{"id":644474,"date":"2026-10-04T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644474\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:52:09","slug":"european-movement-ireland-inviting-schools-across-kerry-to-teach-media-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644474\/","title":{"rendered":"European Movement Ireland inviting schools across Kerry to teach media literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Movement Ireland is inviting schools across Kerry to teach children about mis- and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The independent, not-for-profit organisation has launched The Blue Star Media Literacy Series.<\/p>\n<p>It teaches pupils to question what they see, and distinguish between what is real online and what is not.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, twelve Kerry schools participated in the programme.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of European Movement Ireland, David Geary says the rise of AI, misinformation, and fake news means people of all ages are increasingly exposed to manipulation by bad actors; adding that children are particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the Blue Star Programme is open until Friday, 23 October.<\/p>\n<p>The recent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersafekids.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FINAL-The-Year-Little-Changed.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Cyber Safe Kids report<\/a> found that 55% of primary school children aged eight to twelve now use AI.<\/p>\n<p>European Movement Ireland is the national implementation body of the Blue Star Programme, and is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Movement Ireland is inviting schools across Kerry to teach children about mis- and disinformation. The independent, not-for-profit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[189723,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-644474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-european-movement-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}