SPREUWEIZEN
With the SPREUWEIZEN educational initiative, we bring media, journalism and politics to school classes, seminar rooms and podiums in a practical and playful way. In workshops, games, talks and training sessions, we look at how editorial teams work, how news is created and the role played by AI and social media.
About SPREUWEIZEN
Target group(s)
In free training courses, we prepare interested parties for political education work in school classes. Our Multis (short for multipliers) hold the workshops we have designed on the topics of social media & disinformation, journalism & freedom of the press, democracy & AI for pupils from year 7 upwards - and work with us to promote news literacy in schools!
Objectives
What to do about disinformation?
The World Health Organization warns of a global threat: the infodemic. The term describes an epidemic of information that occurs primarily in humanitarian crises. During an infodemic, a "flood of partly false or misleading information" emerges and spreads rapidly. This phenomenon was first observed and named in the course of the global coronavirus pandemic, but can be applied to various complex and emotional issues: migration and flight, war, climate change, health and medicine, gender equality.
The World Health Organization warns of a global threat: the infodemic. The term describes an epidemic of information that occurs primarily in humanitarian crises. During an infodemic, a "flood of partly false or misleading information" emerges and spreads rapidly. This phenomenon was first observed and named in the course of the global coronavirus pandemic, but can be applied to various complex and emotional issues: migration and flight, war, climate change, health and medicine, gender equality.
In times of parallel infodemics, education and training are needed to distinguish true from false information. This is where SPREUWEIZEN comes in. The educational initiative organizes workshops and training courses for young people, teachers, educational professionals and parents to promote a critical approach to news - with a special approach.
SPREUWEIZEN teaches media, journalism and politics in a practical and playful way in the classroom, seminar room or on the podium - supported by a broad network of committed people. Throughout Germany, the educational initiative for news literacy trains young adults on fundamental but also controversial topics of the German media system.
The so-called Multis then bring their knowledge to schools, youth centers or specialist events and exchange ideas with pupils, teachers and political educators. This creates a dialog at eye level about trends and phenomena of the digital media age - close to the language, reality and actual media use of adolescents.
Your support helps
...to empower young people to recognize disinformation and to orient themselves confidently in our digital democracy.