What kind of revolutionary reading experience is the Ministry of Education quietly experiencing?

Reflections on "an educational revolution is happening quietly"

Anoos once said that "many disasters in human history stem from the fact that social changes always lag far behind technological changes." This is particularly evident in the field of education. The time has reached 20 15, and the development of science and technology is faster every year, which is beyond human imagination. The change of science and technology is changing people's lives more and more. However, education closely related to human beings has not changed dramatically with the progress of science and technology. Even if there is a change, it is a material change, that is, a change in hardware.

Yes, looking around, our school's teaching equipment is more and more advanced, including computers, stereos, electronic whiteboards, audio classrooms, computer tubes, recording studios, standard experimental classrooms and other hardware facilities. However, as an educational concept that should keep pace with the times, the educational concept has not kept pace with the times with the progress of the times, the development of science and technology and the upgrading of educational hardware. On the contrary, the educational ideas of many places and teachers still remain in the "distant past".

As a new young teacher, I have strong confidence in myself from the beginning. My computer skills are very good, and I am good at learning and accepting new knowledge. There is no problem in teaching and educating people. Students like my class, and I am comfortable with it. Therefore, I think I am qualified to be a qualified teacher. With this sense of superiority, I read Zhong Wei's "Education is quietly undergoing a revolution", but in the process of reading, I was "frustrated" and hit. It turns out that these "advantages" that I am proud of are not the capital that I can be proud of, and what I have is by no means a great skill. What makes me even more ashamed is that as a young teacher, I didn't even know that my educational philosophy was so backward.

Before I became a real teacher, I never really understood the meaning of "micro-class" and "flip class". However, at the beginning of my work, after several trainings, I gradually got a preliminary understanding of "micro-class" and "flip class". The so-called "micro-class" was actually contacted a long time ago, but I didn't notice it. Isn't the short and pithy teaching video and Q&A video circulating on the Internet the existing form of "micro-lesson"? The so-called flip classroom, translated from "flip classroom" or "inverted classroom", refers to readjusting the time inside and outside the classroom and transferring the decision-making power of learning from the teacher to the students. In this teaching mode, students can focus more on active project-based learning and jointly solve the challenges of localization or globalization and other real-world problems, so as to gain a deeper understanding. That is, we have always emphasized "autonomous learning" when we first joined the company. And how to apply these new teaching methods to practical teaching, to be honest, I really haven't thought about it seriously.

1970, alvin toffler, a world-famous futurist, wrote the first best-selling book "The Impact of the Future", in which toffler not only criticized the education facing the past represented by hutchins, but also supported the education facing the real world represented by Dewey. More creatively, the future-oriented education is put forward: small class size, multi-teachers, home-school trend, online and multimedia education, returning to the community, cultivating students' adaptability to temporary organizations, cultivating people who can make major judgments, agile people who make fewer detours in the new environment, find new relationships in changing reality, and general skills under the assumptions of future repetition, probability and long term.

Today, 44 years later, based on the mature applications of cloud technology, Internet of Things, database technology and social networking technology. Toffler is

The conceptual things of perceptual progress are clearly displayed in front of us, and many of his "predictions" have been realized. Indeed, the development of technology has brought about a revolution in education. But whether this kind of revolution is "tinkering around the edges" or "drawing blood and scalping" is unclear to most people. Most people don't know whether the educational revolution brought by technology is formal or substantive. Fortunately, however, there is always someone who can "see the moon through the clouds", see the essence through the phenomenon, and find the problem through the phenomenon-this person is Teacher Zhong Wei.

In the book "A Revolution is Occurring Quietly in Education", Mr. Zhong Wei explained this. Starting with the stories of several "educational losers", this paper explains the background of the educational revolution. Indeed, nothing can happen without a specific historical background. The times when these stories happened are the times when information technology is changing with each passing day. There are Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg who dropped out of Harvard, Ellison who dropped out of Berkeley University, Paul Allen who dropped out of Washington State University, and McDale who dropped out of the University of Texas. And these college dropouts have striking similarities: even though they did not receive a complete college education and successfully obtained a high-value college diploma, they all achieved extraordinary success in their respective fields and gained great wealth through their own efforts and information technology. Judging from the deeds of these people alone, universities seem to be less and less important. Borrowing a sentence from Mr. Wei, "It seems that dropping out of school is a necessary condition for becoming the top ten richest people in the United States", which seems like a joke, but it is also a fact.

Teacher Zhong Wei cited these people as examples, of course, not to encourage all young and promising young students to drop out of school and start businesses collectively. What he actually wants to say is that today's universities are in the era of welcoming the educational revolution.

In China, although there are no such influential "losers" at present. (I don't know if Mo Yan counts. 20 12 mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. But judging from Mo Yan's life experience, it seems that these honors are not directly related to university education. ) In China's traditional thought, the concept of "all people are inferior and study high" has been deeply rooted in some people's thoughts. Therefore, children in China should attend famous schools and key schools from the beginning, and the ultimate goal of all these efforts is to finally get into a good university and find a good job. However, in recent years, the trend of college students looking for jobs is becoming more and more unsatisfactory. Even the graduates of famous universities can't find jobs everywhere, and there is even a sensational news that graduates of famous universities can't find jobs and commit suicide. After a series of disappointing employment seasons, people can't help asking: "Is it necessary to go to college in today's society?" As a result, the "university uselessness theory" spread like a raging fire.

Although many people are skeptical and negative about this statement, education experts even accuse these views of being "ridiculous". However, we have to face a very realistic problem: children in China have been studying hard for more than ten years, and they are trying their best to find a good job after graduation, let alone find a good job. What is even more embarrassing is that we have studied mathematics and physics for more than ten years, and even received a higher level of higher education, but now we have few opportunities to use this knowledge in our future work. Is this really not a question of education?

In the past, the university was the exclusive agent of knowledge, but according to teacher Wei, it is not now. Not only is it not, it even becomes an obstacle. As Zuckerberg said: "At present, big universities are becoming obstacles to innovation." However, we have to face up to the fact that even so, universities should be a very important part of a country. However, in this era, universities must be reformed, not only universities, but also all schools.

As a junior high school math teacher, I realized that my current education is different from the junior high school education I received when I was a child.

Great changes have taken place, but there are still some "disharmonies" hidden in these changes, but I can't say what they are. Yes, the school where I teach has advanced educational facilities and offers small classes for two grades. The school has never relaxed its training for teachers. However, for myself, I can't explain for a long time what makes me uncomfortable. Later, after reading Mr. Zhong Wei's book, I finally found the answer: our equipment is more and more advanced, but our educational concept is far behind the intersection of advanced equipment. But the reason, I think, is not entirely the teachers' own fault. Let's not talk about the rest. As a post-80s generation, the education I received from childhood is the traditional "cramming" education. In class, the teacher is the main body, and we passively accept knowledge. Although I have been shouting the slogan of "educational reform" since I entered school, this is the kind of education that my generation received from primary school to junior high school to senior high school in order to further their studies. Even though I went to college, I still felt that my education was a failure. Most teachers' classes are boring and obscure, and many times I don't know what I know after a class. But many of the skills I know now, such as computer technology and PS technology, were not learned at school. I taught myself in my spare time or found some videos from the Internet. Strange to say, after more than ten years of education, I finally learned and used very little knowledge.

After becoming a teacher, the school has given us a lot of training in order to adapt to the post work faster and carry out the post work better. There are techniques and theories. However, it seems that training has not raised our "consciousness" to a new height. During this period, I participated in a micro-course training and did a micro-course after the training. However, the result made me feel "ashamed", because the micro-lesson I did really just moved the things in the class to the video abruptly, without any creativity and interest. To be honest, if such a video is put online, it is estimated that few people will download it. But when I watched some interesting videos on websites such as Netease Open Class and MOOCL, I was really attracted. And I really don't understand where the gap is. Later, I saw Mr. Wei write in the book that "online education can't just move traditional classrooms online, which may be even more contrary to the law of learning." "Just moving the lecture video online is as boring as the traditional classroom". How to reduce this "boring feeling" is the answer given by Teacher Wei. For example, in the book, "Stanford University has flipped the classroom rock. The first step is to change the class size and increase online interaction. About every 15 minutes, a quiz will pop up in the online lecture to test the students' mastery. In addition, Stanford also added social media elements to the experiment of flipping the classroom. It allows students to ask each other questions. In the experiment, the students' answers to each other are crazy, and this mode of joint learning is very effective. "

Therefore, micro-lessons are by no means moving knowledge students in the classroom to videos, and they are definitely not doing micro-lessons as usual. As Mr. Zhong Wei said, "The revolution of new education is not the traditional classroom moving to the Internet, but the technology liberates people's original talents and multiplies the number of students who have been delayed by mediocre teachers for thousands of years." The revolution caused by technology makes micro-courses and large-scale open online courses become the "darlings" of education in the new era, but they are not suitable for every teacher. It requires teachers to have more production skills, more superb language art and a deeper understanding of students' psychology. I still have too much to learn at this point.

The most important change brought by technology to education is the change of the roles of teachers and students in education. In traditional education, students are directly influenced and dominated by teachers in class. In the original classroom, the teacher taught attentively, the students listened carefully, and the teacher was the spokesman of knowledge. Now students can get the resources they need from the Internet. There will be fewer classrooms, fewer teachers and fewer professors, and the application of the Internet will become older and older.

Teachers and students are no longer just teaching and learning, but more communication and cooperation. Just like teaching students in practice, new teachers like me have been repeatedly stressed that students' autonomous learning ability must be emphasized in class. Leave enough time for them to think, fully discover the problems in their studies, and consider the students' acceptance of their studies. Although I can't fulfill this requirement perfectly at present, it's always good to have a goal.

Einstein once said that "the so-called education is to forget what we learned in school, and the rest is education". For our teachers, how to make students "love learning" and "rest" more is what we should do and should also focus on. Although the change of science and technology has indeed brought about a revolution in education, personally, most of the revolutions are only technical and have not yet achieved a "shocking" effect. But as every teacher in it, it is inevitable to meet this educational revolution triggered by cloud technology, Internet of Things, database technology and social network technology. As for whether we can "reinvent ourselves" in this revolution, or stick to old ideas and just enjoy the convenience brought by technology, wait and see, resist, March on the waves, or even dance gracefully on the waves, the final choice can only be in our own hands.