The Digital School innovation program gives primary schools to promote digital skills for promoting digital skills

The Digital School innovation program gives primary schools to promote digital skills for promoting digital skills

The State Media Center (LMZ) has equipped 101 primary schools with robotics sets as part of the "Digital School" innovation program on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. This measure should enable the children to develop digital skills, technological understanding and dealing with digital tools at an early stage.

The robotics sets are distributed to the schools as part of the “Robotics in primary school” project, which are committed to participating in further training and passing on their knowledge to the surrounding schools. This is intended to multiply the knowledge and promote the integration of robotics into class. After a successful pilot, two more tranches with 101 primary schools each will be taken into account from 2024, so that a total of 404 primary schools will take part in the program at the end of the year.

The State Secretary Sandra Boser has handed over the first robotic set to the Maria Montessori primary school in Stuttgart-Hausen for all schools. The pupils immediately started building robots of different ways and programming them with the help of tablets. Sandra Boser emphasizes the importance of robotics in school lessons, as this enables the children to develop digital skills at an early stage and to work creatively and problem -solving.

The "Digital School" innovation program is to invest a total of 16 million euros by 2026 and promote the digitization of schools. The “Robotics in Elementary School” project aims to convey learning creative problem-solving skills as well as mathematical and socially and emotional skills. It is also particularly important to inspire girls in a playful manner for technology.

Overall, the program will help children learn important digital skills at a young age and prepare for the future in which technology plays an increasingly important role. By using robotics in class, the students are encouraged to think creatively, to cooperate and to develop innovative solutions.