Modern educational technology refers to various tools, equipment and methods that apply modern scientific and technological means to provide support and help for teaching and learning. It covers technologies in many fields, such as computer, Internet, multimedia, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. It can provide rich and varied teaching resources and learning methods for teachers and students, and promote the modernization and innovative development of education and teaching.
Modern educational technology also includes the development and use of educational software, the design and opening of online courses, distance education and e-learning, which is one of the important means to promote educational reform and improve teaching effect.
The functions of modern educational technology mainly include the following aspects:
1. Promote teaching innovation: Modern educational technology can provide various forms and methods for teaching, such as multimedia courseware, online education and virtual experiments. Let students learn knowledge through richer and more vivid forms, stimulate students' interest and enthusiasm in learning, and thus promote teaching innovation.
2. Improve the teaching effect: Modern educational technology can optimize the teaching process, provide fast, convenient and accurate learning resources and support, and at the same time conduct differentiated learning according to the actual situation of students, so as to improve the learning effect and achievements of students.
3. Expand the learning space: Modern educational technology can break the limitation of time and space, allowing students to learn anytime and anywhere. Through online education platform, distance teaching and other means, educational resources and learning opportunities will be extended to the whole country, so that learning space can be expanded.
4. Enhance educational equity: Modern educational technology can make educational resources more equitably distributed. Through network technology, regional differences can be eliminated, and students in urban and remote areas can enjoy the same educational resources and services, thus enhancing educational equity.
5. Improve teachers' professional development: Modern educational technology enables teachers to pay more attention to teaching design and implementation, so as to better grasp students' learning needs and characteristics, improve teaching quality and level, and then improve teachers' professional development.