The first part of this task, which is due on 15 June, is that you think of two question (just the questions, nothing more!) which you will ask on the field trip. Think of these two questions even if you can’t make it to the trip.
The second part will be the answers to the questions. If you participated on the field trip, write about the answers you got during the trip. If you couldn’t make it, find someone (anyone) still attending school and ask him or her these questions and then write about the answers you got.
1) How often are the new media used in school?
2) Is really every teacher competent enough to use the new media in class?
The general aim of the media school is to integrate the new media in the normal everyday lessons as often as it is reasonable and useful. Of course many teachers say “How can we do that? The tight curriculum does not give any space for new media experiments and lessons where we teach how to use Word or Google.” But lessons should not contain a detailed instruction how to use several tools (Word, Google, or Internet). The answer is “learning by doing”: The pupils learn very quickly when the teachers provide interesting tasks where the pupils HAVE to use those tools anyway.
Teachers also have the possibility to book a class into the room “Lernwerkstatt”. Here new and old media (Pc’s and books) are combined in a well equipped media library. The room is very popular because of its enjoyable atmosphere. So it happens that this room is very often booked out.
Another room that is called OAB (Oberstufenarbeitsbücherei) is also quite popular. This room is equipped with Pc’s, a library, beamer, whiteboard and smartboard. Our guide who is teacher of English, Informatics and Sports says that he uses this room very often with his pupils. One class for example works one to two times a week in this room.
Nevertheless there are of course teachers who are not competent enough to use the new media appropriately. Especially the older generation is quite unsure in using computers. These teachers are very often overstrained and do not know how to act when pupils do everything on the PC but nothing that has something to do with the topic. In these cases it may help to use a special controlling-software or just topics that are interesting for the pupils.
Teachers who are not so confident with computers but still want to use them also beg for help amongst colleagues. For example a teacher who thinks that the essay of a pupil is not written by himself asks his colleague to help him finding evidence. He proofs this suspicion by using a plagiarism-software called “eve” and can help his colleague in this way.
Another good support for helping teachers to use the computers is the lately engaged system administrator Mr. W. He repairs computers and helps with software problems. In this way unsure teachers do not need to fear that they have to repair the computers by themselves.
But anyway, in ten years there won’t be any more teachers that have no idea about how to use a computer. So we just need to be patient. 
Hey! You were really attentive at the field trip and answered your questions in detail. I think that you did a good job with that and that you listened carefully to the teacher.