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Trends in Educational Reform
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What is the purpose of the informatization of school education?


The informatization of school education has a two-fold purpose in order to respond to the shift to an information-oriented society: {1}As part of the curriculum, to enable children to use computers appropriately, by cultivating in them the ability to utilize information and transmit it themselves by sorting out the necessary information without being led astray by erroneous information and unnecessary information; and {2}As a method of instruction, to enable children to think about their own way of life by having them acquire ways to learn and think by actively using computers and the Internet for studying each subject, and by cultivating attitudes toward independently and creatively engaging in problem-solving and inquiry.


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