The Katharina-Heinroth-School on Münstersche Straße in Wilmersdorf is Berlin’s first fully digitized primary school Photo: Ralf Günther/BZ assembly
By Andra Fischer
A fully digitized primary school was presented in Wilmersdorf on Wednesday. A comment from BZ editor Andra Fischer.
With fiber optic connection and fast WiFi in all classrooms. This is a small ray of hope in the great shadow of lame school technology modernization. Unfortunately nothing more. The reality in most of our city’s public schools is different.
For example: The required Powerpoint homework must be dragged onto a USB stick by the student (from the private laptop) and then presented on the Smartboard (!) at school. So somehow digital, but somehow not. Oh yes, the students bring their own adapter from USB-C to USB, because it doesn’t exist.
There is a lot of talk about equal opportunities that must be offered to students. So that they can get fit for their way into life.
The grade that Berlin’s education system would get in the subject of digitization would probably be a meager 4 – with the prospect of improvement in the new school year.