Seitenstark Media Day 2021: Digital offerings for children at school
In a cross-state online training course with a wide range of workshop sessions today, educational specialists and teachers from grades 1 to 7 received ideas, suggestions and concept proposals on how they can use good digital children's media creatively and in an activity-oriented way in lessons and all-day activities.
Representing KMK Vice President Dr. Stefanie Hubig, State Secretary Bettina Brück (RLP Ministry of Education) opened the Seitenstark Media Day during a school lesson at the Georg Forster Comprehensive School in Wörrstadt. Students from the sixth grade presented digital offerings for children that they find particularly interesting and good in videos they had produced themselves.
Moderated by Tim Gailus from the KiKA media magazine Team Timster, they then discussed with State Secretary Bettina Brück, Dr. Marc Jan Eumann (Medienanstalt RLP), Dr. Simone Schelberg (SWR) and Prof. Dr. Friederike Siller (Seitenstark e.V.) what they would like to see for children on the Internet. They handed over their collected demands to the politicians and media makers in a large envelope. Above all, the children would like to see less depictions of violence and aggressive advertising on the net, but more protection for their personal data, reliable and correct information, and more safety for children through controls and clear age labels for movies, games, apps, etc.
"Children and young people have a right to special living spaces separate from adults, where they are protected from negative influences. That's why we need safe children's sites and positive offers, because these are an important part of a contemporary children's youth media protection," says Dr. Marc Jan Eumann, Director of the Media Authority Rhineland-Palatinate.
A goal and idea of the landspreading side strong medium day is it to make the various positive offer for children in the German-language Internet, in co-operation and co-operation with the conference of education ministers and education-responsible land partners, in the schools admits and the various use possibilities practically to point out.
The cooperation partners of the Seitenstark Media Day 2021 were the Standing Conference of the Ministers ofEducation and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate ( KMK), the Ministry of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Federal Agency for the Protection of Children and Young People in the Media (BzKJ). Co-organizers included the Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz, the Landesinstitut für Schule und Medien Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM), Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Medienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz and the EU initiative klicksafe.
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