Editorial 02/2024: Ästhetische Medienbildung

Abstract

                    Maturation and fixation are polar opposites                            

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    Digitalization has arrived in education. It is anchored in the formal education system of our children and young people both as a separate subject "digital basic education" and as an interdisciplinary competence "media education". Digital (basic) education in Austria is based on three pillars: IT education, media education and design competence. Current discussions revolve primarily around IT education, i.e. a practically applied mindset that - in the sense of computational thinking - is problem-centered and solution-oriented. It is used to solve specific technical tasks, the aim of which is to ensure flawless function, to eliminate errors and to understand IT systems. Every now and then one also comes across media pedagogical approaches of the "media-critical" questioning attitude of media education, which is just as aware of the social and personal implications of technology use as it is of problematic social processes, as Dieter Baacke identified back in the 1990s (Baacke 1996).