The arrival of digital media in the classroom promises media skills and individualized teaching. Computers, tablets and smartphones are already ubiquitous, even among children, and with the new interactive panels, pupils at the Buchhügel elementary school learn how to use digital technology right from the start. A total of 25 such LED panels were purchased. These allow teachers to better prepare their lessons and numerous applications expand the range of different teaching methods. For example, blackboard images can be saved at any time and called up at a later time to suit the lesson, or images can be transferred from the tablet to the screen. The textbooks are also already available in a digital version. The purchase of the panels cost a total of 130,000 euros, while the purchase of new classroom furniture cost a further 296,000 euros. "No more patchwork quilt, but instead a uniform design that provides children and teachers with good orientation, intelligently structures the rooms and thus creates a good learning atmosphere," said City Councillor and Head of Education Paul-Gerhard Weiß happily, thanking everyone involved.
The investment was made possible with funds for the accelerated expansion of the infrastructure for all-day care for primary school children. Together with head teacher Katrin Hebeisen, Heiko Bürcky and his colleague Yvonne Erbes-Entschewitsch from the All-Day Service Center at the municipal education authority also took care of the implementation. Since the end of 2019, both have been ensuring that children feel comfortable at school and that parents' work and their legal entitlement to an all-day place from the 2026/2027 school year is well implemented. Mr Bürcky and Ms Erbes-Entschewitsch are therefore in close contact with schools and support associations and are working with them to develop concepts and timetables for the expansion of all-day schooling in light of the legal entitlement.
City of Offenbach
