Embrace the Spring of Digital Education
—Weicheng District, Weifang City, Shandong Province uses information technology to promote the high-quality development of education
With the rapid popularization and in-depth application of information technology in the field of education, what changes will regional education take?
In the geography class of the seventh grade "Gathering", Zhao Xiaobing, a teacher at Weifang Foreign Language Middle School in Shandong Province, used Baidu Map to pull students' vision to Gansu, thousands of miles away, allowing students to feel the settlement form of the plateau area and understand the impact of terrain on urban development. As students' interest is stimulated, Zhao Xiaobing brings students' vision back to reality, allowing students to feel the settlement form in the plain area and the relationship between urban buildings and the natural environment. Once compared, students can see it at a glance.
In the first grade Chinese class of Zhiqun School in Weicheng District, Weifang City, teachers use the smart campus platform to synchronize the writing of new words to the students' copying platform, and students can clearly see every subtle change in the teacher's writing. The writing of any student can also be synchronized to the blackboard, allowing teachers to grasp the students' learning status in real time.
htmlOn August 12, in the "Air Fighting Competition" event of the National Youth Drone Competition, a team composed of three students from Furong Primary School in Weicheng District defeated their opponents in every game and finally won the championship of the National Youth Drone Competition "Air Fighting Competition". Student Lin Haoxuan won the second prize in the "Logistics and Transportation Competition". In this school, it is not the first time that the drone club has achieved such good results.platform, resources, technology, clubs... These are high-frequency words in the information age. If they are implanted into the field of education, the changes visible to the naked eye really happen to every school and every teacher and student in Weicheng District. "We are actively exploring the commanding heights of information technology, changing teachers' teaching methods with technology, and reconstructing learning patterns with technology." Li Jiangang, director of the Weicheng District Education and Sports Bureau, said, "Informatization is coming, and educating people cannot turn a blind eye, but must integrate and expand it for their own use, breaking the 'siege' of informatization."
deepens the " double reduction ", and Weicheng has a new answer sheet
"Traditional paper homework is no longer able to meet the diverse and personalized needs of teachers and students, and students experience burnout and perfunctory homework when doing homework. Teachers are inevitably short of forms, repeated homework content, and lack of fun when assigning homework." Li Xuemei, vice principal of Weizhou Lutai School, said, "Homework has become an unspeakable pain for teachers, students and parents."
In traditional school education, teachers face a whole based on the class, and doing homework is the individual behavior of students. Facing individuals with different growth needs, it is difficult for teachers with limited energy to accurately grasp the learning effects and knowledge mastery of students in the classroom, and it is difficult to achieve layered homework and personalized homework.
breaks this supply and demand contradiction and becomes the end point for the Weicheng District Education Bureau to deepen education reform and promote the development of education informatization. To this end, Weicheng District has established a big data accurate analysis platform. Relying on data collection methods such as online reading, manual reading, and mobile phone photography, it realizes the collection and analysis of dynamic data in all scenarios in the classroom, forming a credible, diverse and practical student development evaluation report.
"In the traditional teaching environment, real-time recording and effective monitoring of the learning process can no longer be achieved through paper and pen testing and homework. With the support of the big data accurate analysis platform, after each test and homework, teachers can grasp the growth trajectory of students at any time through database data comparison and provide timely feedback." Wei Zhaofeng, director of the Information Center of the Weicheng District Education and Sports Bureau, is an active promoter of the big data accurate analysis platform. "Not only that, teachers adjust their teaching behaviors in a timely manner based on the analysis of students' performance and improve the accuracy of homework arrangement."
Not only that, the big data accurate analysis platform also allows teachers to free up more time for face-to-face communication or tutoring with students. Moreover, for knowledge points that students will not or are prone to mistakes, the personalized learning manual formed by the platform can help students learn from one example and apply it to meet students’ personalized growth.
Zhao Chuangang, director of the third grade of junior high school in Weifang Foreign Language Middle School, uses the big data accurate analysis platform to analyze the quality of grade teaching, and forms quality analysis reports for students at different levels. Teachers conduct special training of students and design different growth routes through quality analysis reports. "I will make the students' scores in each exam into a curve chart to achieve students' growth using data."
In addition to using the big data accurate analysis platform, the district education and sports bureau also encourages schools to explore independently and form a "one school, one case" for schools to solve homework problems. "The use of 'Class Waiter' makes homework assignment simple and convenient. Teachers can send photos on the blackboard with one click. If they forget to arrange the assignment, they can be reissued anytime and anywhere. They can also automatically remind parents to check the homework content on WeChat. Parents can promptly feedback the completion of the homework, and teachers can correct and comment at any time. 'Class Waiter' will also automatically analyze the learning situation and set up an honor list. Click to generate electronic certificates to stimulate students' enthusiasm for doing homework." Wen Ying, a teacher at Yuehe Road Primary School in Weicheng District, shared with a little excitement.
"The homework is accurate and efficient, so that the burden on teachers and students is reduced. This is an inevitable requirement for implementing the 'double reduction'. At the same time, you will also find that the classroom effect is also higher with the help of informatization, which can be said to have multiple goals at one fell swoop." Ma Chunmeng, vice principal of Weiyang School, who has only been established for one year, truly feels the changes brought about by informatization.
For example, in the mathematics class "The Graphs and Properties of Inverse Scale Functions", it is difficult for students to understand that hyperbolic and the two coordinate axes can only be infinitely close in the traditional teaching mode. In order to break through this difficulty, Tian Qing, a teacher at Weifang No. 8 Middle School, changed the traditional teaching model of "teacher demonstration - student imitation - teacher-student discussion - teacher summary" and brought students into the computer room to provide mathematical drawing software, allowing students to use drawing software to draw and perform, deepen students' understanding and mastery, and students' interest in learning is fully stimulated.
In Weicheng District, regardless of urban and rural areas, such an interesting and vivid classroom is being staged every day.
Yuhe Experimental Middle School in Weicheng District is a rural school. Students generally have poor foundations and low interest in learning. In order to improve students' enthusiasm for learning in classrooms, the school has used various free software to create interactive auxiliary programs with different functions, such as using to program Mao to design classroom lottery mini program and mathematical operation game program, using children's programming software to design physics simulation experiments, and using Youya animation software to create complete animations of supporting topics... While students enjoy the fun of interactive games, they also gain a lot.
builds a smart campus cloud platform, breaking the " data island "
Informatization has opened up a new world for education, but facing a wide range of products, platforms and resources, the flowers are gradually fascinating. How to choose? Informationization cannot be made a burden that teachers and students cannot bear.
"Any technology or means should be for teachers to carry out their work more conveniently, and it cannot be a burden for teachers." Wang Xin, deputy secretary of the Party General Branch of Weifang Fifth Middle School, said, "In promoting information education, we cannot be greedy for big and large, but find the right entry point, meet the needs of teachers and apply, and cannot look at the high mountain."
The entry point of Weifang Fifth Middle School in promoting informationization aims at the platform built by the District Education and Sports Bureau - the smart campus cloud platform.
According to Wei Zhaofeng, the smart campus cloud platform integrates the core business of teaching, learning, management and evaluation, and can coordinate the collection, management, sharing, analysis and application of educational data, and promote the precision of teaching, refined management and scientific decision-making. The platform vertically integrates various educational information systems at the national, provincial, municipal, county (district) and school levels, and horizontally connects with other industry platforms to realize unified user authentication and cross-level and cross-departmental data sharing, breaking the "data island". At the same time, the Smart Campus Cloud Platform provides real-name online learning space for teachers, students, parents and managers across the district, promoting the effective connection between teaching, learning, training, management, evaluation and teachers and students, and realizing "everyone has space and everyone uses space."
"Every summer vacation, the school will assign some expansion courses and comprehensive practice activities for students . This summer, we have arranged 5 categories and 15 activities, but how to display and evaluate these activities has become a headache." Wang Xin said, "If all the feedback from these activities is moved to the smart campus cloud platform, the problem will be solved, and the platform and school-based resource library will be enriched."
At present, the smart campus cloud platform has built a three-level digital resource system at district, school and individual, built 30TB of district-level digital resources, and shared more than 5 million national-level digital resources. It has introduced national high-quality course resources of "one teacher, one excellent course, one teacher for one class", which has become an indispensable carrier for regional promotion of informatization.
At the same time, Weicheng District encourages schools to purchase or develop personalized application systems based on the actual situation of their schools. For schools with conditions, independent design and independent construction are advocated, and ultimately, data connection is carried out with the smart campus cloud platform. Taking Weifang Foreign Language School , Weizhou Lutai School, Experimental Primary School, Lichang School, Yuehe Road Primary School and other schools as pilot units, we will take the lead in trial and competition in development. Through the joint method of school-enterprise, enterprises will provide information teaching application experts, provide training, Q&A, teaching and research, class polishing , evaluation and other services, and guide school teachers to carry out application explorations such as online learning space, campus office, and smart preparation teaching, forming "one school, one product, one school and multiple products", providing valuable experience for the regional promotion of smart education .
The subject teaching and research team of Zhiqun School in Weicheng District uploads the created high-quality homework to the smart campus cloud platform to form a large number of high-quality homework resources. A large number of course resources and famous teacher videos provide students with independent learning space, which better solves the individual learning problems of students.
"The region does a good job in top-level design, provides 'prescribed actions', schools implement it in detail, and explores 'optional actions', such upstream and downstream linkage becomes 'taken from the people for the people', and benefiting the people'. Only in this way can education informatization show a booming trend." Seeing the trend of regional informatization blooming, Li Jiangang was full of confidence.
is a growth portrait. With AI support for teacher training
Teachers are the source of regional education development. In the context of informatization, how can regions use informatization to empower teachers' growth? According to statistics, Weicheng District has recruited more than 1,000 new teachers in the past three years. How to make new teachers grow up as soon as possible is a realistic issue facing Weicheng educators.
While Weicheng District is working hard to promote the construction of educational informatization, many growth cases from front-line teachers have boosted the confidence of the education administrative department and the school.
At the 23rd National Student Information Literacy Improvement Practice Activity in 2022, the 3D work "Internet of Things Smart Ward" tutored by Cao Mengmeng, an information technology teacher at Yong'an Road Primary School in Weicheng District, won the first prize of Weifang City . This is also the only primary school group work in the city to be shortlisted for the national competition. This new teacher who has been working for four years has taken the initiative to learn video software, programming software, and image processing software, and mobilizes students' enthusiasm for learning by improving the fun and vividness of the classroom.
"The more students are interested in computers, the more they want to understand and control it. If they follow the mechanical practices of students operating as they are in the traditional classroom teachers, they will easily treat them negatively after the freshness and interest pass. Science and technology are the future of education development, and we must take the initiative to embrace it." Cao Mengmeng said, "On the other hand, in the process of active exploration and attempt, our information literacy has also been improved."
"In the process of promoting informatization, the biggest obstacle encountered by the region is that teachers cannot use it, cannot use it well, and are unwilling to use it. Therefore, we advocate that information equipment is better than idle." Li Jiangang said, "We hope that more and more 'Cao Mengmeng' will emerge in the region."
Chinese teacher Liu Jingwen faced the biggest trouble in teaching: there is no way to accurately understand the learning situation of each student before class, and in class, it is impossible to provide instant feedback on the answers of each student during class, and after class students have poor initiative in homework, and they can deal with the matter.
In order to solve these confusions, she used the questionnaire star to publish the questionnaire before class. When designing the questionnaire, she not only had knowledge-level surveys, but also designed questions about students' cognitive and emotional willingness. During the preview session, she posted tasks on the smart campus cloud platform, requiring students to independently select tasks and record explanation videos to upload the platform. In class, she used information technology such as class optimization masters to organize and manage the study groups differently according to different task requirements. After class, she asked students to combine the knowledge learned in the classroom with information technology, such as using , Douyin, and other software to form a smart campus cloud platform for short video uploads. While enriching course resources, they can also realize the co-construction and sharing of resources.
"From the big picture, informatization is a lever that can leverage the reform of education and teaching; from the small picture, as a teacher, informatization allows knowledge to flow, think and learn everywhere." Liu Jingwen said.
During the class, Liu Jingwen, a high-quality evaluation classroom equipped with an AI evaluation system, can automatically capture her language and expressions, and automatically analyze her classroom behavior, such as always looking in a certain direction, with a catchphrase, etc. After class, Liu Jingwen can find her shortcomings through replay and correct them.
In reality, the overall improvement of the teacher team's literacy faces the dilemma of difficulty in evaluation, few records and improvement. In response to this reality, Weicheng District refines and analyzes classroom teaching behavior through the teacher ability AI evaluation system and conducts accurate diagnosis of teachers' teaching ability. "With AI technology to portray teachers, teachers have a clear outline of growth," said Wei Zhaofeng.
At the same time, Weicheng District actively builds a teacher online training platform to build an intelligent training model for teachers that combines online and offline and selection and push, providing resources and carrier support for the improvement of teachers' literacy.
Improving the attractiveness of teaching and research activities to teachers is the basis for teachers to participate in teaching and research. Weicheng District strengthens the intelligent transformation of teaching and research methods, gives full play to the role of big data in studying students' learning, improving teaching methods, optimizing homework design, and solving teaching problems. By collecting and analyzing problems in teaching, teaching and research, and managing, clarifying teaching and research topics, and formulating teaching and research plans. Let teachers gradually move from experience judgment, macro judgment and passive judgment to precise analysis, micro analysis and conscious analysis.
"The changes in teaching and research methods have allowed teachers to see the possibility of growth and enhanced teachers' 'stickiness' of teaching and research activities." Zhang Zhihao, who has been working in Nansanli Primary School in Weicheng District for two years, has a deep feeling. "Many times, the district education and sports bureau creates an information technology environment. Only by seeing and experiencing it with one's own eyes can we create new ways, new opportunities, and new growth points."
