Put flying wings for geography learning
——The Construction and Application of the Digital Geography Special Laboratory of Nanjing No. 50 Middle School
Text | Tang Qing, Director of Academic Affairs of the 50th Middle School of Nanjing
Source: "Nanjing Education Equipment & Work-study" Journal, 2013, Issue 2, Total Issue 22, please reprint please indicate the source
Since its establishment in 1976, Nanjing No. 50 Middle School has been known for its beautiful environment, excellent school style and excellent quality of education and teaching in Jiangsu Province, cities and districts. In recent years, the school has actively advocated the "respect education" school concept and interpreted it as: "respect the law of education, respect the value of teachers, respect the growth of students", and determined "to work hard to improve the quality of campus life of teachers and students. "School goals. With the unremitting efforts of the fifty middle school students, the school has successively won the "Jiangsu Moral Education Advanced School", "Jiangsu Province Safe Campus", "Jiangsu Modern Education Technology Experimental School", "Jiangsu Province Psychological Education Famous School", "Jiangsu Province" "Advanced Health Collective", "Jiangsu Provincial First-Class Library", "Jiangsu Primary and Secondary School Standardization Laboratory", "National Youth Philatelic Activity Demonstration Base", "Nanjing Elementary and Middle School Qualified Schools and 'Five Room'" Advanced Construction , "Nanjing Educational Technology Equipment Management Demonstration School" and other honors.
Excellent school performance is inseparable from the strong guarantee of advanced education and teaching facilities and equipment. With the care and support of the secondary education technology and equipment department in Nanjing urban area, in 2012, our school combined with the library transformation and relocation, and also upgraded and reformed the special classrooms of our school. One of them was to build a new digital geographic laboratory.
1. Practically build a geography classroom from reality
The design concept of our digital geography special laboratory follows the Ministry of Education's "Specifications for the Construction of Special Geography Classrooms in Middle Schools", with "digitalization" as the guide to create a good environment for geography teaching; to facilitate students to refer to various geographic information materials and curriculum standards. The geography case materials of the school facilitate students to carry out practical activities, create conditions for inquiry learning and subject experiment activities; create conditions for heuristic, inquiry, discussion, and participatory teaching; infiltrate the frontiers of geographic science development and curriculum teaching. The construction and application of a dedicated digital geography laboratory will add wings to the study of geography.
Nanjing 50th Middle School Geography Classroom
During the implementation of the project, under the organization and guidance of the Nanjing Educational Equipment and Work-study Office, the General Affairs Department worked with geography teachers and professional technicians of the manufacturer to formulate a design plan based on the actual situation of our school. The total usable area of ​​the special geography classroom of our school is 115 square meters, and there is one special geography classroom and one equipment room. When choosing equipment, our school abandons the big and comprehensive ideas and strives to be "easy to use, enough to use, and practical". On the one hand, it actively learns about the use of the school from the geographically equipped classrooms. On the one hand, it fully considers our school. It is a junior high school, and has discarded some equipment that is not used in junior high school and less practical equipment. Considering that the campus of our school is small in size, with a large number of students, and the school premises are relatively tight, in order to be able to more fully play the role of a dedicated classroom, our school plans to place geographical instruments and equipment in a geographical special room, and try to place as much as possible in the equipment room. Some historical models are displayed so that the functions of the dedicated classrooms have also been expanded. This series of design and ideas based on specific reality has been affirmed by the urban technical decoration department.
Now the internal layout of the special classroom for geography in our school is reasonable, and the overall planning and construction are scientific and orderly. The equipment is equipped with the most advanced digital planet system, multimedia equipment and interactive whiteboard that can realize interactive teaching. When you walked into the classroom, you saw two large terrain models (China and the world), with a blue sky and white cloud sky dome on the top, and high-definition geographic images on both sides of the curtains, including the world climate, China's political district, and traffic. Enter a natural environment, so as to better enable students to pay attention to the theme of our geography learning-man-land relationship. A row of low cabinets under a window on one side of the classroom displays more than 20 geography teaching models including glacial landforms, loess landforms, flowing water landforms, Danxia landforms, karst landforms, and movable geological structure models. I let students Observe these geomorphic entities, intuitively find their characteristics, distinguish their differences, use active models to allow students to demonstrate geological structures-folds and faults, students can also split the topographic map, and then they can draw topographic profiles themselves , Exercised the students' experimental ability. The three-dimensional model of China's topography and the world's topography set in the back of the classroom show the three-dimensional image of China's main five-vertical and three-horizontal railway trunk lines, the main river basins of capital cities. Equipped with a voice-explained earth motion device, it can be used for continuous and fixed-point demonstrations (two to two days) and segmented demonstrations (such as summer and half a year). There is also a time zone demonstrator hanging on the left wall of the classroom. The "Digital Planet System" can also be used for dynamic demonstration through a digital video spherical screen, which can allow students to see the earth and other planets "from outer space". It has a strong three-dimensional sense and global vision, and is very vivid. It realizes resource sharing through Internet connection and remote control, as well as multimedia information such as sound, images, animations, videos, etc., and maximizes the full integration of geography teaching and information technology.
Second, the use of clear management system to inject equipment vitality
The special classroom for geography of our school was officially put into use in February 2013. We understand that the starting point and destination of educational technology and equipment are to meet the needs of education and teaching, to serve education and teaching, to serve teachers and students, and to continuously deepen education reform. Making full use of the benefits of equipment is its ultimate goal. To this end, on the basis of "construction, distribution", we strengthen management and use, and give full play to the benefits of equipment use.
1. Actively participate in training, carry out teaching and scientific research activities, and establish the school's dedicated geographical classroom resource library.
On the one hand, we actively participate in training courses, special lectures, outing visits and other training activities organized by the municipal education technology equipment department, so that geography teachers can grasp the operation skills of the new instruments in time, and adapt to the classroom teaching mode of special geography classrooms. At the same time, through the way of inviting, the professional and technical personnel of the manufacturer are invited to the school to demonstrate the operation skills of the instrument to the teacher and explain the use and development of the application software. The geography classroom of our school also actively participates in the "11th Five-Year Plan" of Educational Science, the key topic of the Ministry of Education "Research on the Development of Teaching Resources, Teaching Mode and Its Application Effect Based on Digital Planet System", and now five geography teachers can use the Various instruments and equipment.
Our school strives to build our school's dedicated geographic resource library, through the secondary development of existing resources by teachers, and constantly accumulate and improve. For the application of the "Digital Planet System", teachers must constantly update the new resources provided by the development company to the resource library of the school ’s special classroom for geography. For example, teachers can obtain texts from the Internet, Metropolitan Area Network or other channels. Resources such as videos, pictures, multimedia, etc. form a dynamic and three-dimensional resource display form through the image conversion technology of "Digital Planet System". On the other hand, teachers need to take the initiative to develop new curriculum resources, such as teachers' own teaching design, courseware and papers written. Only in this way can life and vitality be injected into the instruments and equipment to maximize their benefits.
Hold municipal geography teacher training
2. Establish and improve various use and management systems to standardize the use of special geographic classrooms.
Seriously implement various management standards to ensure the scientific use of educational technology equipment. The first is to implement the system management norms, so that all the work of the special classroom for geography can be followed by rules and evidence; the second is to implement the safety management norms, strictly follow the experimental procedures to conduct experiments, and establish and improve various items to deal with emergencies Plan to ensure the safety of teachers and students; Third, implement environmental management standards, create a scientific and comfortable atmosphere for special classrooms, and provide teachers and students with a good academic learning environment; Fourth, implement the management standards for instruments and equipment, so that various instruments and equipment get scientific Use; Fifth, implement account management standards, equipment should be recorded in school fixed assets in a timely manner, so that the accounts are consistent, and the accounts are consistent, to ensure that the school assets are not damaged; Sixth, implement file management standards, and reserve rich data for laboratory work.
Students taking geography class
In view of the problems in the use of special geographic classrooms, we have established close contact with the contractors of the special classrooms, which can obtain timely professional technical services and maintenance, and record them in a timely manner.
3. Improve the utilization rate of special classrooms for geography, organize various geographic activities, and mention the scientific literacy of students.
Since its official use, the special-purpose geography classroom has played its due role. In addition to the regular weekly geography classes in the special-purpose geography classroom, the school-based geography courses of our school are open once a week at regular intervals. Use records, equipment loan records and maintenance records, etc. Due to the high efficiency of the use of special geography classrooms, it provides great convenience for the teaching of geography and other subjects in our school. In just half a year, a special construction of a municipal laboratory has been carried out in the special geography classrooms. Applied training activities, 2 district-level open geography courses and multiple school-level open courses were held. Many leaders of our school personally participated in activities such as listening to and evaluating lessons. In the future, we will combine the actual conditions of our school and make full use of the advantages of the classrooms to further develop school-based active courses.
3. Promote the diversification of teaching methods with the help of technical means
With the help of the construction of a number of special classrooms, such as special classrooms for geography, our school's educational technology equipment has greatly improved, and its management has also been greatly improved. A group of professional management talents have been trained. In 2012, our school was rated as "Nanjing Educational Technology Equipment Management Demonstration School", and our school's equipment achievements were selected into the Gulou District Educational Technology Equipment Achievements Album.
With the help of the platform dedicated to geography, a new and interesting geography course was shown to students, a free and active classroom. For students, vivid images, intuitive and realistic geographic models, images, and presentation instruments can greatly stimulate students' curiosity, not only to make students like geography subjects, but also to students on the earth they live in and the mysteries of exploring the universe. Both have a great interest in natural sciences, and have inserted wings for the study of geography, allowing students to travel between the world and the world, so as to achieve the purpose of improving students 'learning efficiency and cultivating students' geographical science literacy. Teachers and students of our school have made many achievements in geography teaching and learning in recent years. The two teachers were rated as "regional subject leaders", the two young teachers grew into "regional youth", and students participated in the national "Earth Doctor" "Geography Science and Technology Contest, with excellent results, the school was rated as" National Advanced Geography Teaching Collective. "
In summary, the special classroom for geography breaks the old classroom teaching model, changes the students ’single and passive learning method, establishes and forms a diversified learning method that exerts the student ’s subjectivity, and promotes students’ initiative and individuality under the guidance of teachers Learning allows students to truly become masters of learning, so we hope that classrooms dedicated to geography can be more widely used. Teachers use Chinese topographic maps to organize students to learn Chinese topographic school leaders give prizes to students who participated in the "National Earth School Doctor" competition. School leaders give prizes to students who participated in the "National Earth School Doctor" competition
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