This poll was made during the ProPIC study week in Boras in may 2019. Thus it shows the answers of 12 participants from Spain, UK and Germany. Most of them want to become a teacher. The result is astonishing: Digital learning and working is an essential part of our future. We are in the position to prepare our students for their future. And University should give us the possibility to get prepared for our future. Apparently, it doesn't.
"Der Raum, wo das Smartboard ist"
(The room where the smartboard is)
- Kiel University, summer 2019 -
Why digital competences are essential for future teachers
The work with digital media will get more and more in the next years. Many jobs already require digital competences. The function of schools is to prepare their students for the future, in fact in the best way.
Digital media can be a huge facilitation for our life, if we use it in the correct way. As teachers, we are in the position to teach our students a reasonable use of those technologies.
Furthermore, a university should give us (students) the possibility to get prepared for our own professional future. Students with digital competences have even better chances to get a job than those without. The poll on top of this site shows, that this aim is apparently not reached. Moreover, the given quote shows that neither the university itself is in the possession of digital media that is already standard in many companies and should be standard in every school in near future.
Actually these results only show the reality at four universities and are thus not very representative. Nevertheless I am convinced that other universities have similar problems. It is poor that not even the institutions for the highest academic education - our universities - have the standards effective learning needs. In Sweden for example, where I have been during the study week, well working digital equipment is already standard in schools and universities. To reach today's Swedish educational standards in Germany, it will probably take decades.