Bavaria’s schools should become more digital. But teachers are already groaning about the extra work involved: they often have to ensure that the modern technology works – and in doing so they have to follow guidelines that date back to the year 2000.
When Michael Piazolo (FW) lists the progress made in the past, it almost sounds as if the future is already here. The Minister of Education invited to a press conference on the “digital school” in Munich’s Literaturhaus in April. There are now more than 71,000 “digital classrooms” with internet access and modern technology; more than half a million laptops and tablets for teachers and students were ordered, new media concepts were designed and further training was made possible. The goal: that soon every Bavarian student will have their own device. More independent and networked work thanks to digitization, that’s what Piazolo is counting on – and can imagine the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom: “If we do it right, the teaching profession will also become more attractive through AI.”