After the breakdowns in digital learning platforms for distance learning in schools, the teachers’ association has criticized the fact that every country has its own system. “To this day I still don’t understand why every country has to reinvent the wheel here. That would actually have required a joint effort,” said association president Heinz-Peter Meidinger on Friday the ZDF morning magazine.

Hardly any federal state currently has a really functioning learning platform. “Unfortunately, little has been done in the last six months to ensure that these learning platforms are upgraded accordingly, and that is now paying off.” Politicians have not recognized how important the digitization of schools is. She looked more at the economy than at the schools and ignored the fact that a phase of distance learning could come again. At 60 percent of schools there is still no fast internet, complained Meidinger.

Future prospects for children He still sees gaps in the students’ knowledge due to the first lockdown. “That is why we demand from all school ministries that a master plan is now developed on how to actually secure the level of education in the long term.” It is about the future prospects of children and young people.

In several countries there had been failures in the platforms since the beginning of the new lockdown. This concerned, for example, the Bavarian Mebis system and the Berlin learning space. The Saxon learning platform Lernsax also suffered disruptions and a hacker attack.

(emw)