Professional Documents
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educational challenge
adults
From media competence to reflect
media competence
Media competence as a...
• task for the educational system
(to acquire all dimensions of media
competencies)
• task for society
(chances of equality, participation)
• task for the generations
(children and adults learn together with media)
• intercultural task
(integrate minorities, to help Third World
countries
Situation in Germany
• 44,000 schools
• 50% with internet access
• End of 2001 all schools will have internet
access
• Only 3.5% of teachers courses at university
are about media
• Only 7.5% of teachers are using the internet
in their courses
• Average age of teachers: ~ 50 years
Challenge:
• So many computers in schools
but less well media educated teachers
New New
Learning
Schools