The purpose of this research is to explore the future images of our elementary and middle school education policies under the digitalization trend. Therefore, this research comes with five objectives: (1) exploring the development trend of digital technologies and their impact on elementary and middle school education; (2) understanding the policies of digital education at home and abroad; (3) illustrated with "mobile learning", investing the innovative diffusionof major digital education policies in our elementary and middle schools; (4) themed with "big data", seeking the applications and challenges of major technological trends in our elementary and middle school education; (5) depicting the future images of our elementary and middle school education policies under the trend of digitization.
This research was proceeded for five months, during which time the research methods of document analysis, interviews, questionnaire and scenario analysis were taken. And this research has come to the following conclusions: (1) the digital technologies including mobile learning, cloud computing, learning analytics, game-based learning, and open content have been applied in the elementary and middle school educational arena, and the future trend to be expected includes adaptive learning, 3D printing, bring-your-own-device (BYOD), makerspace, Internet of things, wearable technology and virtual reality; (2) persistent engagement in the ICT teaching and learning is a common goal of countries around the globe, and specific implementation framework and cross-sectors collaboration is the key to policies, while the major polices of our elementary and middle school education include investing resources to critical administration performance, strategic publicity for decisive innovation speed, technological knowledge to influence teaching quality, and digital gap impact on learning effect; (3) the concerns of elementary school directors have been raised from "awareness" and " informational " to the level of " informational " and "personal", which shows that implementation of mobile learning policies is getting more robust; (4) the response to "big data" in the 12-year basic education includes setup of sound legal regulations and flexible collocating measures, consideration to both data opening and privacy protection, integration of existing data with newly installed systems, talent cultivation and innovation of leadership thinking; (5) the future images of our elementary and middle school education policy include data-based policy making, open-based policy promotion, system-based policy management and quality-based policy assessment.
Based on the above conclusions, following three suggestions are proposed: (1) the future education policy should enhance integration of technology management, strengthen educational innovation diffusion, raise teachers' professional development, and establish quality assurance mechanism; (2) the future educational innovation such as mobile learning should look to stages of concern, i.e. follow up with the development and efficacy of policy implementation, take effective promotional strategies based on different development stages, and look for suitable innovation initiators; (3) establish a national-level integrated educational information system, and through the big data analysis to provide reference forevidence-based decision making on educational policies.