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Teachers can create digital classrooms, assign their digital students, hand out digital worksheets, and digitally control them. In the promotional videos, the classrooms look like Google offices. Tables, tables, laptops, nowhere paper. A teacher, apparently well beyond the retirement age, who is happy to finally have time for her students attests that it works. As far as Google's message to the teachers. But students need to know: the break bell will not save you anymore. "Google Classroom" will track you, home, everywhere.

Your teachers will know how long you have had to work on your tasks, and that you have looked after them at night so that they can expect many mistakes. And they will know a lot more, without any verbal questioning of homework. Parents, on the other hand, will remember what it was like to be a client of a company, not their product.

Google? Apple? Who comes closest to students? In the struggle for billions, the digital companies are going on the offensive.

You can look around, down, right, left, up to the bright water surface. And there they are: sharks! Close enough to touch. The students of the 4b scream. Everything seems so real. Boehmer can direct the eyes. It points to fish and corals. The computer gives her facts. The teacher, the children, everyone is excited.

The children should know who brings them the virtual fun
The elementary school Kirchdorf is one of the first in Germany to participate in the project "Expeditions" of the internet group Google and the Stiftung Lesen, on a virtual class trip. The Stifterrat also owns Gruner + Jahr, the Verlag der stern. Google's expeditions lead into seas, museums or the moon. They should inspire the students for the possibilities of digital learning, for unknown worlds - and for the company. "Google Future Workshop" stands on the cardboard glasses. The children should know who brings them the virtual fun.

For months now, there has been a debate in the US about the influence of corporations on education. Google has conquered the school market there with affordable laptops and apps. In Germany the situation is still different. "Classroom", in the US Google's central app, is hardly used. And Apple, Samsung and Microsoft offer complete packages. But nationwide, this does not settle down, rather in an "iPad class" here and there. With orders German ministry officials are still cautious.

"There is a significant increase in lobbying activities"
And yet the fight for the billion dollar business with the students has also come to blows. Money is almost tangible since Education Minister Johanna Wanka (CDU) promised the countries five billion euros for the digital infrastructure. "There is a significant increase in lobbying activity," observes René Scheppler of the Union of Education and Science (GEW). "The companies are more offensive, they try to break the market."

Above all, the favor of the teachers, the multipliers, the companies court. "Who wins the teachers wins the students," says Scheppler. As part of a "broad-based education initiative", Google opened its first "Digital Training Center" in Germany earlier this week as part of the "Zukunftswerkstatt". There, teachers can train on Google-sponsored with five million euros programming platform Open Roberta. Apple launched a German-language version of "Apple Teacher" in May, its training program. And Samsung has recently launched the initiative "Rethinking Digital Education", which has participated in the teacher training program in Saxony-Anhalt since 2015, among other things.

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