The Association of Southeast Asian Teacher Education Network (AsTEN), consisting of representatives from AsTEN member institutions, participated in the Training of Trainers (ToT) Program to Address Disinformation and Promote Media Informational Literacy on March 1 and 2, 2023. The event was held at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
During the ToT event, the AsTEN delegation and other teacher educators from the member institutions actively participated in the discussion and workshop on how teacher education institutions can address the problems of disinformation through the use of the ASEAN-endorsed ToT Program to Address Disinformation and Promote Media Literacy: Toolkit for Educators launched in January 2022. The need to localize the use of the toolkit was emphasized to help teachers design their lessons specific to their contexts. It is expected that AsTEN and its member institutions will be able to support in sustaining ASEAN’s advocacy of combatting fake news and disinformation through education.
The event was organized by Partnership for Regional Optimization within the Political-Security and Socio-Cultural Communities (PROSPECT) and sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
