Facing the new situation and new tasks, geography education must have a sense of being ahead of the times and keep up with the pace of scientific and technological development. Geography subject is concrete and vivid, which makes geography teaching not only consider science and abstraction, but also often consider artistry and intuition. Digital learning has changed the concept of learning time and space, put forward higher requirements for students, and brought new challenges to teachers engaged in geography education. Facing the new challenges, teachers should: (1) cultivate students' attitude of lifelong learning. (2) Cultivate students' good information literacy. (3) Cultivate students to master the learning methods in the information age. In addition, the development of modern network technology has not only changed the current geography teaching methods, but also profoundly affected the reform of educational concepts. Information technology will better embody "people-oriented", improve students' comprehensive level and meet their growing needs. The new geography curriculum requires teachers to change from "teaching" to "learning". Teachers fully mobilize students' initiative and explore learning independently in the teaching process. In order to reflect students' main role, teachers are required to change the original single teaching method into diversified and modern educational information technology, make full use of modern educational technology, and reform teaching content, teaching methods and teaching means. Modern educational technology can accelerate the dissemination and application of knowledge and promote the teaching process.
At present, teachers' professional level of modern educational technology is still very low, especially in rural schools. In recent years, through many efforts, although some excellent teaching has appeared, it is difficult to apply it to practice. The main reason is that teachers in all subjects have poor awareness of modern information technology education and low level of computer application, so it is difficult to use it easily in teaching. The application of modern information technology in geography teaching itself is the embodiment of teachers' theoretical literacy, which is manifested in teachers' grasp of the direction of education and teaching materials reform, understanding of classroom teaching, understanding of modern educational technology and understanding of students' background. Geography teachers should be guided by advanced teaching ideas and teaching concepts, establish modern educational ideas, constantly update educational concepts, and understand modern educational theories and modern educational technology design theories. It can be said that improving teachers' awareness of modern information technology education and professional level has become the most urgent problem at present.
Secondly, the application of modern information technology in geography teaching is the need of students' growth;
1. The application of modern information technology in the classroom provides students with a broad learning space. Its rapid development and the promotion of quality education not only provide a new way to reform the traditional geography teaching mode, but also the interactive function of modern information technology enhances students' subjective participation consciousness and ability, which plays a positive role in promoting students' subjectivity and improving their quality. The rapid development and popularization of modern information technology with computer-aided instruction as the core has brought a revolution to geography teaching in middle schools and provided a good learning environment for students. . After multimedia technology and network technology are involved in geography teaching activities, they have the inherent characteristics of hypertext reading, rich information, strong interactivity, rapid response, large storage capacity and modern information technology integrating graphics, characters, sounds, animation and images. Clever use of information technology, turning abstract into concrete and intuitive use of multimedia can make the teaching content from virtual to real, from static to dynamic, from complex to simple, which greatly enriches the activities of geography teaching and learning, provides a broad space for students to actively participate in geography learning, explore geography knowledge and exchange and cooperation, and greatly promotes the transformation of geography teaching and learning methods.
2. Provide conditions for cultivating creative students: Multimedia and network technology can provide a good interface. The intuitive interactive learning environment is conducive to stimulating students' interest in learning and conducting negotiation sessions. Collaborative learning can provide a variety of sensory comprehensive stimuli, with pictures and images, which is conducive to the creation of scenes and the acquisition and maintenance of a large amount of knowledge. It can also organize and manage subject knowledge and various teaching information in the form of hypertext and hyperlink, which is also beneficial to the development of associative thinking and the establishment of the connection between old and new knowledge, and is very beneficial to the formation and development of students' cognitive structure and the construction of students' current knowledge meaning. This teaching mode emphasizes that students are the main body of cognitive process and the active constructor of knowledge meaning, which is conducive to students' active exploration and discovery. It is conducive to the cultivation of creative talents, which is its outstanding advantage.
3. It is beneficial to cultivate students' comprehensive ability: the current examination system not only emphasizes the examination of students' academic ability, but also pays attention to the examination of students' interdisciplinary comprehensive ability. Therefore, in the usual teaching, we also pay attention to: ① the infiltration, intersection and synthesis of subject content; (2) Integrate theory with practice and apply what you have learned; ③ Modern consciousness of coordinated development between man and nature and society. In the past, the characteristics of our learning knowledge were specific scope and linear structure combination, but modern information technology provided high-speed and large-capacity information collection, which also provided the possibility for this interdisciplinary comprehensive learning. In this way, students' comprehensive abilities such as thinking ability, analytical ability and learning ability have been effectively developed.
4. Cultivate students' ability to collect and process information: With the rapid development of modern information technology, mastering information technology is as important as "reading, writing and calculating". Network is the confluence of information. On the one hand, students can study purposefully according to their own characteristics. On the other hand, they can be asked to print some materials that are helpful to their study. The purpose of this is to show that in today's rapid information dissemination, learning how to acquire knowledge is more important than learning how much knowledge, and learning how to collect and process information is more important than simple memory. We cultivate students' information processing ability, that is, the basic ability to actively use information tools and information resources to effectively process and innovate information, which will become students' lifelong learning ability in the future society.
Thirdly, the application effect of modern information technology in geography teaching
The integration of modern information technology and geography teaching not only improves classroom efficiency, but also makes geography classroom teaching vivid, stimulates students' interest in learning and is conducive to cultivating students' various abilities. In order to adapt to the development of educational modernization, geography teachers should study and master modern teaching methods, especially the use of multimedia computers, to serve geography education and teaching.
The learning mode provided by modern information technology is conducive to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, reflecting the fairness and democracy of education and the all-round development of students; It is beneficial to stimulate students' interest in learning and reflect students' cognitive subjective role; It is beneficial to realize various teaching strategies, deepen subject teaching and improve teaching efficiency. Therefore, the outstanding characteristics of geography textbooks in the new curriculum are multimedia teaching materials, individualization and autonomy of teaching, virtualization of scenes and digitalization of the earth. This feature of junior high school geography textbooks determines the importance and inevitability of the application of modern information technology in geography education. Solve the difficulties in general geography teaching, such as: (1). Geography teaching blackboard books, charts and drawings are rich in content, complex and diverse, and it is difficult to fully display them on the limited blackboard. You can use mobile maps and graphic materials through multimedia courseware. If the sound, three-dimensional images and words are multimedia in the teaching materials, it can not only realize the interaction of teaching, but also solve the problem that it takes a lot of time for teachers to complete rich board painting in the general classroom. (2) Geography teaching needs to analyze and study the laws of the occurrence, development and evolution of objective things in nature, and also needs to understand the human characteristics, production development and the relationship between man and land around the world. Students need to master this knowledge, know more about the objective things themselves and their appearance characteristics, and know more about the production, construction and development of specific countries, but it is difficult to achieve it with general teaching methods, and multimedia teaching equipment can be more vivid. (3) The education of national conditions and patriotism in geography teaching in China is rich in content and material, but there are few vivid, vivid and infectious pictures. In general, it is difficult to create a good educational environment, stimulate students' patriotic enthusiasm and complete the task of moral education. The choice of rich content and materials by computer network can be done well.
It is very important to strengthen the integration of modern information technology education and middle school curriculum. However, with the deepening of curriculum integration practice, teachers and students' awareness of using information technology will be improved, the traditional teaching mode will be changed, the teaching efficiency will be greatly improved, and the process of geography teaching reform will be promoted.