Online education has a roadmap, how to deal with primary and secondary education?
Wangying (special commentator)
Recently, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Education and eleven other departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of Online Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). The "Opinions" clearly state that by 2020, the infrastructure construction level of online education will be greatly improved, and modern information technologies such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, , etc. will be widely used in the field of education, the online education model will be more perfect, and the resources and services will be richer. By 2022, modern information technology and education will be deeply integrated, the quality of online education will be continuously improved, the resource and service standard system will be fully established, and important progress will be made in the construction of a learning society. The "Opinions" plan clear implementation goals and roadmap for online education.
Facing the rapid development trend of online education, primary and secondary education can only follow the trend, change the existing educational and teaching methods, and accelerate the pace of education modernization.
First of all, we must vigorously improve the level of online education infrastructure construction. Primary and secondary schools implement online education, and it is a prerequisite for advanced hardware facilities. The Internet speed does not meet the standards and the terminal facilities are not advanced. It is just empty talk to achieve the goal of online education. The "Opinions" clearly require: "Strengthen infrastructure construction, promote the large-scale application of modern information technology in the field of education, accelerate the construction of an education network, and achieve rapid and stable Internet access for all schools by 2022." Governments at all levels should further increase investment in primary and secondary education, and provide high-quality and high-standard hardware facilities for schools to promote online education.
Secondly, we must vigorously improve the information literacy and ability of primary and secondary school teachers and students. has advanced hardware facilities, teachers and students "can't use it" or "can't use it well", and online education cannot really play a role. Primary and secondary schools should further increase the training of teachers' information technology application and offer good information technology courses so that every teacher and student can skillfully use modern information technologies such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. for work and study. In particular, it is necessary to improve the information literacy of all teachers and students, strengthen network ethics and security education, and continuously improve teachers and students' ability to use information technology to collect information, analyze and solve problems.
Again, we must make great efforts to transform the existing educational and teaching methods and teaching and research methods. Everyone learns, can learn everywhere, and can learn at any time. This is the goal of in the learning society, and it is also a prominent feature of online education. Online education broadens the space for students to learn, extends students’ learning time, and provides students with diversified learning opportunities. It turns out that students can preview, study, and review in advance by using the high-quality resources provided by online education. Therefore, classroom teaching reform is imperative. We must change the original explanation-based teaching, explore and implement online and offline hybrid teaching , promote inquiry-based and cooperative teaching, and expand students' classroom participation.
Online education puts higher requirements on teachers' professional abilities. teachers can no longer prepare lessons based on textbooks, teaching materials and ready-made lesson plans, but should accurately grasp the learning situation and the students' proximal development zone, and carry out the concept of "learning first and then teaching, based on learning to determine " throughout. Teachers’ lesson preparation is no longer a traditional model of copying lesson plans and designing blackboards. They must have the ability to collect online resources, design micro-courses, and promptly push high-quality online education resources to students. At the same time, teachers must also have the ability to answer questions online and guide students to personalized learning.
Finally, we must change the school teaching management and evaluation methods in a timely manner. is based on online education with big data and artificial intelligence, and has challenged traditional teaching management and evaluation.Whether it is the management and evaluation of teachers' teaching or the management and evaluation of students' learning, we can no longer rely solely on a single test score. Instead, we must use big data to analyze and judge teachers and students' interests, abilities, emotional attitudes, values, etc. more accurately, and provide each teacher and student with a development plan that conforms to their personality characteristics.
At the same time, the criteria for evaluating a class are no longer just about the amount of knowledge students have mastered, but should focus on improving students' core literacy. This requires school administrators to pay attention to people-oriented, overcome the various drawbacks brought about by traditional quantitative evaluation, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of teaching and learning.
(Author Wang Ying, special commentator of Dandelion Comment. This is the first work published by Dandelion Comment website. Please be sure to mark the source for reprinting, violators will be prosecuted.)
