Digitalisation and the Environment

F: Nathaniel Stern: Tiny Fan (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Energy, efficiency, sustainability, conscious consumption and global impact as topic for education and learning. For a long time, little attention was paid to the effects of digitalisation. People often look primarily at the potential benefits of new digital infrastructures. These are designed to distribute water, electricity, light,…

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Grundtvig Award 2021

The European Association for the Education of Adults awarded the project DIGIT-AL with the Grundtvig Award 2021 in the category “Transnational Project”. The award ceremony took place in the frame of the EAEA Annual Conference 2021: Learning to exercise democracy in a digital world on November 17/18, 2021. More: EAEA Media Release The Grundtvig Award…

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Proactivity, civil engagement, entrepreneurship – for a common pedagogy.

Proactivity and innovation are important for the development of resilient democratic societies. Civic engagement and participation are important elements of active citizenship, a basic prerequisite for an innovative and democratic Europe. The Council of Europe Charter on Democracy and Human Rights Education therefore focuses on this active component of civic education, learners should “play an…

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Bilder von der Digitalisierung – verändern?

Eine ausgewogenere öffentliche Debatte über Digitalisierung braucht Alternativen und Ergänzungen zu den weit verbreiteten Bildern vom Digitalen. Veröffentlicht bei Politischbilden.de Der Zwiespalt zwischen Neugier, Nervenkitzel, Euphorie und Unbehagen, den viele Menschen im Hinblick auf Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Digitalisierung empfinden, wurzelt in der Ungewissheit, wie das Verhältnis von Mensch zu Maschine, bzw. von Individuen zu…

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Digital transformation in Education for Democratic Citizenship: Challenging digital competence

Discussion in the Lifelong learning Week 2020 at December 2nd, 2020, 3pm with MEP Victor Negrescu (S&D, Romania) MEP Rasmus Andresen (Greens/EFA, Germany) Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (DARE Network Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe) Moderator: Oonagh Aitken, LLLPlatform Steering Committee Digital transformation is a cultural, social, and economic process. It is challenging citizens, civilsociety and…

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Expanding the Pedagogy of the Digital

Digitalization is an important topic of European policy. Adult Education has a crucial role to play in accompanying the transformation. Published at EPALE – Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe in German and English The impact of the current policy developments in the field of digital transformation on European level cannot be underestimated. The…

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Im Zweifel? Gegen die Demokratie. Zum konspirativen Denken.

Einordnung zwischen Phantasie, Weltbild oder Theorie.Veröffentlicht bei Politischbilden.de English translation: Digital Toolbox Competendo Aktuell, im Jahr 2021, setzt der außergewöhnliche Charakter der globalen COVID-19 Pandemie mit seinen Begleiterscheinungen wieder Reduktion sozialer Kontakte, Einschränkung unserer Bewegungsfreiheit, persönliche Überforderung in der Organisation des Familien- und Berufslebens, nicht-wissende Entscheidungsträger*innen und der allgemeinen Ungewissheit, wann sich das Leben wieder…

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Politische Bildung und die digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt

Illustration: Felix Kumpfe/Studio Hurra Politische Bildung und die digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt. Eine Europäische Perspektive. Beitrag für: Außerschulische Bildung 01/2021. Wie will Europa die Europäer*innen auf die Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation vorbereiten? Das ist prinzipiell auch für die politische Bildung von Interesse – selbst wenn sie nicht immer als relevanter Bildungsbereich mitgedacht wird und sich…

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The Digital Self. Impact of Digitalisation on Personal Identity

Illustration: Felix Kumpfe/Atelier Hurra The debate about how our digital environment affects our identity and how computerisation embedded in our lives affects our individual capacities is being conducted in various places. But because discussions about bodies and the self touch our innermost feelings, they are highly emotionally charged. What appears to some as a short-cut…

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Brochure: The Digital Self

Table of Content Into the Internet of Everything | Mentally Controlled by Data? | Our Creepy Lines. Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (2020). The digital Self. Project: DIGIT-AL – Digital Transformation in Adult learning for Active Citizenship. DARE Blue Lines, DARE – Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Brüssel 2020, 60 pages, https://dttools.eu Networked devices as social…

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Brochure: Internet, Big Data, Platforms

Table of Content: From the Microchip Revolution to the Internet | The Machine Room behind the Internet | What is Big Data? Accelerating the Human Cognitive Process (by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger) | Platforms and the Decentralised Internet | The Platformisation Tree (by José van Dijck) | Openness | Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence | Think, Machine! (by…

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Brochure: Digital Transformation: Work under Transformation

From the Table of Content: Rationalization and Job Polarisation | The Crowd Working in the Cloud | Transformation of the Working Space | Toward Upskilling and Lifelong Learning | A Future without Labour? (R. Martinez) Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (2020). Work under Transformation. Project DIGIT-AL – Digital Transformation in Learning for Active Citizenship, DARE Blue Lines, DARE…

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