Institute for media education u

The world of children is shaped today by digitization, which is penetrating, changing and accelerating in all areas of life. Digital media influence not only childish play behavior, but also learning and creative design and the view of the world. Heroines and heroes Movie TV and the stories and merchandising products of cinema events of any shape shape the design of children’s rooms, toys and children’s clothing as well as the content of role-playing games, for example in daycare centers. Media events determine today’s children’s culture and make specifications for role models and role behavior and specifically contribute to conveying values. The experience of the real world is influenced in early childhood by the anticipation of virtual experiences (example weather app) on the tablet or smartphone. From primary school age, messenger apps and the use of symbolic representations such as emojis shape children’s communication behavior. Our media education work confronts this reality of child life and develops strategies for a reflective, self-determined way of dealing, offers possibilities for a critical discussion and supports the development of one’s own attitude towards media realities by strengthening a self-confident personality.

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In cooperation with the LPR Hessen

Figures / Facts

Target group: Educators, children and parents
Theme: Media work with children
Media: Computer, television, radio, smartphone, video camera, tablet
Running time: current
Region: Hochtaunuskreis, Bergstrasse district
Scope: Training and further education of the educators, practical projects with the children, a parents’ evening
Place: in your facility
Own contribution: € 250

Project description:

The media are part of everyday life for children. They listen to the radio, enjoy watching TV and are also increasingly using computers and smartphones. However, knowledge of the media is not yet very pronounced in children’s institutions. The region-related project is intended to provide assistance here.

Procedure:

First building block: Education and training of educators

In further training, educators learn how media affect children and how they can be guided to use media in a conscious manner. The aim is to impart media competence to the educators and to present the opportunities that practical media work with children offers. As part of the advanced training, concepts of media pedagogy are developed and media theoretical and practical practical knowledge imparted. The two-day training courses take place in children’s facilities.

Second building block: practical projects

The practical media work with the children should make them understandable, like the media "function". The children develop, for example, a radio play, a video film, create a cartoon using the Trickboxx, etc. The focus is on process-oriented work in which the educators are integrated. The practical projects usually last five days.

Third component: parents’ evening

The final one "building block" is the parents’ evening, which aims to clarify the possibilities of media education in the family. The project results of their children are presented to the parents. They serve as a starting point for information about children’s media behavior. In a discussion round, problems are discussed and concrete instructions for action for media use in the family Developed.

Kita Medial

Today children naturally grow up in a media-dominated world. They use a wide variety of media offers in accordance with their needs and the requirements of their environment. H. from the family environment and the institutionalized educational institutions from the crèche to the daycare center to the daycare center. Media childhood also means media socialization.

This is clearly a challenge for parents as a family educational context, but so are the professional educational institutions such as day-care centers and day-care centers, and this means the specific educators in the situation in which they deal with the topic of childhood, children’s media and media socialization to have to. First of all, this also requires an examination and reflection of one’s own behavior and usage habits of the "media" in private and professional life. On the other hand, it also requires a critical examination of media-related children’s living environments on a professional level and, consequently, the inclusion of children’s media experiences in day-to-day practice in daycare. Here the project "KiTa Medial" wants to show the possibilities of action-oriented media pedagogy in order to integrate the use of media as a component of child’s life and experience in the form of practice-oriented building blocks into day-care center practice.

The project is aimed at the three target groups of an institution concerned: children, educators, parents.

The project includes:

1. A further education for the educators, in which the topic of children, media and education is discussed systematically from different perspectives from brain research to developmental psychology, and action-oriented media pedagogical approaches are presented combined with the theory of symbolic interaction. Part of the training is always a practical part, which practices the use of a medium (audio, video, photo) that is deliberately chosen for the respective facility and thus minimizes the fear of technical media and at the same time enables creative possibilities and their implementation in everyday life.

2. Practice days with the children as examples of action-oriented media education

3. A parents’ evening, which on the one hand serves to educate about current social discourses and developments in media education, and at the same time wants to initiate an open and critical dialogue in order to encourage parents to be free of fear and constructively with the topic of children, media and education to deal with within the family. Part of the parents’ evening is always the presentation of media productions that were created during the practice days with the children.

Temporal structure

The schedule can be flexibly agreed with the respective institution.
Two days of 6 hours each (for theory and practice), three practical days with the children, two hours for preparation and half a day for follow-up are planned for the training.

sustainability

"Kita Medial" is designed in such a way that the facilities are given the opportunity to integrate media education into the furnishing concept in a sustainable manner via ideas from media education project work and the practical part within the training. Childhood today means media childhood, so it is an important and necessary part of the educational work with children.

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