and Kazakhstan shared their experiences and recommendations on how to integrate media and infographics literacy into the curricula of national education systems.

Dinara's presentation was related to the implementation of media literacy in secondary school science teaching. She mentioned ways to use news media to drive discussions on environmental and social issues that affect the results of scientific research and inventions.

She also shared her experience using the "Media and Information Literacy" textbook for grades 9-11.

Dinara gave examples of school science fairs from her own practice, where students in grades 5-8 presented group animation and comic book projects with analysis of stakeholders' opinions from news websites and forecasts on statistical data from government websites. She concluded with a recommendation to integrate journalistic texts in the teaching of biology, chemistry, and physics at schools.