50% of domestic parents favor iPad as a mobile education device for children

Hongkou District “Electronic Schoolbag” Pilot Areas Further Expand Recently, the 2011 e-Sports Industry Forum held in Hongkou District uploaded information, and the “Electronic Schoolbag” pilot area has further expanded. The current “Electronic Schoolbag” pilot covers the restoration of Hongkou District. There are 8 schools including High School, Beihong Junior High School, Third Central Elementary School, Liying Primary School, and Little Little Kindergarten. The second batch of pilot schools also started pilot work, which will increase the number from 8 to 18, covering schools in all stages of elementary, junior, junior and senior education. They have also formulated supporting programs for e-schoolbags according to the school situation and characteristics. Sub-topics, and focus on the objectives of the project, according to the characteristics of various disciplines to carry out trials and advancements, formed a series of case studies with exemplary meaning.

Coincidentally, primary schools in Minhang District and Jinshan District also began to experiment with "electronic schoolbags," and a terminal such as a laptop computer and a tablet computer entered the hands of students, and various digital resources were presented on the screen. In addition, two demonstration classes will be set up at the end of November in the fourth grade of the Luwan First Central Primary School, where children will use the school’s iPad to answer questions and do class exercises in mathematics, English, and science classes.

Yin Houqing, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, introduced the introduction of "electronic schoolbags" into the classroom. It should not be simply using modern technology to send a tablet computer to children. Instead, it can use it to change the teaching mode and satisfy students' individualized learning. Demand increases the effectiveness of learning. What is the key to decorate the e-bag?

E-bag survey students, parents and teachers are satisfied with the three surveys conducted by Shanghai Liying Elementary School at the experimental grade of the “E-Schoolbag” project. It can be seen that both teachers and students are very satisfied with the electronic schoolbags. Very optimistic about the prospects of this project.

Parents: 100% support for "electronic schoolbags"

In a survey of 113 parents, 100% of parents expressed "full support" and "support" for the pilot project of "Electronic Schoolbag"; 71.7% of parents thought that children's interest and attitude of learning changed and improved; 76.2% Parents believe that the child’s schoolwork burden is almost the same as in the past; 83.2% of parents said that their children can independently complete the electronic work arranged by teachers; 88.5% of parents think that there are few negative effects; 100% of parents express their work to the teachers in the test class. "very satisfied" and "very satisfied".

Students: 94.7% said that they can learn better with computers. In the survey of 114 students, 94.7% of students said that they can have a computer to study better; 53.5% of students said that they have a small computer. More interested in learning, 43.0% of students said that there was a small computer to increase the interest in learning computer knowledge; 52.6% of students said that with a small computer, academic performance improved; 39.5% of students said that they had a small computer learning achievement. No change; 49.1% of students said that they had a small computer to do homework almost the same time as the past, 40.4% of students said that they had a small computer to do their homework less than the past; 83.3% of students said that they can independently complete the computer arranged by the teacher operation.

Teachers: 100% believe that children’s learning interests and attitudes have changed and improved in surveys conducted on 34 teachers (100% of the teachers participating in the “Electric Schoolbag” project pilot participated in the survey), 94.0% of teachers believe that The schoolbag is not a single hardware device, but a digital learning system; 84.9% of teachers think the e-schoolbag project is very meaningful and willing to participate and pay attention; 91.2% of teachers believe that the e-sale package project will change the role of teaching and learning. As the depth of the experiment becomes more and more obvious; 85.3% of teachers believe that using e-schoolbags for teaching activities will increase the workload of teachers and the effectiveness of teaching.

According to surveys conducted only for teachers who participated in the project's actual experiments, 68.8% of teachers believe that the pilot project of the e-Schoolbag project is entirely feasible; 100% of teachers believe that their children's interest and attitudes for learning change and improve; 61.3% of teachers believe that The biggest puzzle of participating in the e-sales package project is that "the platform is not well-developed." 72.5% of teachers believe that the biggest confusion is "the lack of suitable curriculum resources."

Ipad surveyed nearly 50% of parents favoring iPad as a child education mobile device Recently, EF Education has joined hands with Sina Education Channel and Engineer Dad.com to conduct “Parent-to-Child Education Apps Use Behavior Survey” for parents of children. The results show that: iPad has become the favorite mobile device for parents to download children's educational apps. The demand for language apps increases with age. Whether apps are interesting or can stimulate children's interest in learning is the APP's most valued feature. Among the many mobile devices, 44.5% of parents chose to use the iPad to download children's education apps, ranking first, far higher than the iPod/iPhone (30.7%) and Android phones (14.0%).

Deep Decoding E-Schoolbag: A Synonym for Teaching Change According to Qiu Yongping, deputy dean of the Hongkou District School of Education and Continuing Education, electronic schoolbags do not simply put electronic documents at the terminal and can be used for electronic products in classroom teaching. Nor is it in the ordinary sense. The e-education of educational materials, but synonymous with the entire teaching reform in the context of modernization, is the integration of digital educational resources. Specifically, the e-schoolbag is a student-centered, personal electronic terminal and e-learning resource. It runs through the pre-learning, class, homework, tutoring, evaluation, and other aspects of learning, covering before, during, and after class. Digital chemistry and teaching system platform for the environment.

When talking about the original intention of establishing the "Electronic Schoolbag" huge project, Qiu Yongping said that the ultimate goal is to change the way students learn and truly improve their ability to study independently. For a long time, our domestic teachers basically have no problems in teaching. However, this has also led some students to become accustomed to passively “listening” in the classroom. This naturally leads to a lack of cooperation, effective information and expression of ideas. Such learning ability is not only the necessary quality of the current society's requirements for talents, but also the ability to learn from the crowd.

Qiu Yongping added that after nearly 12 years of arduous exploration and research, Hongkou District has taken the lead by integrating the concept of “electronic schoolbags” in teaching, and led by experienced teachers and teachers to establish corresponding unit design templates according to different teaching modes. First, "force" teachers to change the traditional "cramming" teaching methods, and then gradually develop students' ability to learn independently. As a teacher, he should be like a director and screenwriter before class, planning the general direction of the entire class, how to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching; in the classroom he will be transformed into a host, although compared with the past Most of the students "leave hands" to the students, but they should still "elastically" control the atmosphere and rhythm of the entire class.

How to restore classroom "electronic schoolbags" in the classroom using Qiu Yongping told the author, from the first batch of pilot schools to use the feedback to analyze, students have a higher degree of satisfaction. “Now one-third of the school language classes in the pilot school are completed using e-books. The teacher will advance the 'extended reading' of each lesson into an e-book bag. Students can select materials they are interested in reading. At the same time, preparatory Students can upload their own questions to the teaching platform. The teacher adjusts the design of the unit plan according to the student's problems. The student's learning is used to adjust the teacher's teaching in a timely manner. The classroom teaching becomes lively and the students' interest in learning increases. It also reflects Hongkou’s education, warmth, and effective classroom building.”

Beihong Junior High School is one of the first “E-Schoolbag” pilot schools in Hongkou District. Wu Peiyu, the principal of the school, said that the “Electronic Schoolbag” is a small computer in colloquial terms and is similar in size to the iPad. It is equipped with wireless Internet access in the classroom. The network and electronic whiteboard, teachers and students' computers can interact, display and teach. At present, the school's "Electronic Schoolbag" pilot project started in the seventh grade students, involving language, mathematics, foreign languages, history, geography and a small amount of science, with an average of about one and a half "Electronic Schoolbag" courses every day. About an hour or so.

The president’s speech was even more demanding on teachers. Wu Pei’s frankly stated that after nearly one semester of experimentation, many teachers are still experiencing and transforming themselves because they have to “fight” with traditional teaching methods. This difficulty is not small. Some of the “behind the scenes” work is very arduous, and it can even be said to be “painful”. For example, when teachers design a course, they need to “grind” a lesson, not only to integrate the knowledge into the classroom, but also to And let the students like to play, play the "electronic book bag" the greatest use, the teacher's energy and physical strength are double tests. But what she and her teacher often say is that while we can't do all the normalization of the e-schoolbag right now, we have taken a step forward and strive to achieve breakthroughs at every point.

In addition, how to ensure student's learning efficiency is also one of the tests for teachers. For example, Wu Peijun said that in the past, if the teacher wanted to teach the student a new formula, he would usually adopt a direct teaching method. It may take only 10 minutes; but now that there is an “electronic schoolbag,” the teacher will The formula's "in and out" is presented to students, which may take about 20 minutes. This conflicts with the efficiency of learning, but Wu Peixi believes that the traditional teaching method is easy to simplify the original should be complicated, and now restore the process allows students to clearer and actively remember this formula, which is difficult to traditional teaching Do it. In addition, conflict has also represented more impetus, faster progress, and more intense collisions among teachers' thought sparks, which is very favorable to the development of the “Electronic Schoolbag” project.

Focus on how to control the use of mobile devices such as iPad Zhu Jianfeng, director of the Department of Prevention and Control of the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Control Center, said that according to statistics, the average time each child spends on a video terminal is 2.7 hours per day, and in fact many children use it. The eye time is far beyond this period of time. Obviously, this is detrimental to the child's eye health.

Zhu Zhu suggested that children should be able to combine outdoor activities with their iPads and other equipment. That is, they must go out for outdoor activities for a period of time every time they are used. They must have at least 1 hour of outdoor activities every day, including some eye exercises. Exercises, etc., in order to maximize the protection of eye health.

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Parents use the tablet computer to teach the Raiders HAN Ande, the educational director of the EF English First Education Youth School, advises parents to ensure that the tablet is used for education before use. It is best to check the feedback and comments of other users before downloading the application and not to download it. Too many APPs, only select a few to conduct in-depth study. For English APPs, try to choose a large operator/program design company.

In use, it is recommended that children choose their own time, give their children independent study time, prescribe the right medicine, choose suitable learning content according to the child's level, and follow the different stages of language learning step by step. At the same time, remind children to rest and protect their eyesight.

Han Anderson reminds parents that regardless of the APP used, parents should pay attention to the fact that the APP is only a tool to assist teaching and cannot fully replace parents' face-to-face tutoring. According to the EF survey: 49.6% of parents surveyed used mobile devices to teach their children, and 22% used mobile devices to observe children's learning. More than 70% of children like their father to study for themselves, but the survey also found that 92.84% of families are often mothers to accompany children to read, and more than 65% of family fathers rarely read with their children, and rarely buy books for children. The way that fathers accompany their children to read is a child's desire but lacks. This survey is only for paper books, but the results are also worthy of attention when parents use the tablet to guide their children's learning.

At the same time, Han Andre also suggested that parents can use these tablet computers to follow up from the following aspects:

1, progress tracking, consolidation exercises. Found that lack of knowledge to grasp, review drills in a timely manner. Find more reading materials, videos related to course content, etc. to further consolidate learning content.

2. Encourage "output" - communication. There are many “input” contents such as listening and reading for educational applications. Parents should encourage children to speak more, increase “output”, and combine various language skills. Create an environment for children to learn and use English.

3, let the children teach parents the content they learned, can make children have confidence, more motivated to learn.

4, properly consider paying to download the full APP content. Many apps are limited in content. For apps that are of interest to children, parents can consider paying for the download. According to CCID Consulting's “White Paper for China Tablet PC Application Demand in 2011”, Chinese tablet PC users pay only less than RMB 10 per month for APP downloads.