There is an intention to provide students with solid theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to ensure four points:
1) Guide teaching and learning practices in mediated environments,
2) Facilitate advanced research processes in the field of critical media education and disinformation,
3) Provide the development of projects in the field of public policies and innovation,
4) Raise awareness and empower digital citizenship.
These competencies allow not only the application of MIL projects in civil society, in several generations, but also to do advanced research and contribute to a central area of creation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies on the theme.
In addition to these four key, broad areas, other specific competencies are:
- Identify concepts and trends that contribute to the evolution of research in the context of MIL;
- Know the pedagogical models available for the various levels of education;
- Critically analyse new models of pedagogy and virtual environments;
- Understand the importance of digital media in the exercise of citizenship;
- Understand digital citizenship and its relationship with MIL;
- Know the main actors, policies and models of development of digital citizenship;
- Understand the paradigms and theories that best fit the teaching and learning of digital citizenship;
- Be able to design strategies and programs that contribute to the development of digital citizenship skills;
- Have the ability to design research projects that contribute to the development of MIL and digital citizenship;
- Critically question the relationship between citizens and the media in different life contexts;
- Critically analyse the impact of the media on the promotion of human rights and the quality of democracy;
- Identify the contributions of current debates in the area to the evolution of critical media literacy;
- Identify the roles of actors in the acquisition of digital skills in the context of MIL;
- Critically analyse the methods of measuring digital skills levels;
- Understand the concept of public policies, their instruments and implementation strategies, within the scope of MIL;
- Critically analyse regulatory models in the context of MIL;
- Organise research projects in MIL public policies;
- Identify and use the creativity of the media;
- Use social media, storytelling techniques and other tools to communicate and engage the public.
