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Digital learning: private companies show how it’s done

FEldhamster Rocky plans for winter time. “Of course he needs an incredible number of grains for this,” explains a friendly voice. Rocky and his three well-filled granaries can be seen on the screen.

Rocky needs help adding up the number of kernels in the chambers. “Half-written adding up to ten thousand” is the name of the six-minute learning video for seventh graders.

You can find it on Sofa tutor, Germany’s largest digital learning platform. Founder Stephan Bayer and his 250-strong team have posted 11,000 educational videos there since 2009. There are thousands of exercises and worksheets and a chat function in which 60 trained teachers answer questions for school material up to the Abitur.

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This is what digital learning can look like in 2020. And one way or another, pupils could continue to learn, even if individual classes or entire schools are closed again due to Corona. For this, however, Germany’s ministers of education would need a concept for the digitization of schools – preferably a joint one.

It is currently a matter of luck for schoolchildren in the country whether and how they can learn from home. The range extends from the seamless transition to the digital classroom to absolute radio silence, depending on the financial resources of the school authorities and the commitment of principals and individual teachers.

In many schools there is already a lack of hardware. According to the Berlin Education Administration, it will take until 2024 for all schools in the capital to have a broadband connection. As of today, not even every school has WiFi. And a plan by the Senate for the coming year reads like a joke in digital history: By the end of 2021, all teachers at state schools should actually receive an official e-mail address.

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