UXMA and the HSU/UniBw H want to jointly develop a transnational school development platform for ethnographic research in the dtec.bw project SMASCH. UXMA is a media-centric and design-driven software and product development company. The aim of the collaboration is to work with a team of researchers, media educators, school actors, designers and IT developers (contractors) to develop a platform that supports schools in their individual engagement with digitality issues and enables transnational collaboration on these topics. For this purpose, 6-8 schools from Germany, Poland, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland are involved in the design process. During the first project phase, a prototype of the transnational school development platform will be developed, based on the results of the first SMASCH project (2021-2024). A suitable platform framework already exists at UXMA. Additional components are to be developed for this, based on the ethnographic research results. This prototype is to be presented in an international school workshop and then tested, reflected and further developed in transnational school tandems in cooperation with the contractor. By the end of the project, a multilingual platform should have been created that enables schools across national borders to deal in depth and reflect on the effects of digitization on their individual school context and to design it accordingly. The work on the platform is combined with other portable analogue and digital materials (e.g. VR glasses, makey makeys, etc.) provided by the project. Subsequently, the research results will be published. In particular, UXMA is to participate in the research of HSU/UniBw H as part of the dtec.bw project SMASCH with the following work: - development of the trial version of a transnational school development platform; Ethnographic exploration of school contexts in selected school projects; Research-oriented exploration of project-related designetting using qualitative methods of empirical social and educational research; Media pedagogical and design-oriented analysis of existing materials from SMASCH I as well as the models developed by scientists and the pedagogical coordination (integration/development of suitable participatory/reflexive methods that can be integrated into the models and support schools in the transnational examination of school development in digitality); Development of a methodological repertoire to involve project schools even at a distance in the participatory process of brainstorming and development of the platform prototype. The methodological repertoire is considered a development product to be made available to schools and EdTech actors at the end of the project for future participatory development processes (through the developed platform); Exploring and developing ideas and functions for a transnational school development platform together with the SMASCH project team. Here, a focus is on the critical examination or analysis of impact dynamics that can emanate from certain platform functions and model designs and a reflected design, if necessary, also of unconventional ideas that oppose dominant logics of digital transformation, such as increasing efficiency or optimization; Development of a data protection and IT security concept for platform use that complies with the regulations of the various participating countries; Participation in the research process, which focuses on the participatory platform design process as a research topic (e.g. in the form of reflection interviews, data collection through diaries/language memos/visualizations, etc.). - Joint development of a workshop, as well as pedagogical methods and materials for the introduction of the trial version, as well as participation in the research of the workshop. - Research of the platform together with the SMASCH project team and development of a structured feedback process. - Joint reflection and scientific evaluation of the platform design process. - Technical and visual preparation of the platform functions, as well as analysis of migration options and reuse scenarios with the integration of methods and research findings. - Opening/migration of the platform together with the SMASCH project team, so that schools can also participate in developed models, methods and insights beyond the project schools.
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