First, the orientation of information technology courses in compulsory education stage
The information technology course in primary and secondary schools is a compulsory course to meet the new requirements of personnel training in the information age. It is a designated learning field with the main goal of cultivating students' information literacy and information technology operation ability and the characteristics of operability, practicality and inquiry (innovation). In addition to the compulsory courses prescribed by the state, all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have certain autonomy in course content, training objectives, class arrangement and so on on on the basis of ensuring the minimum requirements.
Second, the overall value of information technology courses in the compulsory education stage
The effective implementation of information technology education in compulsory education stage can improve students' ability to use information technology to effectively carry out learning and inquiry activities in various disciplines, actively participate in social practice and actively carry out lifelong learning; It can expand students' information technology skills needed to adapt to modern social life and consolidate students' information literacy and awareness of technological innovation; It plays a very important basic role in cultivating information technology talents needed for national construction and international competition and improving the scientific and technological cultural level of the whole society.
Three. The goal of information technology education in compulsory education stage
Generally speaking, the curriculum goal of information technology education in compulsory education stage is to cultivate-develop students' interest in actively learning and exploring information technology, cultivate-consolidate good information awareness and healthy and responsible habit of using information technology, form-improve information processing ability, and cultivate-enhance students' awareness and ability to use information technology to support various studies and solve various problems.
The information technology education in compulsory education stage emphasizes that students experience the process of obtaining, processing and expressing information with the help of computers and networks in practical activities, and use it to solve practical problems and carry out subject learning; Understand the importance of perceptual information in activities, analyze the general process of information coding, and use common information processing tools such as computers to process information; Actively participate in information technology activities and actively explore the working principle and mystery of information technology.