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Civic Learning for the Next Generation
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Gemeinsam Denken x PHZH: Civic Learning for the Next Generation
Gemeinsam Denken x PHZH explores how interactive audio and AI-supported reflection can help young people understand political issues and form their own views. The project responds to a clear challenge: young people in Switzerland participate less in formal politics, while political topics are often complex, difficult to access, and rarely presented in formats that match how younger audiences learn today.
Together with the Center for Digital Learning at PH Zürich, Carbon Copy is developing an interactive learning journey based on the existing Gemeinsam Denken podcast format. The pilot focuses on the Swiss popular initiative “No 10-Million Switzerland” and turns political information into an accessible, dialogue-based experience for schools and young people.
The learning journey combines audio, interaction, reflection, and AI-supported personalization. Participants can first move through the content in a classic podcast mode. In the interactive mode, they answer short questions about their interests, prior knowledge, and first impressions. Based on these answers, the experience can adapt the content focus and guide users through a more personal reflection process.
The goal is not to steer opinions, but to support informed and independent judgment. The project brings together different perspectives from politics, science, and society, helping learners understand the core arguments, reflect on their own position, and practise democratic thinking.
A key setting for the pilot is the classroom. The format is designed for political education, especially in vocational schools and ABU classes, where students engage with current political questions and learn to identify interests, compare positions, and explain their own arguments. In the pilot, students will use the interactive learning journey during two lessons, with PH Zürich supporting the educational design and evaluation.
The project also strengthens digital literacy. By working with AI-supported content and personalization, students can reflect not only on the political issue itself, but also on how digital systems shape information, attention, and opinion formation.
For @gora, this project is an important field note because it shows how the platform can become more than a participation tool. It can become a civic learning environment: a place where young people make sense of complex public issues, question what they hear, reflect on their own views, and prepare to take part in democratic life.
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Gemeinsam Denken x PHZH explores how interactive audio and AI-supported reflection can help young people understand political issues and form their own views. The project responds to a clear challenge: young people in Switzerland participate less in formal politics, while political topics are often complex, difficult to access, and rarely presented in formats that match how younger audiences learn today.
Together with the Center for Digital Learning at PH Zürich, Carbon Copy is developing an interactive learning journey based on the existing Gemeinsam Denken podcast format. The pilot focuses on the Swiss popular initiative “No 10-Million Switzerland” and turns political information into an accessible, dialogue-based experience for schools and young people.
The learning journey combines audio, interaction, reflection, and AI-supported personalization. Participants can first move through the content in a classic podcast mode. In the interactive mode, they answer short questions about their interests, prior knowledge, and first impressions. Based on these answers, the experience can adapt the content focus and guide users through a more personal reflection process.
The goal is not to steer opinions, but to support informed and independent judgment. The project brings together different perspectives from politics, science, and society, helping learners understand the core arguments, reflect on their own position, and practise democratic thinking.
A key setting for the pilot is the classroom. The format is designed for political education, especially in vocational schools and ABU classes, where students engage with current political questions and learn to identify interests, compare positions, and explain their own arguments. In the pilot, students will use the interactive learning journey during two lessons, with PH Zürich supporting the educational design and evaluation.
The project also strengthens digital literacy. By working with AI-supported content and personalization, students can reflect not only on the political issue itself, but also on how digital systems shape information, attention, and opinion formation.
For @gora, this project is an important field note because it shows how the platform can become more than a participation tool. It can become a civic learning environment: a place where young people make sense of complex public issues, question what they hear, reflect on their own views, and prepare to take part in democratic life.