Main content:
Prengel Year
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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The graduates ...
- can support pupils in using digital media safely, competently and responsibly and in acquiring media skills.
- can analyse and evaluate the possible effects of media and media content with pupils.
- can use studies on the media environments of children and young people to develop an understanding of their needs and challenges in a digital world
- can analyse and understand current social media phenomena.
- are able to support pupils in shaping their communicative behaviour in a reflective and non-violent way.
- are able to recognise, critically question and evaluate manipulation in and through the media
- can understand the effects of media use on the body and psyche and support children in the healthy use of digital media
- can plan, implement and evaluate teaching sequences.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Language education
- Environmental education
- Health promotion
- Informational education
- Media education
- Civic education
- Reflexive gender pedagogy and gender equality
- Sexuality education
- Economic and consumer education
Teaching and learning methods
Input, individual, partner and collaborative group work, presentations, portfolio work, blended learning, flipped classroom
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Seminar (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance
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