Long was a fight over the billions of blessings from the digital Pact of the Federal government, in the meantime, he decided. But what follows from this? This is a question to all German schools. Berlin education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) invited on Monday in the Zehlendorf Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium in order to inform, because in this school you can see what is possible.
but Before the high school explained what it could do to a kind of “blueprint” for other schools, had Scheeres is a good news for all the School(office)head, want to know how to do it: For the implementation of the Digitalpakts the administration of education builds a “consulting and Support”. This new Institution is intended to answer questions, framework contracts, and, above all, aims to help education authorities and schools during the application process. This also means that you will examine the IT development and media concepts of the schools professionally. Berlin to get out of the digital Pact 257 million euros.
The matter is complicated. It starts with the fact that a school must be able to assess what you need and when you need it. So, it makes little sense, allows the devices to purchase without W-Lan. The schools can choose from a wide variety Offered, you need to prioritize in accordance with your existing equipment. This may mean that wants to take care of a school first of all to the construction or improvement of digital networking in their buildings and on their grounds. Or is it already as far as that you can think of the development of digital learning platforms. Then you can invest your money in interactive whiteboards or mobile devices such as Laptops, Notebooks and Tablets.
IT-Scouts to help the classmates and teachers
What is accessible, if a school tried for years to have a good equipment, the 15-year-old tenth-grader, Jonathan, by showing the Senator’s using a Laptop and a Whiteboard of how he and his classmates have access to shared spreadsheets that are in the Sharepoint to the school for all students is available and editable. In addition, he was able to announce that he and some interested classmates act more recently as a free “IT-Scouts”, to support teachers and students – what is particularly important, when the Scheeres’ Budget-funded IT supervisor: The supervisor will be paid per school only one day per week. On the other days, the schools must cope.
Three of the IT pilot schools
the headmistress Elke Wittkowski described how far the walk was to bring their school to the extent that it has been since 2017, next to the Mühlenau elementary school in Dahlem and the Hemingway-secondary school in the middle of one of Berlin’s three of the IT pilot schools. “I’ve hung yourself so I can better decide what my school spends money,” describes one of the first steps to success, having become in 2009 head of the school. Also, you had in the College teacher as Torsten Johnson, who supported you as an IT coordinator, and the professional help of a Berlin-based company that took care of IT Management.
A “blueprint” for many other schools
“What are we doing here, is a blueprint for many other schools,” Johnson’s self-conscious evaluation. Head of the school, Wittkowski puts it this way: “We have helped Proud to say that everything works” – including the good support by the educational administration. In relation to the district education office it was to convey, however, no positive messages. On the question of whether the school is in the district office of an IT contact person, the answer is a resounding “no”.
As reported, can’t say most of the districts over which IT facilities in their schools. The green education of a politician, Stefanie Remlinger had, therefore, proposed that the districts should get additional staff to the implementation of the digital Pact support. The Scheeres showed on Monday far: “We gave the districts enough,” she said. The Bodies would need to be occupied. What you said: due to the long years of austerity has been deprived of the districts of the personnel of the basis, in order to maintain their expertise and continue to develop. In addition, they are subject to due to lower salaries, in competition with the Federal and land authorities, but have to cope with however, now the school building offensive. Only traditional, well-managed districts are able to support in spite of difficult starting conditions in their schools – what is the view of many schools, not for Steglitz-Zehlendorf, but for Neukölln.
In Hamburg, all schools have fiber optic connections
Neukölln, is also the one district, whose schools are supplied as the first with glass fiber connections. As reported, wants to have managed the administration of education by the end of 2019, all of the vocational schools to the fibre optic network to connect. If it goes with the General schools, is the first to Neukölln to it. No one can say today, when all of the twelve districts, with around 750 schools will be connected to the fibre-optic network.
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it looks Totally different in Hamburg: the Hanseatic city of all schools already have fibre-optic connection. And unlike Berlin’s districts, the Hamburg school authority to know exactly which classrooms are already W-Lan. The Rest is now your turn, reads the announcement. In addition, the Hamburg school authority already knows that she wants in addition to acquire the existing about 30,000 computers for 30 000 Laptops as well as 15,000 micro-computer for use in the classroom. So, that’s that.
