Now 19, Greta Thunberg continues to be an environmental activist representing the younger generation's fight against the climate crisis and "climate inaction". Her new book entitled The Climate Book will be launched on 7 November in Portugal.In an interview with Público about her new book,...
In general, children seem to be endowed with a seemingly infinite energy and a curiosity that sometimes seems to want to absorb the world in an instant. Naturally, parents want to give them the wings they need to experience good experiences to the maximum and feed...
Members of the bYou team will present two papers at the IAMCR 2022 Conference, which this year, in its hybrid format, will take place online and at Tsinghua University and Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, from 11 to 15 July. The papers are based on the...
"What is essential in media and information education" is the title of a pedagogical document that has just been published by CLEMI, a nationwide center of the French Ministry of Education. The work, intended to support the work of teachers and educational activities, offers basic resources...
Open doors, welcoming teachers and receptive and participatory students. This was the environment that the bYou team found in the eight school clusters from five territorial units (NUTS II) in mainland Portugal where they conducted 59 focus groups. A total of 24 classes were involved,...
"Children, youth and media: the right to expression and participation" is the title of the seminar that the bYou project will organize online on July 12, at 14:30. Registration is open until July 10 and can be done here. The seminar will pre-launch the Online Wall...
June 15th was the school year closing day and was also the day on which the bYou project team concluded the application of the questionnaire survey in 26 school groupings of the 23 NUTSI III in mainland Portugal. About 1342 children and young people between...
Like/Dislike, a documentary published a few days ago by the Spanish study center Funcas, takes a pertinent look at various effects that unbalanced uses of the Internet and mobile technology can have on the mental and emotional health, behavior, and relationships of children and adolescents....
"Studying children's media practices: methodological and ethical challenges" is the title of the paper presented by Sara Pereira, in co-authorship with Margarida Toscano, at the Media and Pubics Conference that took place at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, on April 28-29, 2022. Focused on the reflection...
Created by Bruno Fernandes, a guest professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Minho, the Factxeker app uses artificial intelligence to, based on a set of keywords provided by the user, obtain facts that help verify the truth or falsity of the...