There are many students with high marks and low abilities in our country, who lack the ability to ask questions and solve problems, which will lead to the weak innovation ability of our country.
● The China Computer Federation has been calling for the cancellation of the policy of sending the first prize of the Informatics Olympic Provincial League to colleges and universities, which has attracted the attention of high-level government.
● Olympiad has become an interest freak, which is more harmful to society than pornography, gambling and drugs. In the future, middle school enrollment should be banned from being linked to the Olympics.
What is computer science and technology? What kind of thinking does computer science teach people? What ability can middle school students increase by participating in the Informatics Olympic Competition? These problems deserve our deep thought. On July 26th, Li Guojie, academician of China Academy of Engineering and chairman of China Computer Federation, expressed his views at the opening ceremony of the 26th National Youth Informatics Olympic Competition (NOI).
Professor Zhou, director of the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the American Science Foundation, recently advocated computational thinking with other computer scientists on several occasions.
What is computational thinking? Li Guojie believes that computational thinking uses the basic concepts of computer science to solve problems, design systems and understand human behavior. It chooses the appropriate way to state the problem, models the related aspects of the problem, and uses the most effective way to solve the problem.
Li Guojie believes that computer science essentially comes from mathematical thinking and engineering thinking. However, computational thinking is much more than just programming computers. It is an abstract multi-level thinking and a basic way of thinking of human beings, just like literacy. He emphasized that computational thinking is the basic skill of everyone, not just computer scientists. He suggested that when cultivating children's analytical ability, they should not only learn reading, writing and arithmetic, but also learn computational thinking.
Li Guojie proposed that with computers, human beings can use their wisdom to solve problems that they dared not try before the era of computing. However, for a long time, information technology has been regarded as a high-tech tool by the society, and computer science and technology have also been constructed as a highly professional tool discipline and auxiliary discipline. This narrow cognition is extremely unfavorable to the development and popularization of information technology. He said that in the recent 10 years, the international information science and technology community attached great importance to overcoming the cognitive obstacles of narrow instrumentalism and made efforts to regard information technology as a universal resource and value-added asset necessary for the economy and society in the 2 1 century.
Li Guojie pointed out that 25 years ago, Comrade Deng Xiaoping proposed that the popularization of computers should start with dolls. In order to promote the popularization of computers among middle school students in China, the China Computer Federation set up the Informatics Olympic Competition in the same year, namely 1984, which was five years earlier than the International Informatics Olympic Competition. However, he stressed that innovative education for students is an important issue in China. There are many students with high marks and low abilities in our country, who lack the ability to ask questions and solve problems, which will lead to the weak innovation ability of our country. He said that a country's innovation should start with education and students, but it is difficult to solve this problem under the current examination-oriented education system. Therefore, how to make up for the lack of classroom teaching through extracurricular scientific and technological activities is a problem worthy of study.
Li Guojie pointed out in particular that starting from 200 1, the Ministry of Education stipulated that players who won the first prize in the Olympiad in the provincial league of informatics could be sent to university without test. This policy has a positive role in promoting the development of the information Olympics. However, driven by huge interests, some places deviated from the purpose of hosting the Olympic Games. Some students take part in the competition not out of interest and spare capacity, but in order to get into college and then cheat, which hurts the fairness of the competition. Li Guojie pointed out that, as the organizer of the Informatics Olympic Games, the China Computer Federation and the National Society which undertakes competitions in other disciplines have been calling for the cancellation of the first prize walk policy in provincial leagues, which has attracted the attention of the top management of our government.
Li Guojie also pointed out that the cram school for Olympic Mathematics, which is widely carried out in the society, has been severely criticized by people from all walks of life and condemned by almost all parents of students. It is generally believed that primary school students' participation in Olympic Mathematics is extremely unfavorable to their physical and mental health development. However, in order to get into a good middle school, children are forced to study Olympic Mathematics. This kind of education will not only inhibit students' creativity, but also encourage bad social atmosphere. He said that the Olympic competition has become an abnormal interest. Some people think that it is more harmful to society than pornography, gambling and drugs and must be resolutely abolished. In the future, any middle school enrollment must be strictly linked to the Olympic Games.
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Cheng Donghong proposed: Applause for China Computer Federation.
Cheng Donghong, secretary of the Secretariat of China Association for Science and Technology, said in his speech at the opening ceremony of the 26th National Youth Informatics Olympic Competition on July 26th that he would like to applaud the China Computer Federation. She said that when the China Computer Federation holds the Informatics Olympic Games, the rules should be put in the first place, and the Games should be governed by law. Because the players who won the first prize in the Olympic Games of Informatics Provincial League can go to the university without trial, it is inevitable that there will be cheaters. However, once discovered, the China Computer Federation handled it strictly according to the rules, and the interceptors never released water, thus ensuring the fairness of the competition. Academician Li Guojie also revealed a secret at the opening ceremony of the competition: When training Olympians in Informatics, China Computer Federation not only prepares for the contestants, but also pays attention to cultivating their creative thinking, humanistic quality, emotional intelligence and expression ability. The 20 players selected for the national team need to write papers and defend; The top six players with the highest scores are candidates for the international Olympic Games. The scientific committee of the sports meeting will first clarify their scores, then check their other abilities and performances, and then select four players from them to represent the country in the international Olympic Games.