Show What You Can Do with Media: The Media Literacy Portfolio

摘要

By media literacy we understand a wide range of abilities, which are not taught as an individual subject but which are, in principle, included in all subjects at all levels of teaching and in all types of schools. The difficulty of such 'cross-sectional tasks' is that quality and quantity of engagement with them is nowhere explicitly documented and assessed. The development of the portfolio was initially motivated by the wish to provide pupils with a possibility to document their individual achievements in a suitable way. This instrument can play an important role in the development of teaching media literacy within schools because a vital prerequisite for an attractive portfolio are interesting school activities.