Li Qiufang, a teacher of Qingnian Road Primary School in Tongchuan City, is taking a math class. The multi-directional display screen is connected with a tablet computer, which realizes the optimization of students’ classroom presentation. Photo by Meng Qingyi
On Teacher’s Day in 2019, in the smart classroom of Friendship Campus of Northwestern Polytechnical University, students were sitting around a big screen. At the other end of the screen, Fang Shuting, an interpreter of Chen Wangdao’s former residence in Yiwu, was lovingly telling the students the story of Mr. Chen Wangdao’s translation of the communist party Declaration. The students listened attentively and were deeply moved by Chen Wangdao and the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries’ persistent pursuit of truth. This was a scene in which the school launched the "5G Ideological and Political Course".
Northwestern Polytechnical University also initiated the "5G+ Education for Poverty Alleviation" in China. Students from the folk band, symphony orchestra and chorus of college students’ art troupe showed and explained all kinds of musical instruments and sang the song My People，My Country for the children in Wang Xiaoxue, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, to celebrate the 70th birthday of New China.
This is just a microcosm of educational informatization in Shaanxi Province. Shaanxi Province is located in the northwest of China, with a large number of poverty-stricken counties and districts. The development of education in urban and rural areas is uneven, and problems such as large class size, school selection fever and shortage of teachers have been restricting the development of education. In recent years, around the three-stage development strategy of "improving environment, expanding application and deepening integration", Shaanxi Province has comprehensively deployed and promoted the construction of educational informatization and big data, explored and built a new ecology of "Internet+education", promoted the innovative development of information technology and education, and created a unique development path for promoting education equity and improving education quality.
"Full participation, inclusion in the assessment, one-vote veto, delayed accountability" assessment and notification evaluation mechanism
Elaborate the Top Project of "internet plus"
Shiquan County, Shaanxi Province is a poverty-stricken county in mountainous areas. At the end of 2017, it was awarded the "first batch of educational informatization pilot units" by the Ministry of Education, and it is the only regional comprehensive pilot unit among the six excellent pilot units selected by Shaanxi Province. When accepting the pilot acceptance of the Ministry of Education, Zhou Yaoyi, the county magistrate of Shiquan County, said, "Under the unified deployment of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, we set up a leading group for education informatization, set up an informatization unit in the county education bureau, and clearly established three 10% funding input mechanisms. Education informatization has achieved remarkable results in promoting the balanced development of education in Shiquan County."
As early as 2013, Shaanxi carried out the standardization construction of educational informatization management system and mechanism, and issued evaluation standards. By the end of 2017, universities and education administrative departments of cities and counties in the province had established systematic and complete educational informatization administrative promotion institutions, forming a perfect management system and mechanism.
In order to improve the political position, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education has always been headed by the "number one" director. Especially this year, after the Education Working Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Department of Education were co-located, the members of the leading group were adjusted in time, with the secretary and the director as the team leaders at the same time. The Education Informatization Department was also adjusted and established, and the mechanism of "full participation, inclusion in assessment, one-vote veto and delayed accountability" was established.
Wang Jianli, director of the Education Department of Shaanxi Province, told reporters, "We should take informatization as the endogenous factor of educational reform, focus on solving major problems of educational reform and development, promote educational equity and improve the quality of education, and vigorously promote the development of educational informatization in the new era, providing strong support for the modernization of education in Shaanxi and the construction of a strong education province."
A micro-lesson, a test paper and a bowl of preserved egg lean porridge.
Equity of Sharing "Internet+Education" in Urban and Rural Areas
"The teacher on TV came to our school, so kind!" A student from a nine-year school in Yankou Town said. Not long ago, Chengbei Primary School in Xixiang County went to Yankou Town Nine-year School to carry out long-distance interactive classroom teaching activities, with Yankou Town Nine-year School as the main classroom and Chengbei Primary School and Chazhen Nine-year School as the receiving classrooms, and carried out exchange lectures and recipient classroom experience activities, with online and offline dual synchronous teaching of Chinese and fine arts, which enriched the contents and ways of long-distance interactive teaching.
"In the past, teachers who could read microscopes in the nine-year school in Yankou Town could not be found. Now, remote interactive teaching can solve this problem. Driving teachers to learn and teaching, our goal was achieved through experiments. " Li Qingfeng, deputy director of the Education and Sports Bureau of Xixiang County, told the reporter that at present, there are 45 long-distance interactive classrooms in Xixiang County, namely, Xixiang No.3 Middle School, Lianhua Primary School and Dahe Town Nine-year School, Xixiang No.5 Middle School, Dongguan Primary School and Gao Chuan Town Primary School, which are 75 kilometers away, and Lianghekou Town Primary and Secondary School, which are 90 kilometers away, have crossed the time and space distance and entered a brand-new learning environment together with the last class. One school has many schools and one school has many points.
Not only in Xixiang, in Ningqiang, but also in rural primary schools in the vast northwest, there is a micro-lesson, a test paper, a bowl of preserved eggs and lean porridge, a football, a song and a familiar face … … These stories all reflect the profound changes of educational informatization to rural schools. Since vigorously implementing the construction of "three links and two platforms", Shaanxi’s education system has made up shortcomings, promoted upgrading, and accelerated the construction of school information infrastructure. At present, it has achieved full coverage of broadband networks in all levels and types of schools in the province, and the proportion of multimedia teaching equipment in ordinary classrooms has exceeded 90%, and the gap between urban and rural environments has been narrowing.
How to further realize Urban-rural Education Fairness, so that every child can enjoy high-quality educational resources? By promoting the large-scale application of the platform for everyone in secondary vocational schools and primary and secondary schools, Shaanxi Province has realized the accurate push of high-quality digital education resources. The platform has been deployed in 8 cities and 75 counties (districts), achieving "one point access and sharing in the whole province", with nearly 400,000 registered teachers in primary and secondary schools and secondary vocational schools. The platform continuously integrates micro-lesson contest and other activity resources. At present, the total amount of high-quality educational resources is more than 8 million, covering all disciplines and study sections. The high-quality resources are continuously covered in rural areas, remote and poor areas, and the ability of teachers to integrate and apply has been greatly improved, realizing "sharing high-quality educational resources under the same blue sky".
From the past "people looking for policies" to the present "policies looking for people"
"Internet+Government Affairs Service" to Improve Education Governance Ability
The repeated attacks on campus are shocking, and the security incidents are thought-provoking. In the current digital era of open information, how can we use big data to build an "iron wall" for children, maintain campus security through information technology, and improve the ability of education governance? In the Big Data Application Service Center of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, you can see a series of big data construction achievements and educational governance methods. Campus security managers can access the surveillance videos of universities and primary and secondary schools in the province anytime and anywhere, even accurate to every corridor, every canteen operation room and every playground. Security incidents can be commanded in time and accurately, and emergency measures can be launched immediately in case of danger.
Liu Baoping, chief accountant of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, said, "The education system of the whole province is in accordance with the provincial party committee and the provincial government ‘ One Netcom Office ’ And ‘ Internet+government services ’ Relevant requirements, vigorously promote the construction and application of education big data, and strive to solve social hot and difficult problems such as large class size and school choice fever, which are strongly reflected by the masses. " In March 2018, Liu Baoping introduced at the press conference on student financial aid of the Ministry of Education that Shaanxi’s "precise funding" and "controlling dropping out of school" based on big data covered all students from families who set up files and set up cards, and dynamic monitoring, real-time early warning and day-to-day processing have been realized, which has improved the "accuracy" of education funding, effectively made information run more and students run less errands, and realized "changing management into service". In addition, Shaanxi Province has creatively built an "educational map big data analysis platform" to visually display the information of the province’s educational development, educational planning and the tracking of educational hot issues in the form of maps. The planning and distribution of primary and secondary schools are more closely combined with the population dynamic trend, and the layout is more reasonable.
The reporter also learned that Shaanxi education big data construction has gone through the stages of management information system construction, provincial data aggregation platform construction, education basic data aggregation, data governance and mining application, and realized the integration, aggregation and sharing application of core management data, and entered the era of education big data 2.0, initially forming a sharing system of education big data construction at the provincial, city/university, district/county levels, sorting out 429 business items and drawing 458 business flow charts. It has gathered more than 20,000 data of educational institutions and nearly 9 million data of teachers and students in the province, solved many hot and difficult problems through big data analysis, and formed a unique "Shaanxi model", which was affirmed by the leaders of the Ministry of Education, the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and its experience attracted colleagues from all over the country to study.
Build a stage for maker, innovation and creation.
"internet plus" gives new vitality to education in generate.
Shaanxi Yangling is known as the "modern agricultural city". Relying on the advantages of science and education, all primary and secondary schools in Yangling actively promote wisdom education, closely combine school education with agricultural science and technology and ecological culture, develop school-based teaching materials and digital resources of animals and plants with regional characteristics, and stimulate students’ innovative enthusiasm for exploring nature. "We actively try to enrich the educational form by using the information system composed of the core system of wisdom education, feedback device, tablet computer and physical reminder machine, organize the primary and secondary schools to carry out plant identification competitions, and solve the shortcomings of insufficient intuition in previous animal and plant teaching through novel forms, which stimulates students’ interest in learning." Zhang Shaowen, director of the Education Bureau of Yangling Demonstration Zone, said.
Giving birth to innovation is a natural advantage and a deep mission of educational informatization. Shaanxi Province actively promotes new modes of educational informatization, such as artificial intelligence, maker education, STEAM education and smart campus, and leads all-round innovation in education and teaching from different levels of regions, schools, teachers and students. Shaanxi has held the information-based teaching innovation competition for primary and secondary schools and secondary vocational schools in the province for four consecutive years, with 150,000 teachers and nearly 10,000 excellent micro-courses and innovative resources. Xi ‘an High-tech No.1 Primary School started writing early under the network environment, which opened a new model of primary school students’ writing. Xi ‘an Daminggong Primary School develops the characteristic school-based curriculum "Serialized Micro-class" and carries out flip classroom teaching based on micro-class. Shaanxi has also built a "Youth Maker Love Challenge Platform", held a youth "Love Challenge" carnival and a youth Maker Creative Competition, and participated in 300,000 students. A batch of school maker spaces has rapidly emerged, which has become a new growth point and breakthrough point of school informationization.
Maker, innovation and creation, with the attention and promotion of education departments at all levels in Shaanxi Province, have become a beautiful landscape of Shaanxi education. (Reporter Huang Wei)
