Media Education

The central task in the field of media education is to teach children media literacy. Media literacy involves dealing with media in a meaningful way as a matter of course and developing basic cognitive skills that make it possible to understand the abstract digital world.

Analog media have long been part of everyday kindergarten life. In our kindergarten, the focus is primarily on written (signs, self-written) and print media (picture books, kamishibai, story rail). In this way, the children's senses are addressed, concentration skills are practiced, and their first experiences with language and writing are gained (literacy education).

To make the digital world comprehensible to the children, we provide them with vivid and haptic materials. While playing, they try out the basic principles on which programming is based:

Spatial thinking is trained, for example, with the following materials: pink tower, space projector, pattern laying carpet "fish", wire loop, soma cube and foot touch plates.

Logical operations (synthesis, analysis, algorithm, pattern recognition and abstraction) are tested by the children with the help of sorting and plug-in games, Nikitin materials, "Easy Elektronic" constructor, Differix game and LÜK box.

Along the way, the children learn to deal with mistakes in a positive way, because they experience that recognizing and correcting mistakes leads to successful problem solving. And this is of great benefit beyond the media world.