Duckling for schools
Schools use Duckling’to create a safe, fun, and engaging digital community as an alternative to social media. We offer workshops, a platform for a digital school newspaper, and support in using Duckling in teaching.
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"Over the course of several years, we have developed a digital school paper together with Duckling, and we can see that it makes a significant difference for students."
"Duckling has run workshops with several classes. It’s wonderful to see how engaged they become."
Workshop at Grundvigs Folk High School. (Video: Christian H. Laursen)
The School paper of the Future
Duckling makes it easy for schools to create a vibrant digital school newspaper that serves as a real alternative to TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Students get their own digital universe on their smartphones, where they can share stories using text, video, audio, and images—and where an editorial team can verify and approve content.
- A safe and secure digital community without harmful algorithms, addictive design, advertising, or data harvesting, where students can express themselves without the risk of online bullying.
- Students can publish journalism, interviews, photo essays, reviews, and personal stories.
- Schools gain online tools to engage students in communication tasks, cultural storytelling, and the social life of the school.
- Duckling helps establish an editorial group of students and teaches them how to create and run the digital school newspaper.
- The digital school paper can be used for quick stories and supplemented with a printed school paper, where the best stories are collected and expanded.
- The school newspaper can be run by an editorial team, an elective class, a journalism class—or by the entire school across year groups.
Journalist for a Day
In the Journalist for a Day workshop, which we developed for Constructive Institute, a group of journalists with experience from organizations such as DR, Zetland, and TV 2 visit your school and work directly with students, who learn how to create journalism using their smartphones.
The program is designed for secondary education. It typically lasts five to seven hours and can be held for an entire year group, individual classes, or the whole school. Students learn to:
- Create a finished story that is published the same day
- Interview fellow students, teachers, and external sources
- Record and edit video, photos, audio, and text
- Distinguish between facts and opinions and think critically
- Reflect on the role of the media in democracy
- Give constructive feedback
Stories in the classroom
Duckling can be integrated directly into teaching as a creative tool to strengthen academic and democratic competencies. Stories can be used both to communicate knowledge and to understand the world through other perspectives. Stories become a starting point for:
- Critical thinking and reflection
- Media literacy and source criticism
- Observation, immersion, and inquiry-based learning
- Discussions about identity, community, ethics, and democracy
- Project- and problem-oriented teaching