Integrating Modern Technological Achievements into Primary and Secondary School Curricula: Values, Challenges, Practices, and Suggestions

Abstract

Integrating modern scientific achievements into primary and secondary school curricula is a crucial prerequisite for enhancing science education. Its value lies in responding to contemporary development concerns, implementing key measures of curriculum reform, and providing essential support for educational functions. At present, there are realistic challenges that need to be confronted, including the need to clarify conceptual understanding, optimize content structure, update teaching methods, and clarify primary responsibilities. Based on this, Chongqing has constructed three progressive courses involving innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing—five dimensions for integrating course, guided by the spirit of scientists and for many years, it has been committed to advancing the tiered cultivation of talents with the comprehensive, individual, and lifelong development of students as the educational goal. It proposes approaches such as developing standards to set norms and quality indicators for course integration, enhancing teacher capabilities with a focus on course development skills, building platforms to create a real-virtual integrated course resource pool, broadening paths to facilitate scientists and research institutions’ participation, and improving systems to establish a comprehensive collaborative guarantee and incentive mechanism to expand and enhance the integration of modern scientific achievements into primary and secondary school curricula.