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News 24.06.2016

Comenius Award 2016: Three awards for Teachtoday at once!

The initiative Teachtoday has been honored in Berlin with the Comenius-EduMedia Award, and not just with one but three in a row. The award ceremony was held on June 23rd in Berlin for "Digital Innovations in Europe" – the most important European award for exemplary digital educational media.

Teachtoday, an initiative of Deutsche Telekom, is extatic to receive three Comenius-EduMedia Awards this year. This just goes to show that the jury wasn’t only convince by the initiative as a whole (category "Didactic Multimedia Products"), Teachtoday also received an award for its Media Obstacle Course in the category "Computer Games with Potential to Promote Skills" and for our children’s magazine SCROLLER in the "General Multimedia Products" category as well.

Teachtoday supports children, teens, parents and grandparents as well as educational professionals with practice-oriented materials and tips that pertain to everyday life. Thereby, we very much take into consideration the various different environments in which and ways that children and young people use media during family, school and free time.

Children discover the digital world with the media magazine SCROLLER, which is distributed online as well as in print free of charge. In exciting stories and interviews, they get to experience what safe and competent media use really means. With hands-on activities and interactive games SCROLLER encourages kids to think about their own media use and how to shape their digital world.

Our Media Obstacle Course has also been awarded (in the computer game category). It offers young people a way to learn and better estimate their own media behavior. With a combination of physical activities and exciting content the obstacle course gets children between the ages of 9 and 12 to think critically about their own media use.

About the Comenius-EduMedia Awards

The Comenius-EduMedia Awards is one way for the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information e.V. (or "the Society for Pedagogy and Information") to promote educational media that are particularly high quality both didactically as well as in terms of media. The verdict was reached by an international jury of specialists and media experts from ten European countries.

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