Frankfurt Technology Center Media

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FTzM - Frankfurt Technology Center [: Media]
Founding year: 2011
Place: Frankfurt am Main
State: Hesse
Country: Germany
Managing Director: Olga Engel
Knowledge Director: Thomas Knaus
Director: Ulrich Schrader
Number of active members: 25th
Number of employees: 20th
Sponsorship: Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Website: http://www.ftzm.de/

The Frankfurter Technologiezentrum Medien ( own spelling : Frankfurter Technologiezentrum [: Medien] , short: FTzM ) is an interdisciplinary scientific center of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences , which researches the teaching-supporting and learning-promoting use of digital media in educational contexts. A special feature of the center is its interdisciplinary and development and design-oriented approach as well as the close connection between theory and practice (practical research). Due to the proximity of the regional projects to schools, the members of the center do not research media education and educational informatics in schools , but do research together with schools. At the center, students also work on application-related research projects and in media technology, didactic and pedagogical practical projects in the Frankfurt am Main educational area .

The center was founded in 2011; In addition to the non-profit school IT support project fraLine, it also includes other practical and research projects in the field of digital media in and for educational institutions. The members of the center are mainly teachers from the four faculties of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and the Goethe University ; they deal in an interdisciplinary manner with the research fields of educational informatics, media education research and teaching-learning research and come from the disciplines of educational sciences, (educational) psychology, computer science, engineering, sociology, social and media education. Most of the centre's staff are students who work in FTzM projects and conduct qualifying research. The team advises and supports educational institutions or decision-makers in the planning and implementation of media-pedagogical, didactic or technical projects as well as in questions of IT management or IT organization. Further fields of activity are software design and application development based on knowledge that is conducive to learning.

Projects in the field of implementation and support for schools and educational informatics

IBIdiM

After the initial focus of the fraLine project on the qualification of students and the partnership-based IT support of the Frankfurt schools, the development of comprehensive solutions and their scientific evaluation came to the fore in the later project phases, as did the project "Implementation of digital media in teaching and learning contexts "(IBIdiM). The experience gained in the fraLine project provided numerous questions and starting points for research projects in the field of IT organization and school IT management as well as media education research.

At the same time, the practical support of the schools enabled access to research with, at and for schools by opening up important personal contacts with the schools as a prerequisite for research activities. As such a "door opener" for research and development, the FTzM will continue to support schools in the future.

The aim of the project is to implement digital media in schools in order to use them in teaching and learning contexts to increase the quality of teaching, to meet the demand for adequate media education and instrumental media use in schools, to meet the increased interdisciplinary know-how and To meet the development needs of the school authority and the schools and to use the knowledge and developments gained to further adapt the IT infrastructure to the changing needs of schools (e.g. in the form of needs analyzes).

FraLine

Francine (proper spelling fraLine ) is a non-profit project of the Frankfurt Technology Center [: media] and the city education department of the city of Frankfurt am Main. It was founded in 2001. Under the motto "Students support teachers in Frankfurt schools in solving IT problems". The existing now for over 10 years project is a collaborative effort between the FTzM and the municipal education authority of the City of Frankfurt am Main, research in the students and in the development of school-IT and school IT management solutions as well as in the formation of computer science involved . On this basis, they also provide practical support to the 154 schools in Frankfurt with the support of the school IT and their meanwhile 19,000 PCs.

The employees support teachers in creating the technical requirements for the use of digital media in schools. Support from the fraLine team is free of charge for schools and includes a hotline and personal support on site at the schools. The fraLine employees are mainly students of computer science, engineering, educational sciences, social and media pedagogy or related courses. In 2008 the overall concept was named a "Landmark in the Land of Ideas" . In 2011, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology awarded it second place in the “Paths to the Net” competition in the “Practical help and support: accompanying Internet newcomers” category.

FraDiTa

The project digital boards in educational contexts deals with the increasing use of digital media in schools and universities. The procurement and use of so-called "interactive whiteboards" for schools has increased significantly in recent years. With the introduction of the digital board in schools, the central teaching medium is also becoming digital and networked. On the one hand, digital board systems are suitable for promoting and facilitating the use of digital media in schools. On the other hand, the introduction of the new type of device also increases the demand for a scientifically based examination of technical and educational application options on the one hand and for training of the teaching staff on the other.

The aim of the "Digital Blackboards" project is, on the one hand, to advise schools and educational institutions as appropriate and needs-based as possible on the procurement and use of digital boards in the classroom and, on the other hand, to give manufacturers feedback from school and university practice that will help improve their products can contribute.

FraMoLe

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets call traditional learning spaces into question. Learning can therefore increasingly take place outside of institutionalized spaces, in short: learning becomes "mobile". This phenomenon is followed by numerous (school) organizational, technical, educational, learning and motivational psychological as well as legal questions, which is why the fraMoLe project deals with mobile learning in Frankfurt.

As one of the main research areas of the Frankfurt Technology Center [: Media], mobile learning is currently being looked at more closely from an interactionist-constructivist perspective. The main question is to what extent interaction options with mobile devices can promote individual learning or motivate learners.

FraDesk

For the coordination and documentation of inquiries from the schools, but also for the documentation of the research and development activities of the FTzM or general project documentation, the ticket system "fraDesk" was used as part of an aFuE project (application-related research and development at universities of applied sciences, funded by the BMBF ) developed. Inquiries and projects are recorded and managed as "tickets" in this software. As part of the fraLine project, it is also used to document the processing of problem and malfunction reports from schools and for internal knowledge transfer. The researchers at the center use fraDesk as a data collection tool. Since the fraDesk is free software, it is also available to other institutions. FraDesk is an open source product and is now used by numerous government agencies and school IT support organizations.

Media educational and media didactic projects

In addition to supporting IT and digital media in schools, the FTzM also subdivides other projects with a focus on media education in schools. Seminars are held for teachers in Frankfurt, mainly IT officers, and for school administrators in Frankfurt schools to support them in their daily work with digital media in schools. There is also the offer of media-pedagogical-technical teaching support, which offers the teachers technical, media-didactic or conceptual support and can be booked free of charge. For providers of media training in the Frankfurt area, the FTzM operates the online platform "Regional Media Education in Frankfurt am Main", on which providers such as the preventive youth protection of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the state education authority, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and others can publish their events and a profile.

FraMediale

Every year and a half, the FTzM organizes fraMediale , a specialist conference and trade fair on the subject of digital media in educational institutions at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences . FraMediale is a supraregional platform for the exchange of media education research and school / university media education and should thereby contribute to the learning-promoting integration of digital media. FraMediale sees itself as a bridge between media education research and media education practice in schools and universities. The aim is the sustainable integration of digital media in educational institutions that is conducive to learning. The event is primarily aimed at teachers, school administrators, university teachers, media educators and students. Participants, speakers and workshop leaders of the supraregional event come from different educational regions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. FraMediale was launched in 2015 together with the nationwide initiative "No education without media - KBoM!" carried out. At fraMediale 2017, the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture - GMK was added as a new cooperation partner.

At the core of fraMediale 2014 were short impulses and ideas on current developments in lectures and exhibits focusing on "personalized learning - bring your OWN device". The fraMediale 2015 was focused on "Resistance". At fraMediale 2017 these ideas were further developed under the title "Tension? Potentials".

The FTzM has been awarding the fraMediale prize "Digital Learning: Reality, Science & Fiction" since 2014 as part of fraMediale, which recognizes innovative and future-oriented ideas for the use of digital media in teaching and learning contexts. Prizes are awarded in four categories. The projects of the award winners are presented in short video clips.

Research workshop for media education

Methods that were used in research projects or qualification papers are often creative, innovative and inspiring. In most cases, however, these methods are only published in the relevant studies. University seminars and method textbooks usually also focus on traditional and established approaches and methods. However, current issues in media education sometimes reveal their limits. Young academics and students - in educational sciences, media and communication studies and teaching - are therefore increasingly interested in exploring the discipline of media education empirically-analytically and normatively-reflexively, but also using practical, participatory, development- and design-oriented approaches. The publication "Research Workshop Media Education: Practice - Theory - Method" highlights the "methodological treasures" of media education-oriented research projects and presents them on a database-supported website - similar to a "Cochrane Library" - as well as in print publications. This shows the heterogeneous spectrum of creative and innovative methods that are useful for researching media-pedagogical questions and phenomena. The publication project contributes to the discussion of experiences with the limits and possibilities of traditional approaches and methods in the context of media educational research, promotes the discussion of innovative methods and their acceptance within the scientific community, and gives students and young researchers methodological and theoretical orientation.

BakSI

The Federal Working Group of Support Organizations and Initiatives "BakSI" deals with topics related to IT organization and support in and for schools. The working group was founded in 2004 as a platform for the informal exchange of the following five school support initiatives: S3 - School Support Service Bremen, 3S - School Support Service Hamburg, fraLine at the FTzM of the FH Frankfurt am Main; the regional media center Gießen-Vogelsberg (M @ AUS) and the state media center Stuttgart. There are no permanent members. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome. Not only school support initiatives, but also representatives of school authorities, ministries, school and media organizations who either want to present their ideas and concepts or are just starting out in their media development and want suggestions / exchange / advice.

Publications (selection)

  • Knaus, Thomas (2019): Research Workshop Media Education. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research [Volume 3], Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas (2018): Media Education Research Workshop. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research [Volume 2], Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas , Meister, Dorothee M., Narr, Kristin (2018): Futurelab media pedagogy. Professionalization - Quality Development - Standards, Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2018): Tension? Potentials! - Digital change in educational institutions - Volume 6 of the fraMediale series, Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas (2017): Research Workshop Media Education. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research practice [Volume 1], Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2016): Wi (e) derstands - Digital change in educational institutions - Volume 5 of the fraMediale series, Munich: kopaed
  • Knaus, Thomas (2016): digital - medial - no matter? A fictional debate about digital education and omnipresent adjectives in the current education debate, In: Brüggemann, Marion / Knaus, Thomas / Meister, Dorothee: Communication cultures in digital worlds - concepts and strategies of media education and media education, pp. 99-130, Munich: kopaed -Publishing company
  • Knaus, Thomas (2016): Potentials of the Digital - Theoretical-conceptual considerations of pedagogical and didactic potentials of the school use of tablets and BYOD. In: merz theme booklet: school. smart. mobil (edited by Stefan Welling, Marion Brüggemann and Günther Anfang), 1/2016, pp. 33–39.
  • Knaus, Thomas (2016): Cooperative learning. Justifications - digital potentials - conceptual perspectives, In: Scheer, August Wilhelm: Perspectives for digital further education - educational landscapes of the future, pp. 141–155, Saarbrücken: IMC AG.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2015): fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 4), Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas (2013): Digital boards - (media) technology that inspires ?, In: Bohrer, Clemens / Hoppe, Christian: Interactive whiteboards in schools and universities, pp. 13–37, Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Döring, Nicola, Ludewig, Yvonne (2013): The Effectiveness of Media Education Initiatives: Successes, Problems and Approaches to Solutions, In: MedienPädagogik September 6, 2013.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2013): fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 3), Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2011): fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 2), Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga, Schmelz, Anthony, Schrader, Ulrich (2011): Final report (4th report) on the third project period from September 2007 to August 2011.
  • Thulen, Katharina (2011): Technology analysis of "digital board systems" taking into account the requirements of educational institutions.
  • Thülen, Katharina (2011): Technologieanalyseer digital board systems, In: Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga: fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 2), pp. 177–194, Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas , Engel, Olga (2010): fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 1), Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Schmelz, Anthony (2010): IT service management in the school environment, In: Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (ed.): FraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (volume 1), pp. 151–170, Munich: kopaed -Publishing company.
  • Schrader, Ulrich (2010): Web 2.0 - From I to We, In: Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (Ed.): FraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 1), pp. 27–36, Munich: kopaed- Publishing company.
  • Thülen, Katharina (2010): Media pedagogical and technical teaching support - low-threshold advice and support in the use of new digital media in the classroom, In: Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (ed.): FraMediale - digital media in educational institutions, p. 137– 150, Munich: kopaed-Verlag.
  • Knaus, Thomas (2009): Kommunigrafie - An empirical study on the importance of text and images in digital communication, Munich: kopaed-Verlag.

Press reviews (selection)

For the 10th anniversary, the CAZ - Campusmagazin Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main reports on the beginnings and developments of the FTzM project fraLine. The Frankfurter Rundschau also reported on the 10th anniversary of the Frankfurt media education initiative and the cooperation project established in this context between the city of Frankfurt am Main and the FTzM of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences "fraLine". The CAZ informed about the establishment of the Frankfurt Technology Center [: Medien]. The media fair fraMediale 2012, a project of the FTzM, was announced in the journal Medien und Erbildung (merz for short). The media pedagogy practice blog reported on the FTzM project for media pedagogical and technical teaching support. Thomas Knaus, researcher at FTzM, reported on one of the current research projects on mobile research at the GMK Communication Culture Forum in Mainz. The German education server, which provides information on all aspects of education in Germany, also presents the FTzM scientific center and its fraLine project on its website. The national platform Lehrer-Online reported on the content of fraMediale 2014. The State Media Center Baden-Württemberg published a debriefing for fraMediale 2014. The members of the FTzM are also active in the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany (GMK) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Official website of the FTzM with an overview of all projects
  2. ^ Statutes of the FTzM
  3. ↑ a b c Official website of fraLine
  4. ↑ Engel, Olga and Thomas Knaus : An interdisciplinary roof for fraLine. In: CAZ - Campusmagazin Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main No. 4, 2011, pp. 6–7.
  5. ↑ FH students take care of school computers  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Frankfurter Neue Presse January 19, 2002.
  6. ↑ 156 schools go online - and "fraLine" helps  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Offenbach-Post January 19, 2002.
  7. ↑ Hello students, we are your internet helpers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Image January 19, 2002.
  8. ↑ Fh supports schools  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Frankfurter Rundschau January 19, 2002.
  9. ↑ Engel, Olga and Thomas Knaus: Direkter Draht In: CAZ - Campusmagazin Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main No. 1, 2012, pp. 7–9.
  10. ↑ The student hotline  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Frankfurter Rundschau February 10, 2002.
  11. ↑ Official website of the City Education Authority in Frankfurt am Main
  12. ↑ One hand washes the other  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de   In: Welt Online June 8, 2008
  13. ↑ Winner: fraLine - IT School Service ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-der-ideen.de
  14. ↑ Ways into the Net 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 12.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmwi.de
  15. ↑ "Paths to the Net" competition - 2011 award winners ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmwi.de
  16. ↑ See Knaus, Thomas: Digitale Tafeln - (media) technology that inspires ?, In: Bohrer, Clemens / Hoppe, Christian: Interactive whiteboards in school and university , Munich: kopaed, pp. 13–37.
  17. ↑ Cf. Thulen, Katharina (2012): Digitale Tafeln: An empirical study on the requirements of educational institutions based on a technology analysis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de  
  18. ↑ Engel, Olga and Thomas Knaus: fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (Volume 2), Munich: kopaed
  19. ↑ More information on the fraDiTa project. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ftzm.de
  20. ↑ More information on the fraMoLe project. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ftzm.de
  21. ↑ Knaus, Thomas: Technology interferes! Learning with digital media from an interactionist-constructivist perspective, In: Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga: fraMediale - digital media in educational institutions (3rd volume), Munich: kopaed, pp. 21–60
  22. ↑ Knaus, Thomas (2014): Me, my Tablet - and Us. From the myth of a motivational generator to a networked learning tool for autonomopoietic learning, In: Friedrich, Katja / Siller, Friederike / Treber, Albert (eds.): Smart and mobile - digital communication as a challenge for education, pedagogy and politics, Munich: kopaed.
  23. ↑ More about the fraDesk ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fraline.de
  24. ↑ More information about the seminars offered, their evaluations and the teachers' experiences with the seminars ( memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fraline.de
  25. ↑ Further training courses ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fraline.de
  26. ↑ Online platform for appointments in the field of school media education in Frankfurt am Main
  27. ↑ Official website of the preventive youth protection in Frankfurt am Main
  28. ↑ Official website of the State Education Authority  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / schulamt-frankfurt.lsa.hessen.de  
  29. ↑ Official website for fraMediale
  30. ↑ [1]
  31. ↑ Article from the Baden-Württemberg State Media Center on fraMediale 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  32. ↑ The Goethe University Frankfurt presents itself at fraMediale 2014.
  33. ↑ Article Frankfurter Rundschau on fraMediale 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / termine.fr-online.de  
  34. ↑ Article University of Fulda on fraMediale 2014
  35. ^ Article by the Society for Media in Science V. at fraMediale 2014
  36. ↑ Announcement fraMediale 2014 in media + education - magazine for media education
  37. ↑ Program of fraMediale 2017
  38. ↑ The online portal News4Teachers encourages teachers to submit their projects
  39. ↑ More about the fraMediale price
  40. ↑ Videos of the award winners from recent years
  41. ↑ More on the research workshop media education project: Practice - Theory - Method
  42. ↑ More about the BakSI project  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ftzm.de  
  43. ↑ Official website of S3 - School Support Service Bremen
  44. ^ Official website of the 3S - School Support Service Hamburg
  45. ↑ Official website of the regional media center Gießen-Vogelsberg
  46. ↑ Official website of the Landesmedienzentrum Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  47. ↑ Link to publication
  48. ↑ Link to the publication ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fraline.de
  49. ↑ Link to the publication  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de  
  50. ↑ CAZ No. 1, 2012, pp. 7–9
  51. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, February 10, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fraline.de  
  52. ↑ CAZ No. 4, 2011, pp. 6-7
  53. ↑ merz, September 19, 2012
  54. ↑ Media Education Practice Blog, December 18, 2012
  55. ↑ GMK Forum conference booklet, p. 9
  56. ^ German educational server for FTzM
  57. ↑ German educational server for fraLine
  58. ↑ Teacher Online, January 6, 2014
  59. ↑ LMZ, March 27, 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  60. ↑ Thomas Knaus in the Qualitative Media and Communication Research group
  61. ^ Angelika Beranek in the Hesse regional group