media license from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture 
The media diversity affects all age groups when, increasingly, to varying degrees, into all areas of life. The flood of recent media developments is becoming more confusing. This leads to a gap between the so-called digital immigrants, so adults who have not grown up with the new media, and the digital natives, the children and young people, their everyday life, of course the media.
adults often lack the necessary skills in dealing with the media. Because of its educational work with the media education often overwhelmed or underestimate the media influence on daily life of children and adolescents. The adolescents, however, are technically savvy, but they lack the necessary skills, the media developments lane, think critically and assess both opportunities and dangers can be.
Both schools and extracurricular organizations make many efforts to promote media education education. Here are already very good contributions to the strengthening of media literacy made. It is not always easy for parents, which make for an age group relevant issues and prepare for specific target groups. Moreover, the orientation designed to suit the variety of educational media sometimes difficult.
goal is
media license of Bavaria to strengthen children, youth and adults in their media skills. Designed as a portfolio, it offers information and materials that allows tailored to the needs of different target groups dealing with relevant issues. Existing educational media and materials will be integrated. The content taught to be documented with a certificate. In its systematic design of the media driving Bayern the teaching of media literacy.
Given the increasing information overload, it is increasingly important to assess and evaluate news. Only those who have background knowledge to distribution channels, can detect whether a message is credible or not. The lesson
Look carefully! Rate recognize news channels and asks the children to consider information carefully and to question their credibility. This involved the students with the tasks and duties of journalists, news ways to learn in the newspaper and the Internet know, evaluate information and recognize the importance of references.
The description of a picture story to get to know the students the different ways of news in the newspaper and the Internet. They also recognize using a comparison between a newspaper and a news blog, the importance of journalistic due diligence and realize that any Internet user can unaudited information online. Here the children learn to respect References in text and information relating to verify their credibility. In addition, develop the students a wish list for future use of information in the newspaper and online.
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