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"Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh\u27 es genau" – Zweifeln lernen: Ambiguität als Schlüssel zu Informationskompetenz
No full textDer Beitrag zeigt am Beispiel von Goethes Erlkönig, wie sich die Medialität der Sprache im Literaturunterricht didaktisch fruchtbar machen lässt. Ausgehend von der ambivalenten Informationsvergabe im Text analysieren Schülerinnen und Schüler sprachliche Mittel auf ihre epistemische Funktion und lernen, vermeintlich objektive Aussagen kritisch zu hinterfragen. Dadurch werden nicht nur literarisches Lernen und Sprachreflexion verbunden, sondern auch grundlegende Fähigkeiten zur Informationsprüfung und Medienreflexion gestärkt. Zugleich wird sichtbar, dass sich mit einem zentralen Kanontext der deutschsprachigen Literatur zeitgemäße „Future Skills“ wie Ambiguitätstoleranz, Medienreflexionskompetenz und kritisch-reflektierte Urteilskraft ausbilden lassen. Der Literaturunterricht eröffnet so einen Zugang zur sprachlichen Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit und leistet einen Beitrag zur Ausbildungvon Medienkompetenz im digitalen Zeitalter.
Abstract (English): "Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh\u27 es genau" – Ambiguity as the key to information literacy
This article uses Goethe’s Erlkönig to demonstrate how the mediality of language can be made didactically productive in literature classrooms. Starting from the text’s ambivalent distribution of information, students analyze linguistic devices in terms of their epistemic function and learn to critically question seemingly objective statements. In doing so, literary learning and language reflection are combined with the development of essential skills of information assessment and media literacy. At the same time, the example shows how a central canon text of German literature can serve as a training ground for contemporary “future skills” such as ambiguity tolerance, media reflexivity, and critical judgment. Literature teaching thus opens up access to the linguistic construction of reality and contributes to the cultivation of media competence in the digital ag
Living in a Van: Central Motives and the Design of a Location-Independent Lifestyle
No full textDiese Arbeit liefert eine erste wissenschaftliche Untersuchung und Typenbildung alleinreisender Vollzeit-Vanlifer:innen. Ziel ist es, Vanlife als Lebensstil zu analysieren, indem sowohl die Motive für die Wahl dieses alternativen Lebensmodells als auch die Alltagsgestaltung im Campervan untersucht werden. Dies erfolgt durch eine qualitative Forschung mithilfe narrativer Interviews von Vanlifer:innen. Die Analyse identifizierte drei Typen alleinreisender Vollzeit-Vanlifer:innen (Entdecker:in, Aussteiger:in und Vanlife-Entrepreneur:in), die sich hinsichtlich der Motive für die Wahl des Lebensstils unterscheiden. Zudem gibt die Analyse Einblicke in die Alltagsgestaltung und verweist auf geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede: Frauen tendieren dazu, Vanlife stärker als Ausbruch aus normativen Erwartungen und als Raum für Selbstverwirklichung zu interpretieren, während Männer häufiger vom Abenteueraspekt motiviert scheinen. Die Ergebnisse liefern neue Einblicke in Vanlife als Lebensstil und eröffnen Ansatzpunkte für weiterführende Forschung.This thesis provides a first scientific investigation and typology of solo full-time vanlifers. Its aim is to analyze vanlife as a lifestyle by examining both the motives for choosing this alternative way of living and the everyday practices within vanlife. This is done through qualitative research using narrative interviews with vanlifers. The analysis identified three types of solo full-time vanlifers (Explorer, Off-grid Seeker and Vanlife Entrepreneur), each distinguished by different motives for choosing this lifestyle. In addition, the findings reveal insights into everyday routines as well as genderspecific differences: women tend to interpret vanlife more strongly as an escape from normative expectations and as an opportunity for self-realization, while men appear to be more frequently motivated by the aspect of adventure. The results offer new insights into vanlife as a lifestyle and provide starting points for further research
Medienkompetenzen im digitalen Wandel. Zeichen, Fakten und Fiktionen reflektieren
No full textEditorial zur MiDU-Ausgabe 2/202
Zur Auffassung und Rekonstruktion individueller Vorstellungen im Rahmen des Grundvorstellungskonzeptes
No full textIm Grundvorstellungskonzept ist eine Herleitung von Grundvorstellungen als Leitlinien für die Gestaltung von Lehr-Lern-Prozessen (normative Ebene) sowie eine Rekonstruktion individueller Vorstellungen (deskriptive Ebene) angelegt. Wie jedoch individuelle Vorstellungen erstens im Grundvorstellungskonzept aufgefasst und zweitens rekonstruiert werden können, wird in der Fachliteratur unterschiedlich erläutert oder bleibt implizit. Im Beitrag wird eine Auffassung individueller Vorstellungen für das Grundvorstellungskonzept vorgeschlagen und mit einem Vorgehen zur Rekonstruktion verknüpft. Die Auffassung und das Vorgehen werden illustriert an Analysen von Interviewausschnitten einer Studie zu Sinus und Kosinus
Effects of news reception via social media on students\u27 future prospects: (01/2025)
No full textIn einer Welt, die zunehmend von Krisen, Unsicherheiten und einem ständigen Informationsstrom geprägt ist, steht die Generation Z im Zentrum tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher und medialer Umbrüche. Als erste Generation, die mit digitalen Technologien aufgewachsen ist, nutzt sie soziale Medien nicht nur zur Unterhaltung, sondern zunehmend auch zur Informationsbeschaffung. Diese Forschungsarbeit untersucht, wie junge Erwachsene – konkret Studierende der Generation Z -Nachrichten über soziale Medien im Vergleich zu traditionellen Medien wahrnehmen, verarbeiten und emotional erleben. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, wie Algorithmen, emotionale Inhalte und ständige Verfügbarkeit einerseits Zugang und Interesse fördern, andererseits aber auch zu Informationsüberlastung, Nachrichtenmüdigkeit und einem Gefühl von Ohnmacht führen können. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen digitaler Überforderung und dem Streben nach Orientierung und Sicherheit offenbart sich ein facettenreiches Bild der digitalen Resilienz: Wie gelingt es manchen, trotz ständiger Krisenberichterstattung optimistisch zu bleiben, während andere sich bewusst vom Nachrichtengeschehen abwenden? Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit verknüpft aktuelle Jugendstudien und medientheoretische Perspektiven zu einem vielschichtigen Gesamtbild der Nachrichtenrezeption einer Generation im Wandel – und lädt dazu ein, darüber nachzudenken, wie wir in Zukunft informiert bleiben wollen, ohne daran zu zerbrechen.In a world increasingly confronted with uncertainty and crises and characterized by constant access to information, Generation Z is at the centre of profound societal and media changes. As the first generation to grow up with digital technologies, they use social media not only for entertainment, but also to receive information. This paper analyses how young adults - specifically students of Generation Z - perceive, process and emotionally experience news via social media in comparison to traditional media. It shows how algorithms, emotional content and constant availability promote access and interest on the one hand, but can also lead to information overload, news fatigue and a feeling of powerlessness on the other. A multifaceted picture of digital resilience is revealed in tension between digital overload and the need of orientation and security: How do some people manage to remain optimistic despite constant crisis reporting, while others consciously turn away from the news coverage? This paper aims to combine current youth studies with media theory perspectives to create a multi-layered overall picture of the news reception of a generation in transition. It is an invitation to think about how we want to stay informed in the future
AI Survival Stories: a Taxonomic Analysis of AI Existential Risk
Full text linkSince the release of ChatGPT, there has been a lot of debate about whether AI systems pose an existential risk to humanity. This paper develops a general framework for thinking about the existential risk of AI systems. We analyze a two-premise argument that AI systems pose a threat to humanity. Premise one: AI systems will become extremely powerful. Premise two: if AI systems become extremely powerful, they will destroy humanity. We use these two premises to construct a taxonomy of ‘survival stories’, in which humanity survives into the far future. In each survival story, one of the two premises fails. Either scientific barriers prevent AI systems from becoming extremely powerful; or humanity bans research into AI systems, thereby preventing them from becoming extremely powerful; or extremely powerful AI systems do not destroy humanity, because their goals prevent them from doing so; or extremely powerful AI systems do not destroy humanity, because we can reliably detect and disable systems that have the goal of doing so. We argue that different survival stories face different challenges. We also argue that different survival stories motivate different responses to the threats from AI. Finally, we use our taxonomy to produce rough estimates of ‘P(doom)’, the probability that humanity will be destroyed by AI
Weiterlesen – digitaler, gesellschaftlich-kultureller und systemischer Ausbau des Mehrebenenmodells der systematischen Leseförderung nach Rosebrock / Nix: Datum der Veröffentlichung: 19.05.2025
No full textLeseförderung bleibt ein hochrelevantes Thema für den Erstsprachunterricht Deutsch, wenn empirische Bildungsstudien nach wie vor Defizite für das deutsche Schulsystem insbesondere für ohnehin benachteiligte Schüler*innen belegen. Gerade in einer Zeit konstanten sowohl digitalen als auch gesellschaftlichen Wandels bildet Lesen ein entscheidendes Fundament für Handlungsfähigkeit und Selbstwirksamkeit. Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Herausforderungen sowohl in der digitalen Welt (v.a. künstliche Intelligenz) als auch für gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Teilhabe sowie Unterrichtsentwicklung im Bildungssystem insgesamt wird deswegen eine überarbeitete Variante des Mehrebenenmodells der systematischen Leseförderung nach Rosebrock / Nix als Grundlage für Weiterentwicklungen vorgeschlagen.
Abstract (english): Further Reading – drafting digital, socio-cultural, and systemic extensions for the multi-level-model of systematic reading promotion adapted from Rosebrock / Nix
Reading promotion continues to be a highly relevant topic for L1-education in German as empirical educational research still provides proof concerning deficits in Germany’s educational system especially with regard to already underprivileged pupils. In times of constant digital as well as social change, reading remains a decisive basis for agency and self-efficacy. Hence, against the background of recent challenges with regard to the digital world (esp. artificial intelligence), with regard to socio-cultural participation and with regard to the development of teaching in the educational system as a whole, the article at hand discusses a revised version of the multi-level-model of reading promotion adapted from Rosebrock / Nix as a groundwork for further development
Escandalosas: Plebeian Women and Violence in Venezuela’s Middle Period (1790-1860)
Full text linkThis article investigates the meaning of scandal during Venezuela’s “middle-period”, from the end of the colony through the early republican decades (~1780 - ~1860). The article first attempts to understand the meaning of the term “scandal” during these years and then explores the phenomenon through an examination of court cases of women charged with violent crime. The investigation finds that historically the term “scandal” had a far more sinister meaning than it holds today. When used with reference to religion, politics, and state administration the term was associated with rebellion against institutions as well as the social hierarchies and cultural norms that supported those institutions. To accuse somebody of creating scandal implied that they harbored rebellious impulses and that they threatened social order because others might imitate the transgressor’s bad example. For a woman to be accused of scandalous behavior suggested that she had rebelled against patriarchal hierarchies, the honor code, and norms of feminine decency. Though scandal itself was not a crime, the courts treated scandal like a crime in order to preserve social order. Even if the court acquitted the woman of the crime for which she had been charged (i.e., murder), the judge would punish her for having scandalized the community. The defendants in these trials tended to be poor and illiterate. Their low socio-economic status left them particularly vulnerable to charges of scandalous behavior because any violation of feminine norms could appear as a rebellion against patriarchal hierarchy. Their low status also left them vulnerable to false accusations from relatives or neighbors, as simply the implication that she had caused scandal would hurt her reputation.This article investigates the meaning of scandal during Venezuela’s “middle-period”, from the end of the colony through the early republican decades (~1780 - ~1860). The article first attempts to understand the meaning of the term “scandal” during these years and then explores the phenomenon through an examination of court cases of women charged with violent crime. The investigation finds that historically the term “scandal” had a far more sinister meaning than it holds today. When used with reference to religion, politics, and state administration the term was associated with rebellion against institutions as well as the social hierarchies and cultural norms that supported those institutions. To accuse somebody of creating scandal implied that they harbored rebellious impulses and that they threatened social order because others might imitate the transgressor’s bad example. For a woman to be accused of scandalous behavior suggested that she had rebelled against patriarchal hierarchies, the honor code, and norms of feminine decency. Though scandal itself was not a crime, the courts treated scandal like a crime in order to preserve social order. Even if the court acquitted the woman of the crime for which she had been charged (i.e., murder), the judge would punish her for having scandalized the community. The defendants in these trials tended to be poor and illiterate. Their low socio-economic status left them particularly vulnerable to charges of scandalous behavior because any violation of feminine norms could appear as a rebellion against patriarchal hierarchy. Their low status also left them vulnerable to false accusations from relatives or neighbors, as simply the implication that she had caused scandal would hurt her reputation.Este estudio gira en torno al significado del concepto de "escándalo" en Venezuela, durante el período que abarca desde el final de la colonia hasta las primeras décadas republicanas (~1780 -~1860), así como al análisis de este fenómeno a través de un minucioso examen de casos judiciales de mujeres acusadas de delitos violentos. La investigación ha revelado que históricamente el término "escándalo" tenía un significado mucho más siniestro del que tiene hoy. Cuando se utilizaba en referencia a la religión, a la política y a la administración del Estado el término se asociaba a la rebelión contra las instituciones, así como contra las jerarquías sociales y las normas culturales que las sustentaban. Provocar un escándalo implicaba no sólo una incitación a la rebeldía, sino que además amenazaba el orden social porque otros podrían imitar el mal ejemplo de la transgresora. Si una mujer era acusada de comportamiento escandaloso, se daba por hecho que se había rebelado contra las jerarquías patriarcales, el código de honor y las normas de decencia femenina. Aunque el escándalo en sí no era un delito, los tribunales daban prioridad al mantenimiento del orden social y, por tanto, trataban el escándalo como si lo fuera. Incluso si el tribunal absolvía a la mujer del cargo de asesinato, el juez la castigaba por haber escandalizado a la comunidad. Las acusadas en los juicios solían ser pobres y analfabetas. Su bajo estatus socioeconómico las hacía especialmente vulnerables a las acusaciones de comportamiento escandaloso porque cualquier violación de las normas femeninas podía aparecer como una rebelión contra la jerarquía patriarcal, así como también a las falsas acusaciones de familiares o vecinos porque la simple insinuación de que había provocado un escándalo podía dañar su reputación
Relaciones de conflicto del cabildo de Mérida, Yucatán. Actores e instituciones a fines de la época colonial
Full text linkThe historiography about Municipal councils in the time of Intendency system has placed emphasis on the power struggle between their members and the Intendants. In this work, we will focus on Mérida (Yucatán, New Spain) Municipal council, which particularity was that the conflicts with the Intendents were almost non-existent. The first Intendent had been murdered by the elites’ hands and it was a great lesson for his successors. The members of the municipal council had conflicts about jurisdiction and power with actors belonging to other administrative areas, in particular the city attorney and the lieutenant-assessors. We assume the idea that these struggles show that local power was built from the Municipal councils, from the availability or lack of availability of their members for negotiating the reforms. Although we can talk about success in the economic and fiscal spheres, when we analyze the regions, specially the peripheral, we perceive different strategies of local elites to look after their privileges. In that sense, resistance was one of them, contradicting what did not suit their interests.The historiography about Municipal councils in the time of Intendency system has placed emphasis on the power struggle between their members and the Intendants. In this work, we will focus on Mérida (Yucatán, New Spain) Municipal council, which particularity was that the conflicts with the Intendents were almost non-existent. The first Intendent had been murdered by the elites’ hands and it was a great lesson for his successors. The members of the municipal council had conflicts about jurisdiction and power with actors belonging to other administrative areas, in particular the city attorney and the lieutenant-assessors. We assume the idea that these struggles show that local power was built from the Municipal councils, from the availability or lack of availability of their members for negotiating the reforms. Although we can talk about success in the economic and fiscal spheres, when we analyze the regions, specially the peripheral, we perceive different strategies of local elites to look after their privileges. In that sense, resistance was one of them, contradicting what did not suit their interests.
La historiografía sobre los cabildos en la etapa de intendencia ha puesto énfasis en la lucha de poder que hubo entre los intendentes y los miembros de la principal institución de la ciudad. En este trabajo se analizará el caso del ayuntamiento de Mérida (Yucatán, Nueva España), que tiene la particularidad de que los conflictos con los intendentes fueron casi nulos en función de que el primero murió asesinado, por obra precisamente de las élites locales. Los conflictos por jurisdicción y poder que tuvieron los miembros del cabildo fueron con actores pertenecientes a otros ámbitos, en particular el abogado de la ciudad y el teniente letrado. Se parte de la idea de que estas luchas muestran que el poder local se construía desde los ayuntamientos, desde la disponibilidad o no que sus miembros tenían para negociar las reformas. Si bien podemos hablar de éxito en los ámbitos económico y fiscal, cuando analizamos las regiones, más las periféricas, percibimos diversas estrategias de las élites locales para proteger sus privilegios. En ese sentido, la resistencia fue una de ellas, contradiciendo aquello que no convenía a sus intereses