In this regard, Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 2 1 Century Education Research Institute, expressed his views: "China should not place too much hope on online education when developing rural education. Online education can provide educational resources for rural education, but to run rural education well, we must run schools in a down-to-earth manner. "
Without teachers, online education is just a pile of waste.
In response to Ma Yun's proposal to remove small-scale rural schools with less than1000 students and build rural boarding schools, Southern Metropolis Daily commented that it is not only unnecessary to suggest that all schools with less than1000 students be abolished and merged, but even it is not difficult to call for "one school". Especially in modern times, with the high speed and convenience of the Internet and the gradual maturity of online classrooms, it is absolutely unnecessary to go further than others to solve the schooling problems of remote and poor rural students through Internet distance education.
This method seems wonderful, but critics have painted a beautiful picture: as long as there are government policies and budgets, as long as there are Internet companies that are enthusiastic about rural education to provide technology and funds, it is not difficult to achieve "network schools in every village and tutors in rural areas" through popularizing distance education, and even children in all remote and poor villages in China can benefit from the teaching resources of famous schools such as Zhongguancun No.2 Primary School in Beijing.
However, such a suggestion is a fable, which magnifies the role of technology and is divorced from the reality of rural education. To run rural education well in China, we must run every school well, solve the problem of teacher construction and reform the teaching content of rural schools.
In fact, the suggestion of using Internet technology to develop distance education so that rural children can enjoy the same educational resources as cities in developed areas was put forward many years ago. From the national level to the local level, a lot of money has been invested (some enterprises have also made a lot of money from it), the network has been opened, modern multimedia classrooms have been built, and even students have been equipped with IPAD. But the effect of practice is not good, and many multimedia teaching equipment have never been used at all.
The reason is that learning is not as simple as watching videos for students and watching live broadcasts online. Someone should organize students to watch videos and live online, and explain them in combination with videos and live classes, which is the counseling mentioned in this article. Some people may think that family education is very simple, but in fact, family education needs teachers first, and then family education has high requirements for teachers. This is a combination of video resources to teach rural children, which fundamentally requires that there are enough teachers in rural areas, and teachers can use online curriculum resources to organize teaching.
Without teachers, online course resources are just a pile of waste to students. The problem of teachers is the core of rural education in China. Supporters of online education think that this can bypass the teacher problem, but this problem cannot be avoided.
Others will say that rural children love learning. As long as they are connected to online courses, they will take the initiative to study, even at home.
So, why do urban families let their children watch online videos at home instead of choosing? Why are you so crazy about buying school districts and letting your children enter good schools? Instead of listening to the online lectures of our teachers at home? Online education can provide learning resources for students to learn, but without resources, students will learn independently-learning is different from eating steak. For most students, learning needs the constraints of external environment and the guidance of teachers, and learning is also a process that needs hard work.
Let children watch online courses by themselves, most children will have no patience to watch them, and they will probably play games online. In addition, besides receiving knowledge education, communication and extracurricular activities between students are very important aspects of students' growth, which cannot be completed through online education.
Online education is not suitable for rural education in China.
The greater disadvantage of online education is the lack of individuality and interactivity. Rural children learn the same content as Beijing schools through online education, which sounds very tall. However, does this take into account the reality of students? Can students keep up with their studies? If educational equity can be realized as simple as that, wouldn't it be solved if China recorded a set of famous teacher courses for every rural child and sent them?
It is for these reasons that urban families in China are reluctant to choose online education, but send them to one-on-one training classes.
The concept of online education has been heated by capital, but the profit of online education companies is less than 5%, which is an objective evaluation of online education by consumers. To develop rural education in China, we should not place too much hope on online education, which can provide educational resources for rural education, but we must run schools well.
In rural education abroad, online education resources are used for classes, but there is a premise that there are enough teachers in rural areas and teachers organize students to study online courses-rural teachers in the United States, Japan and other countries earn more than urban teachers, rural communities are well built, and students can also learn through community resources.
However, in rural areas of China, many young people go out to work and leave their children at home because of the low salary, lack of rural teachers and poor living environment. To solve the education of these children, we must base ourselves on how to run rural schools well, rather than developing online education, which will cost a lot of money (using online education equipment).
The key is to build a team of rural education teachers.
In recent years, some areas in China have also increased their investment in rural education, including rebuilding school buildings, building multimedia classrooms and providing electronic equipment. However, due to the lack of attention to the construction of rural teachers, rural students continue to lose, and the built school buildings are idle.
In order to pay more attention to the construction of rural teachers, on February 4th, the Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Implementing Rural Revitalization Strategy pointed out that priority should be given to developing rural education and building a strong rural teacher team. It is reported that this is the 20th central document guiding the work of agriculture, countryside and farmers since the reform and opening up, and it is also theNo. 15 document since the new century.
The Opinions emphasize improving the level of people's livelihood security in rural areas and giving priority to the development of rural education. Attach great importance to the development of rural compulsory education, and promote the establishment of a compulsory education development mechanism that is driven by the city, promoted as a whole, integrated with urban and rural areas and developed in a balanced way. Implement the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students and develop rural preschool education. Incorporate rural education into the special education system, and promote the normalization of high-quality schools radiating rural weak schools by cities and counties. Coordinate the allocation of teachers in urban and rural areas, and tilt to the countryside to build a strong rural teacher team.
To build rural education, the first step is not to increase investment in technology, but to increase investment in teachers. The shortcoming of basic education in China is rural education, and the shortcoming of rural education is the construction of rural teachers. Therefore, increasing the construction of rural teachers is the top priority of developing rural education!