Teachers prefer to communicate via email and telephone

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igital teaching in nine out of ten parents' homes
During school closures due to corona, digital teaching options reached nine out of ten parents (91 percent). These include video conferences (83 percent), online face-to-face teaching (77 percent) and learning platforms (65 percent). But many parents have also had experience with classic analogue offerings. Half (48 percent) report being contacted by teachers by telephone. One in three parents (36 percent) had to pick up assignments or documents from school. Eight percent received teaching materials by post. Special apps for mobile and individual learning, on the other hand, are not yet standard, but are used in 44 percent of parents. Only 4 percent of parents say that teachers use such apps on all teaching days. For 28 percent, it is regular, but not on all teaching days. For 30 percent, learning apps are only mexico gambling data used in exceptional cases and for 29 percent, they are never used. Rohleder: “Digital learning offers many advantages even independent of the corona situation and can motivate students and increase learning success. Adaptive learning apps adapt precisely to individual learning progress and deliver appropriate content.”




When teachers contact parents, this is mainly done via traditional means of communication. Seven out of ten parents (71 percent) are in contact with teachers via email. A good half (54 percent) use the telephone to do so. Only behind them are newer digital means of communication such as an internal school online platform (38 percent), messengers (29 percent), social networks (17 percent) and video telephony (9 percent). WhatsApp is the most popular messenger : 25 percent of teachers use WhatsApp to contact parents, 4 percent use other messengers. 2 percent still communicate via their homework books. "Digital technologies are superior to traditional means of communication in many ways. Applications specifically tailored to the needs of everyday school life, such as learning platforms, can greatly simplify and make communication between teachers and parents more effective," says Rohleder.