E-Bag: "Burden" or "weight gain"?

The electronic schoolbag uses the movable portable computer equipment as the learning terminal, has the reading and writing function, is connected with the Network Service platform, provides the student to study the digital resources and the management platform, simultaneously may realize the student and the teacher on-line communication, the assignment and the marking and so on. In Shenzhen, at present, electronic schoolbags are usually only used in schools, students can use the computer and other terminals, log in to the classroom system for learning and exchange.

A wireless network classroom management system containing textbooks, knowledge points, assignments and extracurricular readings--electronic schoolbags--has now gone into many schools in Futian District. Since September last year, 8 schools in Futian District have begun to pilot the "Electronic Schoolbags" project, which will be extended to 10 this year. However, since the promotion of electronic schoolbags has been controversial: does electronic schoolbags really lighten the burden on children? Will a large amount of information add to your child's health?

The reporter recently to the pilot School of electronic schoolbags Fu New primary school dozens of students and parents interviewed, many students said that the electronic bag of information, the problem is high efficiency, and the teacher interaction is more, but play games and other problems lack of supervision, there are many hardware problems. Most parents are concerned about their children's eyesight and health problems.

Mathiyan, the head of the real early education agency in Shenzhen, seven, is a one-way street and should be carefully promoted after a full demonstration of the pilot school, giving the child the right to choose. Min Primary school Principals Xiangyang that electronic schoolbags are likely to become an important way of learning in the future, correctly guide students to use the network, the key lies in the "degree" of exploration.

Japan:

Electronic schoolbags as teaching assistant means

The Stone of his mountain

"In Japan, things like electronic schoolbags are basically teaching aids," he said. "Mathiyan's children used to go to public elementary schools in Japan with paper textbooks and beautifully printed. Classroom homework is mainly paper-based, occasionally to use a computer network to complete the interactive form of work. Take the natural class as an example, the classroom teacher explained the type of butterflies, after home, children can do exercises on the CD, through the picture or voice to choose the type of butterfly.

"Japanese elementary schools have very little homework and basically no more than half an hour of homework," he said. "Mathiyan said that Japan's information is going very fast, but primary and secondary education is relatively slow in the information technology, the use of computers to do homework after printing documents to hand homework is more common, but very few students will be at home through the network and teachers to communicate."

Student Experience

Advantages: Leave can also be at home classes

Do exercises anytime, anywhere, do not understand the problem can directly communicate with the teacher, like extra-curricular reading can also be downloaded through the network, even if the time to leave can also be at home in class. In the view of many students, electronic schoolbags contain a large amount of learning materials, but also enough to strengthen the interaction with teachers and students, compared to the traditional teaching mode more open and convenient.

"There used to be no written words, run to ask the teacher, very troublesome." Now can be on the electronic schoolbag, through the network to query. "Xiao Wang told reporters, electronic schoolbags can provide a lot of learning materials, do not know where they can take the initiative to learn."

Penny recently has been very want to buy an extracurricular book, but the price of the book is too high, he always reluctant to buy. School has an electronic schoolbag, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his favorite books, can be downloaded through the network. It is very convenient to read by electronic schoolbags.

In addition to the students ' reading and learning motivation, the efficiency and interactivity of the classroom have also increased. Teacher in the classroom layout of the quiz, students in the electronic bag after the answer, the answer results can immediately show that the teacher can very clearly see everyone to do the problem.

"Sitting in the back of the students if you can not see the blackboard, directly to see the electronic schoolbag on the line, the explanation point will be shown above." Small just told reporters, in class discussion, can also use electronic schoolbags to vote, even on the spot can do a PowerPoint presentation.

Some time ago Xiao Hui body uncomfortable leave, at home computer log in the class system of electronic schoolbags, can clearly see the day class courseware and explain the main points. "Encountered not understand the problem, you can see courseware, but also through the system to ask teachers or students." "Xiao Hui said, later leave also not afraid will delay study."

Disadvantage: Some electronic schoolbags play games without supervision

While electronic schoolbags inject fresh air into the classroom, their shortcomings as electronic devices are increasingly prominent. In addition to charging difficult, slow speed, operating inconvenience, electronic systems to answer the precise requirements also make students very embarrassed. In addition, for the problems of eyesight and games that parents are worried about, some students show that their eyesight has decreased and some of them have no supervision over the students ' playing games.

Is the student's eyesight affected by the frequent use of electronic schoolbags? Penny told reporters that they currently have only Chinese, maths, English and music class will use electronic schoolbags. In Chinese class, they usually only use 5-10 minutes to log on to the online classroom. The English class uses the electronic schoolbag the time to be longer, about more than 20 minutes, generally will use to do the hearing and other exercises.

"If you feel it often, you may have a decreased vision." "The penny said, after using the electronic schoolbag, the teacher sometimes arranges many assignments on the net, the homework quantity is bigger than before." In fact, they also worry that computer radiation will affect their health. Although there is no objective data to prove, but a penny told reporters, some students said that the use of electronic schoolbags after the loss of vision.

Is there a regulatory system for the parents ' most concerned games? Xiao Hui says there are two types of electronic schoolbags. A set of supervision system, teachers can log in to monitor the use of student electronic schoolbags. "In this case, play the game to go through the teacher's consent." But the other does not have this system, the student whether plays the game, the teacher is unknown.

In addition, as electronic equipment, electronic schoolbags have many places to be perfected in hardware and software. As a result of the system has been preset the correct answer to the exercises, if the students answer and the standard answer, even if the meaning is similar, the system will be judged as wrong. "For objective problems, there is no problem, the subjective question to be perfected." Fang said that many students, even if they did the right thing, the test scores were still unqualified.

"When you enter a font, there are sometimes traditional characters, but I am not able to adjust to the simplified characters, but also start again, very troublesome." Wang said, tablet computer type of electronic bag only a USB interface, plug in the mouse, U disk can not be used, very inconvenient. In addition, students encounter problems such as the difficulty of charging, slow speed and so on.

Experience Stories

"Less time is spent writing in workbooks."

At school in the morning, the weight of the path schoolbag is similar to the previous. Although electronic schoolbags contain the contents of English and music textbooks, these subjects still have to use paper textbooks when they are in class, and electronic schoolbags do not allow students to take home, but are kept in school. Students can read the contents of an electronic schoolbag at home simply by downloading a management system.

In Chinese class, we first use the textbook to learn, listen to the teacher to speak knowledge points. Then, the path opened the electronic schoolbag, landing class system, entered the language classroom, the screen shows just the details of the knowledge point, the teacher at the same time on the blackboard to write down the difficulties of learning.

After explaining the basic points, the path points into the interface of the exercises, showing the number of classes and the time of study. When the teacher clicked the button, everyone started to do the problem. After the path finished, click "Submit", the interface also shows the number of students submitted accordingly. After the students have finished the problem, the teacher point "end", the system immediately showed the results of the problem.

"Compared with the previous, we have more problems in class." "The path said, until after the teacher after the class, after the next lecture to explain, now on the spot can produce results and explain." In addition, the teacher will be based on the system to show the wrong title rate, focusing on more than the wrong problem.

In the road view, the use of electronic schoolbags, the efficiency of PPT is faster than before. In the classroom discussion, the teacher divides the class the classmate to divide into several groups, the discussion result will display in the electronic schoolbag, the teacher will select the outstanding Performance Team, in the classroom impromptu makes a PPT to report. In the past, the path to go home to do a good ppt and then bring over the show, and now directly in the electronic bag can be classroom production and reporting.

In English class, the contents of the ebook bag are also very attractive to the path, compared to the previous textbook monotonous illustrations, the path can now enter the learning state faster. In class, the teacher often prepares some sample sentences, students can read and record themselves, upload to the classroom system, the whole class can hear. The teacher will also correct the students ' pronunciation errors.

After these two courses, the teacher will arrange the homework in the electronic Schoolbag's classroom system. Although the electronic schoolbag can not be brought home, but as long as the computer at home to log on to the classroom system, you can write homework. "Now I have a lot of homework done online, with less time in the writing industry." The path says today's problem is bigger than ever, and more homework will be done on the computer.

Parental advice

Worry about children's eyesight and health

For the parents of students who are already using electronic schoolbags, the information of electronic schoolbags is so large that they can develop their computer knowledge, but they are still concerned about the impact of electronic schoolbags on their children's eyesight and health. In addition, the use of computer learning opportunities to play games, parents are extremely worried about the problem.

"The formulation of electronic schoolbags is very advanced, but is it necessary for primary school students to be so advanced?" Ms. Xu said that her children are now back home to do homework on the computer, and the volume of work is still very large, but the child's learning situation has not changed much, but "long time staring at the computer, vision will certainly fall." Zeng is more worried that when children use computers, they are not learning but playing games.

Mr Cheng had personally used an electronic schoolbag, and he held a neutral attitude towards electronic schoolbags. "Children will be able to learn a lot of computer knowledge as soon as they touch the computer." In Mr Cheng's view, the system is well designed, the information industry inside is very rich, how many students will help a bit. However, he also said that the child back home computer game time, much more than the time of study, the child's eyesight problem is still his most worried.

The majority of parents of children who have not yet used electronic schoolbags are opposed to electronic schoolbags. In a QQ group called "Shenzhen Education Problem Exchange", more than 100 parents are debating the problem of electronic schoolbags every day. A survey by a Shenzhen forum showed that more than 80% of parents were against promoting electronic schoolbags.

Some parents believe that the traditional teaching has its advantages, the full use of electronic schoolbags to class is not feasible. "If you only know how to copy and paste, children will not think." "Mr. Jiang believes that the computer demo is not the same as the teacher's live demo, the effect of writing with a pen and typing with a computer is different," writing homework with a pen helps to exercise the ability to take notes, but also to enhance memory, but the computer certainly does not have this role, and the network brings more fragmented information, leading to difficult to concentrate ".

More parents worry about their children's health. "Children are too young to start using a computer now," he said. Mr. Jiang said that today's university students do not popularize the use of computer classes, "how the primary school students to implement it?"

"Now the biggest problem for children, is that every day to the computer, was thinking about how to stay away from, now become e-book bag, more difficult to persuade children to leave the computer." "Ms. Zhu thinks, the computer uses many to the spine, the cervical vertebra, the elbow and so on causes the strain injury, to the child's harm is probably bigger."

In a dissenting voice, there are parents who wish to learn about electronic schoolbags in person. "The application of information technology to teaching and learning links, foreign countries have already, is not new things, can not be simply opposed by imagination." Ms. Zheng believes that since Futian District has been experimenting with electronic schoolbags in a number of schools, it should conduct research on the pilot classes, evaluate their teaching effectiveness, and find problems in time, waiting for the project to be perfected. In addition, when promoting, we should solicit the views of students, parents and teachers, and the three sides have agreed to implement it, and "we cannot rely on the power of the government to implement it vigorously".

"Electronic equipment is always an auxiliary device for teaching, but it cannot be too afraid of electronic devices." Teachers should be able to grasp this degree, if the study did not help, mandatory implementation is not used, teachers should have countermeasures. Mr Chiang believes that the opposition is loud now because parents do not know about electronic schoolbags. "The government should fully communicate with parents to let parents know what it is and how to use it in the implementation." ”

Careful promotion of pilot schools after investigation

Expert opinion

Correctly guide children to healthy use of network

"Children's education is a one-way street, can not start again, in the broad range of promotion before, should be carefully demonstrated." Mathiyan, the head of the Shenzhen Seven Tian Long teaching body, believes that it is prudent to promote electronic schoolbags on the basis of full investigation of the pilot. In the process of promotion, students and parents should be given the right to choose, can not use the information of education to erase the diversity of education.

In Mathiyan's opinion, the controversy over the electronic schoolbags is actually an old topic. "As soon as the ebook came out of the market, people began to talk about whether it would replace paper, actually not, but added a new way of reading." "Mathiyan thinks that taking notes and homework on paper has its own meaning," paper is made of wood, in a sense, and human nature is very close.

"It's hard to imagine a child holding a pen hand and turning it into a flat hand that often touches the computer, and the child doesn't have to write and just clicks on the keyboard." Mathiyan said that although there is no scientific evidence of how large the radiation of electronic products, but there is no study to prove that it has no effect on the human body. This is true for adults, not to mention the eyes and health of children. Considering the child's health, the promotion of electronic schoolbags should be prudent. "Education is a one-way street and cannot be started from scratch."

In addition, on the open platform of electronic schoolbags, children instinctively play with things they are interested in, such as games, which are technically difficult to control. Electronic Schoolbags also have a lot of technical problems with electronic products. "If the electronic schoolbag is an open network platform, it will involve the maintenance, backup problems, and a lot of information may take the way of cloud storage, which involves the protection of personal information, as well as the exchange of information after the privacy of the issue." ”

Mathiyan that, in today's a number of schools to pilot the premise, should be the pilot school research, to see the parents, students, teachers on the evaluation of electronic schoolbags, in a large number of data and experience based on the argument, and then carefully promoted.

"If you really want to promote, at least give your child a choice." Willing to use, not willing to use, not to deprive children of their rights, but simply unified. "Mathiyan that the diversity is a social feature, information is only one form, not because of the education of information and to forget the diversity of education." "It is very dangerous to have all students use it by an executive order," he said.

"Electronic schoolbags reflect the trend of the development of the times, parents can not accept now, but this idea will not stop the pace of the development of the Times." Min Primary School principal Xiangyang believes that electronic schoolbags are now a learning aid, and are likely to become important learning methods for students in the future. The future teaching should be combined with the actual situation, not only through virtual network for interactive communication, but also through the use of chalk face-to-face communication.

For many parents worried about the eyesight problem, Xiangyang said, in the specific teaching process, should be controlled by the class teacher, guide students correct use of eyes. "There is a class where children are particularly fond of drawing with a computer, but only one or two of the more than 50 children wear glasses." In fact, the teacher's correct guidance can allow children to use the network in a healthy way. You can't refuse a bigger profit because of the malpractice. ”

"Many parents may think that the teacher used to have close contact with the child, the future may be only to the cold machine." In fact, this is a degree of certainty. "This is where educators need to explore," says Xiangyang. When the child is using the computer to study, the man's study also cannot neglect. In fact, through the electronic bag in the online experiment, students can first explore, and then applied to the actual experiment, in learning less detours.

In Xiangyang's view, even without electronic schoolbags, children will inevitably have to contact the network in the future. Through electronic schoolbags, children can learn how to use the Internet properly. "Parents told us that the child's learning status changed and would take the initiative to acquire knowledge," he said. "For parents ' scruples, Xiangyang that, if conditions are available, the pilot schools can ask the public to enter the class and learn more."

"In fact, the electronic schoolbag into the campus, the teacher's test is the biggest." Xiangyang that this requires teachers to break the traditional, solidified, experiential teaching model. A teacher who is good at using technology will make a great change in the students. "Shenzhen is an open city and the public should face education reform with an open mind so that the people of this land can get the benefits." ”