Analog-Digidactics – How Children Become Fit for the Digital Age Without a Screen
Prof. Dr. Paula Bleckmann, Brigitte Pemberger (Project Lead)
Analog-Digidactics – How Children Become Fit for the Digital Age Without a Screen
December 2023
At the conclusion of the project, we have freshly printed and online available for you:
Media and computer science projects for hands-on understanding
Practical Handbook Analog-Digidactics 1: Primary School
The practical handbook “analog before digital” was created with the involvement of more than one hundred people
from education, prevention, academia, and industry (ed. Brigitte Pemberger).
Authors
Kristine Belewsky, Prof.in Dr.in Paula Bleckmann, Fien Van der Haegen,
Esther Heintze, Samir Hajal, Julia Kernbach, Nino Mindiashvili, Brigitte Pemberger,
Outi Maria Rousu, Kathrin Seeger-Chesnais and Margot Steinbach
Interview Partners
Prof.in Dr.in Paula Bleckmann, Charlotte Fischer, Samir Hajal,
Dr.in Sieglinde Jornitz, Julia Kernbach, Prof. Dr. Ralf Lankau, Marius Müssig, Simone Odenthal,
Brigitte Pemberger, Susanne Peter, Corinna Sümmchen and Prof. Dr. Bert te Wildt
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May 5/6, 2023
Closing Conference Human Education:Media Education
in cooperation with the Analog-Digidactics project
On May 5 and 6, 2023, the conference “Human Education:Media Education” took place at Alanus University in Alfter as a transdisciplinary network meeting. The Media Education team at Alanus University would like to thank all contributors and participants for the inspiring insights and encounters. On the conference website you will find videos of the plenary lectures, workshop materials, participant voices, photographic impressions, and much more. Read more…
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ABOUT THE PROJECT (2021 – 2023)
01/03/2021
Funding from the Software AG Foundation (SAGST) and the Pedagogical Research Center Waldorf has enabled Analog-Digidactics, since March 1, 2021, to gradually expand into a good-practice book project.
The aim is to select, further develop, and publish examples of practical projects at kindergartens and primary schools that combine media literacy with media (addiction) prevention at their core and implement “Digital Education” largely without the use of tablets and similar devices.
All examples focus on the following principles:
- Analog before digital: First get to know the principles of media worlds through media without a screen. Because: “Media education must build on media evolution” (Bert te Wildt 2015). Screen time should not be unnecessarily increased; instead, children should be able to retrace the cultural history of media with all their senses.
- Producing before consuming: Put active creation in the analog and later also the digital media worlds (not “pressing buttons” and “operating machines”) at the forefront.
- Transparency before “black box”: Work with teaching and learning materials that make the mode(s) of operation as transparent as possible. End devices such as tablets, for example, are only suitable for children to a very limited extent because they involve hundreds of internal processes invisible to the user, like in a “black box.”
Analog-digidactic approaches can prove especially valuable for education and media education because they can be implemented at all educational institutions regardless of their particular pedagogical orientation – always with the developmental phases of children in mind. Implementation requires neither expensive infrastructure nor regular updates with new software versions, and the transparency of the teaching and learning materials used invites learners to get to the bottom of the question “How does this work?” so that later, in adolescence and adulthood, they can engage critically with new technological developments.
Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Paula Bleckmann, Brigitte Pemberger (Project Lead)
Image sources:
- Top left: Testing simple IF-THEN programming in the hopscotch snail game (Photo: Pemberger)
- Top right: Collecting, searching, and sorting in the “www,” the wide wild woods (Photo: Pemberger)
- Bottom left: Using cyanotype (solar photography) to trace the history of photography (Photo: Pemberger)
- Bottom right: Experiencing binary parallel search algorithms with punch-card tricks (Photo: Pemberger)
Cooperation with:
