Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Entering the world's top ten! China's digital education is "more digital".
Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Zhuang.
On the Loess Plateau, bursts of singing came from Caowa Primary School in Pengbao Town, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, Ningxia. Haiyang, a student who grew up with the sheep, is learning "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" sung by the choir of Xiamen No. 6 Middle School through the touchable "smart blackboard" in the classroom. A network cable connects him with the city children and sings a song together.
How fast is digital education growing in China? On January 31, the 2024 World Digital Education Conference held in Shanghai came with news: the Global Digital Education Development Index released by the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences showed that China's ranking jumped from 24th to 9th in three years.
You know, in 2011, the Internet access rate of primary and secondary schools in China was less than a quarter. It was not until the end of 2020 that all primary and secondary schools (including teaching sites) achieved full Internet access.
In the past three years, the digitalization of education in China has been "running". By vigorously promoting the national education digitalization strategy, a network cable has crossed mountains and mountains, built "bridges", paved "roads" and "ladders", and helped China enter the ranks of the world's leaders in digital education.
What kind of bridge is this network cable on?
In China's vast central and western regions, it is people's long-cherished wish to achieve educational equity. Digital education builds a bridge across the digital divide and empowers the "ocean" to go global.
Relying on a network cable, more and more first-class education and teaching resources are online on the national smart education public service platform, more and more rural schools and urban schools are paired with "synchronous teaching", and more and more high-level university courses have achieved "good courses flying northwest" through the "MOOC Western Travel Plan".
What kind of road is paved by this network cable?
As a school with more than 510,000 schools, 2With more than 900 million students in education, how China runs education has attracted much attention. The practice of digital education in China is of special significance.
At the 2024 World Digital Education Conference, the international version of the national smart education public service platform was officially launched. Courses from more than 100 high-level schools, including Tsinghua University, have "sailed to the sea" through this platform and embarked on the road to the world stage.
What kind of ladder is this network cable making?
**The "Opinions on Developing the Silver Economy and Improving the Well-being of the Elderly" recently issued by the General Office clearly proposes to establish an educational resource database and teacher database for the elderly.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Education, the national public service platform for elderly education has 234 online registered users10,000 people, serving 56.4 million learners.
From education for the elderly, to special education, to vocational education, ......In the vision of digital education, no one will be left behind.
The road to digitalization in education is not an easy one.
Zheng Qinghua, president of Tongji University and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that artificial intelligence empowerment education has become an inevitable trend, and people should stick to the original intention of education and prevent technology from overriding education. Anna Cristina Dadio, Director of UNESCO's 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report, also stressed that AI creates opportunities for education systems, but needs to ensure that the interests of learners are prioritized.
In the final analysis, education is the cause of shaping the soul, and no matter how advanced and cool the means of education are, they must be used by people and benefit people, so as to be people-oriented.
As China's education digitalization strategy advances to the third year, people are looking forward to more inclusive, safer, and smarter digital education, in which you and I are all in it, and everyone is the protagonist. (ENDS).