Students at Ising High School learn using the latest technology

“I’m already at the finish line!” “I’m in the tower!” shouts Claudius Weinfurtner in the Isinger Gymnasium auditorium. “Man, it’s still taking me a while,” groans Chris Wagner. “But I just need two more stops!” Focus Seventh graders virtual and worked their way forward in their own math maze.

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Shiming – mathematics? Focused? Anyone who knows how fidgety and restless the boys are who are always sliding in their chairs is now astounded. Today, however, she and her colleagues sit in the hall with virtual reality goggles in front of their faces and joysticks in their hands, happily calculating.

On this day, Ising High School opened two media halls newly equipped with pioneering equipment. “Nowadays, students are growing up in a world where digital technology is part of their lives from the beginning.” In her speech, headmistress Katrin Brandl thanked the sponsoring couple Freiberger and suggested to the many invited guests politicians and parents that the Council and the Association of Bavarian Rural School Houses extend their scope from the media reality of today’s students to the mission of the school to the new digital learning rooms in the Isinger Hall. For sports games. “Our teaching methods must change. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality will change the process of acquiring knowledge. Brandl was inspired by additional training at the Dellinger Teacher Training Academy, which implemented a “Future Learning Space” there – with modern IT and media equipment.

In Ising’s virtual math maze, Claudius and Chris had to solve a math problem, such as adding fractions, for each path decision. Anyone who calculated correctly was allowed to continue in the maze, and anyone who calculated incorrectly reached a dead end. The teacher checks everything at the same time on the new project screen, which is projected onto it using a high-resolution laser beam.

“The Land of History,” “The Colosseum,” “Climate Change,” “Electromagnets,” and “The Fall of the Romans” are just a few of the many possible lesson contents. Students ascend the Egyptian pyramid or land on the far side of the moon. Headphones equipped with these virtual representations attract schoolchildren with their fresh approach to curriculum subjects.

This technology enhancement at Ising was made possible by a generous donation from the Freiberger family of Ameranger entrepreneurs. “I went to Essinger High School myself in the 1960s,” and my two younger children have been going there as well for some time. I wanted to give back.” As an entrepreneur, Freiberger values ​​“well-qualified workers — and knowledgeable about new technology.” The group of visitors will now see that technology on opening day in the school’s newly designed second media room. Here, seventh-grade students sit on iPads in front of physics teacher Susan Weitz and her large interactive touchscreen display on which they can clearly demonstrate physics experiments. The children are now supposed to assemble an electrical circuit for a hallway light, virtually on the screen. Seventh grader Bela Frohwitter is allowed to assemble the circuit using several light switches On the board – by scanning and touching: electricity pulsates visibly and a light bulb lights up. “We can simulate something here without any equipment, and the kids can’t hurt themselves,” Weitz explains. Meanwhile, in the gallery, Ray Holzer and physics teacher Manuel Pietsch “We can first display the ordered products virtually and see them from all sides before printing them,” Ising prints two-color logos for visitors using a new 3D printer.

In discussions with the mayors of Reichelt (Cheming) and Bartlweber (Sion-Seabrück), the principal said that this technological project represents a tremendous benefit to the school. Not only does the new equipment provide the opportunity for different students to work together creatively, but making the learning content visible, as with an electrical circuit, supports understanding and retention of what has been learned.

Press release from Ising/Walter Heil High School