The digitalization of schools and lessons is being rapidly advanced by the state capital of Wiesbaden.
Funded measures
Establishing and improving digital networking in school buildings and on school grounds.
Installation of WLAN.
Establishment and further development of digital teaching and learning infrastructures that meaningfully complement the state's offerings.
Display and interaction devices - for example interactive boards, projectors, displays and associated control devices.
Digital work equipment, for example for technical and scientific education or subject-related education at vocational schools.
Establishment of structures for the professional administration and maintenance of digital infrastructures in the area of responsibility of school authorities.
School-bound laptops, notebooks and tablets
Implementation in Wiesbaden
The share for the state capital of Wiesbaden amounted to €20,598,269. The implementation of the planned Digital Pact for Schools and the state program Digital School Hesse for the period 2020 to 2024 was approved by the City Council in resolution number 0010 of 13 February 2020. The various measures at the schools were allocated to the years 2020 to 2024 depending on their urgency. When determining the priorities, the status quo at the schools was taken into account, both in terms of infrastructure and equipment concepts. Of course, it was also taken into account which measures built on each other.
Wiesbaden focal points
The Digital Pact is first and foremost an infrastructure program. Structured data cabling has been added at many Wiesbaden schools, and completely implemented at a few. The implementation of the Digital Pact has ensured that all Wiesbaden schools have state-of-the-art structured data cabling and high-performance Wi-Fi.
Another focus was on equipping classrooms with presentation media. Based on previous experience with the equipment from the media development plan, the IT project group specified a limited set of equipment standards. Depending on the wishes of the schools, interactive displays, projector solutions or large-format panels were selected. What they all have in common is that screen content from a wide range of digital devices can be mirrored (streamed) onto these presentation media using wireless technologies. All rooms described by the schools as relevant for teaching were equipped with a presentation medium.
Implementation of the work
The implementation of the Digital Pact in the state capital of Wiesbaden was well prepared. For many years, the "EDP project group", which is made up of teachers, employees of the media center and experts from the school administration (both the municipal and the state education authority), has been working on the development and updating of the media development plan and the implementation of digitalization at Wiesbaden's schools. In this respect, it was possible to draw on a good and up-to-date basis in terms of content and use this as a basis for further development under the framework conditions of the Digital Pact. Between 2020 and 2024, all schools were newly or additionally wired and equipped with Wi-Fi. Presentation devices were installed at many schools, and some PC/IT rooms were newly equipped and established with automated operating system and software management.
