According to the survey, digital devices and applications are already in widespread use: 8 out of 10 teachers (83%) use them to display presentations or worksheets on the wall during lessons. Three quarters (75 percent) use laptops, tablets and the like to conduct research, 65 percent show learning content in video or audio form. 6 out of 10 (61%) write texts with their pupils using digital devices during lessons. “Digital devices and applications are an integral part of children and young people’s lives. Their use must play a key role in school lessons,” says Bitkom CEO Dr. Bernhard Rohleder. “Now that the federal and state governments have agreed on a Digital Pact 2.0, the digital skills of teachers and pupils must be further strengthened in addition to the technical equipment in schools. Devices and applications alone do not make teaching better, they must be used in a didactically meaningful way.”
Digital applications are often used during lessons in the form of learning platforms (70%) – more frequently in STEM subjects (81%) than in others (65%). Devices also enable participation in hybrid or digital lessons, for example in the form of video conferencing (70 percent), particularly in STEM subjects. However, more than half of teaching staff in other subjects also use this option (56%). Digital books are used during lessons by just under half of all teachers (45%), interactive content such as online quizzes by 4 out of 10 respondents (40%). In contrast, the creation of own content using digital applications is less common: A third have videos and podcasts (33 percent) created in this way, for example. Digital tools for creating and editing websites (6 percent) or for programming (5 percent) are hardly used at all.
Methodological note
The data is based on a survey conducted by Bitkom Research on behalf of the digital association Bitkom. It involved a telephone survey of 502 secondary school teachers at lower and upper secondary schools, schools with multiple courses of education, secondary modern schools, grammar schools, integrated comprehensive schools and Waldorf schools. The representative survey took place in the period from week 23 to week 32 2024. The questions were: “For what purposes do you personally use digital devices such as whiteboards, computers, laptops or smartphones during lessons?” and “How do you rate your own ability to design lessons digitally?”.
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