{"id":52862,"date":"2022-10-15T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=52862"},"modified":"2022-11-09T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:56:18","slug":"media-education-for-teachers-and-students-of-the-rae-community-in-kosovo-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/media-education-for-teachers-and-students-of-the-rae-community-in-kosovo-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Media education for teachers and students of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities in Kosovo begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>With financial support of the US Embassy in\nPrishtina, &#8220;KosovaPress&#8221; News Agency, together with the\nnon-governmental organization &#8220;Young Community Leaders Center\/YCLC&#8221;,\nfrom today started the seven-month project \u201cMedia education for teachers,\nstudents, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian\ncommunity in Kosovo\u201d, through which the aim is to raise the awareness of\ncommunities against disinformation, as well as to strengthen the role of civil\nsociety activists from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in preventing\ndisinformation in their community.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of this project is to help members of\nthe Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Kosovo, to protect themselves\nfrom disinformation spread across various internet platforms, and to raise\ntheir awareness of the danger of fake news, so that they are ready to react to\ndisinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The manager of this project, Fadil Miftari, said that the training \u201cMedia education for teachers, students, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian community in Kosovo\u201d, focuses mainly on raising the awareness of these three communities to build a quality concept of thinking about media education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Media education for teachers and students of the RAE community in Kosovo begins\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqBo6Z25tac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to help the members of the\nRoma, Ashkali, Egyptian community to protect themselves from\ndisinformation&#8230;disinformation is a global problem that is disturbing all\nsocieties of the world, different countries are taking extremely strict measures\nto prevent this phenomenon that is causing confusion to the public, and our\nproject is focused on this community, since until now, it has not been included\nin the trainings and measures that have been taken in this field. The goal is\nto help them, make them aware and raise the capacities of both civil society\nand communities, in order for them to help their own community to prevent\ndisinformation&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miftari said that this project is divided into\ntwo phases, where the first phase includes the teachers of primary schools from\nthe sixth to the ninth grade, where today the first training for the teachers\nof the municipality of Fushe Kosovo was officially held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas, the second phase, which starts from\nDecember of this year, until February of 2023, includes professors and\nsecondary school students, from grades 10 to 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The project will last 7 months and is\ndivided into two phases, the first phase, the first training starts today with\nthe teachers of the primary schools of Fushe Kosovo, then, after two weeks, it\nwill be held in Mitrovica, Gjakova and Prizren. These are the municipalities\nthat we have focused on, due to the larger number of these communities&#8230; then\nwe will start with the second phase that will start in December, where the\nfocus will be on high school students and professors. There will be joint\ntrainings so that there will be an interaction between them, and in March next\nyear, where a workshop will be organized with civil society activists, who will\ncontinue to prepare the community on how to prevent disinformation&#8221;, said\nMiftari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas, the coordinator of the &#8220;Young\nCommunity Leaders Center&#8221; organization, Burhan Gashi, considers the topic\nof this project to be appropriate, since the members of the communities are\noften victims of disinformation due to the low level of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gashi said that such trainings help citizens to\ndistinguish between true and fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The topic of the project and training is\nquite specific and important, especially for the Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian\ncommunities, because like all the citizens of Kosovo, it is also very important\nfor us to have access to accurate sources and not fall prey to the news that\nare not real, and different interest groups&#8230; the low level of education makes\nthe members of these three communities often unable to distinguish or notice,\nbetween true and fake news&#8221;, said Gashi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participants in this project were satisfied\nwith the information being provided in this training, while they emphasized the\nneed for such trainings, that talk about disinformation, to become more\nfrequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emel Qehaja-Elshani, teacher of the subject of\nTechnology at &#8220;Selman Riza&#8221; elementary school, in Fushe Kosovo, who\ncomes from the ranks of the Egyptian community, said that this training is\nproviding necessary information on how to protect from disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being informed is a very good thing and\nwelcomed by all, not only communities&#8230; it is welcome because we need to know\nhow to protect ourselves, knowing that technology has already advanced and is\nadvancing day by day, and so we need to know how to protect ourselves&#8230;we are\nall connected to a smartphone, and have an email address, now when we use\nFacebook, and also TikTok, it is necessary to know what are the disadvantages\nand advantages, and what information we receive, and from whom, and how to\nprotect ourselves from that information&#8230; I expect to share with the students\nthe things that I learned from this training&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betim Ahmeti, secretary at the &#8220;Daut\nBogujevci&#8221; lower secondary elementary school, in Fushe Kosovo, also\nparticipated in this training. According to him, such trainings that talk about\nfake news, also help teachers in their work process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These help us in our work process,\nespecially the teachers, where it is known that our school also consists of the\nAshkali and Egyptian communities&#8230; there are about 150 students there, and I\nbelieve that what we achieved here, we will treat them together and send the\nmessage to them in the best way&#8230; it has an impact on a part of the students,\nwith what they see on social networks, they get bad information and then\ndistribute it in the school where we are. It is good to make them aware, but we\nalso get good experiences by learning something from this, and passing it on to\nthem, it would contribute a lot to them&#8221;, Ahmeti said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training \u201cMedia education for teachers, students, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian community in Kosovo\u201d will continue its journey after Fushe Kosovo, in Mitrovica, Prizren and Gjakova. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The project \u201cMedia education for teachers, students, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian community in Kosovo\u201d is supported by the United States Embassy in Prishtina. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"975\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image.png 975w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-768x435.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With financial support of the US Embassy in Prishtina, &#8220;KosovaPress&#8221; News Agency, together with the non-governmental organization &#8220;Young Community Leaders Center\/YCLC&#8221;, from today started the seven-month project \u201cMedia education for teachers, students, and civil society activists of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian community in Kosovo\u201d, through which the aim is to raise the awareness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,307,306,296,3131],"tags":[3074,3073,1310,367,3072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52954,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52862\/revisions\/52954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}