STEP 3: What have I learnt?
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1. Why is it important to integrate new technologies and mass media in training program dedicated to refugees?
Explanation: It is important because new technologies are getting more and more important in schools and students can benefit from an integrated didactic. Thus, it is very important that teachers and students are trained to use new learning tools and to understand how to use new media and social media. New technologies can be an important educational tool that help teachers in the individualisation of the didactic in order to address refugee students’ special needs.
2. Which are the possible risks related to the use of new technologies in the training for refugees?
Explanation: The main risk is that new media often tend to spread a standardized view of society: this tendency is not always good in an environment composed by people from different country and cultures and with different ideas and views. Because of this, teachers must provide students with strong instruments to analyse the society and his representations, linked them to their specific and personal situation and be aware of the real extent of problems and issues.
3. What are the possible strategies to make refugee students able to responsibly use the new media?
Explanation: A VET course dedicated to refugees could set up specific extra-curricular activities during which students are helped to develop all the competences needed to understand messages that come from mass media and social media.