What? No exams? Online class, face-to-face teaching? Isn't this a step backwards? Many parents are confused when they receive invitations to offline activities.
In this regard, President Wu Jian said, "Online learning represented by massive open online courses is not watching TV dramas online. We hope to provide children with phased learning concept guidance through formal offline courses. "
Wu Jian, the principal of Fudan High School, talked with students who came to attend offline classes in a large-scale open online course. Photo: Photographed by Zhang Chi.
Famous foreign language teachers draw cultural and mathematical planes.
In the morning 12, Huang, a student from Jianping Experimental School in Pudong, finished three classes, and his meaning was still unfinished. "I thought I was here to listen to knowledge points, but the overall feeling is that the teacher is cultivating his heart." Geng Yan, a famous foreign language teacher, left a particularly deep impression on her. It turns out that Mr. Geng has never talked about the knowledge of foreign language learning from beginning to end. At the beginning, he said, "One book is endless, no new books are read", hoping that students can improve their critical thinking ability and make themselves complement each other in English learning. A sentence that is still fresh in my memory: "I hope to become a platform to fight with my classmates in the classroom of English learning." Middle school, not just a school, should be a whole brain research institute. "Since then, two students of Teacher Geng, Grade One and Grade Two, made impromptu speeches in English, which also fascinated many students. Xiao Huang said, "I seem to feel the different charms of learning a language. "
In the next "Mathematics and Thinking" class, Zhang, a special math teacher who also teaches online, directly drew a big plane with a computer to talk about the mathematician's thinking. It turns out that during World War II, some planes flew back full of bullet holes. The general idea is to fix it as soon as possible. However, the mathematical researchers at that time suggested that due to the shortage of strategic materials, priority should be given to repairing and reinforcing other loopholes that caused "the plane can't come back". It is not the most important thing that some parts can fly back after being hit. As soon as these words were spoken, all the students in the audience laughed. Among them, the rational thinking of mathematics is so interesting.
In this offline activity, in addition to mathematics, foreign languages, physics and other subjects, all seven online courses offered by Fudan High School are also open to students.
Is offline online course a retrogression?
Is offline online course a retrogression? When asked about this matter, Mr Geng, who participated in the construction of massive open online courses in Fudan University, admitted that the concept of "massive open online courses", which is now popular all over the world, can spread high-quality resources to a greater extent with online classrooms as the core. However, due to the distance between the network and geographical space, the interaction with students and the "flash of light" in the classroom may also be weakened. "I still remember an ordinary English class eight years ago. When I talked about the Olympic Mathematics, I asked my classmates to express their opinions. I didn't expect a classmate to have a special idea about whether sports and politics can be separated. The whole class was in full swing, so I adjusted the links in the later plan to let everyone talk enough. Expressing your thoughts more fully and accurately is not the meaning of language learning? "
Therefore, in his view, the content of massive open online courses can be the explanation of specific knowledge points and themes, but if conditions permit, why not let more students know more about the teacher's thinking about the subject when facing the teacher face to face?
Wu Jian, the principal of Fudan High School, believes that the current reality is that junior high school students are often framed by the traditional "brush question model" in order to cope with the entrance examination or selection examination. However, at the age when students are most creative, learning and sensitive, too much emphasis on mechanical training does not conform to the modern educational concept. They should be given more diverse learning channels and more process experience. From this perspective, massive open online courses can take root and sprout on the basis of traditional online course concepts, and through regular offline activities, students can have more perceptual knowledge of majors and disciplines.
President Wu Jian said that learning is a process gain. If we only emphasize the result but not the process, the idea of "success or failure is at stake" may often appear. Teenagers may directly acquire knowledge points, but they fail to fully appreciate the beauty of knowledge mining and innovation, just like "only skeleton, no flesh and blood", which is obviously not conducive to long-term learning and lifelong development.
When asked if he wanted to attract more good students, President Wu said openly that this could also be regarded as a "campus open day". The first batch of massive open online courses were created and launched by Shanghai Middle School, No.2 Middle School Attached to China Normal University, Fudan Middle School Attached to Fudan University and Jiaotong University High School. Up to now, there are 27 online courses on * * * platform, covering seven fields: language and literature, mathematics, social science, natural science, technology, art and comprehensive practice. They mainly aim at expanding research courses, hoping to find students' personal interests after studying a large number of open online courses, so as to find the most suitable schools and perhaps meet their favorite teachers. And offline activities can better promote this.
It is reported that the second batch of students' offline activities will be held on June 5438+09. In the future, every course offered by Fudan High School will have regular face-to-face communication between students and teachers.