My name is Raphael Fehrmann, and I’m pursuing my doctorate at the Institute of Education.
My research focuses on how teaching degree students determine their own digital
competence, and how they assess their ability to apply digital teaching methods in the classroom.
I also evaluate how participating in a specially developed university seminar
can influence one’s digital competence.
Digital media and digital structures already shape our
daily lives and actions in many areas. But we don’t question
the underlying technological structures, or wonder how their function
and consumption help us work with media. And because schools
are supposed to prepare pupils for life and the working world, it’s all the more
important to help them obtain digital competence.
In the seminar “Learning robots in the classroom”
the students are introduced to very basic algorithmic patterns.
Applying learning robots to concrete tasks, they learn how algorithmic patterns function,
what an algorithm is, and these learning robots are very well suited to conveying this
initial fundamental thinking as part of an algorithm, because they offer special approaches.
I love working in this area because it’s fun to
work with students and exchange ideas with them. Since I’ve already earned my teaching degree in primary school education
at the University of Münster, after my doctorate, I would like to complete in-school
teaching training so I could get better acquainted with the practical side of teaching.
In the longer term, I can envision working in the field of digital media
and continue to expand my expertise in this area.