Medien- und Methodencurriculum Gymnasium Ottobrunn

Almost all German federal states have introduced or are about to introduce supplementing changes to the curricula concerning new media. These changes not only attempt to include new areas of teaching but also to make teaching goals more obligatory than they used to be in previous curricula concepts. A lot of teachers prefer not to regulate their students' knowledge acquisition process in the field of new media. Experience with new media in school however shows that it is necessary for all pupils to possess basic knowledge. In a second step this knowledge can be employed in projects of various types. For these types of projects to be conducted successfully students also need to have learning, creative and communicative skills. So teaching these skills ought to be part of a concept for implementing new media in schools too. The authors of this article, with the help of their colleagues at Gymnasium Ottobrunn, have developed a concept which enables students to obtain skills for using new media as well as learning, creative and communicative skills. It is a