Digital Curriculum to Promote High-Quality Development of Preschool Education: Characteristics, Pitfalls and PathWays

The technological changes in the digital era are reconfiguring the landscape of curriculum and the deep integration of digital curriculum will inevitably bring new opportunities and challenges for the high-quality development of preschool education. The characteristics of high-quality development of preschool education empowered by digital curriculum include the steady improvement of curriculum quality through technological iteration, the effective enhancement of the contextualization and interactivity of learning for subjects through intelligent systems, the strong guarantee of educational equity in curriculum implementation by digital resources, and the full enhancement of the feasibility and scientificity of independent learning by personalized modes. However, the conceptual collision between "technology-centered" and "human-centered" in the digital curriculum has also led to concerns about the reform of preschool education curriculum, which is specifically manifested in "embodied curtain" woven by overly technologies; behavioural regulations and privacy exposure under the "surveillance" of omnipresent data and the cognitive barriers reinforced by knowledge generalization and the information cocoon. To address these challenges, the high-quality development of preschool education must promote a return to embodied learning, the core of the curriculum, through flexible design and substantive innovation It also needs to eliminate "technological voyeurism" by strengthening information security and scientific management, while leveraging human-machine collaboration to shift from "knowledge dissemination" to "intellectual cultivation".