Digital media are playing an increasingly important role in our lives. This makes it crucial that schools advance in this field. With our School Prize competition, we seek to inspire both teachers and pupils to think about how digital media and digital possibilities can be used productively in the learning process.
Silke Lohmiller, Managing Director Dieter Schwarz Foundation
I am glad that we can support the schools with the prize money in accompanying their pupils on the way to a well-reflected use of digital media.
Tatjana Linke, Managing Director aim
MOTIVATION
Schools of all types are invited to submit a description of a school media concept. We support and promote the critical, active use of media by students and teachers.
BACKGROUND
Since 2011, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation has been offering a school prize for the best media concept in cooperation with the Akademie für Innovative Bildung und Management (aim). Schools providing a concept for the use of digital media in educational contexts are honoured with prizes of a total value of 100,000 euros. The main focus of these concepts should be to support pupils as active and critical participants in a digital media society. With this award, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation seeks to encourage schools in their plans and initiatives. The award-winning media concepts are distinguished by the fact that they have a lasting impact on specialised teaching and advance the schools in the field of digitisation in the long run.
The prize is awarded every two years in the assembly hall (Aula) at the Bildungscampus of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Schools of all types and class levels may participate in the competition.
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SELECTION CRITERIA
In the selection of the best concepts, what matters is the productive and cooperative use of media with an activating effect on the pupils as well as the sustainability of the project. School-integrated/teaching-integrated media use, which is to follow the guiding perspectives of the curriculum, is also important.
What happens after the competition
The winners become part of a school network.
The school representatives will be invited to events, such as the award ceremonies for the following years. And will receive one free training session per year for the teaching staff from aim.
The winners agree to the (approved) publication of the concept.
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Jury
The jury is composed of a four-member team of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, the aim, the experimenta and Freiburg University of Education. The jury members combine the skills and expertise that are important for the use of digital media in class.
Silke Lohmiller
Managing Director Dieter Schwarz Foundation
Tatjana Linke
Managing Director aim
Dr. habil. Wolfgang Hansch
Managing Director experimenta
Prof. Dr. Thomas Raith
Professor at Freiburg University of Education
Michael Zieher
Director of the State Media Center Baden-Württemberg
PRIZE MONEY
Schools are honoured with prizes of a total value of more than 100,000 euros, awarded among five prize-winning schools as follows:
1ST PLACE WITH 30.000 EURO
2ND PLACE WITH 25.000 EURO
1ST PLACE WITH 30.000 EURO
3RD PLACE WITH 20.000 EURO
4TH PLACE WITH 15.000 EURO
5TH PLACE WITH 10.000 EURO
2ND PLACE WITH 25.000 EURO
3RD PLACE WITH 20.000 EURO
4TH PLACE WITH 15.000 EURO
5TH PLACE WITH 10.000 EURO
In addition to the five grand prize winners, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation awards honorary prizes, each worth 2,000 euros in prize money.
2022
Schiller School in Bochum
This school’s media-based education strategy had undergone a very structured development even in the years before the pandemic. The staff recognized from the start that a future-oriented school is not possible without a fundamental digitalization process and set out to do this back in 2016. The intensive discussion in the scope of training, as well as participation in conferences and many conversations with media-based education experts helped the school to find its own way. The school developed its own media-based education strategy and had it approved in a democratic grassroots participation process. All outstanding questions were addressed in 2018, so the resources could be acquired and the content could be launched. It was made possible by funding from parents and the school’s mobile device management.
The school administration itself called the pandemic a stress test of its media-based education strategy, and the strategy passed this test.
In light of this, the desire emerged for a new learning culture of hybrid and self-directed learning, which will now be made a reality in the scope of a 10-year experiment involving the whole school community.
This consistent and broadly supported development has enabled the students to learn successful even during the pandemic. This has also impressed the jury, and it is awarding the Schiller School in Bochum 1st place (EUR 30,000) for the best 2022 media-based education strategy!
Congratulations!
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Maria Sibylla Merian School – Primary School in Wiesloch
The school awarded 2nd place is a primary school with a very heterogeneous student body and mandatory all-day education. Its goal is to enable every child to get a comprehensive education and to have a successful schooling experience.
This is made possible by joining forces: Every challenge has been overcome until now through a team effort, taking advantage of all the skills and expertise of the teaching staff, students, and parents. This includes the contribution of language development teachers, reading and math tutors, social workers, and many others.
This team spirit, paired with prior digital experience, has helped this school and especially the students to tackle the pandemic challenges in a special way. Within a very short time, suitable conditions were created for all children to continue learning. Examples that demonstrate this successful strategy are class chats, video conferences, and parent interactions. Photo and video projects initiated by teachers and parents did not just keep up the community spirit, but made it stronger.
For this initiative, that combines expertise, ideas and engagement, and has been continued even after the pandemic, the Maria Sibylla Merian School has made it right to the top and is receiving EUR 25,000 to continue developing its strategy.
Congratulations!
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Dannewerk School – Comprehensive School in Schleswig
In third place, we have a school that had looked closely at the possibilities of using digital media in the classroom even before the pandemic.
The teachers had been supporting each other for a long time in the framework of staff exchange, enjoying short training breaks as needed and required. A big win in the scope of this strategy is the fact that the teaching staff have their own digital devices that are used for work only. This is still not a given, but it is an important prerequisite for navigating the possibilities and challenges of these media.
This school places special value on mutual support both among the teaching staff and among the students. It has won several awards in recent years, such as the Model Digital School and School of the Year in Schleswig-Holstein. The Dannewerk School, a comprehensive school from Schleswig, is awarded 3rd place.
Congratulations!
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Zarduna School – Special Education School in Kirchzarten
This school is a special education and counseling center with a funding focus on learning. Students who experience difficulties learning or participating in many other social activities are taught in this small school.
The development of digital and media skills is also necessary for these participation opportunities, but it takes a special and more versatile approach. For example, the students need to develop a routine critical handling of information and communication technology and an awareness of the possible risks.
The school’s staff have a vision of providing its students with even more access to educational content through good media resources, enabling them to study more independently.
For this work and way of thinking, the school launched a very special project during the pandemic, developing schule-kocht-digital.de. In this way, the school provided the jury with a very clear and impressive example of the implementation of its visions and ideals. Active learning, vocational preparation, and the acquisition and application of digital knowledge are combined in this project in an exemplary way.
For this, the Zarduna School from Kirchzarten is awarded 5th place with EUR 10,000.
Congratulations!
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Nelson Mandela School – Primary and Secondary School in Berlin
Skills that enable successful learning and work in the digital world include not only the ability to use technology and information, but the ability to be organized. This was demonstrated very clearly during the pandemic, which placed increased demands on students in terms of organization.
Self-organized learning is therefore especially suited to acquire the skills needed for the future. The school implements this principle very consistently. Students have the option of discussing, researching, solving real projects and real-life problems, and have direct access to digital resources.
It is especially remarkable that this is implemented as a hybrid concept, which will be maintained and further developed even after the pandemic.
This international, bilingual primary and secondary school in Berlin is the Nelson Mandela School, and it is awarded 5th place with EUR 10,000.
Congratulations!
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Erich Gutenberg Vocational School in Cologne
This school submitted the most comprehensive application, demonstrating its innovative ideas with many clear examples. In times when digitalization of school and work is on everyone’s mind, remote learning is not an invention. The first pilot projects were done back in 2015, and they can now be expanded and critically analyzed. A manual with ideas and experiences related to hybrid and remote learning documents this development.
Naturally, it is very useful for a commercial school to have a network of partners from the business sector, establishing a connection to real topics from the professional world.
The school uses this very wisely and efficiently, and can integrate extremely innovative topics such as virtual reality and AI projects into its school strategy. This way, it manages to transform a visionary take on instruction and school development into concrete projects, and we can look forward to future experiences and evaluation results.
For this innovative digitalization program, the jury is awarding this school 5th place with a prize of EUR 10,000.
Congratulations!
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Honorary prize winners
Of more than 60 applicants, 11 schools made it into the final selection round. All of these various types of schools with very different challenges are allowing us to share in their experiences and stand out for their especially promising or already successful strategies or give us insight into their future plans. The jury has decided to honor this with special recognition awards. The goal is to encourage schools that did not win top places in this round to continue working on their strategies and perhaps try again next time.
I congratulate all the schools from the bottom of my heart.
The first school to receive a special recognition award places its funding focus on intellectual development in its instruction of students and has discovered the possibilities of teaching with the use of digital media, especially in times of the pandemic.
The entire staff very quickly adopted digital instruction methods and took an interest, for example, in apps and the possibility of offering Padlets.
As a result of the need to tackle these issues during the pandemic, digital media continue to be used even upon return to face-to-face instruction and new, creative application ideas continue to emerge.
For its sustainable approach, the Carl Sonnenschein School is receiving a special recognition award of EUR 1,000.
The second school has a special take on digital education. Its teaching staff face the challenge of acquiring and developing certain expertise and passing it on to the students. These young people go on to work in education as well and ought to pass on what they had learned and experienced to the children in their care, with adaptations based on age and development level.
The jury is honoring the Kolping Vocational School of Social Pedagogy in Stuttgart for its well-thought-out strategy and well-structured approach with a special recognition award of EUR 1,000.
The third school is small and sees the tasks of media-based pedagogy and digital transformation above all as a cultural transformation for its approximately 80 students. Critical thinking and discourse skills are an important goal here. This school’s progressive education strategy allows each and every student to learn and develop their own potential at their own pace. The exchange and transfer of knowledge, not content consumption, is the focus of the media-based education strategy.
For this, the jury is giving Freie Schule Wendland e.V. in Lüchow, Lower Saxony, a special recognition award of EUR 1,000.
In the media-based education strategy presented by the fourth school, the teaching staff’s prior experience and expertise is evaluated in a survey, and the obtained information is used to put together a plan for further development. Here, media-based education expertise is not limited to the use of digital media, but is a much broader concept. The appreciation of cultural diversity and support of active participation in the democratic society in the digital world are part of media-based education to turn all students into respectful and responsible digital citizens, striving, first and foremost, towards the goal of promoting educational equity.
The jury is also giving a special recognition award of EUR 1,000 to the Quinoa School.
The fifth school to receive this award had to get by on insufficient digital resources, thus facing the need to rework its media-based education strategy from the ground up. It is anticipated that with the establishment of media scouts and the implementation of internal training this school will continue to place greater value on digital media in the future.
For this dynamic development in difficult conditions and its sustainable outlook the Heepen Gymnasium from Northrhine Westphalia is also being recognized with a special recognition award of EUR 1,000.
2020
Stemweder – Berg Schule from North Rhine-Westphalia
The last award-winning school convinced the jury with its particularly well thought-out and consistent school and teaching concept, which is exactly reflected in the media concept.
The basis for this is the implementation of a comprehensive teaching/educational concept developed by the teachers, which is accompanied by short training sessions at the same time. In particular, these are offered upon the teachers’ request and on current topics. The concept places a special focus on the pupils’ concerns. From year 7, all young people receive an iPad, which they can use until the end of their school career. The focus is on independence, collaboration and creativity in learning.
However, what is special about this school is the fact that the educational teaching concepts not only impact the media concept but that the experience in implementing the media concept also has positive effects on the school and teaching concepts.
Digitisation has therefore provided the school with new ideas on what quality teaching can look like.
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Oskar-Maria-Graf-Gymnasium from Neufahrn at Freising in Bavaria
The next prize-winning school has gained a simple yet fundamental insight: Sustainable change towards the reasonable use of digital media should not only be regulated but requires a development process that takes into account the specific requirements of both teachers and pupils.
The school now has both an elaborate media curriculum and a comprehensive, differentiated teacher-training concept based on voluntary participation (!). The next step is that pupils of senior classes may use their own devices in class.
This school has already been designated a smart school and is mentioned as an example of good practice in a publication of the Forum Bildung Digitalisierung (“forum education digitisation”), a cooperation of numerous large foundations that has set itself the objective of supporting digital education.
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Kurpfalzschule in Heidelberg
Making pupils familiar with media from the beginning of their school career, thereby turning them into active citizens in the digital world–the jury was very much convinced by this idea.
In only two and a half years, a primary school has developed and implemented its programme on IT and media education. Initial stocktaking was followed by conceptual considerations on how adequate basic media-related and digital education can be communicated to the pupils. The theoretical preliminary considerations were quickly followed by practical steps that also involved the parents.
From year one, iPads are used in smaller projects, while the focus is also on the responsible use of media. Programming with LEGO WeDo, a media pass, the use of search engines for children and book presentations with the Book Creator app are just a few examples.
The jury was particularly impressed by the fact that the guidelines on the media concept are regularly questioned, evaluated and, if necessary, supplemented and that media education considerations are a key element.
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Gemeinschaftsschule Neumünster-Brachenfeld in Schleswig-Holstein
The jury awards the 3rd prize, worth 20,000 euros in prize money, to a school that has set itself the objective of giving all children equal opportunities, regardless of their social background, also with regard to their digital education and accompanying and supporting them on their journey. Inclusion with the special educational needs learning, social and emotional development, autism and hearing is an integral part at this school.
All people involved in school life consider themselves a learning organisation that continuously develops and evaluates media-related education.
The application of this school has described the digital development since 2015 in a very realistic way. In addition to the establishment of a media group, which got the subject of digital learning off the ground, and consistent low-threshold teacher training initiatives in short units, the jury was particularly impressed by the idea of a special and convincing peer-to-peer approach resulting in exemplary pupil participation. The sustainable handling of technical devices has also been highly convincing.
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Honorary prize winners
Among this year’s applications for the School Prize of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, there were three submissions that do not rank among the five award-winning schools; however, their ideas and concept descriptions still merit recognition. The jury thus decided to award honorary prizes worth 2,000 euros each to three schools this year.
Adalbert-Stifter-Realschule in Schwäbisch Gmünd
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Erich Gutenberg Berufskolleg in Köln
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Theodor Heuss Gymnasium Göttingen
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Cooperation between the Waldbachschule and Grundschule Mossautal from Bad König/Mossautal in Hesse
The 4th prize is awarded for a striking example of sustainable and long-term cooperation that has already manifested itself for 15 years in the area of digital and media-related education but has also been very successful in taking into account other areas such as general school development.
The concept defines 6 content areas, comprising the entire spectrum of IT and media skills from operating and applying to communication and cooperation to modelling and problem-solving.
The intensive work has also resulted in a convincing media curriculum. It is composed of regular surveys on media use by the children, numerous working groups, for example in the fields of apps, internet and film, which are partly mandatory, annual education days and teacher training initiatives as well as a media-teaching approach that activates the pupils.
For the partner school in Uganda we donate an additional 500 €.
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Josef-Durler-Schule in Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg
As a result of the numerous high-quality applications, the jury decided to award the 5th price a second time:
The teaching staff of the second prize-winning school has set itself a clear objective. Its motto is: individual learning that is fun.
The school already has plenty of experience with the use of tablets, and now it aims to develop new room concepts for new forms of learning.
Together with the school authority and parents, the teachers and pupils want to design and build their own furniture for the learning spaces, thereby also considering the schoolyards to be expanded learning spaces. This is to enable various forms both of individual and collaborative work, because space predestines thinking.
The development of interdisciplinary competency grids and the expansion of the already established subject “computer technology” are further examples of the school’s consistent commitment to digital education.
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Grundschule Widdern and SBBZ Feinau-Schule Widdern in Baden-Württemberg
The jury awarded the 5th prize for a competition entry that focuses on cooperation. This cooperation is carried out at multiple levels:
Not only does school management closely cooperate with the teaching staff and pupils: In this case, two schools of different types have banded together to provide all children with the best conditions through the transfer of digital basic education.
Like at many other schools, it has not been an easy start. Teachers interested in media considered their skills to be insufficient, and the majority had not yet been convinced of the effectiveness of the use of digital media.
Finally, the school had a successful start with media-related basic education using iPads and completed teaching units.
In the meantime, a school project for pupils has been initiated that can be included in all subjects of everyday teaching. In this project, the children can deal with their place of origin in many ways and compile information online.
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The first prize, worth 30,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium, which has developed a particularly future-oriented and sustainable concept. It forms the basis of a wide range of projects, some of which are realised in individual school classes of different levels and some of which are offered as working groups across classes. All these options integrate IT skills and media literacy as laid down in the curriculum as an interdisciplinary overall competence. The possibilities of digital media are used in many ways and with very constructive results. In particular, the jury welcomes the fact that the underlying concept has been developed by a working group from among the teaching staff of the school, which resulted in an interdisciplinary school curriculum.
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Johannes-Brenz-Schule Stuttgart, Title: „Mobile learning with iPads in an inclusive primary setting“
The second prize, worth 25,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a primary school that uses digital media to implement inclusive education successfully and enable handicapped children to participate in regular school lessons. The entire teaching staff of the school helped develop a highly detailed media curriculum and a development plan for the purchase and use of digital media. Planning is guided by the conditions of real school lessons, which are mainly realised in an open-learning environment and take into account the heterogeneity among pupils. During independent study periods, the children learn in different places and settings. A flexible technical solution makes it possible under the heading of “Mobile Learning with iPads”.
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Schule im Taubertal, Title: „encounters in the animated film workshop“
The third prize, worth 20,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a special school, which educates children with and without handicaps under one roof. What makes the project “Encounters in the Animated Film Workshop” special is the fact that pupils with special educational needs learn how animated films are produced and can act as skilled experts themselves. In cooperative classes, they share their knowledge with pupils without special educational needs, whereupon all children produce animated films together. The jury acknowledges the media-teaching approach, which not only has an activating effect on the pupils, but also achieves that children living with handicaps can experience themselves as competent.
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Hardbergschule mosbach, Title: „Contemporary meda education with iPads“
Due to the outstanding submissions, the fourth place, worth 15,000 euros in prize money, was awarded twice this year. The first of these prizes went to a special school with 110 pupils, which generates great interest with innovative projects (e.g. with the pupils’ company “Neonboards”) quite frequently. Hardbergschule convinced the jury with the fact that it uses digital media in many, always cooperative, ways, which means that it implements a media-teaching approach that motivates and activates its pupils. In addition to the collaboration with different partners, it was the sustainability of the project that convinced the jury.
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Kaufmännische Schule Hechingen, Title: „Christm@s 4.0 - cultural heritage in the digital age“
The second fourth-prize winner, which also received 15,000 euros in prize money, clearly defined the project objectives in its application, emphasising the reinforcement of the pupils’ community of its school as the most important goal. The school’s media concept consists of a variety of subprojects for all types of school, classes and disciplines, which combine subject-related learning and the acquisition of IT skills and media literacy. All these projects have a productive and cooperative nature. With “Christmas 4.0”, a comprehensive topic, they picked a subject of interest for all pupils.
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Place: Salomo Schule Rastatt, Title: „Fit for Future“
The fifth place, worth 10,000 euros in prize money, was awarded to a Realschule (intermediate secondary school), which describes the importance of IT and media education as a key competency for the labour market. The pupils play a particularly active role: They create a portfolio that documents their own development of these key competencies. This way, the young people reflect their learning progress, bringing together specialist and media projects. In particular, the jury welcomes the teaching methodology to use media in a meaningful way, which is demonstrated in a large number of good didactic examples.
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The next School Prize competition will take place in the spring of 2024. More information on the process can be found on this website from spring 2020. However, we will be happy to already receive your registration via the form below to include you in the candidate pool for the School Prize 2024. The Academy for Innovative Education and Management (aim) will inform you as soon as further information on the process regarding the next School Prize is available.
Process School Prize Competition
Registration
Register for the School Prize competition via the registration form. Registration for the school prize does not require participation in the competition.
Develop media concept
Develop your media concept over the year.
Meet deadline
Submit the completed media concept and your application in a digital format to the aim by 8 November 2021 at the latest.
First selection phase
We will invite the schools with the 20 best projects for a pitch presentation.
Award ceremony
The award ceremony of the School Prize will then take place in the last week of March 2022.
Registration school price COMPETITION
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Welches sind die Beurteilungskriterien der Jury?
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Wir haben ein tolles „Leuchtturmprojekt“, können wir es für den Schulpreis einreichen?
Der Schulpreis wird für ein umfassendes Medienkonzept der Schule vergeben, dass die gesamte Schulgemeinschaft miteinbezieht. Es zählt die Nachhaltigkeit eines Projektes und dessen Umsetzung in der Breite. Insofern Ihr Leuchtturmprojekt Teil eines solchen Konzeptes ist, freuen wir uns auf Ihre Einreichung.
Inwieweit soll das Projekt bereits angelaufen sein, da Fördermittel benötigt werden?
Der Schulpreis wird für ein Medienkonzept vergeben. Einzelne Projekte können beschrieben werden, und können auch schon angelaufen sein, sind aber nur ein Teil des Gesamten.
Einzelne Projekte können, müssen jedoch noch nicht umgesetzt sein. Bei Projektideen sollten bereits erste Ansätze vorhanden sein und in Ihrer Bewerbung – neben der geplanten Konzeption – auch der Status quo sowie Ihre Erfahrungen dargestellt werden. Sollte das Konzept bereits an Ihrer Schule etabliert sein, raten wir zu einer Darstellung der Erfahrungen und Weiterentwicklungen sowie zu einem Ausblick.
Wie ausführlich soll die Ausarbeitung des Konzepts sein? Wie umfangreich muss eine Bewerbung sein?
Hierzu gibt es keine Vorgaben. Wichtig ist, dass Sie das Medienkonzept anschaulich darstellen und auf alle drei Beurteilungsdimensionen eingehen. Beachten Sie aber bitte, dass Sie zusätzlich zu der Beschreibung Ihres Medienkonzeptes ein Exposé im Umfang von max. 2 Seiten – ebenfalls im PDF-Format – einreichen.
Wir haben Erklärvideos produziert. Können wir diese auch einreichen?
Gerne können Sie Links zu digitalen Produkten in Ihr PDF integrieren.
Wie sollte das Medienkonzept dargestellt werden?
Eine konkrete Vorgabe zur Darstellung oder Strukturierung gibt es nicht. Wichtig ist eine ganzheitliche Darstellung Ihres Konzeptes.
Wie und was reichen wir für unsere Bewerbung ein?
Bitte reichen Sie ihr umfassendes Medienkonzept sowie ein Exposé des Medienkonzepts (max. 2 Seiten) im PDF-Format ein. Weiterführende Links können enthalten sein, ergänzende Video- oder Audiobeispiele können per Download-Link zugeschickt werden. Bitte beachten Sie, dass ausschließlich die Informationen in den eingereichten PDFs berücksichtigt werden. Zusätzliche Informationen – beispielsweise in einer E-Mail – können nicht berücksichtigt werden. Die Einreichung von Datenträgern oder gedruckten Dokumenten ist nicht möglich.
Wird der technische von dem pädagogischen Aspekt unterschieden? Auf welchem Aspekt liegt der Schwerpunkt? Wird ein Teil mehr gewichtet?
Das didaktische Konzept, die Umsetzung in der Schule/im Unterricht und die Unterrichtspraxis stehen im Vordergrund. In einem zweiten Schritt wird die technische Ausstattung begutachtet.
Soll die Bewerbung digital oder ausgedruckt in Papierform eingereicht werden?
Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Bewerbung ausschließlich digital, als PDF ein.
Bis wann erfahren wir, ob wir zum Pitch eingeladen werden?
Nach Sichtung aller Bewerbung werden Sie nach den Weihnachtsferien von uns telefonisch informiert. Die Pitch-Treffen finden am Freitag, 28.01.2022 und Samstag, 29.01.2022 in der aim in Heilbronn statt.
Was wird bei dem Pitch-Treffen erwartet und wie läuft dieses ab?
Vorab erhalten die Teilnehmer/-innen weitere Informationen zum Ablauf. Bei dem Pitch-Treffen gibt es die Möglichkeit, das Medienkonzept vorzustellen und für Nachfragen der Jury zur Verfügung zu stehen. Die Pitch-Treffen finden am Freitag, 28.01.2022 und Samstag, 29.01.2022 in der aim in Heilbronn statt. Mit der Einladung zum Pitch erhalten Sie weitere Informationen.
Do you have any questions regarding the School Prize competition?
Jury member Prof. Dr. Thomas Raith will be happy to answer your questions relating to the selection criteria, conditions of participation, issues regarding the content of the media concept and much more!
Am 13. April verleiht die Dieter Schwarz Stiftung in Kooperation mit der aim (Akademie für Innovative Bildung und Management) im Beisein der Kultusministerin Frau Dr. Susanne Eisenmann die mit über 100.000 Euro dotierten Preise für das beste Medienprojekt. Die nominierten Schulen stehen nun fest.
