Field Trip 2: Media School Bayern – Educating the Next Generation of Media Professionals

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. As part of our Media Institutions in Munich course at LMU, I once again had the opportunity to visit Media School Bayern. Some readers may remember that I already wrote about this organization during my first semester in Munich, when I visited it as part of the Professional Read More

Closing the Gender Gap in STEM is No Longer Optional

Digital assistants like Siri are used in most of our daily lives. But their design often mirrors unsettling biases. Until 2019, the female-voiced Siri, when users directed offensive comments like “You’re a slut” at the female-voiced assistant, it would respond, “I’d blush if I could.” The algorithm was subsequently adjusted, but the problem persists: even as Read More

Apart from learning: how Coronavirus is undermining a generation’s future

Over the last months, thousands of children and teenagers have spent their days alone in front of a screen – this raises difficult questions about the future of a generation. Read More

Inclusive Education: Utopia or Reality?

“All children should learn together”, “Every child is special”, “All children are equal” — these are slogans we read from posters about inclusive education. But how is this actually realized and is it really so great? I turned to the disability specialist Tatiana with a conversation about education in this way.- – Firstly, tell, please, Read More