9 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2022/2198(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls for the EU to adopt a comprehensive strategy for virtual worlds, building on the strengths of its industry to overcome the hardware and software challenges, while harnessing and promoting the innovation and progress of the video game industry; relevant sectors such as the video game industry, including technologies such as VR, XR, game engines, haptics, which are key building blocks for digital skills and for the metaverse(s);
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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3a. Calls for the EU to ensure sufficient investments in the field of digital education in order to promote the development of critical thinking users in the digital world; underlines the importance of granting support to teachers and educators in the process of equipping students with the necessary knowledgebase to safely navigate through the virtual worlds;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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3a. Calls on the Member States and EU institutions to prioritise STEAM education and enhancing digital skills, including a range of skills and know-how for writing, design, artistic creation, digital development, publishing, all of which are key for the building of metaverses;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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3b. Calls on the Member States and EU institutions to ensure that the upskilling of teachers is prioritised and that, throughout the EU, teachers must benefit from pedagogical training to ensure they have the right skills needed to become digitally competent and proficient with technology;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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3b. Emphasises the necessity to better counteract the phenomenon of cyberbullying, both by awareness raising campaigns and implementation of more accurate controls in cyberbullying-prone environments;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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4a. Stresses the importance of safeguarding the physical and mental health of European citizens from the negative effects often caused by excessive use of social media and other tools accessible through metaverses, including, among others, the development of addiction and psychological or eating disorders;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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5. States that virtual worlds can significantly impact education and research by transforming how we acquire knowledge; stresses that metaverses can allow for better visualisation of educational content, increased possibilities for collaboration between learners and enhancedducators, as well as being a form of promoting distance and lifelong learning;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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6a. Recognises the importance of multilateral fora in topics of global significance such as this, and encourages the Commission to take a coordinated approach with the Member States as regards contributing to important international standardisation efforts, such as ‘The Metaverse Standards Forum’, as well as other related initiatives within the OECD and other international organisations such as the ITU and ISO;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
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6b. Calls on the Commission to preserve European artistic heritage and European virtual artistic heritage, comprising of newly generated elements as well as elements of artistic heritage replicated or, in any way, transposed to the metaverse;