News from the ISD

Our RockStartIT was awarded the LeLa Prize 2025 (3rd place) by LernortLabor - Bundesverband der Schülerlabore e.V. as an outstanding digital project!

Congratulations to Lucia Happe, Kai Marquardt, Anne Koziolek and Ingo Wagner.

As part of the MINT Bewegt Nachhaltig project, successful school visits on the topic of "Müllführerschein" took place again recently. The students were able to learn in a practical way how to separate waste correctly and use resources sustainably.

Further information on the project can be found here.

In the summer semester of 2024, students from the "School needs courage" seminar, led by Prof. Dr. Klopsch, took part in the Karl Schlecht Foundation's FÜHRUNG+X initiative competition. The entries were films on the annual theme of "Leadership+Courage". First place went to students Özlem Okyar and Elisa Adams, who dealt with leadership and courage at various levels of the school system in their video. Third place also went to a group of KIT students: Tim Abel, Lucy Jaag and Leon Hemmerich impressed with their social media campaign on the theme of the competition.

At the weekend, the student staff from the interdisciplinary didactics department, led by Dr. Olivia Wohlfart and Katja Reimers, discussed the current status of the two student labs STEM in Motion and MINT Bewegt Nachhaltig and began preparations for the year 2025. The practical evaluation will further optimize the offers for students.

Carolin Knoke and Pierre Meinokat represented the ISD at this year's European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Nicosia, Cyprus, with a total of two presentations and one poster. The team took away exciting impulses, interdisciplinary exchange and inspiring discussions for further research in their respective fields.

At this year's MINT-Festival in Karlsruhe, the two student labs of the ISD MINT in Bewegung and MINT bewegt Nachhaltig were presented. Due to the great interest shown by children and adults, visits to the labs can be arranged on request in the future to experience the combination of STEM, sport and ESD with your own school class.

Prof. Dr. Ingo Wagner, Carolin Knoke and Pierre Meinokat represented the interdisciplinary didactics of STEM subjects and sport with two presentations and a poster at the 37th annual conference of the dvs sports pedagogy section in Essen.

Carolin Knoke, Pierre Meinokat, Moritz Mödinger and Philipp Rosendahl are representing the Interdisciplinary Didactics of STEM Subjects and Sport department at this year's AIESEP in Jyväskylä, Finland, with three presentations and two posters.

The ISD is the proud organizer of the Seasonal School 2024. Under the leadership of Dr. Olivia Wohlfart and Dr. Elsa Lee from Anglia Ruskin University, the Seasonal School 2024 at KIT will be a place of international exchange. 25 participants from 13 different countries will come together to share their expertise in the research fields of education and sustainability and to learn from each other. In addition, international guest lecturers from various disciplines such as geography, sports science and art will provide valuable input in interactive workshops.

As part of the Networking Grant of the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists at KIT, Philipp Rosendahl was able to present a training concept for 360° videos as a training tool as part of his dissertation during his research visit to Dr. Ian Cunningham at Napier University Edinburgh. Various possible applications of 360° video technology in sport were discussed with Prof. Dr. Lionel Roche of the Université du Québec à Montréal, among others, and further collaboration was planned. We would like to thank Dr. Ian Cunningham for his wonderful hospitality and the productive exchange.

The training platform NELE - Campus Neue Lernkultur is leaving the beta phase and is going online with free, tried-and-tested and scientifically sound offers for establishing a new learning culture in schools and lessons. The ISD is represented with a multi-part training series on the topic of lesson study. To the project page

Master's theses in the BBS, for which proof of submission must be provided by 15.01. for the start of the preparatory service at the Regierungspräsidium, must be registered by 15.07. of the previous year at the latest! (E.G: Start of the preparatory service in January 2025 → Registration of the thesis by 15.07.2024 at the latest).

Dr. Olivia Wohlfart and Pierre Meinokat represented our research area Interdisciplinary Didactics of STEM Subjects and Sports at the 29th Congress of the German Society for Educational Sciences in Halle (Saale) with a poster each.

The TranscriptOER is an application that makes it possible to convert audiovisual media into text-based teaching or learning materials. The tool is being developed at the ISD and evaluated for practical use.