The online course “Big Data Literacy” is an open educational resource that has emerged from the collaboration between the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Cologne, Grimme Research and the Grimme Research College at the University of Cologne. The aim of this course is to raise awareness about Read more…
“Your Data Mirror Experience” is a personalized, story-based and interactive web application. The project is based on the user’s own data traces and shows what should remain hidden from users: the psychological profile that can be created from personal data in order to play out targeted (political) advertising and influence Read more…
“Just as oil leads to global warming, data leads to social cooling” (Tijmen Schep). The website “Social Cooling” covers the issue of ‘social cooling’. This effect, which has also already been identified by academic research, highlights that the ubiquitous data collection makes citizens feel monitored and observed, and many change Read more…
“The Real Life of Your Selfie” asks about how one’s digital identity can be used to determine your rights, how much data can be extracted from just your selfie, and what other kinds of biometric data you might be asked to give away. It is part of the digital showcase-series Read more…
A toolbox for democracy learning, digitalisation and non-formal education. The toolbox offers and shares experience, methods and inspiration for active citizenship-related learning and empowerment in communities, schools, or non-formal learning spaces, in organizations, universities or initiatives. The data collected is aimed at educators and includes, for example, methods for planning and Read more…
Die Unterrichtsmaterialien bereiten Fragen des mit der Digitalisierung einhergehenden gesellschaftlichen Wandels für den Politikunterricht auf und sollen einen Beitrag zur Digitalkompetenz von Lernenden wie Lehrenden leisten. Ziel ist, wichtige Zusammenhänge zu verstehen und den Wandel aktiv mitgestalten zu können. The teaching materials address issues of social change associated with digitization Read more…
The education pack “KI in meinem Alltag” by iRights.Lab supports (prospective) teachers to integrate the topics ‘AI-basics’ and ‘AI & Society’ into school in a natural and low-threshold way. It consists of 15 teaching material items, from videos, audio-interviews and graphics to texts and working sheets. The material takes an Read more…
Interactive Media Foundation (2021): Your Data Mirror, Berlin. The website “Your Data Mirror” aims to sensitize young adults to the topic of data collection and draws attention to the connection between personal data and possible effects on democracy and society. An interactive and personalized web application based on users’ Instagram Read more…
Reinhardt, Julia; Oswald, Sven (2020): Künstliche Dummheit oder Künstliche Intelligenz? Interview mit Deborah Seifert vom 28. September 2020 auf dem Netzfest der re:publica 2020. (33:53 Min.) In the conversation, Julia Reichardt, expert on artificial intelligence and data protection and Fellow in Residence at the Mozilla Foundation, and Sven Oswald, moderator Read more…
Schneider, Julia & Ziyal, Lena Kadriye. (2019). We Need to Talk, AI. A Comic Essay on Artificial Intelligence. In 30 years, will robots do all the unpleasant work for us? Or will they subjugate us to become submissive slaves? The debates on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change our lives Read more…