Use of Digital Media at

Wilhelmsgymnasium Kass
Contents
1. General aspects 
2. Influence of digital media on everyday life
3. Opportunities, chances, possibilities
4. Dangers, fears, challenges
5. Future outlook
Questionnaire: digital media in our school community

Participants:  23 /80 teachers 

                        149/1100 students           Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel 
                        178/1500 parents

Age groups:
age age age age age age
10 - 14 15  -18 19 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59
80 75 4 22 102 60
participants participants participants participants participants participants

= 23 % = 21 % =1% =6% = 29 % = 17 %
Gender
of participants

238 are female
112 are male
= twice as many
female participants
 students

Occupation of
participants
teachers
44 % are students

25% have a part-time
employmend

parents
27% have a full time
employment
Influence of digital media on everyday life of parents

• 45% spend 30–60 minutes per day on social media

• 22% spend 1–2 hours per day
• 40% look at social media 2-5 times  a day
• 26% 5–10 times a day 
• most parents use social media during their free time
• a few whilst at work
• more than half don‘t check their social media accounts before getting up (59%)
• more than half don‘t check or only sometimes check their social media accounts just before they go
to sleep
• 65% point out that they use social media moderately, 15% constantly
• most of the parents state that they feel like they might be missing out when they are without social
media for a long period
 Digital media is mostly used for contact w/ friends or family

Influence of
digital Most used apps are WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube

media on
everyday 1/3 use social media 3-4 hours, 1/3 1-2 hours

life of
students 98% use it daily, mostly during free time

2/3 don't accept strangers

 • 88% have never been subjected to cyberbullying, 11%
sometimes
• 26% agree that cyberbullying is worse than regular
mobbing, 10% disagree
Influence of • circa 70% of the students want internet companies
digital media etc. to be responsible for identifying danger in digital
media
on everyday • 39% think that digital media improves their
life of students relationships, 20% disagree
• 66% believe that digital media can be effectively used
for education
Influence of digital media on everyday life
-teachers

• Most teachers check social media 10-20 times a day

• 63,6 % : feel like they are missing out but it‘s ok 
Opportunities, chances and possibilities
students
• 23% use education apps
• 38% think digital media improves relationships 

• 60% think digital media helps you in your studies:

 Opportunities, chances and possibilities 
parents
Do you think digital media
Most used apps improves your relationships?

1.) Whatsapp (96%)

2.) YouTube (62,5%)
3.) Facebook (35%) 
 Opportunities, chances and possibilities
parents

Do you believe digital media can be used

as an educational tool for students?
 Opportunities, chances and possibilities
teachers

• 87% believe digital media can be

used as an effective educational
tool

 Digital media is thought of as a

chance for learning and school
 Opportunities, chances and possibilities
teachers
• keeping in touch with friends and family and as a news and
information source

 Teachers see opportunities of digital media in several areas

Dangers, challenges and fears - students
• Very careful about what they post
• Share only little information and
most hidden from public
• Many don‘t accept strangers
*What measures do you take to protect yourself/your children
from risks on the internet?

*Do you accept strangers who try to contact you on social networking sites?
Dangers, challenges and fears - teachers
• Share about as much
information as students 
• Only a few accept strangers 

*What are the main risks when using digital media?

*Have you ever been a victim of " phishing " or identity theft?
Future Outlook
 
students
•most students strongly agree that digital media will still be popular in the future
          only less than 10% of the students disagree

     
      
        In the future a lot of young people will still like digital media
students
•a lot of young people who are on digital media want to continue using it
Even more people will use digital media in the future
         there probably won’t be a time when hardly anyone will use digital media
         over the years young people will stay interested in digital media and keep using it
students
•Many students say that digital media will have a positive influence in the future 
         most students are undecided
         most of them don't strongly disagree

  there are subtle dangers of social media and we continue learning  more and more
about them
         so we don’t see just positive aspects
students
- especially in the current time of the Corona crisis students notice
that digital media has a very positive side and since its constantly
being developed, it will still have  a positive influence in the future
- because we are informed well about the risks, we can use positive
aspects of digital media with less disadvantages in the future
teachers
• More than half of the teachers strongly believe that digital media will still
be popular in the future
         only one person strongly disagrees
teachers
•Many teachers believe that digital media will have a positive influence
         in the future teachers will probably still like and use digital media
              especially for school it‘s very useful
teachers
• on the one hand, it’s useful and has positive sides but on the other hand, you
can see social differences more because, for example, not everybody is able to
buy a computer
parents
most parents think that digital media will still be popular but it should be
 distributed more evenly 
parents
• many parents see positive and negative aspects
         In contrast to the students and teachers, WG parents see as a negative
         aspect that their children are more and more on digital media
         as a positive aspect they can, for example, do their work from home in 
         times like now
  Are there any questions?

Thank you for your attention!