The Significance of Digitalization of Education

Since the strategy of digital education was put forward, many leaders, such as Minister of Education Huai and Director of the Department of Basic Education, have repeatedly emphasized the importance of digital education, and at the same time asked local education departments and schools to make good use of digital dividends to promote the balanced allocation of high-quality resources.

In order to better reflect the significance of digital education, we listed the speech made by Director Lv Yugang at the 2022 Beijing Digital Education Promotion Conference. Director Lu said that it is necessary to "raise awareness and effectively enhance the sense of urgency and mission in promoting the digitalization of basic education".

Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan", China's basic education has embarked on a new journey of high-quality development and accelerated education modernization. "We must fully realize that accelerating the digitalization of education is not only the basic connotation and distinctive feature of educational modernization, but also the strategic support and power engine for realizing educational modernization.

To build a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, accelerate the narrowing of the gap between urban and rural schools, promote the high-quality development of basic education and realize the modernization of education, we must rely on the support of modern information technology. "

The development of modern information technology has created favorable conditions for promoting the strategic action of digital education. We should seize the favorable opportunity, make full use of the empowerment of science and technology, accelerate the deep integration of information technology and education, and innovate the way of teaching and learning by implementing the strategic action of digital education. "

Director Lu's speech not only emphasized the importance of promoting the digitalization of education, but also further emphasized the need to accelerate the deep integration of information technology and education by implementing the digitalization of education, thus promoting the high-quality development of basic education. Having said that, we have to mention the important value of "digital teaching materials".

The Important Value of Digital Textbooks

Digital textbooks are rich media integration written by experts from the National Textbook Publishing House and the National Curriculum Group, and published and reviewed. It fully implements the requirements of curriculum standards and has the characteristics of systematicness, foundation and universality.

Digital education and teaching is the core of educational informatization and the endogenous variable of systematic education reform. Support and lead the renewal of educational concept, mode change, mode reconstruction and process reengineering, and promote the overall improvement of educational quality. In promoting information-based teaching, the core role of digital textbooks is irreplaceable.

Because, among all digital curriculum resources, only digital textbooks can realize the political and scientific protection of their contents based on the relevant requirements and steps of textbook audit management, while other types of digital curriculum resources are difficult to have similar educational value.

From this point of view, the publishing nature of digital teaching materials makes it the starting point for the state to supervise the teaching content and behavior of courses, and then becomes one of the important tools to implement the digital strategy of education.

The application process of digital teaching materials is a process of deep integration of new generation information technologies such as 5G, VR and artificial intelligence with classroom teaching, and it is also a process of collecting accompanying teaching and learning data of teachers and students.

The data analysis model is used for diagnosis, analysis and evaluation, and on this basis, the adaptability and effectiveness of students' learning methods and teachers' teaching methods are monitored, regulated and guided, and finally a sustainable intelligent teaching service mechanism is formed, giving full play to the ability of big data to serve education and decision-making, and realizing the digitalization and intelligence of education and teaching.