{"id":14442,"date":"2024-11-07T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becid.eu\/?p=14442"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T16:08:09","slug":"experience-adapting-estonian-digital-safety-games-for-maltese-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becid.eu\/experience-adapting-estonian-digital-safety-games-for-maltese-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience: Adapting Estonian Digital Safety Games for Maltese Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of October, Inger Klesment, a media literacy specialist at the Baltic Engagement Centre for Combating Information Disorders (BECID)\u00a0), packed her suitcase with digital safety games and flew to Malta to play digital safety games with Maltese students and train local teachers. Inger was invited to Malta by Dr Kenneth Vella, Principal of St Joseph Mater Boni Consilii School Paola and Maltese Ambassador to Estonia. Read Inger’s impressions of the Maltese children’s media room!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kenneth Vella and Inger Klesment.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“It turned out that children in Estonia and Malta use the same social media apps and play the same online games. Therefore, they are exposed to the same risks. As there were no differences in children’s internet usage, the educational and playful activities developed in Estonia worked just as well as in Estonia, and children were very open about what they like to do online. Local teachers attended all the lessons, and afterward they got a link<\/a><\/strong> where they could read the tutorials for other games in English and download materials to continue using Estonian games in their teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the games were almost the same as in Estonia, doing a direct translation when using Estonian resources is not wise. For example, local children’s names had to be used in the games, and when talking about home address and the usual school-home trajectory, there\u2019s no point in saying that you shouldn\u2019t take a picture under the apple tree in front of your house. All examples should be put in a local context. Also, local examples should be given as much as possible. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n