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In the spring of 2023, Landecker Fellow Nicole Rieber wrote an article about Digital peace education as well as her Action Project for German Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft.
“While young people have many worries on their mind – the pandemic, war in Ukraine, or climate change – disinformation is spreading at great speed on social media and generally on the internet,” Nicole introduces the topic.
Nicole then explains that young people in times of crisis often look for role-models among adults, “especially parents and teachers,” she adds, noting that “further training of teachers in the field of disinformation and conspiracy narratives is thus gaining in importance.”
This is precisely where Nicole’s Landecker Action Project titled Digital.Truth comes in. Indeed, Nicole’s project offers teachers and parents a space to trans-generationally exchange about disinformation and conspiracy theory narratives. “If parents and teachers have knowledge and skills with regard to these phenomena, they can help children and youths in finding a safe social media approach,” Nicole explains.
Learn more
- Read the article in full (in German) here.
- Find out more about Digital.Truth.
- To learn more about Nicole’s recent endeavors, visit her Humanity in Action person page.
Nicole is one of thirty 2022-2023 Landecker Democracy Fellows. This fellowship, a collaboration between the Alfred Landecker Foundation and Humanity in Action, was created to strengthen a new generation of leaders whose approaches to political and social challenges can become catalysts for democratic placemaking and community building. Read more about the fellowship here.
