From global climate change and all-encompassing digitalization to everyday issues at school – there is so much to understand, change, and do. What can our contribution be? How can each individual and everyone together #getinvolved? From September 12th to 16th, 2022, students in the Media and Communication courses from grades 8, 9, and 10 at Friedensburg School explored these questions, tried out new things, and developed their own media projects.
To introduce the content and media, the seminar started with several parallel stations:
“How to…be part of the whole” – this was the heading of one station, in which the participants “puzzled together” the following questions and spontaneously exchanged initial ideas on them.
- Children and young people are far too young to have a say. Isn't that right?
Where and on which issues should they be allowed to have their say and participate in decision-making? - Improving the world is far too complex and difficult? Not true?
What can each individual do?
Digitalization could support many challenges in everyday life and social interaction. What kind of future products would be useful for this? "How to... Future Product." Another station was therefore titled "Real or Invented" by The GLASS ROOM EXPERIENCE and creating initial designs for one's own future products using FUTURIUM's educational materials on "Objects from the Future."
The work then started in parallel workshop groups across all grade levels:
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Video workshop: #How to…recognize fake news:
To decide how to act, we need facts as information. Digitalization makes it increasingly easy to falsify this information and, for example, produce fake news.
How can fake news be recognized, and how can different sources of information be checked and evaluated?
The Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority offers a "Digital News Test" . The link is part of the social bookmarking collection on facts and fake news, which provided inspiration for individual research in a shared, password-protected digital seminar whiteboard/Padlet.
Through intensive engagement with the content of fake news and facts, the participants developed their own storyboard and brought it to life as a film crew. At the final presentation on the last day of the seminar, they screened their film and discussed the genesis and implementation of ideas in a collaborative media project. The video will soon be available here.
Coding/Making Workshop: #How to…invent smart gadgets for the future
What significance do digitalization and related products have for our present and future? In the making workshop, participants explored their own digital devices – especially smartphones – researching and analyzing the collection, use, and misuse of data by digital devices and manufacturing companies.
The Glass Room Experience was also able to provide inspiration here – in addition to other materials – through the interactive exhibition “What the Future Wants” with personal and political perspectives on technologies in categories such as “The Google Society”.
This in-depth exploration of the topic became the starting point for developing prototypes for their own applications, such as quizzes, interactive posters, and websites, which playfully and enjoyably encouraged engagement with data processing. For this, they programmed, among other things, Calliope and Makey Makey boards. Seminar participants and numerous guests were able to try these out for themselves during the exhibition presentation.
The workshop #How to…make your own perspectives visible and listen to others
unfortunately had to be cancelled due to illness. We have “!” a separate project wannseeforum.de/wir-sind-zu-kunftfuture
The seminar was funded by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family and took place as part of the collaboration in the program “Political Youth Education in the AdB” in the project group “Digital Media and Democracy” .
