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Thomas Knaus (born 1974 in Frankfurt/Main) is a German educational scientist. He is a full-professor of Media Education at the Heidelberg University of Education[1] and Honorary Professor for Educational Technology at the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering[2] at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS). He also work as an academic director of the FTzM in Frankfurt am Main.[3] He served as a professor of pedagogy[4] at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as a professor of Educational Science specializing in Media Education and head of Department of Media Pedagogy[5], as well as a visiting professor at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand),[6] at the University of Sydney (Australia)[7] and at the University of Vienna (Austria).[8] Before his academic career Knaus worked as a teacher and a media educator in extracurricular youth work in Frankfurt am Main and Bad Homburg.

Research and projects

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The primary focus of his research and work lies in the field of media education (media literacy; digital literacy; media literacy education in schools; methods and approaches in media research) and educational technology (digital change in educational institutions; AI in education (AIED), computer science and society, text and image in digital communication).[9]

Knaus is the initiator and project manager of the cooperation projects fraLine (1999–2014)[10] and fraMediale (since 2009).[11] From 2011 to 2015 he was managing director of the Research Center Frankfurt Technology Center Media - FTzM, whose scientific director[12] he is to this day. He is the initiator of the fraMediale Fair an the fraMediale Prize,[13] publisher of the fraMediale book series in the kopaed publishing house[14] and project manager of the open access publication project "Forschungswerkstatt Medienpädagogik" ("Research Workshop Media Education")[15]

Membership in scientific organizations

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Knaus is a member of the steering group of the initiative "No Education without Media!" (Keine Bildung ohne Medien – KBoM!)[16] and as well member of the board of the Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK); he ist member of the German Informatics Society (GI),[17] the German Educational Research Association (GERA | DGfE),[18] and the Professional Group School (GMK)[19] as well as a spokesperson for the Qualitative Research Section (GMK).[20] He is co-author of the interdisziplinary working group "Dagstuhl/Frankfurt triangle for Education in the digitally networked World"[21][22] and one of the supporters of the "Digital Education Charter"[23] of the German Informatics Society.

Publications

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  • Knaus, Thomas (2025): Why AI matters for education—an exploration in seven arguments. ZfB (Springer Nature), pp. 1–21.[24]
  • Knaus, T.; Merz, O.; Junge, T. (2024). Ist das Kunst… oder kann das die KI? Zum Verhältnis von menschlicher und künstlicher Kreativität. Ludwigsburger Beiträge Zur Medienpädagogik, 24, 1–24.[25]
  • Knaus, Thomas (2024): Educational Impulses for Redesigning (Online) Teaching in the Post-Pandemic World – A Discussion and Evaluation of Lessons Learned, Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society – WJDS, 4 (4), Special Issue: Education in the Digital World, S. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/4.4.2
  • Knaus, Thomas (2023): Emotions in Media Education: How media based emotions enrich classroom teaching and learning, In: Social Science & Humanities OPEN, 8 (1), pp. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100504
  • Knaus, T., Merz, O., & Junge, T. (2023). 50 Jahre Medienkompetenz und kein bisschen weiter? Von der Kommunikativen Kompetenz zu DigComp (Editorial). Ludwigsburger Beiträge Zur Medienpädagogik, 23, 1–20.[26]
  • Knaus, Thomas (2022): Making in media education: An activity-oriented approach to digital literacy, In: Journal of Media Literacy Education, 14(3), 53-65. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol14/iss3/5/
  • Knaus, Thomas; Junge, Thorsten; Merz, Olga (2022): Lehren aus der Lehre in Zeiten von Corona – Mediendidaktische Impulse für Schulen und Hochschulen, Munich: kopaed.
  • Brinda, Torsten; Brüggen, Niels; Diethelm, Ira; Knaus, Thomas; Kommer, Sven; Kopf, Christine; Missomelius, Petra; Leschke, Rainer; Tilemann, Friederike; Weich, Andreas (2019/2025): Frankfurt Triangle for Education in the Digital World - An Interdisciplinary Model [Frankfurt-Dreieck zur Bildung in der digital vernetzten Welt – Ein interdisziplinäres Modell][27]
  • Knaus, Thomas (2020): Technology criticism and data literacy. The case for an augmented understanding of media literacy, In: Journal of Media Literacy Education, 12(3), 6-16. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol12/iss3/
  • Knaus, Thomas (2020): Don’t resign, design! – Towards a Pedagogy of the Digital, In: Australian Educational Computing (ACCE: AEC), 35/1, p. 1–20. http://journal.acce.edu.au/index.php/AEC/article/view/217
  • Knaus, Thomas; Schmidt, Jennifer (2020): Medienpädagogisches Making – ein Begründungsversuch, In: MedienImpulse – Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik (University Vienna), ISSN 2307-3187, 58/4, p. 1–50. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mp/article/view/4322.
  • Knaus, Thomas; Merz, Olga (2010–2020): Digitaler Wandel in Bildungseinrichtungen (Vol. 1–7), Munich: kopaed.
  • Knaus, Thomas; Meister, Dorothee M.; Narr, Kristin (2018): Futurelab Medienpädagogik. Professionalisierung – Qualitätsentwicklung – Standards, Munich: kopaed.
  • Knaus, Thomas; Döring, Nicola; Ludewig, Yvonne (2013): Die Wirksamkeit von Medienbildungsinitiativen: Erfolge, Probleme und Lösungsansätze, In: MedienPädagogik (Suisse).[28]
  • Knaus, Thomas (2017/2018/2019): Media Pedagogy Research Workshop. Projects – Theories – Methods [Vol. 1|2|3], Munich: kopaed.
  • Knaus, Thomas (2017): The Potential of Digital Media – Theoretical Observations on the Educational and Teaching Potential of Tablet Computers, New Zealand Journal of Teachers’ Work (ISSN 1176-6662), Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 40–49.
  • Knaus, Thomas (2009): Kommunigrafie – Eine empirische Studie zur Bedeutung von Text und Bild in der digitalen Kommunikation, Munich: kopaed.

A full list of Knaus's publications can be found on the website of his department at the Heidelberg University of Education or on his website.

References

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  1. ↑ "Medienbildung". Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-02.
  2. ↑ Sciences, Frankfurt University of Applied. "Professors in Department 2: Computer Science and Engineering at Frankfurt University (Germany)". www.frankfurt-university.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  3. ↑ "Managing Board of Centre for Educational Technology – FTzM at the Frankfurt University (Frankfurt UAS)". ftzm.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  4. ↑ "Former Chairs". www.medpaed.phil.fau.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  5. ↑ "Professorship and academic staff of Department of Media Education of University of Education, Ludwigsburg (Germany)". www.ph-ludwigsburg.de (in German). 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  6. ↑ Education, College of. "Our People at the College of Education". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  7. ↑ "Our people". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  8. ↑ University of Vienna. "Gastprofessor*innen (visiting professors)". bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  9. ↑ "Research Activities and Current Projects". Thomas Knaus (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  10. ↑ Sciences, Frankfurt University of Applied. "fraLine | Frankfurt UAS". www.frankfurt-university.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  11. ↑ "Conference and media fair fraMediale". framediale.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  12. ↑ "FTzM - Managing Board". ftzm.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  13. ↑ "fraMediale-Prize". framediale.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  14. ↑ "kopaed :: fraMediale Book Series". www.kopaed.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  15. ↑ "Research Workshop Media Education :: Contact & Contributors". forschungswerkstatt-medienpaedagogik.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  16. ↑ "Initiative Keine Bildung ohne Medien (No Education without Media) :: About us". Keine Bildung ohne Medien! (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  17. ↑ Informatik (GI), Gesellschaft für (27 July 2017). "German Informatics Society (GI)". gi.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  18. ↑ "German Educational Research Association :: Section 12 - Media Education". www.dgfe.de. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  19. ↑ "Professional Group School at Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK)". www.gmk-net.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  20. ↑ "Qualitative Research Section at Association for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK)". www.gmk-net.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  21. ↑ "Workinggroup "Dagstuhl/Frankfurt Triangle for Education in the digitally networked World :: Frankfurt Dreieck - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V." dagstuhl.gi.de. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  22. ↑ Brinda, Torsten; Brüggen, Niels; Diethelm, Ira; Knaus, Thomas; Kommer, Sven; Kopf, Christine; Leschke, Rainer; Missomelius, Petra; Tilemann, Friederike; Weich, Andreas (2025-08-06). "Frankfurt Triangle for Education in the Digital World: An Interdisciplinary Model". MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung: 186–198. doi:10.21240/mpaed/00/2025.08.06.X. ISSN 1424-3636.
  23. ↑ "Digital Education Charter (Charta Digitale Bildung)". charter-digital-education.org. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  24. ↑ Knaus, Thomas (2025-10-23). "Why AI matters for education—an exploration in seven arguments". Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung. doi:10.1007/s35834-025-00511-7. ISSN 2190-6904.
  25. ↑ Knaus, Thomas; Merz, Olga; Junge, Thorsten (2024). "Ist das Kunst... oder kann das die KI? Zum Verhältnis von menschlicher und künstlicher Kreativität". Ludwigsburger Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik (in German) (24). doi:10.25656/01:30909. ISSN 2190-4790.
  26. ↑ Knaus, Thomas; Merz, Olga; Junge, Thorsten (2023-10-10). "50 Jahre Medienkompetenz und kein bisschen weiter? Von der Kommunikativen Kompetenz zu DigComp (Editorial)". Ludwigsburger Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik (in German). 23: 1–20. doi:10.21240/lbzm/23/01. ISSN 2190-4790.
  27. ↑ Brinda, Torsten; Brüggen, Niels; Diethelm, Ira; Knaus, Thomas; Kommer, Sven; Kopf, Christine; Missomelius, Petra; Leschke, Rainer; Tilemann, Friederike; Weich, Andreas (2020). "Frankfurt-Dreieck zur Bildung in der digital vernetzten Welt. Ein interdisziplinäres Modell" [Frankfurt Triangle for education in the digital world: An interdisciplinary model] (PDF). In Knaus, Thomas; Merz, Olga (eds.). Schnittstellen und Interfaces. Digitaler Wandel in Bildungseinrichtungen [Interfaces: Digital transformation in educational institutions] (in German). Munich: peDOCS. pp. 157–167. doi:10.25656/01:22117. ISBN 978-3-86736-568-0. urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-221179. Translated, revised, and republished as Brinda, Torsten; Brüggen, Niels; Diethelm, Ira; Knaus, Thomas; Kommer, Sven; Kopf, Christine; Leschke, Rainer; Missomelius, Petra; Tilemann, Friederike; Weich, Andreas (2025-08-06). "Frankfurt Triangle for education in the digital world: An interdisciplinary model" (PDF). MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung: 186–198. doi:10.21240/mpaed/00/2025.08.06.X. ISSN 1424-3636.
  28. ↑ Knaus, Thomas (2013). "Die Wirksamkeit von Medienbildungsinitiativen: Erfolge, Probleme und Lösungsansätze". MedienPaedagogik. (Occasional Papers 2013). Zurich: 1–19. doi:10.21240/mpaed/00/2013.09.06.X. ISSN 1424-3636.
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