Second Group of Trained Peer Educators on Critical Thinking and Online Safety
December 10-12, 2024, Pleven
The young people generated incredible ideas for campaigns in school and outside of school, the most daring of which was to make a game based on the design of an ‘escape room’ with the themes of online security and safe internet. We can’t wait to see all the ideas implemented!
In our latest training, held on December 10-12, 2024 in Pleven with students from several high schools in the city, among the expectations of the participants were: to learn something new; to talk about the pros and cons of the internet; to understand how to better protect themselves; to gain more knowledge about safe surfing; to discuss the risks of social networks and communication with strangers. At the end of the event, they confirmed that we had fully met their expectations.
Education: Artificial intelligence (AI) helps teachers assess, facilitates tests, optimizes information processing, and expands the access to education. But at the same time, it can reduce job opportunities, create an abundance of unreliable information, and impose ethical standards. It all depends on how we use it.
Medicine: Although robots cannot replace human empathy or be a psychologist, they significantly improve diagnostics, reduce errors, and offer precision through robotic surgery.
Science and technology: AI can lead to manipulation, security breaches, and increased unemployment.
Art and culture: The lack of human emotion and soul in AI creations is a challenge. It reduces artistic skills in people and creates inequalities between those who use and those who do not use new technologies.
These are just a few of the things we discussed with young people about the potential and real possibilities of artificial intelligence – both positive and negative.
During the three-day training for peer educators in critical thinking and online safety within the framework of the Digital Children project, we worked with incredible young people – smart, creative, thoughtful and capable! With the help of the game that divided the participants according to the animal they prefer to identify with, we showed them how important it is for a team to be composed of people with different competencies and skills in order to be cohesive and successful. We also talked about risks in the online environment and safe behavior and about technical settings. And one of the participants spontaneously and on time joined in with her topic about cybersecurity, presenting about the types of viruses and the dangers they hide for inattentive users.
The training was implemented under ‘Digital Children’ project.
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