Member Ma Chi: Give play to community education to let every elderly person cross the digital divide

Cities have entered the era of digital transformation, such as electronic payment has become an indispensable hardware. But unfortunately, this transformation has ruthlessly abandoned some elderly people. Ma Chi, a member of the CPPCC Municipal Committee, pointed out in his speech at the Fourth Session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee that the government should do a good job of "supporting the bottom", give full play to the function of community education, and let every elderly person smoothly cross the digital divide.

At present, the elderly in Shanghai are facing such a dilemma: more outsiders can not enroll, in 2019, Shanghai at all levels of various types of elderly education institutions to study a total of 782,000 students, plus the number of distance education students reached 592,000 people, a total of 1.374 million people, accounting for only 23.6% of the total number of elderly people in Shanghai, the supply of elderly education is obviously lagging behind; more people in the school do not want to leave school, "only study and do not graduate" has become a common phenomenon, more than 70% of the annual enrollment of students are "old faces", There are even elderly people who have been in school for 20 years; some elderly people "can't learn", and the elderly with limited mobility and free time are unable to participate in the nearby learning.

Ma Chi believes that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, efforts should be made to solve the problems of "a difficult to find", "only study and do not graduate", "there is nothing to learn" and "online dilemma" in the education of the elderly. He suggested that the government do a good job of "supporting the bottom" and give full play to the function of community education. There are more than 200 streets and towns in Shanghai, more than 4,000 neighborhood committees, and many communities are important organizational cells of the whole society, and they have an unshirkable responsibility for the education of the elderly. The government should continue to integrate elderly education into public services, expand investment in the education of the elderly in streets and neighborhood committees, and enable the community to have the strength to integrate the resources of the elderly education in the whole society. It is necessary to support more social forces to participate in the education of the elderly; promote the opening of all kinds of educational resources in the whole society to the elderly, and promote the continuous extension and coverage of education for the elderly at the grass-roots level.

At the same time, technology is used to enhance supply and benefit all kinds of elderly people. Keep up with the trend of shanghai's urban digital transformation, vigorously develop various teaching methods suitable for the elderly, such as compiling guidelines for the cultivation and development of elderly education resources, developing learning projects suitable for the learning characteristics of the elderly, vigorously promoting the informatization construction of elderly education, and relying on the big data platform to do a better job in the gathering, allocation and push of elderly education resources. Encourage the whole society to develop more apps suitable for the elderly such as "Shencheng Travel".

Ma Chi also suggested that various social forces should be actively encouraged to serve the education of the elderly. The cause of the elderly is the current cause, and all the forces of society should be mobilized to actively participate in the cause of education for the elderly, and promote the transformation of students with academic achievements and experience into teachers and managers of education for the elderly; strengthen the vocational training for the elderly, support their transformation into social volunteers, and serve the education of the elderly.

Author: Zhan Yue

Photo: Photo by Ye Chenliang

Editor: Lu Yifeng Fu Jijing