Tools & Resources
Appcamps (2021): Unterrichtsmaterial „Big Data“, Hamburg. The teaching material is aimed at students from year 8 and is divided into three sections. In the introduction, the term “Big Data” is briefly introduced with the assignment to examine a Big Data application and to evaluate it using questions. Then it is Read more…
Greenwald, Glen (2014): “Why Privacy matters”, Ted Talk vom 10. Oktober. Talk by journalist Glenn Greenwald, presented at a TED conference in 2014. This critical big data literacy tool emphasises the importance of privacy in an appealing manner for an audience without any previous knowledge. It uses various real-life examples Read more…
Privacy International is “fighting for the right to privacy across the globe since 1990”. Despite this focus on privacy, the website provides information on various aspects around online privacy and big data, such as tracking, targeted advertising, data exploitation, disinformation and internet regulation. Not only is Privacy International’s research, advocacy Read more…
Silent Circle (2015): #PrivacyProject. This video, which was produced by Silent Circle, a company that offers secure technologies, presents a street experiment that aims to promote a critical reflection of data collection through a better understanding of online services’ terms and conditions. While this presents a great entrance in the Read more…
Düx, Sascha; Sieben, Gerda (2015): Big Data. Eine Arbeitshilfe für die Jugendarbeit, Köln: jfc Medienzentrum. The brochure is aimed at multipliers in media education and youth work and discusses the effects of Big Data on the everyday life of young people as well as the possibilities that educators can use. Read more…
Big Data im Gesundheitswesen. Lehrmaterialien für den Schulunterricht. Jahrgangsstufen 10 bis 13, Tutzing: Akademie für politische Bildung. The teaching material “Big Data in Health Care” was developed as part of a discourse project at the Academy for Political Education Tutzing and was developed together with teachers and subject didacticians for Read more…
La Quadrature du Net (2014): Reclaim Your Privacy. “Reclaim Our Privacy” is a three-minute movie that explains the threat to, the importance of protecting, and the tools to reclaim our privacy online. The movie ist part of a campaign (https://www.laquadrature.net/en/personnal-data/), which fights against the commodification of our personal data: so Read more…
jfc Medienzentrum (2018): Lernparcours Big Data, jfc Medienzentrum: Köln (Autorinnen: Gerda Sieben und Esther Lordieck) The playful introduction to the topic of data flow and storage provides a view of the institutions that profit from Big Data. The participatory story makes it possible to experience the loss of control over Read more…
Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. (ohne Jahr): Your Data Your Rights, Digitale Gesellschaft: Berlin. The website “Deine Daten. Deine Rechte” (Your Data. Your Rights) informs consumers in a playful way about which actors collect which data and what options the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation offers citizens so that they can Read more…
Landeszentrale für politische Bildung NRW (ohne Jahr): Der kleine Datentest, LpB NRW: Düsseldorf. The online game “The little data test” promotes awareness of the consequences of data collection in everyday life by illustrating which data traces internet users leave behind in everyday life and for which purposes they can be Read more…