Beijing to Informationize High and Primary School Education
By the year 2003, all the high and primary schools in the downtown and high schools in the counties or townships of Beijing will offer information technology course to students, 100 percent of the high school students and over 90 percent of the primary school pupils will be able to grasp the basic application technique of computer and network technology and 100 percent of the high school students and 50 percent of the primary school pupils will master the skill of surfing the internet.
According to the first working conference on the informationization of high and primary school education, Beijing will take the lead in realizing education informationization and popularizing information technology course in China's primary and middle schools.
Education informationization, symbolized by the operation of computer multimedia and web communication, has become the commanding height of education development in the next century. A recent survey of Beijing shows that of the 1781 schools surveyed, 73.7 percent have computer classrooms, 49.5 percent offer computer course, 40.1 percent of their teachers have received computer training, 10.7 percent of the students have personal computers, 4.8 percent of the schools have campus network, 7.5 percent have internet website and 2.2percent of the students frequently go online. Beijing has laid a fairly solid foundation for being the first to attain the goal of education informationization in China's primary and middle schools.
Following is the goal for informationization construction of high and primary school education by 2005: all the districts and counties will have built regional networks and all the high and primary schools will have been connected with the main web of Beijing education information network; 1,000 regular high and primary schools will have built campus webs and 100 of them will have been turned into city-level model schools of campus webs; an average of eight senior high school students, 12 junior high school students and 15 primary school pupils will have shared one computer respectively; 100 percent of the teachers will have received information technology training. 90 percent of the teachers will have had the knowledge about how to go online, 80 percent of high and primary school teachers can use information technology in teaching.
By the year 2003, all the high and primary schools in the downtown and high schools in the counties or townships of Beijing will offer information technology course to students, 100 percent of the high school students and over 90 percent of the primary school pupils will be able to grasp the basic application technique of computer and network technology and 100 percent of the high school students and 50 percent of the primary school pupils will master the skill of surfing the internet.
