The project has created an open-access online course on environmental journalism addressed to secondary-school students.

The Tintin project proposes a different approach to climate education: instead of training teachers in acquiring scientific knowledge and transmit it to their students, it prepares teachers to guide and assess students in their own search for information, its analysis and interpretation, adopting a multidisciplinary and competency-based approach based on the principles of critical and constructive journalism.

Objectives

– To support teachers and schools in the education of climate change and sustainability, providing them with the tools and resources.
– To increase awareness about climate change and sustainability through an active, critical and constructive approach, promoting behavioural changes.
– To develop, validate and promote an innovative, creative and cross-curricular on-line course on journalism and climate change, where students become actors in promoting behavioural changes.
– To reinforce and assess key competences such as critical thinking and green skills, collaborative and communicative skills, through an ICT-based learning method.
– To introduce students to journalism, the principles of research, fake news and misconceptions.