Dieter Baacke Award Winner 2018 - Outstanding Media Education
Where and how would you like to use robots? As babysitters and caregivers? As household help? In the alternate reality game Journey to Utopia, a media educational simulation game for 10 to 13-year-olds, things are very active and creative. Children program small robots and at the same time learn to reflect on the consequences of digital technology. They are highly concentrated and have a lot of fun and verve. And the #stadtsache method and app encourages children to take a critical look at their surroundings: What should be changed so that we children feel comfortable? Or even: What do we like? Media education is more than technical education, it's about the whole: culture, politics, society, the individual.
Other award-winning projects deal with the creative and critical collaboration of children, young people and adults from a variety of backgrounds. In #rootsnvisions, refugee and non-refugee youth from Bremen create impressive media art together. In NeoEnkel, old and young people in Hamm engage with photography across generations and cultures and also with the topic of flight. Or people with disabilities make their own film contributions in Berlin on the topic of inclusive voting. The films are very well received by the public and at schools. Other award-winning projects deal intensively and actively with cyberbullying and games, topics that affect almost all young people. And the Living Legends project goes on a media-pedagogical search for traces on several continents: Young people look for and document old legends, turn them into animated films and present them digitally.
The Society for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK) and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth have been jointly presenting the nationwide award for outstanding media education work since 2001. This year, even more projects were submitted than last year: 168 applications were submitted to the jury, eight outstanding projects were awarded prizes, and one also received a "Special Recognition".
The Dieter Baacke Prize shows examples and methods of how up-to-date, versatile, visionary or even well networked media education can be today. And how media education should soon look everywhere. Outstanding media projects with children and young people are the focus of the €12,000 prize.
The Dieter Baacke Prize is awarded in six different categories. Eight projects were honored this year. One project was awarded a "Special Recognition". GMK Board of Trustees member Ralph Caspers, known among other things from "Wissen macht Ah!" and "Quarks," moderated the award ceremony.
Further information:
- Detailed information about the Dieter Baacke Prize and this year's winners.