Borbála Csikós is an English teacher and head of the bilingual department at Petőfi Sándor Secondary Grammar School in Papa, Hungary. She teaches at language schools and companies and organizes teacher training programs nationwide. She also works as a freelance life- and business-coach, holding conflict management and team building workshops in both English and Hungarian. Borbála coauthored the ME Elementary and ME Intermediate course books.
The project examines the dangers of disinformation and the importance of detecting it. Through interactive, competitive games, up to 40 students from 10 different secondary schools along with their teachers will be educated on how to spot disinformation. Borbála hopes that project participants will learn to be discerning consumers of media and gain insight into the impact of disinformation on the social, economic, and political fabric.
Borbála participated in the IVLP Project 21st Century ChangeMaker: Engaging Youth in the Battle against Disinformation organized by the U.S. Department of State and Meridian International Center, in partnership with Global Ties Alabama, WorldDenver, WorldBoston, and Global Santa Fe.
Borbála’s exchange experience led to the development of her project: “My IVLP project in the U.S. examined model programs and social campaigns promoting youth leadership and civic engagement contexts. My plan is to start a serious conversation on how we can implement [these] experienced and observed methods in our Hungarian system.”
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