The research presented in this article aimed to investigate and compare attitudes to-wards modern technology (MT) of German university students, with a focus on pre-service geography teachers. 
The methods are descriptive and based on quantitative data. N = 357 took part in an overall survey of all students at Philipps University, Germany.
In a cleaned dataset a total of 339 subjects could be analyzed by the use of their provided data. 
209 female and 130 male  participants were classified according to their field of science (FOS; as geography = GEO, natural sciences = NSC, or human and social sciences = HSSC) and differentiated according to the type of graduation (TOG; as TE = teacher, bachelor = BA, or master = MA). 
139 studied geography (72 of them for teaching) and the other 197 other subjects in the humanities or natural science subjects (see table 1).
Table 1. Frequencies for type of graduation (TOG)
FOS1	TOG	Frequency
Geography	Bachelor	61
	Else	0
	Master	6
	Teacher	72
	Total	139
HSSC2	Bachelor	27
	Else	18
	Master	15
	Teacher	28
	Total	88
NSC3	Bachelor	65
	Else	3
	Master	32
	Teacher	9
	Total	109
1 field of science; 2 human and social sciences; 3 natural sciences; 
 
The age of all students ranges between 18 and 60 years (pre-service teacher geog-raphy 19 to 32 years). Semester between 1 and 13.

 
The data was collected in the winter of 2020/21. Therefore, an online survey was shared with the students via e-mail and, in the case of the institute for geography, also during lectures. 
The questionnaire for an online survey was generated using SoSci Survey and was made available to users via www.soscisurvey.de. 
The free statistical software R and the additional program R-Studio, version R-4.0.2, was used for the cleansing of the data and the classic test theory, including factor analysis, for the de-velopment of the instrument. 
Descriptive methods were conducted with the free statistical software JASP, version 0.14.1.