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03/19/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Complicated things explained simply - students publish explanatory videos for refugees

Dealing with authorities, traveling by train or applying for aids - for refugees, these processes are often new, unclear and associated with considerable challenges. In social institutions, such things have to be explained again and again. Students from various pedagogical courses at the University of Kassel dealt with this problem as part of a course. They tried to provide vivid explanations for these processes digitally.

In direct consultation with employees of social institutions (Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. & BENGI e.V.), students from Kassel are creating explanatory videos on content that needs to be communicated particularly frequently in practice. The videos are not only made available to the participating social institutions, but are also published on the Internet for all interested parties. In this way, the students link theoretical knowledge from their courses directly with practical experience and learn how to reduce and explain complex issues didactically. At the same time, the students make a useful contribution to society, an ideal example of service learning.

The course "New Media in the School Classroom - Use and Production of Instructional Videos" of the educational and social science core studies is part of the service learning offer of the University of Kassel and is led by lecturers Felix Pätzold in the Department of Empirical School and Instructional Research and Jens Gottfried from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

The videos of the seminar can now be viewed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMXoO3VOSnU& t=0s&list=PLmv0ghu2UJNsO1Morj0p18gxItvSNwi1O&index=2 

 

Contact:

Felix Pätzold
University of Kassel
Institute of Educational Science  
Tel: +49 561 804- 3041
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