On April 12th, as a leading indicator in the field of digital reading in China, the 5th China Digital Reading Conference opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The conference fully showcased numerous new digital reading products and technological achievements in China over the past 70 years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Sun Shoushan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, along with leaders from the Publicity Department of the CPC, visited the exhibition area jointly presented by People's Education Press, Higher Education Press, Xueersi, and other units. They experienced digital products from Good Future's Xueersi Light Course, Xueersi Publishing, as well as Xueersi's web-based AI Mandarin system and the Education Open Platform's intelligent classroom AI recognition system.

Digital Technology Activates Screens of All Sizes to Support Inclusive Education Development

In recent years, promoting universal reading has become an important development direction in Chinese culture, with "advocating universal reading" being included in the government work report for six consecutive years. The development of digital reading plays a crucial role in enriching the ways of universal reading and meeting the people's needs for a better life. The diversification of the digital reading industry is being continuously driven by more textual content and richer presentation forms.

In order to cultivate lifelong beneficial abilities in children, Xueersi has proposed a six-ability system comprising reading ability, communication ability, inquiry ability, abstract thinking, speculative thinking, and creative thinking, from the dimensions of learning ability and thinking mode. Reading ability is an important part of this. The redefined Xueersi is becoming synonymous with "ability development," with a focus on learning progress under the premise of physical and mental health and capability improvement.

In the "Educating Future Generations" themed exhibition area at the conference, an animated lesson on the national anthem is being presented to the audience on the screen, part of Xueersi's "Patriotic Education Series." The series was scripted by Xueersi, and the Xueersi Light Course team used Motion Graphics and FLASH technologies to create an educational experience for children to learn about patriotism within the story context. Simultaneously, the animated videos incorporate interactive functions such as answering questions and post-class supplementary exercises and tests, enabling children to learn at their own pace through personal reflection.

Xueersi Light Course showcases "Patriotic Education Series" course

As a universal synchronous learning interactive platform, Xueersi Light Course has collaborated with mainstream publishing institutions such as People's Education Press to research and develop education resources for 15 years. In terms of teaching methods, Xueersi Light Course integrates abstract knowledge points into fun animated videos, using situational teaching to stimulate learning interest, making the course content more in line with students' cognition. It also offers light gamification and interactive features to make learning more fun and effective.

The "Parrot Reading" series from Xueersi Publishing fully showcases a wide range of digital book resources. Parrot Reading is a science-based grading English system tailored for children aged 3-16, incorporating 250 books selected from Highlights, a well-known children's book brand popular in the United States for 70 years. Parrot Reading also divides the reading materials into six major themes—nature, society, stories, science, humanities, and common knowledge—to comprehensively enhance early language development, listening ability, attention, memory, reading ability, and critical thinking, meeting the reading needs of children at different stages and enabling them to gain lifelong beneficial abilities while learning a language.

Xueersi Publishing book "My Highlights American Science Grading Library"

Currently, Xueersi Light Course has provided high-quality educational content and animated course services to more than 300 cities and over a million users. Parrot Reading has also been well-received by numerous students and parents. Xueersi Light Course and Parrot Reading hope to deliver rich digital education resources to millions of families, enabling students across the country to enjoy high-quality online learning services.
 

AI Innovative Classroom Teaching Mode Drives Educational Informatization Transformation

Currently, the integration of artificial intelligence and education is accelerating the informatization and intelligent transformation of the education industry. How to better integrate AI technology into the teaching scene? Xueersi's "AI Teacher" and the intelligent classroom AI recognition system from the Education Open Platform provide the answer.

National Committee member of the CPPCC, Sun Shoushan, chairman of the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association, visits Xueersi's AI Mandarin teaching system

In the education technology exhibition area, many children had a great time interacting with Xueersi's "AI Teacher," which corrects children's Mandarin pronunciation. This "AI Teacher" is actually an AI Mandarin teaching system independently developed by Xueersi, deeply integrating the voice recognition and evaluation technologies developed by Xueersi to intelligently assess and correct pronunciation, generating multidimensional learning data reports. In addition, the AI Mandarin teaching system also includes a variety of foreign languages and Chinese dialects, with the ability to customize the language corpus based on regional cultural characteristics, displaying common words using a "picture + bilingual pronunciation" mode to promote Mandarin teaching.

Currently, the "AI Teacher" has been applied in Xueersi's web-based classes, and the AI Mandarin teaching system has benefited nearly 60,000 students in 71 schools and 124 teaching points in Zhaojue County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan. The dream of Yi children to "learn Mandarin well" is becoming a reality.

At the other side of the education technology exhibition, the intelligent classroom AI recognition system from the Education Open Platform of Good Future also attracted many visitors. As long as a child stands in front of the camera, the intelligent system can recognize actions such as raising hands using AI technologies including face recognition and voice recognition.

Students interact with the Good Future intelligent classroom AI recognition system

Building a student's data profile is essential for targeted teaching. The intelligent classroom AI recognition system has achieved the dataization of the teaching process, jointly with education experts, data experts, and others, conducting multi-dimensional research and modeling on the teaching process based on emotions, interactions, and effectiveness of knowledge transfer, scientifically evaluating teaching quality, and empowering teachers, students, parents, and the teaching system. These AI technologies have also been integrated into the solution of the Education Open Platform's intelligent classroom, empowering different regional primary and secondary education and training institutions to help solve the shortage of high-quality teachers and achieve personalized teaching on a large scale.

"Comprehensively promoting the informatization of education to drive the modernization of education" is a new expectation for the future development of education from all sectors of society. Digital reading is not only a comprehensive reform of traditional reading methods, but also profoundly affects the development direction of the education field. As a technology education company, Xueersi is committed to "promoting educational progress with technology," continuously exploring new educational technology models such as digital education, and working with all parties to promote the transformation and upgrading of the education industry, helping China achieve "fair and quality" education.