During the confinement, the educational system has abruptly switched to distance learning. In order to learn from this unprecedented experience, and in particular from the new school forms that were put in place, the Ministry of Education organized on November 4 and 5, 2020, the Etats Généraux du Numérique pour l'éducation (EGNé).
These Estates General had been prepared in three stages:
- Development of feedback (from lockdown to end of regular school year);
- Organization of an online consultation (from mid-June to mid-September);
- States General in the territories (mid-September to mid-October).
According to a file published on November 26, 2021 by the Ministry of National Education, out of twenty-two actions launched, sixteen (72%) are considered already implemented.
Training and support
Train teachers and certify their digital skills:- The first certifications of 25,000 experts and trainers are planned for January 2022 thanks to Pix+ Édu.
- Compulsory certification at the end of the 3rd and 12th grades, with more than 500,000 students certified in 2021, and 2 million students tested;
- Extension of the system to 6th grade and elementary school students starting in 2022.
- Pix parents scheduled to launch in 2022;
- Dedicated resource kit and already 23 agreements signed by "La trousse à projets" with associations.
- Action plan to achieve the goal of 30% girls in the Digital and Computer Science (DSC) major within 5 years;
- Strengthening of the e-Run networks in the first degree and the digital referents in the second degree who have a major role to play with their peers.
Equip
Equipping teachers- With an annual IT bonus of €150 for teachers, that is €178 million each year.
- Organize the loan of equipment to families with a ministerial stock of 10,000 PCs and 1,500 connection kits in addition to those of the academies.
- Deploy the basic digital foundation in elementary schools with nearly 60,000 new classrooms in 2021 and 2022 thanks to the stimulus plan's funding of €114.7 million (State share)
- Deploy a web radio for each college: 6,000 establishments concerned in 2022.
- Provide all high schools with hybridization kits using funds from the stimulus plan as part of the State-Region plan contracts, for a budget of €20 million (State share)
Tooling
Equip teachers with innovative toolsusing AI to teach the fundamentals in French, mathematics and modern languages and using augmented reality, virtual reality and simulators to promote scientific, technological and industrial culture:
- Supporting innovations involving researchers, teachers and EdTech;
- 6 P2IA markets underway with solutions deployed as early as 2022 for all elementary school teachers thanks to the future investment programs;
- "Captain Kelly": rollout of voice assistant for English All-Speaking in all elementary schools beginning in late November 2021;
- Support innovations involving companies and professional sectors on the Étincel platform.
- Identify, recognize and promote the devices working for the development of the diffusion of the culture and the digital tools, and their appropriation by all the educational community;
- Support and publicize the productions made by the teachers.
- Ted-i: 4,000 robots for sick children;
- Adapted resources for students with disabilities or DYS with the "Édu- up" program
- Provide a video conferencing tool for all agents and faculty: "Big Blue Button".
- A catalog on CRI Projects is available with hundreds of resources deployed around the world (See catalog).
A final assessment is scheduled for May 2022.
Références :
Sources
- 1. 40 proposals from the Etats généraux du numérique pour l'éducation
- 2. Website of the Etats généraux du numérique pour l'éducation
- 3. Ministry of National Education: General Assembly on Digital Education, one year later
- 4. Localtis-Banque des territoires: Digital education: most of the actions resulting from the general assembly already in place