MediapolisMediapolis Towards a didactical Media Concept @ the Athénée de Towards a didactical Media Concept @ the Athénée de LuxembourgLuxembourg

Athénée de LuxembourgAthénée de Luxembourg

Secondary school, founded 1603Secondary school, founded 1603 1350 students1350 students 200 teachers200 teachers www.al.luwww.al.lu

The Athénée de Luxembourg & the mediaThe Athénée de Luxembourg & the media

Motto: Innovation by tradition First major School Library in Luxembourg Information and Communication

Environment Participation in many media-projects / IT-

projects, integration of media education in many subjects (interdisciplinary)

Media Library – Document Center – Support Center – Activity Center

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Media ConceptMedia Concept

Overall concept for the use of the different media types at our school, developed by all the members of the school community – for both – for both administrative and pedagogical administrative and pedagogical purposespurposes

„By developing a media concept schools determine the status quo of their previous media use and fix the need and the perspectives for the coming years.“

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Milestones

Initial inquiry: Where do we stand, where do we want to go, what do we need?

Work out an effective planning - together with external experts

Translation into action Evaluation

MediapolisMediapolisOur main goals:

to simplify administrative procedures and to improve communication between all the people involved in our school

to develop/strengthen teachers and students media skills (comprehension, analysis, production)

teaching the media and teaching with the media encourage critical approaches to the media encourage comprehensive, autonomous, collaborative and

creative learning continue to promote co-operation with external partners, the

opening-up of schools, cross-curricular teaching and project work

create the basis for a sensible and practical handling of the media (audio, video, books, the internet, etc.) by supplying and regularly updating both contents and hardware, and by creating support structures for teachers and students

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Some activities Implementation of a web based Intranet – hosted by mySchool! Implementation of learning communities:

To promote and improve collaborative learning processes (WebQuest, Assessments, Learning objects, ePortfolio, document sharing, communication tools, publishing tools …)

Implementation of a media server hosted by our media library - flexible distribution of digital content (Stream or IPOD)

To develop/strengthen communication competencies (reading, speaking, writing) of the students: cross-media activities (book, movies, press, readings, radio plays, other media events) to promote and support media literacy education

To provide teachers with ongoing pre-service and in-service training and mentoring