Recently, parents of Miaoshan No.2 Primary School in Jiangxia District reported that the school uses electronic screens to teach every day. Will staring at the screen for a long time damage children's eyesight? Such problems are not uncommon.
Some parents worry that the electronic whiteboard will cause eye discomfort.
Mr. Yi's children are in Miaoshan No.2 Primary School in Jiangxia District. At the beginning of April, he learned from other parents that almost every class in the school uses electronic screens for teaching, and sometimes the whole class uses electronic screens. Mr. yi is worried: "If we face the electronic screen for a long time, will it damage our children's eyesight?"
Earlier, Mr. Yang also raised the same question. He said that the child was only in the first grade of primary school, but his vision dropped sharply. He suspects that this is related to the long-term use of electronic screens in schools. He hopes that the education department can evaluate them to see if it will affect their eyesight.
The electronic screen mentioned by parents is actually called electronic whiteboard, which can be combined with computers and projectors to realize paperless office and teaching, and can also be written with a pen like an ordinary blackboard. It is more and more widely used in the field of teaching.
It is reported that the teaching machine currently used in Miaoshan No.2 Primary School has a low working environment, so it is not necessary to turn off the lights and draw the curtains. 1080p HD display with clear handwriting.
The teaching time of electronic products shall not exceed 30% of the total time.
The recorder found that the Outline of Wuhou's Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 1 1-2020) also clearly proposed to speed up the process of educational informationization and promote multimedia and electronic whiteboard to enter the teaching room.
The staff of the Municipal Education Conditions Management Office told the reporter that at present, electronic whiteboards have been basically realized in primary and secondary schools in Wuhan, and some schools have popularized the integration of teaching. The staff also said that products such as electronic whiteboards purchased by primary and secondary schools in Wuhan are' qualified products' that meet relevant technical standards and have been certified by the state.
On August 30th, 20 18, the Ministry of Education and National Health Commission jointly issued the Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment of Myopia for Children and Adolescents. It is clear that teaching and homework do not depend on electronic products, and the teaching time using electronic products should not exceed 30% of the total teaching time in principle, and written homework should be adopted in principle. In addition, the Hubei Provincial Department of Education issued the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Vision Health Management Schools for Primary and Secondary School Students in Hubei Province", which also put forward the same requirements.
The reporter learned from Wuhan Education Bureau that at present, primary and secondary schools in Wuhan strictly control the long-term use of electronic products in accordance with the relevant requirements of the state and Hubei Province, and will not completely replace traditional teaching.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Wuhan Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Young People with Visual Impairment, the monitoring data of 92 key monitoring schools in Wuhan show that the standardized rate of students' low vision has dropped from 50.83% in 20 14 to 45.45% in 20 17, achieving "three consecutive declines".
The director of Wuhan Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Teenagers' Visual Impairment said that besides some genetic factors, myopia is more closely related to behavior habits.
The National Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment Plan for Children and Adolescents' Myopia points out that the critical period of children's vision development is before the age of 6. Parents should pay attention to the early protection of children's eyesight. In the family, parents should actively guide their children to participate in outdoor activities and exercise, and ensure that they are exposed to natural light for more than 60 minutes every day. In addition, in order to control the use time of electronic products, especially preschool children, the cumulative time of using electronic products every day should not exceed 1 hour.
At the same time, parents should stop blindly participating in training, reduce the burden of children's extracurricular study, ensure sleep and nutrition, and let children eat more nutritious meals that are conducive to visual health, such as fish, fruits and green vegetables. And regularly take children to eye medical institutions for examination to realize early detection and early intervention.
Schools should improve teaching facilities and conditions, provide students with a learning environment that meets the requirements, adopt lighting equipment that is conducive to vision health, adhere to eye protection measures such as eye exercises, strengthen outdoor physical exercise, and strengthen eye protection management.