Monstermedia

Online media education for primary school students

Imagine,.. a miraculous online world inhabited by strange creatures. They are media monsters, who feed themselves with signs, sounds and images. The media monsters grow, learn, have fun, get in trouble and are not afraid of anything,……or are they?

This is the start of Monstermedia, a media-educational learnign environment for students in the age of 11-12,. Monstermedia stimulates the media consciousness of children.

The child as a media consumer and producer
Children learn about history and the influence of media on our society as well as their own position in this. From this perspective, children are not only seen as media consumers, but also as active media producers. Students adopt alone or in pairs a little monster, by using the internet they raise up the monster to possibly become a Topmonster, the boss in the online world of Mediana. These mediamonsters will explore media history, and grow by answering questions and fulfilling missions.