| The great educationalist Sukhomlinski said that, "life has put forward so complicated tasks to school that no satisfactory effect can be achieved without the entire society, above all, the high level educational accomplishment of family, regardless of whatever efforts the teacher has made." He thought that, "child cannot realize comprehensive and harmonious development until such conditions are matured: school and family, which should not only need concerted action and put forward similar requirements on children, but also have a common goal, adopt consistent belief, set about from the same principle all along, and bring in no divergence either on educational purpose, process or means."China has always paid attention to the cooperative education of family and school and also put forward a wide variety of cooperative educational forms, such as family-school contact hotline, family-school communication, school newspaper and annual, householder meeting, home visit, etc. Along with the coming of information era, network - a convenient communication tool also provides new opportunity to the cooperation between school and family. How to make use of virtual learning community to construct networked new learmng community so as to realize the interaction between school and family? What characteristics should the interaction of the elements of such a network learning community will be? What changes shall such an interaction mode bring to students, householders, and teachers? All those problems are still waited to be settled. This paper describes the course of online family-school interaction authentically and in details through the course of the online family-school interaction organized and supported by the author in a school; at the same time, the author has conducted in-depth analysis on the problems found in this course.This paper adopts the research method of combining "qualitative research" with "quantitative research", tracks and researches on the acts of the research objects with qualitative research method, collects abundant materials and collates and analyzes the materials, obtains general system structure by quantitative description (frequency statistics, etc.), and provides the understanding and rich scenario of the meanings with qualitative research (interview, observation, etc.). By way of combining the two research modes to obtain research conclusion, this paper tries to find out the contact between structure and meaning.This paper has conducted analysis on the composition of the new learning community constructed by use of virtual learning community and conducted analysis on the types and contents of the interactions between learning communities while describes the course of the online family-school interactive activities conducted in a school. At the same time, this paper analyzed the influence of network family-school interaction on students, householders, and teachers. Through the analysis, the following conclusions are made: (1) online family-school interaction puts forward higher requirements onthe information accomplishment of the householder, students and teachers. At the same time, the degree of emphasis attached by students to the activities, the convenience of using the functions of the virtual community, the convenience of householder network access, network participation of teachers, householders' recognition of teachers, and other factors will impose greater influence on the activities. (2) The mode of interaction for the learners in the community is mainly individual interaction; in which, asynchronous interaction is the main factor in interaction tense while the interaction between householder and teacher holds the dominate position; (3) online family-school interaction makes the relationship among student, teacher and householder more intimate, facilitates students to build up good learning habit; at the same time, online family-school interaction improves the information accomplishment of teacher and householder as well as the theoretical level of family education. |
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