Helsinki, 19.09-25.09.2010

Online Course

Short description
An initiatory question for a course insertion under G@ME was a way of dissemination of project results. The project team made a decision that a medium of spreading the results could be an online e-learning course developed in the Moodle environment. We decided to disseminate G@ME project via an online course developed within the project itself. A side effect of this idea was also a certain way of project evaluating by a really independent group of users.

 

The course content is well described by the conceptual diagram
G@ME Online course
G@ME Online course

 

 

Pilot Delivery of the Online Course 'Gender Competence & Media Competence in European Teacher Education'

  • Date:
    05.01. - 27.02.2009

  • Language used in the course:
    English; material available in English and German

  • Objectives of the course:

    • Genderspecific perceptions, stereotypes, roles, communication behaviour in media education will be reflected and discussed.
    • Participants get the appropriate knowledge to be better qualified for dealing with genderspecific issues in media education

  • Outcome of the course

    By the end of the training course participants will have an increased understanding of the potential of gendersensitive media education and will be encouraged to develop models of combining gender and media competence with respect to their own contexts.

  • Target group

    • Teachers
    • School education staff who want to work as multiplicators/promoters
    • Teacher educators at universities, teacher training colleges (Studienseminare) and institutions responsible for the professional development of teachers

  • School level:

    • Upper Primary
    • Secondary

  • Prerequisites for participation:

    Participants are required to have basic ICT user skills. These cover the use of common ICT tools (software, hardware, media, communication) supporting learning and teaching at schools and in teacher education.

  • Topics of the course

    The course is made up of six learning units:

    • 1. Gender&Media competence: concepts - theoretical approach

    • 2. Gender&New Media:experiences in participants countries / Gender und Neue Medien: Erfahrungen in den Ländern der teilnehmenden Lernenden

    • 3. Diagnostic instruments on reflecting gender specific perception and communication in school and teacher education in the GAME project/Diagnoseinstrumente zur Reflexion geschlechterspezifischer Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation in Schule und Lehrerbildung:
      • Questionnaire for pupils
      • Self-reflection for teachers
      • Observation in formal school settings
      • Self reflection for teacher educators
      • Observation aspects for teacher educators
      • Criteria for website and textbook evaluation
    • 4. Gender & ICT: Practical tools for diagnosis and observation

    • 5. New methods in Media education - Application in our own own professional work in media education / Neue Methoden in der Medienbildung - Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in der eigenen pädagogischen Arbeit

    • 6. WebQuest: a didactical model for gendersensitive media education?

  • Trainer team

    • Unit 1: FI Kaisu Tapiovaara, University Helsinki, Palmenia Centre Kouvola; Dr. Heikki Kynaslahtti, University Helsinki; Dr. Sigrid Schmitz, University Freiburg
    • Unit 2: DE Dorothea Luke, Amt für Lehrerbildung
    • Unit 3: European Project Team
    • Unit 4: CH Hansjörg Abegglen, PH Bern
    • Unit 5: CZ Dr. Jiří Pavlíček
    • Unit 6: DE Christina Engelhardt, Dorothea Luke, Amt für Lehrerbildung
  • Course Administration
    CZ Dr. Irena Fialová, Daniel Daniel Tocháček, Charles University in Prague

  • Information on the course:

    Coursetutor Dr. Jiří Pavlíček, pcw@volny.cz or jiri.pavlicek@osu.cz

     

  • Workload:

    Minimum Workload for the whole course: ~ 30h. The course is open for 8 weeks and you are expected to dedicate 3-4 hours a week to this.

     

  • Certificate:

    Participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance on completion of the course

Course Evaluation

The virtual classroom consisted of 24 participants from 5 countries. The evaluation was done in a course Wiki and with an online questionnaire. The answers and results can be accessed upon request from the project coordinator.


Here let some participants do that.

 

Jaroslav Masek, Czech student:
"The gender and ICT issue – in general:

a very good combination for a shift in gender opinions

ICT environment as the best way to display new gender ideas using Webquests, Wikis etc."

 

Eugenijus Valavičius, Lithuanien teacher:
"At the end of each course we often try to make some conclusions, at least for ourselves.
Did we hear something new in G@me Online? All of us know that we have two different approaches in almost all situations of life; all of us know that boys are better in “technical” part of life and girls are better in sensuous side. But this course gave us systematic view of gender-specific problems in ICT learning and we could share our ideas how to act in some situations. We could discuss some different approaches. To try to make different assignments for girls and boys? To prepare projects in unisexual groups? To create different requirements for assessments?
We must mention some practical sides of this course: to get acquainted with Moodle environment, WebQuests, Cmap Tools, Stumbling blocks, to create and to fill Wiki. We have got some tools for self reflection and for evaluation course materials too."

 

Katharina Dechert and Clara Giesen, German teachers:

"The combination of ICT and gender issue is a good chance to change attitudes. In other fields the gender issue is more discussed for example in "leseförderung" (support the competences of reading) like in ICT. At the university you talk about gender issues in general but not in combination with ICT.
By taking part of the course we got an important inspiration: the very young children in our classes (6years old) do not behave in the same way like older pupils do. We don’t recognize such a great gender issue. For example they are all one minded and interested in ICT. That’s an important approach for teaching with the idea of gender awareness."