Xinhua News Agency, Qingdao, July 10 Title: The Internet Makes Quality Education Fly to "Depression"
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xudong
The imbalance of educational resources is a common problem faced by all countries in the world, especially in some mountainous and poor areas with inconvenient transportation, good schools and good teachers have become the "lifeblood" of children's talents. How to fill in the "depressions" of these educational resources? The reporter learned from the 2017 International Education Informatization Conference that opened on the 10th that people are trying to make high-quality educational resources plug into the "wings" of the Internet and present them to the children in the "depression" of education.
He Guangliang, chief inspector of the Autonomous Prefecture Education Bureau, said at the forum that due to the poor natural environment and the low degree of economic and social development, education in Ganzi Prefecture is one of the most backward areas in Sichuan Province and even in the whole country.
In recent years, Ganzi Prefecture has vigorously developed long-distance network education and used information technology to solve the problem of shortcomings in the development of education in ethnic minority areas. At present, the coverage rate of the local school network has reached 87%, and the coverage rate of the class class has reached 83%.
Using the Internet, Ganzi Prefecture has delivered high-quality educational resources from Chengdu and the state to areas with weak education. Kindergarten teaching adopts observation style, that is, local preschool teachers learn high-quality early childhood education videos; primary schools use implantation, that is, foreign classroom teaching videos and examination questions are implanted into the teaching link; junior high schools use recording and broadcasting, that is, students and teachers watch high-quality classroom teaching videos transmitted through the Internet; high schools use live broadcasting, that is, real-time participation in online classrooms.
"On the basis of introducing high-quality resources, Ganzi Prefecture has launched high-quality online courses suitable for local students to learn through digestion and absorption, and more than 5,000 sessions have been recorded so far. At the same time, Ganzi Prefecture has also completed 175,000 teacher trainings using the Internet. He Guangliang said.
Thanks to the informatization of education, the quality of teaching in Ganzi Prefecture has been improved. In 2012, a student in the high school live teaching class of Kangding Middle School in Ganzi Prefecture was admitted to Tsinghua University, achieving zero breakthrough in the local training of Tsinghua University students in Ganzi Prefecture; in 2016, the graduates of the junior high school network class reached an average score of 505 points in the middle school entrance examination with a total score of 750 points.
Online education not only benefits children in remote areas of China, but also allows children in remote areas abroad to receive a good education.
Covey Laxhand, founder and president of the Bangladesh Awakening Foundation, and more than 10 young people wanted to help children in Bangladesh who were unable to go to school because of poverty. "The first thing we thought of was teaching children basic English skills." Larkshand said.
Six months later, Larkshand's team discovered that english could not only be taught to children, so the English class became a school. Since they are only doing this activity near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, children in more remote areas are unable to receive such an education.
"To this end, we use the Internet and live streaming software to broadcast these courses live and launch digital teaching materials." "We now have 10 online schools with 1,500 online students who have a 100 percent Pass in English in the Elementary School Entrance Exam," Laxhand said. ”
The delegates attending the meeting pointed out that there are still some difficulties in the informatization of education in remote and poor areas: First, funds, because education informatization requires hardware investment and requires computer equipment; second, network bandwidth is limited, and some remote and poor areas are often inconvenient to transportation, network bandwidth is insufficient, and some live broadcast software cannot be run; third, some parents are conservative in their concepts, believing that online classes are watching television, not learning, and are more resistant.