The Verband Bildungsmedien e. V. has worked together with the ministry for schools and education in North Rhein-Westphalia and the Medienberatung NRW to again organise an education congress. The theme of the Bildungskongress is ‘print and digital: designing lessons for today and tomorrow’. Registration will open...
At the start of didacta in Hanover the Georg Eckert Institute announced that the winner of Textbook of the Year in the ‘society’ category was the history book ‘ mBook Geschichte ’ from Cornelsen. The reason for this choice lay in the book’s excellent ‘linking with freely available online material’, which makes the subject truly...
On 20 February 2018 an announcement was made at didacta regarding great changes in the field of digitisation: a cooperative agreement between the Niedersächsischen Bildungscloud (NBC) (Lower Saxony education cloud) and Schul-Cloud (school cloud). The latter was developed by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) with support...
Düsseldorf is set to host the largest event for headteachers in the German-speaking region, with more than 100 speakers and over 110 lectures and workshops. More than 2,500 headteachers will meet in order to Shape the school of tomorrow Exchange ideas and experience Ensure that schools are prepared for the future ...
The Georg Eckert Institute awards an annual prize for the textbook of the year in partnership with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and the Didacta Association. The prize honours innovative concepts in content, educational methods and design. The textbook series‘ Mathewerkstatt ’ written by Prof. Barzel, Prof....
The education fair didacta provided education experts with an opportunity to highlight the fact that digitisation in German schools has much catching up to do. The implementation of modern technology in learning processes improves pupils’ motivation and encourages cooperative, creative and problem-solving skills said didacta...
The Hamburg authority for schools and vocational training (BSB) is joining forces with the Joachim Herz Stiftung in a bid to create an online platform for the advancement of digital education in the 2018/19 academic year. The BSB has assembled a team of Hamburg teachers with practical experience of using digital educational...
Parents are to be given more flexibility to decide at what age their children should start school. Changes are also to be made to the realisation of inclusive schools and to pre-school language support. On 6 February 2018 the committee for education and cultural affairs in Lower Saxony voted overwhelmingly in favour of changes to...
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Veranstaltung: 26.02.2018
- 03.03.2018
Sülz Universität, Köln
The 5th ‘Digital Humanities in the German-Speaking Region’ (DHd) conference will take place from 26 February to 2 March 2018 at the University of Cologne. It will revolve around the guiding topic ‘Critique of Digital Reason’. The digital humanities are often seen as simply processes of investigating issues from the various...
The Czech government is considering reintroducing defence lessons, which were abolished in Czech schools in 1991. This shift in attitude is due to initiatives by the right-wing populist party ‘Action of Dissatisfied Citizens’ (ANO), which won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic last autumn. According to defence minister...