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…
“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…
The entry “Your Day in Data” from the project “The Glass Room” reflects a prototypical daily routine, visualizing the ways in which we disclose data in the digital space on a daily basis. Questions are raised about how this “data shadow” is created, for instance by clicking ‘agree’ buttons. The Read more…
The YouTube video ‘You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media’ uses video excerpts from interviews and speeches to illustrate the negative consequences of the surveillance capitalist interests of social media corporations, including scientifically proven psychological consequences such as addiction, depression, and loss of concentration. It 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…
In dem “Understanding Data” Projekt wurde eine OER (offene Bildungsressource) entwickelt und erprobt, die Lehrkräfte bei der Verbesserung ihrer kritischen Datenkompetenz unterstützen soll. Die OER, die auf der Website frei zugänglich ist, versorgt Pädagogen mit Analysewerkzeugen und bietet Lehrmaterialien zu verschiedenen Modulen, beispielsweise zu Themen wie Datengerechtigkeit, offenen Daten oder Read more…
The “Handysektor” project of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Media Authority offers teenagers and parents guidance for dealing with digital media in everyday life. The website provides information, tips, guides and support on topics such as smartphones, tablets, and apps. The video “What is a movement profile?” serves as an introduction and Read more…
Electronic Frontier Foundation (2022): Surveillance Self-Defense. Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications “Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) is a guide to protecting yourself from electronic surveillance for people all over the world. Some aspects of this guide will be useful to people with very little technical knowledge, while others are Read more…
The Pennsylvanis State University – Penn State (2022): Digital Shred. Privacy Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit contains lesson plans, learning objects and much more for use in the classroom. It provides practical tips on privacy (smartphone, web browsing, social networking, productivity & organization, health & wearables, smart home), informs about current Read more…
Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Rheinland-Pfalz (2022): Youngdata, Mainz. Youngdata is the youth portal of the independent data protection authorities of the federal and state governments, as well as the canton of Zurich. It is aimed at children and young people and provides them with information on Read more…