Between 2020 and today, digitization has often been treated as a stopgap solution to pandemic distance learning. One may hope, however, that the insight has taken hold in this phase that the digital dimension demands a fundamentally new conception of language, communication, and discursive interaction beyond the pandemic. This also raises the question of whether […]
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The University of Wuppertal offers a long-standing PrimA (Praktikum im Ausland = school placement abroad) programme in teacher education. A lecture that was held on 21 January 2021 as part of the online lecture series Tea Time Thursday at the University of Cologne’s Centre for Teacher Education explores the rationale for and the effect of […]
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When the Corona pandemic required schools and universities to provide opportunities for distance learning in March 2020, TEFL lecturers at Wuppertal University faced a double challenge: New forms of digital distance learning for future use in schools had to be developed. At the same time, we had to enable student teachers who could not complete […]
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Now – at last – the digitization of teaching and schools is no longer just a matter of policy statements and announcements. The pandemic has forced us to digitize everyday teaching. Now – finally – we are talking very concretely and practically about end devices, video tools and learning platforms, but finally also about their […]
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Fact checking is currently booming. This has less to do with a growing general interest in truth, on the contrary. Fact checking is an urgently needed corrective against the spread of lies, false truths and conspiracy theories. Questions about the reliability of news or information are a direct result of all the opportunities for digital […]
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One of the most important abilities that school has to teach young people is the ability to orient and position themselves in new or different cultural environments. This applies to each individual social environment in one’s own life world as well as to other and foreign-language societies. This usually happens rather intuitively: One uses one’s […]
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Recently I disposed of a Windows 95 PC, with 95 for 1995, an operating system that overcame the surface of DOS commands in the mid-1990s and visualized the complete usage. This is worth mentioning because the popularization of personal computers and the Internet use now goes back more than thirty years without any appropriate educational-political […]
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The findings in studies on distance learning in Germany during the Covid19 lockdown period that are available so far are rather shocking: learning has often been unstructured, inefficient and in no way comparable to what is expected from orderly teaching processes in classrooms. Admittedly, empirical studies like the most recent one by the ifo Institute […]
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