The Development Trend of Domestic Electronic Schoolbag and Comparative Study of Mainstream Products

This paper focuses on the comparison and comment of domestic mainstream brand electronic schoolbag's basic functions and its implementation details, and enumerates and comments on some brand electronic schoolbag's characteristic functions. At the end of this article, the paper introduces the development trend of the domestic electronic schoolbag. Introduction With the fast development of today's digital technology and embedded technology, China's information industry has developed strong enough to become China's primary industry. The application of information technology in education has become imperative. We look forward to solve the problem of student’s overweight schoolbag and other educational problems and change the fact that student’s learning environment is limited in the classroom by the combination of information technology and education reform. In recent years, the development of electronic schoolbag has been widely concerned. Electronic schoolbag is a new product of electronic education, it is a new attempt to promote the development of education. It is a product of the combination of school teaching contents, methods and computer technology and network technology. In general, it is a new way to promote the development of digital education. This paper compares the implementation details of the basic functions of different domestic mainstream brand electronic schoolbag, and comments on some characteristic functions of different electronic schoolbag. After the discussion on the implementation details of electronic schoolbag, the paper summarizes some scholar’s design scheme of the architecture model of electronic schoolbag. At the end of this article, the paper introduces the development trend of electronic schoolbag. Comparison of the Basic Function Through the analysis and generalization of the overall function of several domestic mainstream brands electronic schoolbag, I found the indispensable main functions of electronic schoolbag, they are: online class function, online test function, ask and answer function, performance calculation function, online homework function, useful materials database function, electronic dictionary function, point and read machine function, multimedia textbook reader function, monitoring function, materials update function. “Fig. 1” lists some basic functions that some electronic schoolbags have or do not have(Y for have and N for not have). International Conference on Education Technology and Information System (ICETIS 2013) © 2013. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 573 Fig.1. Comparison of the basic function Comparison of the Realization Details of Online Class Function “Fig. 2” lists some sub-functions that some electronic schoolbag’s online class function includes or does not include(Y for include and N for not include). The description of sub-functions in “Fig. 2” as follows: 1. Synchronous teaching function: teachers begin his class and teach the students, the students search the class id and log on the class and then participate in conventional classroom activities, such as note-taking, doing exercises in class and communicating with teachers and other students, it includes the following three components: a. Synchronous flip component: it is a function for teachers, teachers turn the pages of a book through this function, so as to realize the function of synchronous teaching. b. Electronic notebook component: it is a function for students, students record the important point of the class by using the function. c. Classroom exercises component: it is a function both for teachers and students, its specific implementation strategies as follows: first teacher send exercises to students, and then students receive and do the exercises, finally they send their answers to the teacher, and the system calculates the correct rate of their answers and other statistical information. In the end, the teacher adjusts their teaching activities according to this information. 2. Self-study function: students use the extracurricular learning materials that the electronic schoolbag provided for their self-study. 3. Interactive communication platform: students ask questions to their teachers and then the teachers answer the questions for their students online through this platform. 4. Textbook click and read function: it can read the textbook of Chinese, English and other liberal and art subjects, it is used for cultivating students' sense of language.