Jimu News Reporter Yao Yun
Recently, people in Guang'an City, Sichuan Province reported through the State Council's " Internet + Inspection " platform that Guang'an Linshui Experimental School adopts a divided teaching method and requires students to buy tablets in disguise, causing a heavy financial burden on the students' families. After investigation, the problems reported by the masses were true. Since 2015, Linshui Experimental School has implemented information-based education based on the use of tablet computers in three stages, involving 13,274 students, and a total of 24.3765 million yuan in tablet computer and software service fees. (According to The Paper report)
Sichuan Guang’an Linshui Experimental School (picture source school official website)
In order to improve the quality of teaching, the school uses electronic products to carry out information-based teaching , which is understandable. Through advanced electronic equipment, classroom efficiency can be improved to a certain extent and classroom interactivity can also be increased. Teaching informatization is indeed the general trend.
However, does education informatization and necessarily need to be flat? Whether tablets are necessary in the teaching process is itself debatable. In addition, educational informatization must also take into account the circumstances of students’ families. Can all families afford a tablet? It is obviously inappropriate to put a financial burden on students' families for the sake of so-called information-based education.
In fact, information construction is just a direction and does not mean unconditional blind obedience. Electronic devices are only auxiliary tools in teaching, and schools should also make adjustments based on local economic conditions and students' family situations. The purpose of educational informatization is to enhance students' creative abilities and improve teaching quality. However, some schools blindly follow the trend and engage in so-called tablet teaching, which has deviated from the original intention of education.
Another point worthy of attention is that Linshui Experimental School adopts a divided-class teaching method and requires students to buy tablet computers in disguise. So, how many parents buy it voluntarily, and how many parents are coerced into buying it by the so-called class division and differentiated teaching? The school claims to be voluntary, but in fact it uses whether students purchase tablet computers as the criterion for class placement, thereby treating students differently and affecting educational equity. People can't help but ask, is this for educational informatization or is it for other purposes?
According to reports, Linshui Experimental School has taken measures to fully refund the 24.3765 million yuan illegally collected to students and dealt with the relevant responsible persons. In fact, cases of "requiring students to buy tablets in the name of dividing classes" have been exposed in many places across the country, and the relevant responsible persons have also been punished by relevant departments. Even so, such incidents are still repeated, which also means that there may be a lack of supervision by relevant departments.
Therefore, on the one hand, we must improve the supervision and supervision of education fees, and on the other hand, we must also improve accountability and inspection mechanisms. Only in this way can we curb bad behaviors that seek profit in disguised forms under the banner of education and ensure the healthy development of education informatization.
(Source: Jimu News)
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