The Lernwerkstatt in Karlsruhe - the new favorite place to learn, read and try things out
The Learning Workshop at the Baden State Library was opened yesterday. You can still experience the opening program until the end of the week. Maren Krähling-Pilarek gives us an overview of the program during the opening week and beyond.
Visitors can expect extensive equipment in the learning workshop. There are touch displays, a media studio, two editing suites, a wide range of media technology that can be borrowed, a charging station, freely usable design thinking materials and a hybrid seminar room.
After years of studying, working and learning within their own four walls, most people are used to customizing their workplace. The State Library has also understood this: Maren Krähling-Pilarek reports that the space is “flexibly furnished so that users can simply arrange the space themselves as they wish.”
In addition, the new learning workshop offers versatile and modern equipment: “You’re basically working in digital and analog space at the same time. That’s why the equipment we offer people has to be able to do that,” explains Krähling-Pilarek.
Krähling-Pilarek explains that there is also movement within the library premises:
“Throughout the planning of the learning workshop, we realized that learning works better when you move around and don’t always just stay serious and sit in a chair. And that’s why we asked the Institute of Sport and Sports Science at KIT to cooperate with us. As part of her bachelor’s thesis on movement-oriented learning, a student has now written a concept for how we can get our visitors moving more. It’s a sporty, digital rally through the library and exercise breaks. We hope that people will join in and be infected by our joy.”
Photo: Adrian Fischer, Badische Landesbibliothek
For all those who spend most of their time in the digital space, there are touch displays that visitors can use to connect to their devices and work together. There is also a seminar room that is technically equipped so that workshops, lectures or seminars can be held there both on site and in hybrid form.
Technical equipment
- GoPro camera with accessories
- Zoom H5 recording device
- Ring light
- Cell phone tripod
- Flexible tripod
- Burning drives
There are also editing stations where film material can be processed.
Photo: Adrian Fischer, Badische Landesbibliothek
Everyone can use it. The rooms and study spaces, as well as technical equipment for video or audio recordings, can be reserved in advance. All you need is a library card, which is free of charge for pupils and students.
If you want to learn something new or deepen your skills, you can choose from workshops and courses in the Lernwerkstatt program. The team has many tried and tested concepts. It has been working with students and sixth formers on information literacy for over ten years. As part of such courses, participants learn “how do I research properly for my term paper and academic work? How can I avoid plagiarism? Literature management, software and other things. We are now expanding the content to include video and image production,” Krähling-Pilarek tells us.
Creative writing, creative presentation and even programming can also be learned here free of charge in workshops.
Program
From 14 to 18 March, there will be a varied opening program with guided tours, lectures and workshops for pupils, students, teachers and anyone else who is interested. Anyone who would like to get to know the premises can attend one of the various guided tours. If you want to learn something new straight away, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for in the workshops on offer. From video editing and informed handling of fake news to design thinking, there is a wide range of innovative programs on offer. We have taken a closer look at what is on offer and summarized some of the highlights for you:
15.03.2023
The program kicked off this morning with an event supported by karlsruhe.digital:
Discussing Practices and Competence Needs for Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age. International event for information and education professionals in cooperation with the NextEducation team of DHBW Karlsruhe and the project consortium DEAL with Digital WBLWork-based learning in a virtual working environment – the new skills map for vocational education and training.
Wed, 15.03.23, 9.30 a.m.
Photo: Patricia Bonaudo, karlsruhe.digital
Power Editing – a quick introduction to video editing
Workshop – open to beginners
Wed, 15.03.2023, 10.30 a.m.
Everything fake or what?! Empowering children and young people against disinformation and fake news.
For parents, teachers and pedagogically interested parties, in cooperation with the campaign BITTE WAS?! of the State Media Center Baden-Württemberg
Wed, 15.3.2023, 7 pm
16.03.2023
People Animals Sensations – photography with smartphone and tablet
Workshop – open to beginners with their own photo project
Working and learning – today for the future
Inspirational Talk in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers, Prof. Dr. Britta Klopsch,
Lena Tilebein and Dr. Alexa Maria Kunz, moderated by Manuela Schnaubelt (KIT)
Thu, 16.3.2023, 7 pm
17.03.2023
Ready for Hollywood – professional video effects for smartphones and tablets
Workshop – open to beginners with a love of experimentation
Fri, 17.3.2023, 12 noon
Screenwriting: From the idea to the screenplay
Workshop in cooperation with Filmboard Karlsruhe e.V.
Fri, 17.3.2023, 2 pm – Registration required
18.03.2023
Mental health in the workplace and the particular challenges of working from home
With Horst Köster, qualified psychologist
Sat, 18.3.2023, 11.30 a.m.
Poetry Slam. Write, think, present
Interactive slam show with Moritz Konrad and Natalie Friedrich
Sat, 18.3.2023, 3 pm
You can find the full program here .