What is the TOMMI KINDERSOFTWAREPREIS KITA about?

1st place House for Children St. Sebastian/Dettelbach

The "Haus für Kinder St. Sebastian" daycare center in Dettelbach is an excellent example of how digital media can be used not only in a child-centered manner integrated into everyday life in the daycare center, but far beyond. In this context, digital media are seen as a tool alongside many other possibilities in the pedagogical work. In concrete terms, the children deal with scientific phenomena. They ask scientists for help - as in the example of a volcano researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden - and create media themselves, such as videos or audio files, to record their knowledge and experiences in media. These are the foundations of successful media education. In addition, the children learn about devices and media to explore their environment, such as a digital microscope. This is a very diverse media education program in which children learn about the connection between digital media and explorative exploration at an early age. The cooperation with science is a unique selling point.

2nd place: FRÖBEL Bildung und Erziehung gGmbH, House for Children Eisnergutbogen/Munich

The "Haus für Kinder Eisnergutbogen" daycare center in Munich uses its story workshop to demonstrate how to create a positive environment in which children can trust their imagination and give free rein to their own stories. There, both analog and digital tools are used to write stories. The tablet is therefore not the focus of the project, but serves as a tool or a means to an end. This not only trains the students to work with digital media, but also promotes their own creativity and language skills. The use of the tablets, supplemented by pens, paper, a story rail, etc., and then even being able to hold them in printed form in their hands, makes this a combination for (almost) all the senses. The educators are very committed and combine a variety of media and language pedagogical approaches. Through the children's own activities, the aspect of self-efficacy is also promoted and products are created that they can be proud of. The project can be easily transferred to other daycare centers.

3rd place: Käthe-Luther Kinderhaus & Familienzentrum/Singen

The Käthe-Luther Kinderhaus & Familienzentrum shows that the participation of all educational partners in the introduction of digital media in the daycare center is a central moment for success. Not only the team needs sufficient time to deal with the attitude and the own attitude towards digital media education. Parents and other professionals must also be involved. This is what a good start looks like for digital media education that is integrated into the daycare center in a sustainable and everyday way. The involvement of families and the approaches for low-threshold family education offerings around the topic of digital media particularly stood out. This is a very comprehensive approach, since it is not only about the children, but the educators also see the need for further education and to reflect on their own attitudes through media biographies.