On May 5, 2017, Suzhou North American International Senior High School successfully hosted the "2017 Sino-US K12 International School Applied Information Technology Support Teaching Seminar", with the theme of how to apply information technology to support school teaching and learning, and discussed the deep integration and innovative application of continuously improving information technology in the school teaching process.
Education experts from the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, U.S.-China K12 school districts, international schools and world-renowned education companies attended the meeting and delivered keynote speeches to discuss how to apply information technology to support school teaching management, provide valuable reference cases and innovative applications for Chinese K12 international schools, and then provide face-to-face contact, experience exchange, inspiration collision and understanding of the latest educational technology and innovative applications for principals, education experts and workers.
First of all, Gu Naixiao, director of the Supervision Office of suzhou municipal education bureau, delivered a warm speech: welcome experts and scholars from the world's well-known education, gather in Suzhou, meet in Wuzhong, education internationalization and informatization, promote education modernization, and promote in-depth exchanges between China and the United States. This is a very rare learning summit, a grand event to deepen understanding and enhance friendship, and Suzhou's open and inclusive urban characteristics have also promoted the sharing of educational technology resources.
Mr. Wang Bintai, Chairman of Suzhou North America International Senior High School, delivered an important speech: Online education technology has been applied all over the world, and internationally renowned schools such as the United States and the United Kingdom have opened online courses and shared teaching materials. The use of instructional technology improves learning styles, through online data analysis, to explore the potential of students, to conduct targeted tutoring and to create a personalized learning environment. Smart education is changing the face of global education, relying on the Internet, wireless communication, intelligence, new forms and models of education are forming, the essence is intelligent. The core technology and education are deeply integrated, and the teaching methods and teaching content are innovated. Teaching is actively implementing transformation, teaching shift to guide students to learn independently, through the transformation of concepts, the application of technology, diagnostic evaluation of the learning process.
Frank Joseph, Commercial Consul of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, China: Thank you to the Presidents for their recognition. For all schools, an open and inclusive mindset is necessary to promote teaching, and the most critical factor is cooperation, especially technical cooperation.
Chen Yonghong, CEO of Blackboard China: China is in the process of promoting teaching informatization. From the ten-year plan to the 13th Five-Year Plan, the key is the deep integration of information technology and teaching. Let education informatization return to the essence of education. Information technology is a tool that serves education. Online learning, inquiry-based learning, network collaborative learning, the use of teaching technology according to big data for learning behavior evaluation, teaching behavior evaluation, and truly teach according to aptitude.
Tim Holden, Deputy Director of Teaching at the Lawrence Public School District in the United States and TEDx Speaker, introduced the teaching through blended Blended Learning, inspiring international schools and teaching innovation. Videos illustrate personalized learning in the U.S. elementary to high school classroom. He stressed that the role of teachers can still not be ignored, technology is not only technology, the key is to carry out teaching innovation.
Dr. Deng Ting Boyenton, Dean of the Education Research Institute of Tianli Education Group, shared the future design of combining information technology and curriculum system. Dr Schleede, Academic Principal of Suzhou North American International Senior High School and Doctor of Education, delivered an important speech on the theme of Applied Information Technology to Support Teacher Development Training in International Schools. In the afternoon, by academic chancellor Dr. Schleede organized discussions on the design and implementation of the International School Teacher Development Project, and also conducted in-depth group discussions on the construction and management of the education informatization ecology of the school district or group and the construction of the international education ecological environment in China.
Suzhou North American International Senior High School, since its inception, has been committed to teaching research and development and innovative application of teaching technology. In Jiangsu and even the whole country, the use of teaching technology is in a leading position.
Our school to improve the quality of teaching, improve the learning effect, improve learning habits as the main purpose, the application of innovative technology throughout the daily classroom teaching, make full use of advanced teaching technology, teachers benefit from efficient lesson preparation, interactive classroom, fully demonstrate the important role of teamwork in learning; flexible way of reviewing homework shortens the time of reviewing homework; 17 kinds of test question types, to meet the test needs of different disciplines and different teaching content; question bank management, Intelligent paper production helps to improve the efficiency of learning evaluation; teachers can design and produce different learning paths and learning contents for students with different learning styles and different learning levels; teachers can supervise the learning process of students at any time, and can set up tracking records of the learning process, so that teachers can control the learning progress and effect of students at any time, promote students' self-learning, self-testing, self-evaluation and reflection; make objective evaluations according to students' personal ability level and development, and reflect on the learning process. Students can also use mobile computer to understand the latest learning content anytime and anywhere, participate in learning interaction, feedback learning experience, and truly realize learning without time and space restrictions.