This essay provides examples of direct media education that the author has carried out with middle and upper school pupils at the Rudolf Steiner School Düsseldorf and the Rudolf Steiner School Mönchengladbach. The pedagogical concern of media lessons is presented with its important aspects: These lessons should be production-oriented, relate to the world, be integrated into existing subjects, have a meaningful and development-promoting effect and, overall, be oriented towards the question of what promotes adolescents in their development.
A radio project for physics lessons in class 7 is described in detail, as well as an approach in a senior school class that teaches pupils the skills to write digital reports. The third example comes from work with an 8th grade class, which produced reports about a week of substitute teaching as a newspaper page, a radio feature and a TV magazine report, thus gaining an insight into the function and mode of action of the relevant media.
Franz Glaw: «Wie unfair, dass wir Pause machen müssen!» Aktive Medienarbeit – Beispiele aus der Waldorfschule(waxmann.com)
Keywords: Media education, project work, media literacy, active media work