Ministry of Education responds to proposal to ban advertising in electronic textbooks
The Ministry of Education and Training is drafting a Circular regulating standards, processes for adaptation and appraisal of electronic textbooks (textbooks) from printed versions according to the general education program. Electronic textbooks are designed with features such as searching, marking, taking notes, enlarging, shrinking content; basic interaction (choosing answers, dragging and dropping, entering text, listening repeatedly... ), can be used online or downloaded and especially do not insert advertising, business content or shopping suggestions.
Contributing opinions to the draft, some Departments of Education and Training proposed to add the function of monitoring learning progress, regulating maximum capacity and tightening the security of primary school students' personal data. However, the Ministry believes that monitoring learning progress is highly personalized and difficult to apply widely in electronic textbooks; and affirmed that there are regulations to comply with the Publishing Law, the Network Security Law and regulations on personal data protection, and electronic textbooks do not manage personal learning data for the time being.
Regarding infrastructure and adaptation processes, the draft requires ensuring network security, not containing malicious links; organizing technical experiments and evaluating user experience on a regional representative scale. The minimum experimental lesson rate ranges from 5% to 15% depending on the number of subjects each year, in direct, online or combined forms, to ensure feasibility and effectiveness before official implementation. See more...
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Teacher who sows letters with love for more than 30 years
With more than 30 years of attachment to the profession, Ms. Bui Thi Dung - a teacher at Gia Khanh Elementary School (Gia Khanh Elementary School, Gia Loc commune, Hai Phong city) always keeps her dedication to the podium. From her student dreams, she chose the teaching profession as a "fate" and persistently sows letters with simplicity and dedication. For her, teaching not only conveys knowledge but also fosters personality, helping students know how to love and live responsibly.
In her position as homeroom teacher, she is the "second mother" of many generations of students, especially caring for and accompanying students in difficult circumstances. She patiently reforms students with understanding and closeness; and connects parents to join hands in supporting special cases, creating a spiritual support and better learning conditions for them. See more...
Quang Ninh students have Tet holiday until March: Parents invite grandparents from the countryside to look after them
While students in many provinces and cities returned to school from February 23, students at all levels in Quang Ninh had to go back to school until March 2 due to the 16-day Tet holiday schedule. This "mismatch" has caused many parents to fall into the situation where their children are still on vacation but their parents have gone to work from the 7th day of Tet.
Many families have to ask grandparents from the countryside to look after their grandchildren, hire babysitters or take their children with them when going to work. Especially for young students, especially preschool and 1st grade, it is even more difficult to manage because they cannot leave children at home alone, while tutoring centers and skills centers have not yet resumed operation.
According to the school year plan framework of the Ministry of Education and Training, localities are proactive in arranging Tet holiday schedules but must ensure enough 35 weeks of actual study. Therefore, the holiday time between provinces and cities is different, but the long holiday in Quang Ninh has created additional pressure to look after children for many families after Tet. See more...
