Inclusive digital media. Connecting digital media and inclusive learning in primary schools and teacher education

DMi! therefore aimed to embed core media-didactic competences in the curriculum through seven concrete concepts. Broad cooperation connected subject didactics in German, mathematics, primary science and social studies, and work studies with computer science, educational psychology and media education. Addressing heterogeneity, a particular focus of Bremen teacher education, links the concepts: digital media's potential can be used particularly effectively for individual support across subjects. The seven concepts thus also contribute to developing shared learning in inclusive classrooms.

Following classroom pilots of the seven concepts, digital media use became a compulsory component of subject-didactic education in German, mathematics and primary science and social studies, and of educational sciences. Close cooperation with the State Institute for Schools extends the concepts into the second and third phases of teacher education. The project was funded through the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung's ‘Digital Learning in Primary Schools’ programme.

Within the ITB's contribution to the ‘Let's Explore’ concept, student teachers helped develop a web-based tool for digitally supported learning projects based on the Kompetenzwerkstatt Task Manager. In primary science and social studies courses, students examine digital teaching and learning, develop pedagogically justified concepts while constructing web-based learning environments, and acquire skills for creating multimodal content such as learning videos, photo sequences and audio files. Their multimedia learning projects can subsequently be used and developed in primary classrooms.