Thomas Knaus (born September 28, 1974 in Frankfurt/Main) is a German educational scientist. He is a Professor of Educational Science specializing in Media Education and Head of Department of Media Pedagogy.^[1] at The Ludwigsburg University of Education and Honorary Professor for Educational Informatics 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 professor of Pedagogy^[4] at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as a visiting professor at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand),^[5] at the University of Sydney (Australia)^[6] and at the University of Vienna (Austria).^[7] Before his academic career Knaus worked as a teacher and a media educator in extracurricular youth work in Frankfurt am Main and Bad Homburg.

The primary focus of his research and work lies in the field of Media Education (digital literacy; digital change in educational institutions; media education in schools; methods and approaches in media research) and education informatics (educational technology, theory of technology, text and image in digital communication).^[8]

Knaus is the initiator and project manager of the cooperation projects fraLine (1999–2014)^[9] and fraMediale (since 2009).^[10] From 2011 to 2015 he was Managing Director of the Research Center Frankfurt Technology Center Media - FTzM, whose Scientific Director^[11] he is to this day. He is the initiator of the fraMediale Prize,^[12] publisher of the fraMediale book series in the kopaed publishing house^[13] and project manager of the open access publication project "Forschungswerkstatt Medienpädagogik" ("Research Workshop Media Education")^[14]

Knaus is a member of the steering group of the initiative "No Education without Media!" (Keine Bildung ohne Medien – KBoM!)^[15] 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),^[16] the German Educational Research Association (GERA | DGfE),^[17] and the Professional Group School (GMK)^[18] as well as a spokesperson for the Qualitative Research Section (GMK).^[19] He is co-author of the interdisziplinary working group "Dagstuhl/Frankfurt triangle for Education in the digitally networked World"^[20] and one of the supporters of the "Digital Education Charter"^[21] of the German Informatics Society (GI).

• 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, 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): Frankfurt Triangle for Education in the Digital World - An Interdisciplinary Model [Frankfurt-Dreieck zur Bildung in der digital vernetzten Welt – Ein interdisziplinäres Modell]^[22][23]
• 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 (2020): Schnittstellen und Interfaces – Digitaler Wandel in Bildungseinrichtungen (Vol. 7), Munich: kopaed.
• Knaus, Thomas; Meister, Dorothee M.; Narr, Kristin (2018): Futurelab Medienpädagogik. Professionalisierung – Qualitätsentwicklung – Standards, Munich: kopaed.
• Knaus, Thomas; Engel, Olga (2018): Spannung? Potentiale! – Digitaler Wandel in Bildungseinrichtungen (Vol. 6), Munich: kopaed.
• Knaus, Thomas; Engel, Olga (2016): Wi(e)derstände – Digitaler Wandel in Bildungseinrichtungen (Vol. 5), Munich: kopaed.
• Knaus, Thomas; Döring, Nicola; Ludewig, Yvonne (2013): Die Wirksamkeit von Medienbildungsinitiativen: Erfolge, Probleme und Lösungsansätze, In: MedienPädagogik (Suisse).^[24]
• Knaus, Thomas; Bohnet, Nastasja (2019): Lernen mit Kopf, Herz und Handy – Zum Forschungsstand zu Emotionen (in) der Medienbildung, In: MedienImpulse – Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik (BMBWF, Vienna (Austria)^[25] 57/4, p. 1–41.
• Knaus, Thomas (2017/2018/2019): Media Pedagogy Research Workshop. Projects – Theories – Methods [Vol. 1|2|3], Munich: kopaed.
• Knaus, Thomas (2017): Understanding - Connecting - Responsibility. Why Media Education and Computer Science Education concern us all and why we should develop them together, in: Diethelm, Ira (Hrsg.): Informatische Bildung zum Verstehen und Gestalten der digitalen Welt, Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik (LNI – Lecture Notes in Informatics, P-274), S. 31–48.^[26]
• 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 Ludwigsburg University of Education or on his website.

• Official website
• publications
• Frankfurter Technologiezentrums profile
• profile at Department of Media Pedagogy at The Ludwigsburg University of Education
• profile at Department of Media Pedagogy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• profile at ResearchGate
• profile at ORCID

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