Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning

It is hard to imagine our everyday lives without digital media. In many professions, humans and computers are increasingly sharing the work, with the computer taking over an ever greater share of the tasks. A key question arising from this ubiquity of digital media in everyday life and work is the extent to which our education system adequately prepares children and young people for this digitized environment.

Whether and under what conditions digital media enable innovative and sustainable teaching and learning processes is being investigated as part of the "tabletBW meets science" project.

In the TPACK 4.0 project, integrated and cross-location media education of teachers is established in the first phase of teacher training in order to make teachers fit for the didactically meaningful use of digital media in subject-related teaching.

How can digital media be used meaningfully in the classroom? When is it appropriate to use which digital tools? In the TPK-PD project, more than 230 teachers were supported in answering such questions in the context of an online professional development (PD) course lasting several months. The PD course was offered by the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, and the Institute of Educational Science in cooperation with the Center for School Quality and Teacher Education Baden-Württemberg (ZSL). The online PD course was part of an experiment (2 groups, 3 measurement points) in which the following research questions, among others, were investigated:

1.    How can teachers’ technological operating skills be measured?
2.    How well can teachers assess their technological and technological pedagogical skills?
3.    Which teachers benefit from PD components that promote technological knowledge and technological-pedagogical knowledge, respectively?
4.    How important is the promotion of technological knowledge compared to the promotion of knowledge about a cognitively activating use of digital media in the classroom to enhance technological-pedagogical knowledge?

More information on the online PD course (in German).

The TüDiLab simulates a classroom equipped with current digital media and survey instruments. The TüDiLab pursues two goals: (1) the practice-oriented professionalization of teachers with regard to their competencies for the design of media-based instruction within the framework of the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE) and (2) research on the impact of instruction taking digital media into account.

Digital media are omnipresent in our lives. Teachers are faced with the challenge of using digital media effectively and initiating critical media education among their students. This raises many questions for teachers: How can digital media be used effectively to stimulate knowledge processes in students? How can a critical approach to digital media be promoted? What conditions for success play a role in the use of digital media?

The goal of TüDiLB is to provide research-based answers to these questions.