Grasp the general direction of educational informatization development
Question: According to relevant statistics, nearly half of the main uses of primary and secondary school campus networks are used for school profile and news release, while the proportion directly used for teaching is pitiful. In some areas, there is even the idea of quick success and instant benefit, and the construction of educational informatization is only for the simple pursuit of reputation, while ignoring the important role of information technology education in the connotation development of basic education.
Countermeasures: from face engineering to application practice.
Leaders must change their ideas and understand the general direction of educational informatization development. It is clear that education informatization must be service-oriented, that is, it serves curriculum reform, teachers' professional development, students' comprehensive quality development, education quality management, home-school communication and community development.
Suggestion: Information construction needs the follow-up of leadership ability, and it is suggested that we must attach importance to the leadership construction of information education. The leadership of information education includes the planning ability of educational information system; Information teaching and curriculum reform leadership; Teachers' professional development leadership; Construction of supervision ability of educational informatization. To this end, we can organize forces to formulate innovative training programs and effectively train school leaders and related managers; Explore advanced models, screen outstanding cases, and conduct demonstration and guidance.
Improve the investment structure of information construction
Q: One of the reasons why the construction of educational informatization has not achieved remarkable benefits is the lack of systematic planning for the innovative vision, hardware facilities, information resources, teaching tools, teaching staff, policies and regulations of educational informatization, which makes these elements out of touch with each other and makes it difficult to exert the system efficiency.
Countermeasures: Make systematic planning, improve the investment structure of information construction by adjusting time difference, mobilizing spatial differences and using interpersonal differences. Specifically, it is time difference: hardware investment is implemented in stages, giving priority to long-term factors; Spatial differences: point-to-surface combination, pilot first, resource sharing and rolling development; Interpersonal differences: training mode and advanced drive.
Suggestion: Introduce the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO) into the investment of information construction, and plan for 3-5 years at a time, and consider the cost structure in the planning, including facilities, resources, training, operation, maintenance and update.
Strengthen the construction of teachers' educational technology ability
Question: It is teachers who practice information-based teaching, and teachers' educational technology ability directly determines the benefits of educational informationization. The current statistics show that teachers' educational technology ability is still relatively lacking. Although there is no shortage of training for teachers, the practical and effective training of educational technology ability has not been followed up.
Countermeasures: Promote teachers' professional development oriented by information technology, design the contents and methods of training in a targeted way, and effectively improve teachers' information teaching ability.
Suggestion: In 2005, the Ministry of Education started the project of teachers' educational technology capacity building. Although it has not covered the whole country, it puts forward more clear requirements for the construction of teachers' educational technology ability, and also provides the basis and direction for teacher training. The construction of teachers' educational technology ability needs to take this as a reference.
Construction of applied information resources
Problem: The resource problem also directly restricts the development of educational informatization. For many teachers, the reason why information teaching can't be carried out well is because of the lack of available resources. In recent years, many institutions and IT enterprises have devoted themselves to the development of resources, but the "shared" resources for teachers are still very scarce. In addition, because each resource system adopts its own technical standards, it is difficult to communicate with each other.
Countermeasures: In order to make full use of existing resources and build suitable, shared and standard resources on this basis, the countermeasures can be taken: from redevelopment to reorganization, from independent construction to alliance construction, from closed structure to semi-open structure, from information base to subject knowledge platform.
Suggestions: Establish a standard-based and open educational resource construction mechanism; Broaden the sources of educational resources, encourage teachers with special skills to combine their own information teaching practice and create suitable resources, such as information teaching plans and special websites; Further intensify the national basic education resources construction projects; Learn from the experience of developed countries, mobilize social forces to build together through government calls and policy guidance, and pay special attention to protecting and giving play to the enthusiasm of IT enterprises in building information resources.
Establish a long-term mechanism for benefit evaluation
Problem: The construction of educational informatization has no obvious benefits, largely due to the lack of a clear explanation of the vision and objectives of educational informatization and an effective evaluation mechanism. Imagine that if the expected goal is only to "promote school development", then it can not only be used as a direct indicator to carry out information construction, but also it is difficult to evaluate the benefits.
Countermeasures: introduce long-term benefit evaluation mechanism to promote development through evaluation.
Suggestion: Educational informatization involves many interests and needs to go through many stages of development. Therefore, the multi-angle and multi-stage evaluation system framework of educational informatization can be applied to evaluate the development stage of educational informatization from the perspectives of users, finance, operation and reform, so as to promote the sustained and stable development of educational informatization.
Constructing public education service system
Question: Over the years, the informatization construction of primary and secondary schools has basically been fragmented, the physical network is completely independent, the application levels are not connected with each other, and there are a large number of low-level redundant constructions. The level of school information technology managers is also difficult to meet the requirements of information development.
Countermeasures: build a public service system and develop specialized operational services.
Suggestion: Through research, we can extract a number of most public educational information service functions from the national, provincial and municipal levels and build a public service platform; Use the strength of enterprises to develop the professional operation of education network and gradually form service standards; Formulate preferential policies conducive to the development of the public service system.
The above suggestions are only preliminary and cannot be regarded as the "overall plan" to solve the problem of educational informatization.