The future-oriented urban and rural planning in the era of big data is full of imagination,while urban and rural planning education in this era is presented with many challenges and opportunities,and teaching reform is urgently needed to meet the new development needs.Under the favorable condition that digital natives are the main target of teaching,the combination of geographic data to cultivate students'geospatial thinking can help inject new vitality into urban and rural planning teaching,but it also faces problems such as weak theoretical foundation and difficult teaching,which put forward higher requirements for teaching.Taking the Internet era as an advantage,it iscrucialto build a perfect teaching system combining theoretical learning and practical operation,innovate teaching thinking,innovate teaching mode,enrich teaching content,and continuously realize the deepening reform of teaching system in order to cultivate compound urban and rural planning talents oriented to national and social development needs.