Reflections on strengthening the integration of information technology and subject teaching in primary and secondary schools

With the rapid development of computer technology in China, modern information technology with computer as the core is changing people's life and learning style at an alarming rate. School education is facing profound changes, and information technology has gradually penetrated into all aspects of school education and teaching. Studying the integration of information technology and subject teaching has become a hot issue in current teaching reform.

The organic combination of information technology and subject teaching is to integrate information technology with the teaching and learning of subject courses, change the traditional teaching mode and improve the efficiency of teaching and learning. The integration of computer and various courses is to integrate all kinds of technical means into teaching activities perfectly and properly-just like using blackboard and chalk in teaching. To achieve the goal of "integration", teachers should not only be familiar with and master technical means, but more importantly, they should deeply understand the essence of education, the fundamental purpose of this subject education, the difficulties in teaching, the advantages and limitations of traditional teaching, and combine technology to carry out teaching activities better.

First, "integration" is an important goal of educational informatization.

Educational informatization refers to the process of comprehensively and deeply applying modern information technology to the field of education and promoting the reform and development of education, and the result will inevitably form a brand-new educational form, that is, information education.

What are the characteristics of educational informatization? We can examine it from the technical level and the educational level respectively. Technically, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are digitalization, networking, intelligence and multimedia. From the perspective of education, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are openness, enjoyment, interaction and cooperation. We regard education informatization as the process of pursuing informatization education. Information education has the remarkable characteristics of multimedia teaching materials, globalization of resources, individualization of teaching, autonomy of learning, cooperation of activities, automation of management and virtualization of environment.

Information education shows us a bright future of education. However, educational informatization is an adaptive social process, which means that there is a tendency of active interaction with the traditional educational environment, and its nature determines whether it can adapt well to the environment and how to adapt to it. Therefore, we must clearly realize that the application of information technology will not naturally create educational miracles, but may promote educational innovation and strengthen traditional education, because the social function of any technology depends on its users. Someone said it well: "If information technology is a powerful magic wand, then teachers are magicians who manipulate it." Therefore, it is very necessary for us teachers to recognize the general direction of educational reform, update educational concepts, and know how to use information technology to support educational reform and promote educational development in the face of the coming wave of educational informatization.

The Notice of the Ministry of Education on Popularizing Information Technology Education in Primary and Secondary Schools clearly puts forward the requirement of "promoting the integration of information technology with other disciplines" in order to promote the change of learning methods and teaching methods based on modern information technology environment. How to effectively strengthen the integration of information technology and subject teaching has been paid more and more attention by the administrative department of education and the majority of primary and secondary schools, and has become an important goal of educational informatization.

Realizing the informationization of education and vigorously promoting the application of information technology in classroom teaching are new growth points to improve the comprehensive strength of education, a new breakthrough to promote teaching reform and a driving force to realize educational modernization. In a sense, information technology has become the only way for contemporary education to lead to the future, and it has become a battleground for all countries and regions in the world to pursue educational advantages in the competition of comprehensive strength. Because of this, information technology has become the commanding height of contemporary education. Whoever occupies this mountain will be in a favorable position in the new century.

Second, "integration" is an important means to reform traditional teaching methods.

The so-called "integration of information technology and subject teaching" refers to a new teaching method that organically combines information technology, information resources, information methods and subject teaching content in the process of subject teaching to complete the task of subject teaching. The integration of information technology and subject teaching means that information technology is regarded as an organic part of teaching activities. However, integration does not mean mixing. It emphasizes that before using information technology, teachers should make clear the advantages and disadvantages of information technology and the needs of subject teaching, try to find out where information technology can improve learning effect, find out which teaching contents can not be achieved by traditional means or can not achieve good teaching objectives, and let students complete those learning tasks that can not be achieved by other methods or have poor results.

With the help of computer technology, teaching materials are no longer limited to words and graphics printed in books, and various forms of teaching materials have emerged, such as electronic teaching materials, multimedia software, online teaching programs and so on. With the continuous growth of information resources, the curriculum resources of education and learning are no longer limited to textbooks and teaching AIDS used in class, but the extracurricular curriculum resources are rich and colorful, such as books in bookstores and libraries, exhibits in museums and science and technology museums, scientific research reports of scientific research institutions, news and social information from various media, etc.

From the perspective of learning methods, information technology has broken the organizational form of class teaching system, and students can acquire knowledge through information retrieval, investigation, experiment and discussion. From the perspective of teaching organization, information technology emphasizes the flexible use of various teaching organizational forms, changes the single class teaching system, and is supplemented by diversified teaching organizational forms such as group teaching, group cooperative learning, individual counseling and open teaching.

Modern information technology environment provides a broad space for teachers' guidance activities and students' independent participation activities. In the information technology environment, teaching activities can have the following structures: teacher-led classroom teaching structure, personalized learning-based classroom teaching structure and group cooperative learning-based classroom teaching structure. In the integration of information technology and subject teaching, many goals of students' learning require students to acquire materials actively and purposefully. Teachers are organizers, directors, promoters and consultants in the teaching process.

Traditional teaching activities are composed of three elements: teachers, students and teaching content, which are interrelated and interact with each other to form an organic whole, thus forming a stable teaching structure. Its characteristic is that the teaching content is transmitted to students through the teaching of teachers and the assistance of teaching media. In this structure, information technology only exists as a bearing and transmission tool, and has not really become an element in the structure. Therefore, if we don't integrate information technology into classroom teaching and build a new teaching structure, even if the teaching methods and means are advanced, we will inevitably wear new shoes and take the old road.

Thirdly, integration is an important way to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability.

The application of modern information technology plays a very important role in helping students to study and explore independently, stimulating their interest in learning and cultivating their innovative spirit. The curriculum integration of information technology and other disciplines is an important way to cultivate talents with innovative spirit and learning ability.

In the traditional teaching mode of our country, the teacher's "teaching" has always been the center. Teachers pass the teaching content to students through classroom teaching and blackboard writing in the form of "one mouth, one piece of chalk, one blackboard and one lesson plan". In such teaching activities, although it is convenient for teachers to organize classroom teaching activities and help teachers play a leading role, they pay too much attention to the teaching side of teachers and ignore the learning side of students. As the cognitive subject, students' initiative, enthusiasm and creativity are greatly limited, and students are always in a passive position. Of course, the cultivation of their innovative spirit and practical ability can not achieve the ideal effect.

How can we give full play to students' initiative, enthusiasm and creativity in the learning process, so that students can take the initiative to learn, become the main body of learning to obtain information, analyze information, process information, and then build new knowledge and effectively cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability? The key is to fundamentally change the traditional teaching mode, so that the role of teachers can be changed from the center of the traditional teaching mode to the organizer, commander and promoter of teaching activities. In modern information technology, especially the network technology characterized by abundant information provides a very broad space for research-based learning. In this online inquiry learning, we can cultivate students' ability to identify, collect, store, process and innovate resource information, urge students to explore new things in observation, arrangement, cooperation and construction, and stimulate the innovative spirit of discovering new phenomena and exploring new laws. Information technology provides extremely rich information resources and constantly updated knowledge, allowing students to roam freely in the ocean of knowledge, giving wings to their imagination, having enough information to support their exploration and imagination, and students' innovative ability is born leisurely in the process of exploration.

How to better integrate information technology and curriculum, let me talk about my own views:

1, raise awareness and change ideas

Fully realize the great role of the application of information technology in promoting teaching reform and improving teaching quality; It will greatly promote the change of traditional educational concept and the establishment of modern educational concept with students as the main body; It will greatly promote the cultivation of students' information literacy and improve students' information ability. We should fully realize that the application of information technology in teaching is not only a technical means, but also a fundamental change in learning methods. As a school leader, we should take informatization as an important carrier to improve the quality of education and teaching, and combine information technology with the daily teaching work of the school. Deepen the research on the subject of "integration of information technology and other disciplines", continue to explore the classroom teaching mode under the network environment, increase software investment and enrich teaching resources.

2. Highlight key points and strengthen integration.

The integration of information technology and subject teaching should be regarded as an important task to promote educational informatization. All schools should strengthen the integration on the basis of the reform of new curriculum standards, and give full play to the advantages of information technology in students' autonomous learning, active inquiry and cooperation and exchange. School leaders should put forward moderate requirements for teachers, take the use of information technology for education and teaching as a prerequisite, require teachers to collect education and teaching resources through the Internet, encourage teachers to make personal web pages, develop subject teaching websites, select powerful subject groups to start this work first, and sum up experience in time for promotion and publicity.

3. Taking the subject research as the breakthrough point, the ways and methods of integrating information technology with subject teaching are discussed in depth.

The research of the subject has a great role in promoting the integration of information technology and subject teaching, and all schools should do this work well. The integration of information technology and subject teaching is a new and arduous task for our educators in the process of educational informatization. Therefore, it is necessary to intensify research, require schools to conduct special research in this field, and focus on the ways and means of integration.

4, maximize the role of existing equipment, to ensure the normal research work.

Hardware construction is the foundation and software development is the guarantee. Just like our school has only one online classroom and 60 students' computers, it can't fully meet the needs of teachers and students. Based on the principles of construction, application and research, we have embarked on a road with the topic of "integration of information technology and subject teaching" as the leader, developing teachers through topic research, developing students through developing teachers, and developing the characteristics of the school through developing students.

5. The key to integration lies in teachers.

Teachers' training should be all-round, dynamic and open, and should be carried out with the development of society and the gradual upgrading of technology. In the future, the training of teachers in our school will focus on case training, and problems will be found in training and solved in research. In addition, for classroom teaching under the network environment, students need to have certain computer operation skills. On the existing basis, further improve the school information technology education curriculum, improve students' information literacy, and lay the foundation for integration.

In short, the integration of information technology and subject teaching is a long-term and arduous task. We should grasp early, quickly and well, take the integration of information technology and subject teaching as a breakthrough, comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching in our region, and effectively promote the process of education informatization in our region.