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If you check the subscription of the big daily newspapers you will quickly notice, that the model of paper based informational media is developing towards a small niche for nostalgics. And still some

100 years ago we red text on paper, today we watch videos on laptops and smartphone, so what will we do in 100 years??? I want my students to be prepared to that. source Why should I prepare my students

When I was a child, I remember my parents recorded TV-series on VCR (magnetic tapes). I guess most of my students would not now, what this tape has been use for, when they see one. And the DVD or Blue-Ray

“Freedom of Speech” is a great value which is supported by the widely spread anonymity on many internet platforms. But as many of my students spent times on platforms with anonymity, they also come across

The phenomenon of a pen pal is not new but gets more widely spread by far as digitalization changes communication fundamentally. In contrast to my earlier posts about several economic topics of digitalization,

Even the most respected media outlet publishes sometimes a hoax, be it by accident or as a joke. But the publishing wrong news or extreme exaggeration with a clear political or economical purpose is relatively

Everybody speaks about Social Media, so my students need to know what it is about. Even more important: They use them themselves – I guess 90% of my students use at least one social media platform. source

Whenever someone uses a search-function, he expects that the algorithm behind it gives the best fitting set of answers. The user thinks that the answer-set fits best to his search-request while he does

Only very rarely a user types in the URL (web-address) for the website he wants to visit – even if he knows it. Usually he uses a search engine like Google, Bing, Ecosia or one of many others. Though that

"Industry 4.0“ has been lately one of the trending buzzwords. As I consider it again to be one of the future-forming phenomena and I absolutely want to make my students to be aware of it. source So

One of my lessons main purpose is preparing my students for the job market of the future. So I want to point to two relatively new phenomena of the organization of work. source Clickworker source Clickworker

During the training for presentation-software (we use libre office impress), my students had to download a lot of pictures. Nobody of them wondered who took these photos are these pictures or designed

As usual I want to achieve to things for my students: I want them to be aware how people try to sell them things in the internet and how they could become an internet-entrepreneur themselves one day. source

Almost all my students have a smart phone, so they are used to download apps, at least as long as they are free. But are so called. „free apps“ really free? source So called free apps are the base for

Most of my students think that ownership of things is equal to happiness, though more and more people come to the conclusion, that you do not need to own a lot of things to have a good live. source Observing

As natural as cryptocurrencies may be for you, as far fetched it is for my students. source First of all I am going to explain the concept of a currency itself. I am teaching in Berlin / Germany and most

Sometimes clicking a link means much more than just getting to another website. When my students click on certain links, it means income for the owner of the webpage – without costing them any extra. I

My students have never seen a world without online-shops. So I want them to understand the discussions about the pros and cons of them. source By the increasing distribution of broad band internet the

source The three biggest online-shopping platforms: Alibaba, Amazon and Ebay have one thing in common. They are market places. They have (Alibaba, Amazon) or do not have (Ebay) products they sell themselves,

3 – #itb8 The might of the crowd source I probably do not have to tell on a platform like steemit, that a strong comunity can change a lot. I want to teach my students about crowdinvesting, crowdfunding