ANNOUNCEMENTS
Radio and Music Student Content “Make it Heard 2024” – The Power of Friendship
Saturday, 27 April 2024
This year, the Contest explores the value of friendship, a factor of wellbeing from the first steps we take in life. At a very young age, as we spread our wings and venture outside the safety of our family setting, we start searching for communication with other people. There is a constant quest for unique friends to inspire trust in us and stand by our side in every aspect of life, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Friends who encourage us, talk things through with us, support and inspire us; they motivate our development as a true, giving and sincere relationship grows between us. Friends are the Others in our life that can become a genuine and authentic expression of selfless love.
The virtue of friendship has been elaborated in many different ways in poetry, prose, music and other forms of art, but also in philosophy. Friendship is inspiring because it is central to our life, both personal and professional. It facilitates communication and collaboration, problem resolution, the creation of healthy social relations; overall, it develops our personality and improves the quality of our life. Without a doubt, friendship is a factor of harmony in our family relations, in our rapport with broader society and with all the peoples of the world; it affects the way we relate to every form of being. Regardless of our nationality and the language we speak, we are all of us constantly looking for friendship.
Students are invited to express their thoughts, experiences, feelings and expectations of friendship by creating their own radio messages and songs.
For more about the Contest please visit: https://contest.europeanschoolradio.eu/ 7
Student Video Production Contest on the Creative and Safe Use of the Internet
Thursday, 1 February 2024
Video production aims to build knowledge and formulate attitudes regarding the responsible, creative and safe use of the Internet. By participating in the Contest, students will investigate, formulate an opinion, put together messages and share information with other children and adults through a creative and pleasant process in a way that contributes to effective learning about this topic. At the same time, the Contest envisions to develop the students’ skills in connection with Media Literacy, including horizontal skills such as autonomous learning skills, communication, collaboration, informatics literacy, creativity and innovation.
For more about the Contest please visit: https://internetsafety.pi.ac.cy/competitions/video-2023-2024/
Pedagogical Institute One-Day-Event::
Advancing Media Literacy: Contemporary Approaches to Pedagogy
Friday, 3 November 2023
The online One-Day-Event endeavours to bring the educational community up to date with developments and practices in connection with Media Literacy, more particularly the incorporation of the new media in teaching and learning. To this purpose, distinguished speakers have been invited from abroad to showcase the example of Finland as a country that has made significant progress on this topicη (ranked first among 41 European countries in Media Literacy Index 2022); address the role of Media Literacy in the contemporary era through the years-long action of the US-based Center for Media Literacy; and map out the European landscape regarding education and future steps through the expertise of the Belgium-based Media & Learning Association.
For more about the One-Day-Event please visit: https://medialiteracy.pi.ac.cy/events/medialiteracy2023/
Pedagogical Institute One-Day-Event:
Digital Education: Developments and Pedagogical Practices
Thursday, 8 June 2023
The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, in the framework of the actions ran by the Educational Technology Department, hosts a One-Day-Event titled “Digital Education: Developments and Pedagogical Practices”on Thursday, 8 June 2023from 08:00 until 15:00at Nicosia’s Filoxenia Conference Centre.The aim of the event is to inform the educational community about developments and practices in connection with digital education and the incorporation of new technologies in teaching and learning. To this purpose, the event will address the example of Estonia as an educational system that has been making significant progress in the area of digital education; developments and challenges of artificial intelligence in education; good practices implemented by schools, teachers and students in the context of the Pedagogical Institute’s Programmes and Actions, as well as workshops.
For more about the One-Day-Event please visit
the webpage https://www.pi.ac.cy/digitaleducpi2023
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