The ideal scenario of "Internet+Education" is to have access to the best educational resources in the world anytime and anywhere, regardless of national boundaries, regardless of age. Today, it is breaking ground and ready to go. It brings changes, shocks and more new hopes.
Impact on tradition
In modern times, most countries in the world began to popularize compulsory education, and learning began to enter the homes of ordinary people. Most people were able to receive nine-year formal school education. In the Internet era, education has completely broken through the time and space constraints. A network cable and a terminal can link educational courseware all over the world, and universal education and lifelong education have become a reality. No matter where, people can use the fragmented time to get education from the Internet, which is the real meaning of "never too old to learn", and the concept of "years of education" will gradually disappear.
"Internet+Education" will redefine schools and teachers. In the Internet age, high-quality educational resources based on information are no longer concentrated and confined to a limited number of schools, but can be distributed uniformly in every school with almost no success. At that time, the attributive of "famous teacher" is no longer a school, and the word "choosing a school" will disappear. At the same time, under the traditional education system, teachers are the whole world for students to learn knowledge. In the "Internet+Education" environment, teachers are more like a window to watch the scenery outside. How to guide students from "knowing" to "being good" and further becoming "being happy" will be the main role of teachers.
misunderstanding
some people think that "internet+education" is the whole of future education, and all classroom knowledge can be obtained on the internet, which simply equates education with knowledge infusion. Einstein said: "The goal of a school should always be: when young people leave school, they should be a harmonious person, not an expert." Internet can "teach things", but it can't "describe all virtues", let alone cultivate noble sentiments and complete personality. Especially for the primary and middle school students in compulsory education, the significance of teacher's face-to-face emotional communication is particularly important, and its role is "teaching by example is more important than words", which is obviously impossible to be achieved by the Internet alone. The combination of online and offline is the necessity of future education.
some people think that "internet+education" is just the informationization of education that has been mentioned for many years, but it is just old wine in new bottles. It should be noted that, unlike the previous education informationization or education Internet, "Internet+Education" does not simply put the Internet on the shell of traditional education, but irrigates and penetrates the concept of the Internet into the deepest part of education, and strives to give birth to new educational models and methods. The role of the Internet is not limited to the traditional courseware demonstration, online classroom and homework, the informationization of education management system, etc., but from the fundamental purpose of "educating people", we should reconsider how to use the Internet as a means and method. It should be said that "educational internet" and "internet education" are essentially different.
Some people think that "Internet+education" is not suitable for China's education mode. At the same time, they think that compared with the western education mode of "introduction" which emphasizes the priority of stimulating students' interest in learning, China's education mode of "giving" which emphasizes the priority of transferring knowledge to students has great advantages. It is necessary to strengthen China's educational advantage in this respect. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because from the effect, "giving" is only in the transmission of basic knowledge. The "Internet+Education" characterized by free learning will undoubtedly break this model in China. It is important to consolidate students' basic knowledge, but it is more important to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning and maintain their eternal passion for learning.
The key to development
How to attract the whole society's resources into "Internet+Education" and form a virtuous circle is also very important. Due to the almost zero-cost diffusion and transmission of Internet information, it is difficult for Internet education to rely on physical entities in classrooms to limit knowledge "leakage" like traditional institutions, so as to realize repeated teaching and profit. At present, no suitable business model has been found. How to achieve sustainable profit for enterprises engaged in Internet education has become a difficult problem at present, and it is also the key to the sustainable development of "Internet+Education". To solve this problem, we need to analyze it from the logic of the Internet itself. Looking back at the development history of the Internet, successful Internet companies have never directly relied on "selling" information or providing information "channels" for profit. They all adopt the so-called "wool comes from dogs" strategy to gather popularity for free and then make a fuss about popularity. "Internet+education" or the internetization of education, in order to achieve rapid and sustainable development, we should not look for answers from traditional education methods, but should explore the future from the perspective of Internet thinking.