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Medienplanet

Medienzentrum Greifswald e.V.
Free
500+ downloads

About Medienplanet

Welcome to the media planet!

Digitally healthy with the new Medienplanet app for elementary school children. The free app can be used flexibly and across subjects at school or at home without any prior knowledge.
Versatile creative tools, embedded in a child-friendly narration, ensure exciting discoveries for children and adults. In doing so, they playfully promote critical questioning of media usage behavior and eating habits.

Playfully explore the digital world with the Dorkies.

On their journey through space, the jolly, media-savvy Dorkies encounter the strange human species. In order to find out more about them, the aliens quickly beamed the well-known children's TV star André Gatzke onto their spaceship and the adventure begins.
Discover the exciting world of the media planet together with the Dorkies:

Video kit:
Produce your own TV show together with André Gatzke and the Dorkies. Together you create your own clips on many exciting topics that you can design yourself. With spectacular introductions, cool questions and funny clips, making films is child's play!

Media Diary:
Do you know how much time you spend with TV and your smartphone? Record in your digital diary which media you deal with and discover the surprising results in the exciting planetary evaluation.

Food diary:
Do you want to take a close look at what you eat every day? Document your meals in your digital diary and snap a photo of your treats. You can then gain exciting insights into your eating habits in the planetary system of the evaluation.

Podcast Studio:
Would you like to talk about an exciting topic? Then you can record alone or with other audios and edit them easily. You can also mix matching music and create a cool cover photo with backgrounds and stickers. Your first podcast is ready!

AR Poster:
Bring the media poster to life with augmented reality. Together with the Dorkies you can discover cool quizzes, videos and exercises. Do you have common media rules? Then collect them on your poster.

Project code:
With a project code you can become a member of a project. You can upload your created videos and diary entries to a teacher portal and you can view the results together in class.

For each new stage you will receive exciting Dorkie clips that document your progress. No registration is required to use the app: You can start right away!

Dorkie adventures at school

Media play an important role in children's everyday lives. The offer sets new standards in the modern promotion of media competence and is particularly suitable for use in elementary schools. In the Medienplanet app, children learn not only to consume media, but also to shape it and to critically question their own behavior.
The app is based on the teacher portal “MedienUniversum. Media education in elementary school”. There, pedagogical specialists will find many clever teaching ideas on the topics of media, stress and relaxation, nutrition, advertising, computer games and media heroes.

Further information at: https://medienplanet.de

The children's app Medienplanet is available free of charge through the support program of the Techniker Krankenkasse as part of primary prevention.

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