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Children move safely in a changed digital world
Social media and their phenomena
Admission requirements
STEOP
Semester: 6
Orientation
Digitality
Focus
AI changes learning
Aim
Given the growing importance of smartphones, tablets and internet use in children's everyday lives, promoting media skills at an early age is extremely important. Media education’ is already anchored in the primary school curriculum. Schools have the task of actively engaging with current media phenomena and technological developments in order to adequately prepare children for the potential and dangers of the digital world. Teachers are in a position to provide pupils with the necessary skills for self-determined, safe and responsible behaviour.
Content
- Basic decree on media education
- Media effects (with regard to emotions, knowledge, ideas of reality, behaviour and value orientations)
- Studies on the media environments of children and young people
- Social media and its phenomena
- Legal foundations
- Manipulation in and through media
- Effects of media use on the body and psyche
- Planning and realisation of teaching sequences with the help of freely available documents (e.g. Safer Internet), evaluation and reflection
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