Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology launches modern agricultural maker education practice

Today, the maker movement is booming around the world. Its core connotation is to emphasize turning ideas into reality and making people realize their dreams. In China, maker activities are connected to the national strategic initiative of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" and are linked to the life dreams of every ordinary person, which will inevitably ignite the passion for innovation and entrepreneurship among young students.

The fundamental connotations of innovation, creation and entrepreneurship are the same, and their ultimate goal is to turn ideas into reality. The difference is that innovation focuses on good methods, creation focuses on good works, and entrepreneurship focuses on good business opportunities. Students who participate in innovation, creation, and entrepreneurial activities can be defined as "makers."

In the development process of transforming traditional agriculture into modern agriculture, there is a special need for a large number of modern agricultural talents who are educated, understand technology, know how to operate, and are good at management. In this regard, agricultural higher vocational education is unshirkable.

However, compared with the strong demand for modern agricultural talents, agricultural higher vocational education has three major practical problems that need to be solved urgently at the level of education objects and subjects: first, they are unwilling to learn agriculture; second, they are not willing to learn agriculture. Love farmers, and thirdly, lack of ability to develop agriculture. To solve these three major problems, the transformation of educational concepts must come first. We must seriously consider how to stimulate students' interest in learning agriculture, how to cultivate students' interest in learning and loving agriculture, and how to help students establish their interest in promoting agriculture. As a higher vocational college established on the basis of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology in Zhejiang Province closely adheres to the characteristics of the word "agriculture" and relies on the advantages of integrating agricultural science and education to stimulate students' interest in learning agriculture with innovative education and cultivate students with creative education. Students enjoy the joy of learning and loving agriculture, use entrepreneurship education to guide students to establish their interest in promoting agriculture, and explore a new way of modern agricultural maker education that integrates innovation, creation, and entrepreneurship education.

Create a "tutor + project + team" training system to allow students to carry out professional learning with interest and cultivate professional innovation awareness

Relying on the school-running characteristics of the college's integration of agricultural science and education, give full play to agriculture Based on the scientific research advantages of the discipline, we promote scientific research to feed back teaching, transform scientific research advantages into innovative talent training advantages, and carry out innovative talent training practices in the main form of "mentor + project + team" based on the application of results.

Teachers guide students in research. The awareness of independent innovation among students in higher vocational colleges is relatively weak. For this reason, the college established a "tutor + project + team" training system, with students as the main body and teachers providing technical guidance, and established a project "different fertilizer treatments on three types of vegetables" There are more than 500 student scientific research projects, including "Effects on Growth and Yield" and "Selection Test of New Pepper Open Field Cultivation Varieties", with more than 3,000 students participating, cultivating students' innovative consciousness through scientific research innovation.

Teacher creates and students follow. The main problem in many schools carrying out entrepreneurship education is the lack of words on paper and lack of actions, especially the lack of actions that can serve as a demonstration. The college strongly supports teachers to carry out innovation, creation, and entrepreneurial activities, with teachers as the main body, allowing students to serve as assistants, and using teacher makers to drive student makers. This year alone, there are Flower Sea Plant Creative Studio and Internet + Intelligent Agriculture Innovation Studio. 21 maker studio projects have been approved, with each maker studio attracting 5 to 10 students to participate. Teachers and students work together to turn creative and innovative ideas into entrepreneurial practices, making entrepreneurship education come alive.

Created by teachers and students. Students and teachers working together to carry out professional innovation and practice are both a teaching form and a learning form in the college. Wu Chuncheng, director of the low-voltage electrical teaching and research section of the college, led a team of teachers and students to jointly develop a "cooking machine" and successfully launched it on the market; the students' "Green Garden Soilless Hydroponic Project" and "Parent-Child Farm Project" have won the Zhejiang Provincial Higher Vocational College Challenge Cup Special Prize , first prize in the first national college student e-commerce "Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Challenge Competition, etc.

Create an experimental and practical teaching system that integrates "training, research, and creation" to generate fun in participating in creative practice and cultivate students' creative abilities

The college has established an integrated "training, research, and creation" The experimental training room organically integrates students' professional experimental training with professional innovation and creation into one platform, effectively promoting the application of knowledge and interest in application.

Relying on Wenzhou Seed and Seedling Technology Park. The student practice area of ??the Seed and Seedling Technology Park consists of 36 greenhouses with a total area of ??52 acres. It follows the principles of new varieties, new technologies, and new models to cultivate modern farmers who are proficient in technology, business, and management.

At present, there are more than ten maker teams carrying out practices such as cultivating new varieties. Among them, the smart greenhouse project jointly developed by teacher Cui Xiaojun and student *** allows the greenhouse intelligent system to be controlled through mobile applications and Internet web pages. control.

Relying on the agricultural-related professional training platform. All agriculture-related departments have established professional training practice platforms. The Department of Agriculture and Biotechnology has built a modern agricultural park. Senior students are divided into groups to contract greenhouse production, and under the guidance of instructors, they introduce new varieties and new technologies for R&D and entrepreneurship. Low-level students First-grade students go to the greenhouses contracted by senior students for practical training; the Department of Horticulture has an agricultural creative garden and a plant smart factory to integrate the research, development, cultivation and marketing of hydroponic plants for students. Relying on these platforms, the "three-dimensional home production vegetable cultivation rack" and "intelligent gas stove energy-saving device" invented by students have applied for national patents.

Rely on the political school to build an innovation and entrepreneurship platform. In order to effectively expand the educational platform, the college has cooperated with Zhejiang Small and Medium Enterprises Bureau, Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, Wenzhou Municipal Agricultural Bureau and other units to create the only university small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurial base in Zhejiang Province and the country's first college student "village official" The Entrepreneurship and Research Base, Wenzhou College Student Modern Agricultural Entrepreneurship Park, Wenzhou Youth Entrepreneurship College and other schools have established joint education and training platforms to open up channels, expand space and strive for resources to expand innovation, creation and entrepreneurship education. Students carried out practice on these platforms and created new achievements such as "Leaf Vein Painting" and "Angel Flower House". From these new achievements, more than 30 small and micro enterprises related to agriculture were hatched.

Relying on the "point, line, and surface" three-dimensional entrepreneurship education model, we guide students to strive to become family farmers and establish their interest in farming

Combining the characteristics of the agricultural industry and positions, the college starts from the perspective of "individual needs, From the three dimensions of "teaching main line and platform construction", entrepreneurship education leads the reform of professional education and cultivates students' interest in becoming family farmers.

Seize the "point" of individual education and cultivate students' awareness of agricultural entrepreneurship. Promote experiential education of "listening, observing, and doing". "Listening" to the "Three Rural Lectures" allows students to understand modern agriculture; "viewing" modern agriculture allows students to experience modern agriculture in depth; "doing" social practice, launching hundreds of experts to lead thousands of Students serve thousands of farmers in activities, allowing students to establish a career in agriculture and determine to develop agriculture.

Closely adhere to the "line" of talent training and cultivate students' agricultural entrepreneurship capabilities. The first is goal guidance, with a clear goal of cultivating modern agricultural entrepreneurial talents who are educated, knowledgeable about technology, good at operation, and good at management; the second is program reform, implementing the teaching program reform of "platform teaching, professional diversion, and job training"; the third is knowledge construction. , to build a curriculum system that is connected to positions, majors, industries, society, etc.

Expand the "face" of guarantee support and ensure the orderly development of entrepreneurship education. Integrate the resources of the government, schools, and enterprises, strive for government policy support, and promote the Wenzhou Municipal Government to issue the "Interim Measures to Support Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Employment for General College Graduates"; improve the school system guarantees and issue the "Guidance on Strengthening Entrepreneurship Education in Talent Training" Opinions"; integrate enterprise (base) resource support, integrate relevant enterprise and base resources through the approach of "mentor + project + team + base + farmers" to achieve a win-win situation between school and enterprise. For example, the fruit corn project has been implemented in Wenzhou Zeya, Yongjia Ancient Temple and other places. It not only cultivates students' innovative and entrepreneurial abilities, but also promotes an increase in the income of local farmers, truly realizing the goal of "writing papers on the earth and leaving results in farmers' homes." ".

Maker education activities have effectively extended the college’s innovation and entrepreneurship education chain, achieving an organic connection between innovation awareness cultivation, creative practice, and entrepreneurship incubation, forming a complete innovation and entrepreneurship education system with distinctive subject and professional characteristics. , to explore a new way of modern agricultural maker education that integrates innovation, creation, and entrepreneurship education, and integrates interest stimulation, fun stimulation, and ambition engines. As a result, the college’s achievements related to the training of modern agricultural talents won the second prize for national teaching achievements. The college was awarded the National Advanced Unit for Research and Practice of Entrepreneurship Education in Colleges and Universities, the National Advanced Collective for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship, and the National Advanced Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Vocational Colleges. Unit and other honorary titles. (The author Xie Zhiyuan is deputy dean and professor of Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology in Zhejiang Province)