Abstract
The report delivered at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China explicitly outlines an educational digitalization strategy, providing high-level policy support for the transformation of ideological and political education in high schools and the upgrading of teachers’ roles. This article explores the impact of the digital and intelligent revolution on reshaping teachers’ abilities to educate and nurture students in these courses. It analyzes the challenges teachers face, including the diminishing authority of knowledge, limitations in resource integration, and the delayed application of technology. It proposes pathways to promote the transformation of teachers’ roles, such as empowering the development of theoretical literacy through digital platforms, optimizing teaching abilities through human-computer collaboration, and cultivating the spirit of educators through the integration of virtual and real environments. The study emphasizes that in the digital and intelligent era, ideological and political teachers must embrace the spirit of educators as their core, enhance their digital literacy and technological innovation capabilities, build a new “human-machine collaboration” teaching ecosystem, and achieve a systematic transformation of teaching content, methods, and evaluation. This will provide theoretical support and practical guidance for fulfilling the mission of “cultivating talent for the Party and the country.”
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