Media scout

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Media scout
legal form Educational initiative
main emphasis Media education
method Peer education
Action space Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Bavaria, Saarland

Media Scout (also MediaScout , media Scouts , Cyber Scouts or media Mentor ) are educational initiatives for media education of children and youth. Young people trained as media scouts or mentors take on the information and education of their classmates and friends in media-related topics. The aim is that media literacy to encourage children and young people and thus an enlightened and responsible use of the media. The term scout ( English to scout - to explore, to enlighten) should draw a parallel to the boy scouts .

backgrounds

Today, children and young people have numerous options for using the media. In many cases, however, they are not able to competently assess the advantages and the dangers that result from them and act accordingly in an informed manner. The potential of the new media to be harmful to young people is also increasingly the subject of political debates. The following problems are in the foreground:

It is believed that violence on television or in video games reduces the inhibition threshold of young people and makes them dull. When it comes to youth violence, the media is often given a reinforcing role. Video games, films and music are often cited as possible reasons, triggers and facilitating factors in rampages.
Just like drugs or gambling, the media can be addicting. Teenagers in particular are at risk of becoming addicted to video games, the internet, or television.
Due to the increasing networking in social networks and communities, young people reveal a lot of personal information or photos of themselves on the Internet. It is often difficult for them to estimate who has access to this information and how it can be used against them in the future.
Companies also try to influence or direct the consumption behavior of young people through advertising, film and computer games. So there are very specific economic interests behind the creation of media formats. Showing these mechanisms contributes to more conscious consumption.

The possibilities and strengths of the media scout concept for conveying this important content has already been recognized at the political level, discussed at the German Prevention Day and reported in some media.

Educational concept

Educationally, the concept of media Scouts is based on the from the prevention known principle of peer education The term peer (Engl. Peer : equal, coequal) stands for people who are treated as one and the same social group members, especially in terms of age, Position or status. The media scouts are empowered to convey information to their peers on certain topics and to do educational work. The target group is thus informed, enlightened and instructed by equal members. This approach is mainly due to the fact that adolescents see their peers as the most important conversation partners. According to motivational theory , adolescents are more motivated to learn if what they have learned is relevant to their lives or if they notice that they can help others with what they have learned.

Training content

During the media scout training, various subject areas are addressed that are relevant with regard to responsible, enlightened handling. The main topics include:

Since the various initiatives, associations and projects have different priorities in terms of content and since the same subject areas are not always dealt with, the specific training content is listed for the respective initiatives.

Projects (various media scout initiatives in Germany)

Media Scout e. V. (Baden-Württemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, etc.)

Media Scout e. V.
legal form registered association
Seat Neuffen
motto Boy scouts in the media jungle
main emphasis Media education
method Peer education
Website medienscout.info

As early as 2004 to 2006, preliminary stages of the project were tested in Berlin, Augsburg and Darmstadt as part of Bojan Godina's dissertation. The implementation and benefits of this method of media education were scientifically evaluated. The content of the training was, according to the topic of the dissertation, the "Invisible Religion of Sublimal Marketing in the Media". The young people should first and foremost be informed about the functioning and effects of media influence. With the help of the results of the study, the media scout project was developed by the partners (IKU / vimotion / House of Prevention).

The planning and implementation of the first media scout project began in 2009 at the Georg Büchner High School in Winnenden . An initial event was the rampage in Winnenden , as a result of which the influencing role of the media, for example so-called " killer games ", was discussed throughout Germany . Based on the boy scout idea, the first media scouting body was to emerge. In contrast to the preliminary stages in Brandenburg and Bavaria, the focus was on a wide range of training content. The project officially started on February 4, 2010 with 14 media scouts. The media scout e. V. was founded in January 2012 as a non-profit association and in the same year won the “Schutzbengel Award” from Rummelsberger Dienst für Menschen gGmbH on the subject of “Social Media Youth”.

The basic training to become a media scout takes place in the form of school working groups and consists of theoretical and practical aspects. In addition, there are various advanced modules that are dedicated to different areas, such as B. in-depth information on the topics of media addiction and crime prevention. To support the training, the project relies on its own e-learning platform, which the scouts use to independently process certain learning units, clarify organizational matters and provide the trainees with a database with textual, visual and film material and presentations. which they can use for their work in the classes on specific topics. The teaching units are filmed and evaluated with questionnaires so that the scouts can further develop their didactic and content-related quality. This enables a permanent internal evaluation to be achieved.

The trainers of the media scouts of the Heidelberg-Winnender concept include not only media educators and social scientists, but also film and media makers who represent the human rights philosophy and the nature of this concept of values. Under this premise, the Medienscout founders published the book "Values-oriented media education: The prevention project 'Medienscout'".

Training content

The media scouts are systematically promoted in successive modules in various areas and trained by specialists. The aim is to promote the media competence of the students and to enable them to independently, critically assess their media environment by e.g. B. apply human rights as an ethical principle to values ​​in the media. The teaching content mainly includes:

In the long term, the creativity of the media scouts should also be further promoted and their own media content should be produced. In addition, playful elements were integrated into the media education.

Medienscouts.rlp (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Media Scouts.rlp
main emphasis Media education
method Peer education
Website medienscouts.rlp.de

In order to promote media competence and media education at schools in Rhineland-Palatinate, the 10-point program of the Rhineland-Palatinate state government, "Media Competence Makes School", was launched in 2007. As part of this initiative, teachers were trained in media skills and educational events for parents on the subject of youth media protection were organized.

In the “Media Scouts Rhineland-Palatinate” project, young people are now being taught how to use the Internet responsibly, especially Web 2.0, and are trained to pass on these skills to their classmates. The media scouts are trained by the previously trained teachers. The current project has been preceded by pilot projects since 2008.

Training content

At Medienscouts.rpl, the following main areas are taught:

  • Media pedagogy / media competence / media education: reflection on one's own media consumption , definition of the role of media scouts at school, description of the tasks and limits of the work as media scouts, cost traps and the tricks of advertising
  • New media: chat , instant messaging , social communities, eGames
  • Safety; Data protection, passwords , firewall , antivirus programs
  • Law : Legally secure software alternatives and free licenses , basic legal awareness

Media scouts NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia)

Media scouts NRW
logo
founding 2012
main emphasis Media education
method Peer education
Website www.medienscouts-nrw.de

The "Medienscouts NRW" project initiated by the State Agency for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) in 2012 aims to sensitize secondary school students to the risks of media offers and to promote self-determined, critical and creative use of the media.

As part of the pilot phase, the State Institute for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) trained around 40 students to become media scouts in cooperation with the Chair for Media Didactics and Knowledge Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen from January 2011 to April 2012. After this pilot phase, the State Agency for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM) is continuing the project. A project office was set up at the Grimme Institute for the organizational implementation . Since the project started in 2011, over 2,400 schoolchildren have been qualified as media scouts and more than 1,200 advisory teachers have been trained. This means that more than 560 schools from around 47 of 53 districts and urban districts are currently participating in NRW, which corresponds to a participation rate of 89 percent. This makes the Media Scouts NRW project the largest of its kind in the German-speaking region.

Training content

The training content of the media scouts NRW includes:

  • Internet and security
  • Computer games
  • Cell phone & smartphone
  • Social communities
  • Consulting competence, communication training and social learning.

MedienScouts Hamburg

Based on projects in other federal states, the pilot project media scouts was started on February 1, 2011 at eight general education schools. The project started as a cooperation between the Youth Information Center , the Media Authority Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein (MA HSH), the Department for Media Education of the State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development and the TIDE Academy . In 2015, the MA HSH resigned as a cooperation partner, now the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration and the Authority for Schools and Vocational Training (BSB) are promoting the project.

Between 2011 and 2016, around 195 media scouts were trained by 39 Hamburg district schools and grammar schools. For this purpose, students in grades 8 and 9 attended weekend workshops, at which they acquired methods, researched topics and each created their own workshop concept, which they regularly carry out in the 5th and 6th grades of their school. They were supported in this by the accompanying teachers who had been trained in advance training.

Others

Student media mentor program (Baden-Württemberg)

The student media mentor program (SMEP) of the Baden-Württemberg State Media Center (LMZ) trains students aged 12 to 16 years. The training is available in two different versions. The main focus of SMEP Classic is active media work. The young people learn how to design print media, shoot videos, make audio recordings and give presentations. At SMEP youth media protection, dealing with social networks, cyberbullying , data protection and copyrights is in the foreground. After completing their training, the media mentors can pass on knowledge to their classmates as contact persons on all aspects of media and create and lead their own courses and units on the topics covered.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth: Strengthening media skills. May 22, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Report on ways to strengthen media literacy among children and adolescents, parents and specialists in schools and in child and youth work ( memento of the original from January 22, 2016 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. (PDF; 205 kB) of the inter-departmental working group “Media Competence” with representatives of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK), Conference of Justice Ministers (JuMiKo), Conference of Youth and Family Ministers (JFMK), Conference of Labor and Social Affairs Ministers (ASMK), Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK.) And other experts (page) 5). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  3. ↑ Interview with the military psychologist Dave Grossman et al. a. on video game conditioning related to killing. Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Lectures at the 4th Berlin Media Addiction Conference 2011. (PDF; 293 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 25, 2011 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 . 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 / mediensucht-konferenz.de
  5. ↑ ibid. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 28, 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 / mediensucht-konferenz.de  
  6. ↑ Sascha Lobo on Schufa's attempt to use Facebook accounts for her research. Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Viacom on Nintendo's goals for the NICK Kids Choice Awards 2007. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 17, 2012 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 . 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.beviacom.de
  8. ↑ Report of the Rhineland-Palatinate Study Commission, p. 20. (PDF; 713 kB) Retrieved on August 28, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Statement on the topic of media literacy before the Bundestag, p. 11. (PDF; 359 kB) Retrieved on August 28, 2012 .
  10. ↑ The makers of Medienscout e. V. at the German Prevention Day. Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Report in the Backnanger district newspaper. Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
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  13. ↑ Lecture on the subject of media scouts also at Gamescom. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2012 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 . 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.iamgamer.de
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  35. ↑ Media scouts - peer-to-peer education for schoolchildren and advanced training for teachers at LI Hamburg. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved April 28, 2016 .
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  37. ↑ The HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration is the Hamburg business school. Under the leadership of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, HSBA offers dual and part-time business management Bachelor and Master courses for over 600 students in cooperation with over 200 companies. In: www.hsba.de. Retrieved April 28, 2016 .
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  39. ^ LMZ: Student Media Mentor Program (SMEP). Retrieved February 1, 2017 .

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