2 1 century is the era of knowledge economy, and the knowledge economy based on the generation, dissemination and application of knowledge and information will occupy a dominant position in the development of the world economy. The rapid development of information technology has laid a solid technical foundation for the development of knowledge economy. A country's comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness are increasingly dependent on the development of education, scientific and technological progress and knowledge innovation, and education will play an increasingly prominent role in the process of economic and social development.
However, education in the 2 1 century is facing a series of challenges, which mainly come from the rapid development of science and technology, the demand of population growth for education, international competition and various social problems. Traditional education is increasingly unsuitable for the development of society, and the fundamental way out of education lies in reform, and one of the important ways of educational reform is educational informatization.
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Educational informatization refers to the process of comprehensively and deeply applying modern information technology to promote educational reform and development in the field of education, and the result will inevitably form a brand-new educational form.
The characteristics of educational informatization can be investigated from the technical level and the educational level respectively. Technically, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are digitalization, networking, intelligence and multimedia. From the perspective of education, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are openness, sharing, interactivity and collaboration.
Information education shows us a bright future of education. However, educational informatization is an adaptive social process, which means that there is a tendency of active interaction with the traditional educational environment, and its nature determines whether it can adapt well to the environment and how to adapt to it.
Therefore, we must clearly realize that the application of information technology will not naturally create educational miracles, but may promote educational innovation and strengthen traditional education, because the social function of any technology depends on its users. If information technology is a powerful magic wand, then teachers are magicians who manipulate this magic wand.