MEDIA SKEPTICISM AS A PREJUDICE - ATTITUDES OF GERMAN PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS TOWARDS DIGITAL MEDIA

The International Computer and Information Literacy Studies ICILS 2013 and 2018 show that German teachers are remarkably skeptical about the use of digital media in the classroom. The 2014 study by Blackwell, Lauricella, and Wartella showed that the attitudes towards this technology and previous teaching experience are decisive. For the training of future teachers, this means familiarizing future teachers with the use of digital media in schools as early as possible and helping them to have positive teaching experience. Furthermore, it is essential to get to know the attitudes of future teachers. In a research project of the German Research Center Youth - Media - Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education and the Technical University Dortmund, the attitudes of students towards digital media and their use in the class were surveyed. The questioned students are themselves very media-affine, also and especially with digital media. Concerning children and young people, however, they are media pessimistic. So even before students have had the teaching experience emphasized by Blackwell, Lauricella, and Wartella, they seem to have a basic media-skeptical attitude towards the university.