What media practices are unfolding in schools today? This study adopted a transnational perspective to explore how German Schools Abroad ("DAS") develop and implement digital educational projects.
Short tweets/stories from the field are regularly posted on the digDAS project website.
Aims
Through classroom observations, interviews and focus groups, this study aimed to gain insight into the ‘everyday’ media practices in schools, to reflect on central concepts in current debates on digital educational media, and to open up perspectives on how these media can be used in the future. Overall, the project engaged in-depth with selected schools in order to draw broader conclusions about the opportunities and challenges of educational technology in today's schools.
Methodology
German Schools Abroad offer a unique combination of German and local educational practices, offering a specifically transnational perspective on educational technology. The selected schools in Bolivia, Singapore and the USA received awards from the Federal Foreign Office as part of the ‘Innovative Learning’ Initiative.
Publications
- Bock, A. & Macgilchrist, F. (2019) Mobile media practices of young people in «safely digital», «enthusiastically digital», and «postdigital» schools. In: MedienPädagogik, 35, pp. 136-156.
