{"id":46121,"date":"2021-07-29T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2021\/07\/29\/hesses-minister-of-digital-affairs-prof-dr-kristina-sinemus-visited-the-steinmuehle\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:35:09","slug":"hesses-minister-of-digital-affairs-prof-dr-kristina-sinemus-visited-the-steinmuehle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2021\/07\/29\/hesses-minister-of-digital-affairs-prof-dr-kristina-sinemus-visited-the-steinmuehle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesse’s Minister of Digital Affairs, Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, visited the Steinm\u00fchle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just popping in, a bit of small talk, and back in the car\u2014that\u2019s not how it works with Kristina Sinemus. As a guest at a school, the Hessian Minister of Digital Affairs took a closer look. On her summer tour, she visited Steinm\u00fchle, which was awarded the Bitkom \u201cSmart School\u201d certificate just a few weeks ago. It\u2019s also a STEM school\u2014reason enough for the trained high school teacher and scientist to take a closer look at the school\u2019s digitalization concept on site. <\/p>\n

A brief tour of the school and boarding school grounds was part of the athletic minister\u2019s general orientation\u2014with a favorable glance at the beach volleyball court. Even on the way to the student lab, which the prominent visitor was eager to see, the \u201cescort\u201d through the new school buildings had grown longer and longer. Not only school and administrative staff, local state parliament representative Dirk Bamberger, and media representatives, but also the young participants of the summer camp\u2014currently being held at the Steinm\u00fchle by the Marburg-based educational organization LernTeam\u2014had joined the line. \u201cCan I have an autograph?\u201d Of course that was possible! So, in addition to the coveted autograph, the girls and boys also received a few giveaways featuring the Hessian lion. <\/p>\n

Kristina Sinemus, a biologist with a master\u2019s degree and a Ph.D. who holds a professorship on leave of absence in the Department of Public Affairs at Quadriga University Berlin, is a political newcomer. No other federal state has a Ministry of Digital Affairs\u2014she heads the only one in Hesse. The fact that Prof. Sinemus is also an entrepreneur and founded a science communication company has given her a particularly broad perspective. \u201cOne of my responsibilities is to strengthen the connection between schools and education,\u201d the guest explained. <\/p>\n

Of course, the visit\u2019s agenda included a focus on the StoneApp at the Steinm\u00fchle. Former student and developer Aaron Stein personally explained the app. Livia and Sophia from 8th grade explained how the app\u2019s features are used, with an additional focus on homeschooling. Malte Klimczak, the digitalization coordinator, gave a brief overview of the Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s fundamental conceptual approach to media literacy. He discussed the staffing arrangements for its implementation and described the wide range of uses for the tablets, which are used starting in 7th grade. <\/p>\n

\u201cDigital-supported instruction opens up new learning and teaching methods that have become more important than ever during the pandemic,\u201d said Hesse\u2019s Minister for Digital Affairs. She is all the more pleased that many schools and school types are actively committed to the digital advancement and continuation of instruction, as is the case here at Steinm\u00fchle, one of 81 \u201cSmart Schools\u201d nationwide. \u201cWhen, moreover, technical innovations originate from the students themselves and lead to the creation of important tools like the \u2018Stone App,\u2019 it is a special joy and a great benefit for everyone,\u201d said the minister, referring to Aaron Stein\u2019s development. Around 1,000 students, parents, and teachers now use this tool every day. <\/p>\n

“I’m also here to find out what else I should keep in mind for the schools,” explained Prof. Dr. Sinemus before setting off for the next stop on her summer tour. The Minister of State found the idea of making the technical capabilities of the StoneApp available to other schools for customized use \u201cdefinitely interesting and worth considering.\u201d Schools could then adapt the app to their specific needs in their own computer science classes.<\/p>\n

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Just popping in, a bit of small talk, and back in the car\u2014that\u2019s not how it works with Kristina Sinemus. As a guest at a school, the Hessian Minister of Digital Affairs took a closer look. On her summer tour, she visited Steinm\u00fchle, which was awarded the Bitkom \u201cSmart School\u201d certificate just a few weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":46127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,100,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborations-partnerships","category-digitalization-ai","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49285,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46121\/revisions\/49285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}