Cloud Classroom, Create a "School Without Walls" (Online China)
Rich curriculum settings, a dazzling array of themed videos, high-quality resources gathered by famous teachers, and interactive after-school interaction... Under the wave of information networking, the "cloud classroom" that gathers diverse online course resources is actively serving with high-quality content To meet people's learning needs, and to provide new teaching methods for primary and secondary education in various places.
As more and more resources are gathered on the digital education service platform, the "cloud classroom" is of great benefit to the digital transformation of education.
Solve the "urgency and sorrow" of teaching
On March 28 this year, the national smart education platform under the guidance of the Ministry of Education was officially launched. It integrates various information content such as primary and secondary education, vocational education, higher education and employment service resources, providing intensive teaching for the "cloud classroom" model. The basic support of the platform also frees the school teaching work from the constraints of time and space.
"I like to watch 'Cloud Classroom' on TV. I can watch some knowledge points that I don't understand, and I can learn knowledge that is not in textbooks." Ming Ming, a fifth-grade student at Fengcheng Experimental Primary School in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province Yue said.
During the epidemic prevention period, the "Cloud Classroom" teaching mode not only ensures the smooth development of teaching work, but also ensures the quality of teaching.
Turn on the TV, click to enter the national smart education platform for primary and secondary schools; select the video layout of the day's curriculum arrangement, and watch the relevant "cloud classroom" content resources; Feedback and comments... The digital teaching form of "Cloud Classroom" allows Mingyue to learn well and enrich at home, solving the "urgent and worrying" of teaching, and the learning process is convenient and efficient.
At the beginning of the "Cloud Classroom" teaching model, Mingyue's mother, Ms. Ding, worried that "just watching TV to learn is not as effective as the teacher's on-site lectures".
But after watching related courses with her children, the high-quality digital teaching content dispelled Ms. Ding's doubts.
"The platform invites high-quality education teachers from all over the country. The teachers give vivid and detailed explanations in class, and explain the knowledge points in simple language." Ms. Ding said that the "Cloud Classroom" model can not be bound by time and space constraints, and can help class teachers to children. teach.
Yang Zongkai, director of the Educational Informatization Strategy Research Base of the Ministry of Education (Central China) and president of Wuhan University of Technology, believes that the comprehensive digital transformation of education has become an inevitable trend, and new teaching models under digital conditions should be explored.
With the help of the digital education public service platform, "Cloud Classroom" will further unleash the vitality of the era of network intelligence, and drive the construction of a learning society where "everyone can learn, can learn anywhere, and can learn from time to time".
Educational resources are shared on the "cloud"
Under the "cloud classroom" model, high-quality teaching resources rely on electronic media and "cloud platform" to achieve a wider range of dissemination and sharing.
For primary and secondary education, both students and teachers can benefit from it. Teaching methods have completed the transformation and upgrading of the digital age, which is conducive to improving the overall education quality of primary and secondary schools.
"The quality of the courses is generally good. Many of them are excellent teachers from famous schools. They have clear ideas and rich materials for expansion." Teacher Wang, who works as a Chinese teacher in a high school in Beijing, usually seeks teaching through relevant channels such as the National Smart Education Platform. At the same time, class students are advised to search for helpful resources on the platform around relevant knowledge points, and students are encouraged to share and discuss after class.
"I think the teaching mode of 'cloud classroom' is not limited to the classroom itself, but can effectively cultivate students to learn independently through interaction inside and outside the classroom and online and offline. The 'cloud classroom' model is integrated and applied to daily teaching work. Among them, it can not only improve the digital learning ability of students, but also realize the 'co-creation' of knowledge." Mr. Wang said.
Teacher Qian, an English teacher from a middle school in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, said that her middle school will organize teachers to participate in the summer teacher training of the national smart education platform, "This will help improve the level of lesson preparation and teaching of our teacher team, and it will also enlighten us on how to make good use of these network resources. , to better serve students.”
According to statistics, as of the beginning of September this year, the National Smart Education Platform had a total of nearly 4 billion page views and a total of about 600 million visitors.
Industry insiders believe that high-quality courses have achieved multiple sharing in the Internet era, and related digital education platforms and teaching resources have enriched the "cloud classroom" and established a "school without walls".
This is conducive to integrating, optimizing and revitalizing the country's high-quality digital resources, allowing the public service results of digital education to benefit the general public, thereby opening up a new teaching model in the Internet age and promoting the improvement of education quality.
Vigorously promote education equity
Xu Xiaoming, an associate researcher at the Research Department of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), believes that education digitization can expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources, gradually narrow the regional and urban-rural gaps in high-quality educational resources, and vigorously promote educational equity.
Under the background of "Internet +", the "cloud classroom" teaching mode, as an important form of national digital public service, is conducive to promoting the improvement of education quality and narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural areas.
With the continuous deepening of poverty alleviation through education, "Cloud Classroom" has come to students in underdeveloped and remote areas, so that high-quality educational resources can truly be shared by all.
On the basis of the continuous improvement of basic facilities such as "Cloud Classroom" operation and viewing equipment, live broadcast satellite receiving devices, etc., through artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies, "Cloud Classroom" has opened up high-quality educational resources for children in the "cloud" It can effectively alleviate the problem of unbalanced educational resources and further consolidate the achievements of educational poverty alleviation.
Taking Jinchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province as an example, the "Cloud Classroom" covers a total of more than 5,000 students in 28 classes in 20 local schools, promoting the improvement of local teaching quality and the development of education.
At the 2022 National Education Work Conference held recently, the Ministry of Education proposed the implementation of the national education digitalization strategy.
Experts believe that the development of the national education digitalization strategy is conducive to the construction of a digital China, and the "cloud classroom" teaching model will inject more vitality into the digital construction of China's education industry, promote the fairness and coordination of the distribution of educational resources, and thus promote the all-round development of society.
Ding Meidong