As part of the efforts to integrate media literacy into formal education, the Communications Commission trained 85 teachers in teaching media literacy. The training was led by ComCom Media Literacy department representative Mariam Bibilashvili, who informed the participants about the media literacy educational standard and the “Media Literacy Lessons” textbook. The trained teachers will teach 10^th, 11^th and 12^th grade pupils media literacy as an optional subject. For one semester, pupils will study the language of media and information, information processing, types of disinformation, as well as the techniques of detecting fake news and determining the truth using different methods.

The Communications Commission, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth and with the support of UNICEF, continues to actively promote the integration of media literacy into formal education. Within the scope of the project, the Commission carried out research on media literacy needs, devised an educational standard, teaching module and textbook, which were used to train 1835 teachers across Georgia in teaching media literacy. Starting from the 2023-2024 academic year, media literacy has been taught as an optional subject in grades X to XII.

Facilitating the integration of media literacy into formal education remains a priority for the Communications Commission. To this end, the Commission will continue to train teachers in order to ensure that the media literacy teaching process is carried out more effectively and productively.