Transcript Mediapolis, Charles Meder (AL)

Mediapolis
Towards a didactical Media Concept @ the Athénée de Luxembourg
Athénée de Luxembourg
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Secondary school, founded 1603
1350 students
200 teachers
www.al.lu
The Athénée de Luxembourg & the media
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Motto: Innovation by tradition
First major School Library in Luxembourg
Information and Communication Environment
Participation in many media-projects / ITprojects, integration of media education in
many subjects (interdisciplinary)
Media Library – Document Center – Support
Center – Activity Center
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Media Concept
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Overall concept for the use of the
different media types at our school,
developed by all the members of the
school community – for both
administrative and pedagogical purposes
„By developing a media concept schools
determine the status quo of their
previous media use and fix the need and
the perspectives for the coming years.“
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Milestones
Initial inquiry: Where do we stand,
where do we want to go, what do we
need?
 Work out an effective planning together with external experts
 Translation into action
 Evaluation
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Our main goals:
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to simplify administrative procedures and to improve communication
between all the people involved in our school
to develop/strengthen teachers and students media skills
(comprehension, analysis, production)
teaching the media and teaching with the media
encourage critical approaches to the media
encourage comprehensive, autonomous, collaborative and creative
learning
continue to promote co-operation with external partners, the opening-up
of schools, cross-curricular teaching and project work
create the basis for a sensible and practical handling of the media
(audio, video, books, the internet, etc.) by supplying and regularly
updating both contents and hardware, and by creating support
structures for teachers and students
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Some activities
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Implementation of a web based Intranet – hosted by mySchool!
Implementation of learning communities:
 To promote and improve collaborative learning processes
(WebQuest, Assessments, Learning objects, ePortfolio,
document sharing, communication tools, publishing tools …)
Implementation of a media server hosted by our media library flexible distribution of digital content (Stream or IPOD)
To develop/strengthen communication competencies (reading,
speaking, writing) of the students: cross-media activities (book,
movies, press, readings, radio plays, other media events) to
promote and support media literacy education
To provide teachers with ongoing pre-service and in-service
training and mentoring