Activities of Martina MICHELS related to 2020/2135(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on shaping digital education policy
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas inclusive, quality education is the cornerstone of the green and digital transitions, because it both enhances participation in democratic life and the life of society and individual self- determination, and gives people the skills needed to assess technological developments and their implications for society, including the need for political regulation;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the shift to online and distance learning has exacerbated existing inequalities, leaving disadvantaged and vulnerable learners and learners with disabilities further behind, increasing drop- out rates across education sectors, and revealing an absence of pastoral and social supportsupport for socially disadvantaged or linguistically less able students in the digital environment;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the development and expansion of digital infrastructure in primary and secondary schools is in some cases still being planned and carried out in the complete absence of permanent IT network and support staff;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s scheduled mid-term review of the plan and its intention to ramp up data collection; reiterates the need for a clear implementation timetable; remains convinced that the plan needs a clearer governance and coordination structure, in which Parliament should be involved, to monitor developments and performance on an ongoing basis; calls on the Commission, therefore, to establish a forum bringing together the Member States, Parliament and other relevant stakeholders and experts; urges the Commission to better integrate digital education into the European Semester exercisedevelop synergies between innovative measures to promote digital education under the various European support programmes and to determine and outline their impact in the mid-term assessments;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the plan’s focus on supporting school and university connectivity through the Connecting Europe Facility and efforts to publicise EU funding opportunities; calls on the Commission to work closely with Member States, local authorities and stakeholders to ensure that EU support dovetails with national schemes, in particular to support disadvantaged groups; calls on the Commission to target support at other educational establishments besides schools, this support to be provided on a long-term basis by trained staff who oversee networks and applications and provide basic instruction in data protection;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the need to enhance tools at Union level to open up lifelong learning opportunities and to enable full and quality access to university and post- university courses and materials; calls on the Commission to create an public Online European University with distance and online education content available across Europe and, in that connection, to take account of Europe's language diversity as regards access and communication;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises that the special emphasis on encouraging girls and women to study MINT subjects at school and university and as part of their professional training and further training must also cover the related digital skills, from programming to networked application;