Media literacy is a key prerequisite for acting independently and successfully. How do you distinguish “news” from “fake news”? How do you research on facts and figures? How do you conduct an interview? How do you write and publish an exciting or gripping text?
With the aspiration to reach this competence, Discimus Lab currently offers the project “Jugend schreibt (Youth writes)” in cooperation with IZOP-Institut/Aachen and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ for a network of elementary and grammar schools in the Ptuj region in Slovenia, and supports the project in Koprivnica, Ogulin and Zagreb in Croatia. Media projects of this kind were initially only offered in Germany until the mid-1990s. Dr. Gerald Hühner then conceived the project “Zeitung in der Schule (Newspaper in school)” in cooperation with the Süddeutschen Zeitung for the first time in 1996 in Gyönk/Ungarn, for teaching German as a foreign language, and implemented it successfully in practice. This “pioneering achievement” (Dr. Gernot Sittner, then editor-in-chief of the Süddeutschen Zeitung) which links the European intercultural dimension, work with media in theory and practice (publication) as well as the cooperation with extracurricular partner from all aspects of social life, “has set a precedent far beyond the borders of the original project area”. (Peter Brand, Managing Director, IZOP-Institut, 18.11.2009). The project currently runs annually from 01.02. to 31.01. of the following year.
– The journalistic work is offered for:
- – Print media
- – TV
- – Radio broadcasting
- – Social media
– Workshops are offered as part of the journalistic work.
Examples from the project archive:
https://www.gerald.huehner.org/hr/medien.htm