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Families and Digital Media

Families and Digital Media

The module "Families and Digital Media" of the Cumila curriculum is aimed at parents, teachers and people who accompany children and adolescents. The module consists of two main parts. Introducing Children to Digital Skills Part 1 looks at the effects of the digital...

Security, privacy and data protection

Security, privacy and data protection

At the beginning of the internet age, we used the internet in a manageable way: We read web pages or communicated with colleagues or friends via e-mail. Nowadays, the internet is more often used for more complex activities; we use it as one of our main sources of...

An ode to information

An ode to information

The internet has become one of the most important sources of information for us. Be it news on current world events, test and experience reports on specific products and services, opinions, recommendations and discussions or detailed background information on every...

Communication connects people

Communication connects people

The need to communicate is driven above all by the need to pass on information and to receive information. The internet enables the dissemination of information, ever faster and more effectively. While around 677 million people worldwide used the internet in 2002, by...

Social Society & Digital Citizenship

The number of internet users is expected to rise to around 4.14 billion as early as 2021. They are making more and more use of digital offers. In Germany alone, around 19 million people order food at least once a month via online portals. What was unthinkable years...

We introduce: CUMILA

We introduce: CUMILA

What is CUMILA? CUMILA provides a guide to a media and information literacy curriculum for adults. CUMILA is divided into 6 thematic modules. For each of these modules, there is first a comprehensive handbook that provides an overview of the most important contents...

Technology nowadays and in the past

Technology has affected all aspects of our lives. During history there has been a lot of inventions, some of them crucial to the time we live, as the printing machine, the car or the television, but none of those developments have been so revolutionary as the...

Raising Children in the Digital Age

Raising Children in the Digital Age

While for a long-time parenting used to be about passing on your experiences and knowledge to your children, in the digital age parents are faced with a situation where they themselves must learn a lot of new things. The CUMILA curriculum therefore dedicates an entire...

Communication in social media

Communication in social media

"You cannot not communicate." (Paul Watzlawick) [1] Communication is what connects us humans. The need for communication is primarily driven by the need to pass on information and to collect information. Spreading information, faster and more effectively, has been...

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