As the development of socialist informationize, information literacy has become an essential proportion of citizens’ attainment in information society. And information technology courses are forming a larger and larger proportion. In order to adapt to the needed of talented people. In the information society , the conceptions of education as well as students’ studying methods and model must be changed. Comparing with other courses, information technology course has its own distinctive feature that is practicality comprehensiveness, application, creativity and obvious era development.. The type of instruction in this course is still traditional knowledge initiation assisting operating practice on computer. This kind of made is hard to help students with knowledge conclusion, utilization and creation using original knowledge. task-based learning aims to help students build comprehensive ability in several aspects such as problem analysis, solving, independent learning and cooperative learning. Task-based learning conforms to goal of training students of information technology subject.
This article adopts research methods of documentation retrieval, experimentation questionnaires and comparison. Meanwhile, the author use task-based learning in secondary school and design teaching case based on task-learning teaching. Through questionnaires and school practice, getting the conclusion that task-based learning can improve class efficiency and students’ ability of self-study.
Keywords: task based learning, task design, information technology course
