"Education informatization refers to the process of comprehensively and deeply applying modern information technology to promote education reform and development in the field of education (education management, education teaching and education research). Its technical characteristics are digitalization, networking, intelligence and multimedia, and its basic characteristics are openness, sharing, interaction and cooperation. " The essence of informatization is the sharing of information and knowledge. The core feature of educational informatization is networking. Information is valuable only if it is circulated, and information that is not circulated is meaningless. Only in the process of circulation will information be added and updated. To ensure the smooth flow of information, it is necessary to coordinate the balanced development of information construction between urban and rural areas, between regions and between schools, and not to create new information barriers and digital divide.
From this point of view, the informationization of primary and secondary education in China has entered a misunderstanding. In China, schools in all regions are basically engaged in "informatization" behind closed doors. They are concerned about how to use multimedia and information technology to improve learning interest and teaching quality, and pay little attention to the communication between schools and society, nor to the sharing of knowledge and information between urban and rural areas, regions and schools. As a result, an "information island" with schools or departments as the unit has been formed, and society has not really realized "informatization" because the essence of informatization is the barrier-free circulation and sharing of information and knowledge. The vast majority of primary and secondary schools welcome the introduction of multimedia devices, but they are opposed to allowing students to surf the Internet at school, or even allowing students to bring their mobile phones to school. Take e-book bag as an example, it is different from ordinary tablet computer, and it is equipped with some teaching resources and learning tools. In order to prevent students from playing games on the internet, a special organ has been set up to prohibit students from surfing the internet, so that the e-book bag has actually become a multimedia device. Teachers only hope that students can use e-books and resources on the school platform to study, but they are not very enthusiastic about students' free access to information and resources through the network and social communication with others. Students can't learn and communicate through the internet, so it is difficult to really improve their information literacy. This is in stark contrast to foreign primary and secondary schools encouraging students to obtain information and resources through the Internet.
The biggest advantage of network and information technology is that it breaks through the limitation of time and space and realizes the rapid and convenient sharing and exchange of resources. We should make full use of this feature, share high-quality educational resources, promote exchanges and cooperation, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas through informationization, and achieve the goal of balanced education. If we continue to invest money in key classes of a few key schools, so that a large number of mountainous and rural schools can't access the Internet and computers, it will run counter to the fundamental goal of educational informatization. Therefore, we suggest that for primary and secondary schools in large and medium-sized cities with a high degree of informationization, the focus should be on making full use of existing conditions to carry out applied research in education and teaching, rather than continuing to update equipment and chasing the latest technologies and products. For rural and mountainous schools, the key point is to enable teachers and students to use multimedia to carry out teaching and use broadband networks to share high-quality teaching resources of key schools in cities. Accelerate the construction of multimedia classrooms and broadband network inter-school communication projects in most mountainous and rural primary and secondary schools, and gradually equip every rural and mountainous school teacher with the necessary internet computer, so that teachers and students can learn and communicate online for free at school.
Two, increase the provincial education informatization special funds, give priority to supporting rural and mountainous schools.
The biggest obstacle to the balanced development of education is that the current education funds mainly rely on the financial input of various regions. Due to the unbalanced economic development in different regions of our province, some regions have no money to spend on education, while others have no money to spend. Mountain areas and rural areas can't meet the basic needs of educational informatization even if they try their best, and they need the inclination and support of higher authorities in terms of policies and funds. It is understood that it only costs 20,000 yuan to assemble an ordinary multimedia classroom in rural areas, which is less than half the price of buying an electronic whiteboard in a city school. It goes without saying that the limited education funds should be used in the places with the greatest benefits and the widest benefits. It is necessary to change the past construction idea of icing on the cake, not giving timely help, spend limited funds on the cutting edge, focus on supporting the education informatization construction in weak areas and schools, and strive to take the lead in narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, between regions and between schools in three to five years, so that urban and rural areas can be closely linked and develop together through informatization. We should set up a special fund for educational informatization, which will be co-ordinated by the Provincial Department of Finance and the Provincial Department of Education, so as to truly break the current situation that the degree of educational informatization is completely controlled by local economic development, which is very beneficial to rural and mountainous education and local economic and social development.
Third, establish a "one-on-one" assistance mechanism between urban and rural areas, between regions and between schools, speed up the construction of informatization talents and teams in weak areas and schools, and improve the application level of educational informatization.
The just-concluded Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee decided to coordinate the balanced allocation of compulsory education resources in urban and rural areas, implement standardized construction of public schools and exchange rotation of principals and teachers, and set no key classes in key schools. The education system of our province should conscientiously implement this spirit. It is suggested that the provincial party committee and the provincial government should refer to the current counterpart poverty alleviation model, establish a "one-to-one" counterpart assistance mechanism for areas with better education informatization construction and areas and schools with weak education informatization construction, formulate assistance programs and responsibility targets, and accelerate the transformation of school concepts in rural and mountainous areas; At the same time, referring to the form of cadres of provincial organs in our province going to the countryside to take temporary training, we will actively explore the mechanism of short-term rotation training for outstanding school principals and teachers in rural and mountainous weak schools. Principals and teachers who have made outstanding performance and great contributions during the rotation will return to their original areas or units for promotion and appointment after the rotation, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of outstanding school principals and teachers to participate in the rotation work.
Fourth, speed up the construction of online open classes, micro-courses and video conferencing systems to realize the sharing of high-quality educational resources.
Network education is an important way to promote the balanced development of urban and rural education, and it is also a shortcut. Online video open classes and micro-classes can make teachers and students in rural and mountainous schools share international and domestic high-quality education and teaching resources, and the circulation of information is of great help to change the backward concept of rural and mountainous schools. Micro-course is a 5- 10 minute micro-video built around the key points, difficulties and doubts of a certain subject teaching, which is very suitable for circulation on the network and can meet the needs of learning fragmentation in the network age, and should be vigorously promoted. Video conference system can make teachers and students in remote mountainous areas communicate face to face with experts, scholars and excellent teachers in the city, and make a perfect match made in heaven come true, which should be developed and improved vigorously. When conditions are ripe, consider establishing a "one-on-one" video conference system between schools to make counterpart assistance more convenient, faster, cheaper and more timely.
In a word, the primary goal of educational informatization is to popularize education, and only by popularizing education can we truly realize educational modernization.