Lai Qingde: Children from textbooks in the totalitarian era only know about China’s three rivers and five mountains, but they don’t know where Taiwan’s Zhuoshui River is.

[FTNN新聞網]Reporter Chen Hongzhi/Reporting from Taipei

Vice President Lai Ching-te attended the International Forum on Contemporary Digital Textbooks today (4th). In his speech, he said that in the textbooks of Taiwan’s totalitarian era, children only know China’s three rivers and five mountains, but they don’t know where the Zhuoshui River in Taiwan where they live is. “But these Everything has become a thing of the past, and now the content of textbooks centers on one’s own life and presents the region and culture, which is a very good thing.”

Lai Qingde pointed out that with the changes of the times, the contents of various textbooks have gradually been presented centered on life, which is a very good thing. In addition, most of the articles in textbooks in the past were ancient texts, but now there are articles written by contemporary authors, which are more closely in line with current society.

Lai Ching-te said that during his term as Executive Dean, he sensed the advent of the digital age and therefore proposed the “Smart Nation” policy, which included formulating a “campus smart network plan” and a “strengthening digital teaching and learning information application environment plan”. Painting” etc. Later, during the tenure of former dean Su Zhenchang, plans such as “Every class has the Internet and every student uses a tablet” were also launched.

Lai Qingde predicts that the future era of comprehensive intelligence will include smart manufacturing, smart homes, smart teaching, smart countries, etc., including unmanned factories, driverless cars, and the paperless era. The era of comprehensive intelligence will soon come. step comes.

Lai Ching-te said that in the future, the government will continue to work with the industry to continue to strengthen digital teaching in education, so that Taiwan can use the power of the technology industry to provide children with a more complete, more advanced, and better digital learning environment, and compete in global competition. To gain a favorable position, “we all work together.”

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