Keywords: information education, the significance of information school reform
China Library Classification Number: G520
The high development of information society requires that education must be reformed to meet the requirements of cultivating innovative talents facing the information society. At the same time, the development of information society also provides the environment and conditions for this reform. The wide application of information technology in education will effectively promote the modernization of education. Education informatization is the requirement and inevitable result of education facing the information society.
First, the concept of educational informatization
Informatization is a general term for meaningful activities that generate, analyze, process, transmit and utilize information in a certain system and a certain field with information as the basic element. We call the generation, analysis, processing, transmission and utilization of information information technology. Therefore, the informatization of a certain system and field is the general name of meaningful activities that take information as the basic element of the system and field and widely apply information technology in the system and field.
Informatization contains two meanings. The first layer is the understanding of the importance of information, which is regarded as a basic component. Therefore, in the process of informatization, we must first analyze the system informatization, which is the basis of informatization. The other layer is the wide application of information technology. The wide application of information technology is based on system information analysis. Without in-depth information analysis of the system, it is impossible to realize the effective application of information technology in the system.
National informatization is a process in which information is regarded as the basic element of society and information technology is widely used in all aspects and fields of the country to realize national modernization.
Education informatization is a process that regards information as the basic component of the education system, widely uses information technology in all fields of education and promotes the modernization of education. In the process of educational informatization, we should attach great importance to the information analysis of the education system from the perspective of information, and on this basis, effectively apply information technology to education.
Second, the purpose of educational informatization
Educational informatization will inevitably involve the application of many specific technologies and machines in education, which makes some people often understand the purpose of educational informatization from the perspective of technology and machine theory, and think that educational informatization means replacing teachers with machines, replacing education with blackboard writing, and replacing printed textbooks with electronic textbooks to realize online learning and realization.
CAI study ..., and take substitution, labor-saving, smooth and efficient as the yardstick to evaluate educational informatization.
Educational informatization can achieve the above effect, but understanding educational informatization and its purpose only from the point of view of technology and machine theory will surely lead educational informatization astray. Educational software and systems developed by technology and machine theory have been criticized and resisted by teachers and students. Teachers don't use these software and systems, and students object. Using this software in class, students criticize that besides teacher irrigation, it is more beneficial to use machine irrigation and electric irrigation than teacher irrigation. What is the difference between such educational informationization and traditional exam-oriented education? It is impossible to cultivate cross-century innovative talents with such educational informationization. This kind of educational informatization is to wear the new shoes of informatization and take the old road of moderate education.
The purpose of educational informatization is to cultivate cross-century innovative talents and realize educational modernization. Educational informatization should guide the wide application of information technology in various educational departments and fields with new educational ideas and concepts, and explore new educational models by using information technology to promote educational modernization in accordance with the requirements of cultivating innovative talents.
The process of educational informatization cannot be simply regarded as the introduction of information machines and information technology. The process of educational informatization is a process of changing educational ideas and concepts, and a process of analyzing and understanding the educational system from the perspective of information. Only on this basis can we guide the educational application of information technology, which is the educational informatization we need.
Third, the content of educational informatization
The content of educational informatization is the application of information technology in education, and the specific contents are as follows:
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Perfection of educational information environment
The environment here refers to the learning environment and the information environment for storing, processing and transmitting educational information. Educational information environment mainly includes distance education information network system, school campus network,
CAI classrooms, network classrooms, various teaching and learning support systems and management information systems for managing various educational resources and educational facilities.
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Construction and utilization of educational resources
Educational resources are all kinds of information resources used for educational informatization. Compared with the information environment, the application of educational resources in education has a more direct role. The educational process is mainly developed and controlled through the application of various educational resources. The generation, analysis, processing, transmission and utilization of various educational information resources should be carried out according to the characteristics of educational information and the requirements of educational process.
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personnel training
The fundamental purpose of educational informatization is to promote quality education and realize the cultivation of innovative talents.
Information ability is the basic quality that trans-century talents facing the information society should have. It is everyone's basic ability to live and learn in the information society. It is a passport to enter the information society. Education informatization should take cultivating the information ability of every student and even all citizens as an important content. It is an important foundation and guarantee to realize national informatization. At present, information technology education widely carried out in multi-level and multi-type schools in China should be regarded as an important step and content to realize national informatization and educational informatization.
In order to realize education informatization and national informatization, it is necessary to train a large number of information technology professionals. Educational informatization should cultivate a large number of information technology professionals for the informatization of all walks of life in China. It is an important content of educational informatization.
Fourthly, the transformation of schools by educational informatization.
The wide application of information technology in schools will bring profound changes to schools. In school education, teachers, students and teaching facilities are the basic elements. With the deepening of educational informatization, the role of teachers, the ability of students and the performance of educational facilities have undergone profound changes.
1. The role of teachers
In traditional education, the basic role of teachers is to impart professional knowledge of certain subjects to students. With the wide application of information technology, students can learn independently in various ways. In this case, the teacher's role is:
1) has changed from a knowledge transmitter to an organizer and coordinator of learning.
For a given subject content, students can learn through various channels, not only through teachers, but also through the Internet and CD-ROM, as well as through group discussions, surveys and interviews.
Teachers should not only give lectures, but also guide and plan students' various learning activities and organize and coordinate these activities.
2) Promote the formation of collaterals
In order to effectively guide, plan, organize and coordinate learning activities, teachers must master learning methods and learning resources corresponding to various learning themes. Therefore, teachers should widely collect all kinds of scattered learning resources and information, pay attention to strengthening the contact and exchange between different schools and different education departments, and gradually form a network system to support students' learning.
3) Cultivate students' information ability
Students' information ability is very important in the process of autonomous learning through various channels. Teachers should pay attention to the cultivation of students' information ability.
2. Requirements for students
In the receptive learning centered on knowledge transmission and understanding, students passively accept knowledge, and the requirement for students is to understand and master knowledge. The wide application of information technology requires students not only to passively accept knowledge, but more importantly, to actively acquire knowledge. In this case, students are required to pay more attention to the mastery of learning methods, thinking methods and discussion methods, and have certain self-learning ability.
In the environment of educational informationization, students can realize knowledge exploration, discovery learning, problem-solving learning and the cultivation of innovative ability. In this process, students' ability to acquire, process, create and express information, that is, information ability, is very important. In the learning environment of educational informationization, students need to have good information ability.
3. Requirements for educational facilities
The wide application of information technology in schools has greatly changed the performance of school educational facilities. This change is mainly as follows:
1) Communication function of learning resources
Learning resources in various teaching facilities should be used by other teaching facilities. Therefore, various educational facilities should have certain communication functions. By using this communication function, learning resources between teaching facilities can be retrieved and used together, so that the use of learning resources exceeds geographical restrictions and learning resources can be shared.
2) Networking of teaching facilities
In order to meet the diverse learning needs of learners, teaching facilities need to be connected through communication networks to realize networking, thus effectively supporting learning. Networking of teaching equipment is the material condition to realize the sharing of learning resources and teaching equipment. It makes all kinds of learning resources and teaching facilities fully play their roles and achieve better efficiency.
3) Completeness of multimedia learning environment
Educational informatization has improved and perfected the information environment of schools, especially the information environment of learning. The multimedia environment for learning is mainly multimedia communication system, which includes: video conference system,
LAN system, satellite communication system and campus network based on optical fiber communication.
Fifth, the significance of educational informatization.
Educational informatization is of great significance to education and its development, which is manifested in:
1. is an important step to realize the modernization of education.
Educational informatization is an important content and step to realize educational modernization. Without the informationization of education, it is impossible to realize the modernization of education. Educational informatization has greatly promoted the process of educational modernization.
2. It is conducive to the improvement of the quality of all citizens.
With the implementation of educational informationization and the realization of open distance education network constructed by modern information technology, the educated's learning is not limited by time and space, which changes the education system centered on school education and ensures the equality of every citizen's education. This open educational network also provides a guarantee for people to realize lifelong learning. Education informatization provides more opportunities for all citizens to receive education, which is of great significance to improve the quality of all citizens.
3. Promote the cultivation of innovative talents
Educational informatization provides environment, conditions and guarantee for quality education and innovative education. Students use the educational information environment to search, collect, process and create information to realize discovery learning, problem-solving learning and knowledge exploration and discovery, which is of great significance to the cultivation of innovative talents.
4. Promote the development of educational theory
Educational informatization is an important change in education, and many problems and phenomena will inevitably appear in this process. The solution and understanding of these problems will strongly promote the development of educational theory.
The process of educational informatization is the process of continuous application of information science in education, and many problems and phenomena in this process often need to be solved by the theory and methods of information science in order to get a profound understanding. In this process, the development of DD education information science, a new discipline, will be bred. Educational informatics is an educational theory that extensively studies the learning process by using the theory of information science, and it is an information science about education.
5. Promote the development of educational information industry.
The process of educational informatization is a process in which information technology and information machines are widely used in education, which will greatly promote the development of educational information industry. across the country
There are more than 600,000 schools and hundreds of millions of students. The full implementation of educational informatization in these schools has given birth to huge business opportunities, and provided great development opportunities for China's information industry and China's economic development.