Educational sciences

Children learn about the world of science

Encoding and decoding scientific communication in multimedia

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 8

Orientation

Anthropocene

Focus

The future requires shared responsibility

Aim

Present-related and future-oriented learning processes are at the center of primary school content teaching. Through research-based, discovery-based learning, children learn about science: scientific working methods and methods with which factual knowledge is developed through observation and experimentation, questioning and collecting, as well as through texts and images, graphics and visualizations. To be able to encode and decode the media of science communication in an age-appropriate manner requires basic scientific and didactic knowledge of the areas of expertise in subject teaching and media education and their methodologies. The critical-reflexive handling of numbers, data and facts from the relevant sciences of subject teaching enables insight into scientific working methods and strengthens trust in science.

Content

• Scientific working methods and methods and their media-didactic communication in primary school content lessons with reference to everyday phenomena and children's living environments
• Critical-reflective use of media to convey information on global developments, e.g. in the context of climate change, economic and technological development, bionics and robotics, digitalization and artificial intelligence
• Transdisciplinary, multi-perspective action and experiential learning for solution and future orientation
• The future workshop as a participatory macro method for primary school content teaching
• Strengthening trust in science