Shanghai Municipal Education Commission: promotion of electronic textbooks within 5 years of primary and secondary schools

This news (reporter Jiangyue correspondent Cai) reporter yesterday from the city of CPPCC officials learned that the municipal Committee of Education authorities in the oral reply to the CPPCC members of the proposal, said: Shanghai will be the first in 5 years to promote electronic textbooks in the country, children are expected to farewell to the cumbersome big school bag era.　　Proposals to lighten the burden earlier this year, deputy director of the Municipal Political Consultative Committee, Deputy Secretary-General of the DPP party committee Huangshanming submitted a proposal to promote electronic textbooks to effectively reduce the burden on students. The city board of Education said that the current research and practice of electronic books have been listed as a pilot work in the 2010.　　Plans first in some schools and disciplines to carry out the pilot, the formation of a relatively mature electronic curriculum framework, and gradually try to establish a textbook digital publishing and distribution of new channels, pending further breakthroughs in technology, and then gradually advance. Recently, the new Wuning Primary School in Putuo District opened an open practice course in electronic textbook teaching.　　According to the school, compared to the traditional paper textbooks, only two slap size, similar electronic dictionary of electronic textbooks, for children is novel and interesting, not only to reduce the burden on students back schoolbags, powerful storage function can also let children according to different needs of independent learning. Whether to increase the cost for "the hand of an electronic textbook, will not increase the cost of the question, Huangshanming said, after the statistics, from the first grade to the high school, Shanghai students to use 213 textbooks (primary, middle and high school, respectively, 73, 82, 58, excluding extra-curricular workbooks, reference books, Dictionaries and dictionaries, etc., cost 1750.36 yuan, "the cost of electronic textbooks is not more expensive than the traditional textbooks, more importantly, it saves a lot of paper, printing costs and energy consumption, conducive to environmental protection."　　"The development of electronic textbooks in East China Normal University Press that, if mass production, electronic textbooks will be priced at 1000 yuan, with the popularization of the degree of increase in production costs will be further reduced." Abroad has been promoted "in Singapore, 10 years ago, an electronic textbook was developed for storing, recording and reading information, as well as a number of electronic card slots, which could be inserted into textbook cards, job cards and dictionary cards, and could be used to send and receive e-mail and Exchange learning experiences with students from any part of the globe. "The state of California has announced the end of the print textbook era since last September," Huangshanming said. "The ripe primary and secondary schools have all used electronic textbooks." "There are still people worried that electronic textbooks will affect eyesight?" "This requires a breakthrough in the pilot technology through the gradual improvement, and strive to promote within 5 years to the primary and secondary schools." The city Board of Education said in its reply.