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Although the haze of the epidemic has not dissipated,
teachers and students still attend appointments as scheduled.
"Study will not stop even if classes are suspended" on the Internet.
For a time,
teachers became anchors, parents were busy checking in,
online class platform overturned, and teaching video Frequent lags,
...
have appeared in many hot searches, and
has aroused widespread heated discussion in society.
The epidemic is as fierce as a tiger, and classes are suspended without stopping learning. With the heavy burden of online teaching, the editor consulted Professor Hu Xiaoyong, School of Educational Information Technology, South China Normal University, Professor Hu Xiaoyong on 5 questions. I believe these are all of your concern.
Please be patient and read the expert answers~
01: Online education ≠ exam-oriented education
The fundamental task of education is to cultivate people with moral character, not to deal with exams.
During this period of "school suspension without suspension of learning", many local education departments started "misoperation" of online teaching in advance, or inadvertently turned online platforms into new places to strengthen test-taking.
At the same time, a large number of online extracurricular tutoring institutions have entered the market instantly to launch free education platforms and resources, including some that promote the market and strengthen exam preparation under the banner of public welfare.
The outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia is an unfortunate and big test for the country, but it is also an extraordinary period for training students' will and cultivating the correct "three views".
Compared with resources that are only used for subject examinations, online space and useful network resources should be fully utilized to teach more meaningful and good "lessons". For example:
Take a good patriotism education class and feel the patriotic spirit of hundreds of millions of people across the country who work together to overcome difficulties.
Give good life education classes and teach children to respect nature, cherish life, and love life.
Take a good social responsibility education class, learn the spirit of dedication from the heroic medical staff who are fighting against the epidemic, and learn the spirit of responsibility from the warriors from all walks of life who are fighting on the front line of the epidemic.
Provide good psychological education classes to guide students to actively and correctly face the epidemic, eliminate psychological discomfort, and reduce psychological pressure.
Take a good information literacy course to cultivate students' ability to distinguish right from wrong, filter network information, and carry out digital learning .
02: Live teaching ≠ Online teaching
"I am obviously a teacher, but I have become an anchor" "I broadcast a class and received tens of thousands of likes."
Live teaching has the advantage of being intuitive and clear, but it is not the only way to open online teaching.
Influenced by traditional concepts, many schools simply consolidate "teaching" into "lectures" and narrow "online teaching" to "live lectures".
On the one hand, we must realize that teaching activities are diverse and there is no fixed method. In addition to live lectures, online teaching activities also have more flexible methods. For example, information retrieval, group discussion, Internet research, etc.
▲ "Bringing goods" English teacher
On the other hand, in addition to synchronous live broadcast, online teaching can also be organized asynchronously online, hybrid teaching , etc.
live teaching is not wrong. However, on the one hand, it is not easy to do a good job in live broadcast teaching and requires careful design; on the other hand, live broadcast cannot completely replace online teaching.
Our understanding of online teaching must not be polarized, turning "classes are suspended without stopping learning" into either live broadcasting of everything or nothing; either live broadcasting for everyone, or no one live broadcasting.
▲ Dedicated swimming teacher
We must teach students in accordance with their aptitude, flexibly design online teaching according to actual conditions, and integrate applications, which is better than a single method.
In addition, Professor Hu Xiaoyong also specially gave 5 suggestions to the teachers of "online teaching":
⑴. Pay attention to clearing the computer desktop in advance, and only put the courseware for this class on the desktop [prevent privacy leakage].
⑵. To close QQ, WeChat, turn off the phone or mute [anti-sound interference].
⑶. Set an alarm clock and strictly control the time during class [without affecting the teaching of the next online class].
⑷. It is necessary to arrange an appropriate amount of after-school homework [to ensure students’ learning effects].
⑸. It is necessary to design several links that can interact with students in the live classroom [use behavior to increase students' attention].
03: Improving teachers’ online teaching application capabilities
The suspension of classes without stopping learning during the extraordinary period has put forward a front-line "wartime" proposition for the 16 million teachers across the country:
How to quickly switch the main work position from the classroom to the Internet and adapt to online A new form of teaching?
It should be said that the response speed and professionalism displayed by the vast majority of teachers in the face of this challenge are remarkable.
However, due to the uneven level of information technology capabilities and heavy workload of teachers across the country, the sudden online teaching requirements under certain circumstances have also brought an unparalleled huge impact to a considerable number of teachers and exposed many problems.
For example, some teachers have poor technical foundation and find it difficult to use online platform tools and are at a loss as to what to do. They have become digital refugees who are alone at home and cannot use the Internet; there are also some teachers who have conducted online teaching because they have no experience in teaching and learning online. , although it is online in form, the actual teaching effect is not satisfactory.
▲Live broadcast rollover collection
Online education is not simply moving the classroom to another place. It requires teachers to have a different ability structure from face-to-face teaching, especially online teaching practical capabilities for the Internet and technology applications.
There is still a relative blank here, and there is a lot of work worth doing.
For example, how to design the duration of live broadcast classes, select tools, and use them in the right way? How to adapt to the needs of online teaching to achieve model innovation and carry out flipped teaching of "learn first, teach later"? How to be realistic and implement emergency plans and quality control for online teaching in special periods? How to leverage the power of the Internet to provide teachers with practical teaching and research guidance? etc.
The era is developing, and "Internet + teaching" is a paradigm shift. Teachers need to continue to promote professional development and master the skills of deep integration in order to implement effective online teaching.
The role of teachers will not be replaced, but teachers who can use network technology will gradually replace those who cannot use network technology; teachers who can adapt to use network technology according to teaching integration will be better than those who can simply use network technology functions. teachers are even better.
04: Develop students’ digital learning and innovation capabilities
Learning will continue even when classes are suspended. The focus is on learning, not teaching.
If the learning is not in place, no matter how good the form of online continuous teaching is, it cannot bring about continuous learning in the true sense.
During this online teaching, many students were distracted, had poor self-control, were too busy clicking likes, or were at a loss. Because it is rumored that if the app score is lower than 1 point, it may be removed from the app store, which has attracted many naughty kids to operate like a tiger, and even dropped the score of and from the original 4.9 points to 1.3 points. .
We can’t help but ask, are the digital native generation really ready for digital learning?
For most children today, mobile phones, computers, and the Internet are their daily necessities, and digitalization is the way of survival they have accepted since childhood.
It stands to reason that the thinking patterns, learning styles, interests and habits of these digital natives are very different or even fundamental from those of previous students. But why are their performance unsatisfactory when they study online?
Looking at the learning problems of online learning from the perspective of students, on the one hand, it is because many students have limited independent learning abilities.
There is a joke on the Internet: In class, the teacher speaks at 5G speed, the "student god" listens at WIFI speed, the "student master" memorizes at 3G speed, and the " learner " does it at 2G speed Staring, "Xuemin" often disconnected, "Xuemin" couldn't be found or connected, and finally shut down automatically.
Face-to-face classes cannot yet guarantee that students will learn and discipline themselves, and online learning where teachers and students are separated has brought greater challenges to students.
On the other hand, it is because students still lack good digital learning capabilities. The "High School Information Technology Curriculum Standards" proposes that "digital learning and innovation" are the core competencies of information technology disciplines that high school students should possess.
We believe that not only high school students, but students at all levels should pay attention to the development of digital learning and innovation capabilities, such as how to retrieve network resources, how to conduct network exploration, how to use network tools to collaborate, share, and innovate, etc. wait.
Only students who have the ability to self-control and master digital learning skills can gain the driving force for lifelong learning. They will continue to learn and develop even if classes are suspended.
05: Vigorously build a public service system for digital high-quality educational resources
The father of the World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee once said: "We live in a sea of information, but endure knowledge "
Online education resources seem to be abundant, but judging from the practical application of continuous learning during this suspension of classes, there are still many teachers who lack the awareness to use high-quality resources, or cannot find their favorite and suitable teaching resources.
What is particularly commendable is that the digital high-quality educational resource public service system built by the state has played an irreplaceable role in the anti-epidemic teaching process.
▲Studying is not suspended even if classes are suspended, and courses are free and open
In extraordinary times, the irreplaceability of the national public service system is even more evident.These high-quality educational resources are the preparation for the educational strategy in the new era, which not only ensures educational fairness but also ensures the quality of education.
Build high-quality educational resources in advance. In extraordinary times, we would rather let resources wait for people than let people wait for resources.
Of course, the epidemic has also exposed that the public service system for digital high-quality educational resources still needs to lay a solid foundation and continue to improve.
First, we must complete the infrastructure construction of education informatization . China has a vast territory, old, young, marginalized, poor, and rural areas have a low level of information infrastructure, which restricts access to high-quality educational resources.
▲15-year-old girl Yang Xiuhua, in order not to delay her classes, climbs a steep mountain road for an hour every day to the foot of a cliff 4 kilometers away from her home, and nests on the edge of the cliff to attend classes.
The second is to improve the quantity and quality of high-quality educational resources , especially high-quality resources that are suitable for different teaching scenarios, diversified, easy to use and practical, as well as resources that are suitable for coverage and use in rural, remote, poor, and ethnic areas.
▲Teachers climb to the top of the mountain to give online lectures to students
The third is to cultivate the awareness of application of high-quality educational resources , so that teachers can form a normalized application habit of introducing high-quality resources into the classroom, introducing subjects, and introducing the whole process of educating people.
is written at the end:
The epidemic is the order, and prevention and control is the battlefield.
In this special period, we cannot force online teaching to have the same effect as offline teaching, nor can we expect online teaching to replace offline teaching forever.
The original intention is always strong, and the mission is on our shoulders. We firmly believe that by leveraging the power of technology and people, learning lessons and summarizing experiences in a timely manner, our education will get better and better!
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