Outline the advantages of digital media at school in an article for an American school magazine
- source: homepage of a German educational institution (”Münchner Kommunaler Bildungsserver”)
- title: ”Digitale Medien im Lehr- und Lernprozess” (”Digital media for teachers and learners”)
- date: October 2014
- content:
- teachers can use online materials or digital worksheets
- simplify certain aspects of lessons like visualizations
- lesson results can be uploaded digitally so they can be viewed and edited afterwards instead of being permanently erased from a blackboard ⇒ overall content of a class may be grasped more easily
- simplify studying after school using interactive exercises or using the aforementioned uploaded results
- students growing up with technology can be taught proper use of it since they use it anyways
Headline
With younger generations growing up with digital media, that medias possible use at school grows more and more relevant. The to-be-students spend an increasing time on their devices, yet surveys show that a majority of Gen Z does not know what a ”folder” (on a computer) is. Therefore, proper digital education would benefit both students and educators.
The text ”Digitale Medien im Lehr- und Lernprozess” (”Digital media for teachers and learners”), published October 2014 on the ”Münchner Kommunaler Bildungsserver”, the state digital learning project of German city Munich, discusses this topic, talks about this topic. In this article, I’d like to summarize the main advantages described there.
To conclude, there are lots of advantages to bringing digital media into the classroom.