media literacy

SkillDojo has made videos of our lessons of 'The Boss On The Internet' on privacy and digital literacy.

 

The Boss On The Internet is a new free lesson plan that teaches children to think critically about internet, big data and privacy.

 

Good news for all kids who want to understand the Internet better and discover what they can do to protect their privacy online.

 

This year for the first time the new Dutch NTR media award for innovative teachers that are using video in their lessons has been handed out: Gouden Oog (Golden Eye).

 

On March 25th, 2013, Ravi Sundaram visited Waag to give a lecture about the media boom in India and to visit old friends.

 

From 14 until 17 May 2013 the second National Congress Education & Social Media will be held at EYE Amsterdam. Waag will present the Master App contest for primary education during the congress. This congress is aimed at Dutch education.

 

What makes an app successful: the concept, marketing strategy, genre, company or team behind the app? During this OpenSpace, we will look at how to market an app successfully.



 

The Golden @penstaart and the Media Ukkie Award will be announced on 17 April 2013 at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) in Hilversum.

 

The media game MonsterMedia 2 was a make-over of the first successful MonsterMedia online game.

 

An innovative new learning approach for secondary education: the Digital News Collage. In this project the editorial content of newspapers is used in a creative application.

 

With the project Architect-toon! (Architect-show!) children can design their own buildings or objects for their neighborhood. They do this in collaboration with architects and landscape designers.

 

Downloading, uploading, sharing, and remixing of digital content is very common kind of thing for this generation of young people. But the subject of copyright is not so hot.

 

Waag developed X-Match for GGD in Rotterdam as a serious game about relational and sexual education. In this game young people could learn about sexual health and respect in relations.

 

During PICNIC, Waag's Creative Learning Lab and Kennisnet together with several partners organized PICNIC YOUNG.

 

The Geheugenhuis was a one-day festival about the influence of modern technology on our memory.

 

Kidz Connect was a program that connected young people in different countries via media art, performance and collaborative creation in virtual worlds.

 

Jij en je Wijk (You and Your Neighboorhood) is an innovative project in the field of environmental education.

 

'Grensgevallen' was the name of an exhibition in the Anne Frank Museum that opened in 2002. Waag developed an educational support programme.

 

The Platform Education and Innovative Media was an initiative of Creative Learning Lab to share knowledge and experience.

 

Digital Storytelling was used for pupils of secondary schools to their own story and illustrate this with sound and vision.

 

Demi Dubbel is a visual internet environment in which pupils of two schools at a time go for a hunt through art history.

 

KidsEye was developed in 2004 by Waag as an online multimedia environment that allowed children to be the main editors within educational projects.

 

Nieuwsflits! (News flash) was an online editing tool for primary schools, that could be used in the Persmuseum in Amsterdam.

 

The Golden @penstaart was an award for the best children's cd-rom and website.

 

MonsterMedia was an online media education project developed in 2005, an online media education tool for the highest classes of primary education.