Questions about political media competence are becoming increasingly important.
Digitization as a methodological and content-related challenge for critical political education
Digitization must be designed as a major social transformation. Within this framework, there are numerous opportunities for political education to open up new perspectives through offers to increase political media competence.
It is important to take up current developments for and with educators and participants in educational offers. Educators and participants need to discuss them and make them understandable with regard to their importance for democratic processes. In terms of a democratic community, it is important that as many people as possible.
People can participate in shaping this transformation and be able to recognize and evaluate the relevance of emerging questions to their own lives. It is not just about imparting knowledge and skills that enable participation. It is also in particular about raising awareness of structural exclusion mechanisms and discrimination in order to overcome them in the long term and sustainably.
You can impart political knowledge through visualization using images.
Political education with digital media
For political educators and teachers, the progressive digitization of society means a change in their canon of methods and the basic setting of educational situations. Digital media are not only used privately but also in learning contexts. The learners are also confronted with settings that did not exist just a few years ago. While this is apparently self-evident and therefore supposedly easier for young learners, people who have been involved in educational systems for a longer period of time are faced with new challenges. In summary, both teaching and learning habits and needs are changing overall.
Politics-related media literacy
Formal and informal politics, explicitly the different components and phases of political processes, have also changed significantly in the course of digitization. Numerous digital elements have found their way into the work of parties, associations and initiatives. According to studies, informal digital engagement is becoming more and more important without completely replacing other forms of political participation. Digital media enable a high degree of “simultaneity” of the most diverse information and formats. In addition, it leads to an amount of data that you cannot record in its entirety.