Education ministry allocates NT$20 million budget to digitalize public schools
Education ministry allocates NT$20 million budget to digitalize public schools
2022-09-21
Since the beginning of the year, the education ministry has funneled NT$11.7 billion to provide tablets and fast internet connection to every public school classroom. Today we visit two schools, one in Hsinchu and the other in New Taipei, to see how digital technology is put into action.
Tablet in hand, students at Hsinchu’s Guang-Hua Junior High School take their lesson outdoors. They’re on their way to complete the mission set by their English teacher, Wang Ching-hung.
Lee Po-yen
Student
I really like learning at school with tablets, because they improve our concentration and make classes more interesting, unlike more traditional lessons where there’s only a textbook, which is slightly duller.
To digitalize the classroom, the Ministry of Education is handing out up to NT$900 million in subsidies for schools to procure more than 700 units of digital learning content and software, to construct and upgrade the digital learning ecosystem in public schools.
Wang Ching-hung
English teacher
About four to five years ago, kids started using tablets in the classroom, while teachers began lecturing on smart boards. Therefore, since digital learning technologies were being introduced to the classroom, the learning site had been transposed from the classroom to the wider campus. That way, students would learn in a more continuous manner, instead of only learning during English lessons scheduled three times a week.
Up north in New Taipei, students at Yong-Ping High School access the day’s lesson with laptops. This learning method had long become routine here.
Tsai Ya-han
Geography teacher
Personally, I really like where this new educational trend is going, where we utilize technology to make classes more exciting. And because technological tools are constantly keeping up with the times, we can improve upon existing lessons every year. For example, this year we can do maps, and next year we’ll integrate virtual reality into lessons. We can always update lessons.
Between 2022 and 2025, the education ministry will allocate up to NT$20 billion in total to set up internet connection in every classroom and make sure every student has access to a tablet. For now, the ministry is working on upgrading digital hardware and software in primary and secondary schools, to construct a better digital learning environment.
斥資百億元! 教育部推"班班有網路 生生用平板"
2022-09-21
政府自111年已投入經費117億元，針對全國中小學1年級至12年級，全面推動數位學習精進計畫，達成「班班有網路、生生用平板
的目標。成果如何，一起到新竹光華國中，看看他們怎麼用平板學習英語。
手裡拿著平板，穿梭在校園中的是來自新竹光華國中的同學，在王靜鴻老師的帶領下，進行著今天的英語學習課程。
[[光華國中學生 李柏諺]]
“我蠻喜歡來學校學習的，用平板這種，因為可以讓我們的專注度可以提升，然後可以讓課堂上更有趣，
會像過去那種比較傳統的課程，就是只有一本課本，這樣就比較枯燥一點。”
為落實數位內容充實計畫，教育部補助縣市與學校高達9億元的經費，採購超過700項的數位內容與教學軟體，以建構更優質的數位學習生態系統。
[[光華國中 王靜鴻老師]]
“大概四五年前開始，孩子使用平板 ，那老師使用的是觸屏大屏這樣子教學的模式，那所以學生因為有這樣，數位學習技術的導入之後，學習的場域不再是發生在教室裡頭而已，學生的學習他已經遷移到教室以外的校園，所以學生的學習會是連貫的 持續的，而不是只靠一週三節課的英文課在發生而已。”
打開載具 連上網路，快速的找到今天要使用的學習平臺，永平高中的同學對於數位學習的方式已相當熟練。
[[永平高中 蔡雅涵老師]]
“其實我個人是還蠻喜歡這樣子的一個教育的新趨勢，就是可以讓科技的工具，來幫助我們的教學更有活力。而且科技的工具因為它是不斷與時俱進，所以我們其實每一年都可以去做一些微幅的調整，比方說今年是做地圖，那明年可能我們可以做VR，我們都可以不斷去把它做更新。”
從111年到114年，教育部將投入高達200億元的總預算，推動班班有網路、生生用平板政策，接下來也將持續完善全臺中小學的軟體與硬體建設，打造更優質的數位學習環境。
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