Heidi Schelhowe

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Heidelinde "Heidi" Schelhowe (born March 25, 1949 in Mösbach ; born Heidelinde Heyl) is a German professor emeritus. She heads the “Digital Media in Education” (dimeb) department in the “Computer Science and Mathematics” department at the University of Bremen . From 2011 to 2014 she was vice rector for teaching and studies. Since 2011 she has been a member of the ZDF television council for science.

Life

Heidi Schelhowe studied German and Catholic theology from 1967 to 1972 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster . She completed her training as a teacher with a legal traineeship and a pedagogical examination for teaching at grammar schools in Bremen. From 1975 to 1981 she worked as a teacher in Bremen. During this time she became politically active in the Communist League of West Germany , which led to her dismissal from civil service. In 1981 she was banned from working because of the radical decree. Rehabilitation took place as part of the abolition of the radical resolution in Bremen in 2012.

From 1982 to 1989 she studied computer science at the University of Bremen. As a research assistant, she began to deal with the media side of the computer and interaction and did her doctorate in 1996 with the topic “The medium from the machine. A contribution to the understanding of the computer in informatics ”. She then worked at the University of Hamburg as a research assistant and at the Humboldt University in Berlin as a university assistant. In 2001 she was appointed professor for "Digital Media in Education" in the "Computer Science and Mathematics" department at the University of Bremen.

She has been a member of the ZDF television council since 2011 . She represents the area of ​​"science and research", which is occupied by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. In the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), she co-founded today's specialist group for women's work and the specialist group Be-Tangible Interaction. As part of the International Women's University ifu, which took place in 2000, she was the head of the central project Virtual ifu (vifu).

She is married, has two daughters and four grandchildren and lives in Bremen.

Publications (selection)

  • Women's world, computer rooms. GI symposium Bremen, September 1989. Proceedings
  • The medium from the machine: On the metamorphosis of the computer. Dissertation . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1997.
  • A university reform project. The International Women's University (ifu) 10.5840 / philosophin2000112112
  • Kreutzner G., Schelhowe H., Schelkle B. (2002) User orientation , participation and interaction as guiding principles: The virtual international women's university (vifu) . In: Neusel A., Poppenhusen M. (eds) University of New Thinking. Series of publications by the International Women's University "Technology and Culture", vol 8. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95045-1_19
  • Technology, Imagination and Learning: Basics for Educational Processes Using Digital Media , Waxmann, 2007.
  • Tangible interactions: The ubiquitous computer: touchscreens, wearables, tangibles and ubiquitous computing (culture and media theory) by Bernard Robben and Heidi Schelhowe | March 1, 2012
  • Digital Realities, Physical Action and Deep Learning. FabLabs as Educational Environments? In: Corinne Büching, Julia Walter-Herrmann: FabLabs. Shape your world. transcript 2013
  • 'Through the Interface' - media education in digitized culture . In: MedienPädagogik, issue 25 (October 27) 40-58. Zurich 2016. http://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/427/426
  • From the digital medium and from the self-sense of things. In: merz, magazine for media education 04/2018, Munich

Honors

At the "18th Interaction Design and Children Conference" (IDC 2018), which took place from June 19 to 22 in Trondheim, Heidi Schelhowe was honored with the Edith Ackermann Award for Outstanding Achievement in the "Eminent Scholar" category.

She founded TechKreativ and Fablab Bremen at the university and is honorary president of FabLab e. V. Bremen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "After twenty or thirty years it still depends on the individual person" - The radical decision of 1972 in the memories of affected teachers. An Oral History Study "by Helen Gärtner, see page 15. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ “Interviews with Affected People” December 16, 2011 - by Frank Behrens and Barbara Larisch. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ “ Building on tradition”, taz. The daily newspaper of December 14, 2011, Bremen Aktuell, page 24. Accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ "After twenty or thirty years it still depends on the individual person" - The radical decision of 1972 in the memories of affected teachers. An Oral History Study "by Helen Gärtner, see page 55. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ "GEW praises the abolition of the radical decree". In: WESER-KURIER . January 23, 2012, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ https://www.zdf.de/zdfunternehmen/zdf-fernsehrat-lösungen-100.html
  7. ↑ https://www.uni-bremen.de/de/tzi/forschung/leitthema-adaptive-kommunikation/nachrichten/news/detail/News/doppelte-auszeichnung-f%C3%BCr-prof-dr-heidi-schelhowe /
  8. ↑ Heidi Schelhowe: A project of the high school reform. Die Internationale Frauenuniversität (ifu) , in Die Philosophin Volume 11, Issue 21, May 2000, pages 120-123, DOI: 10.5840 / philosophin2000112112
  9. ↑ The International Women's University “Technology and Culture” (ifu) Small chronicle of the origins and development.
  10. ↑ Double award for Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe news from July 16, 2018
  11. ↑ https://www.zdf.de/zdfunternehmen/zdf-fernsehrat-lösungen-100.html
personal data
SURNAME Schelhowe, Heidi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelhowe, Heidelinde (full name); Heyl, Heidelinde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mösbach