Tuesday, February 4, 2020, the eleventh day of the first lunar month, is Yin

1. How far is the future?

"Change" is the characteristic of the future. “Proactively welcome and proactively intervene” is what the future requires of us. Rather than asking how far the future is, it is better to pay attention to every small trend change in the future.

"The future will always come, and it will come without asking; the future is coming, and there is a future now; for a better future, take action!"

2. The future school will be learned Center replacement, who is the learning center?

There are both primary and secondary schools and universities; there are both basic education, preschool education, vocational education, and higher education; it includes not only school education, but also family education, social education, and lifelong education. Cradle to grave education. But universities may be the first to change.

The learning center can be in the community, on a university campus, in a virtual cyberspace, or in a hybrid school that combines online learning with traditional learning.

3. What will the future school center look like?

In fact, it is a learning entity and a "five-no" product.

1) There are no classrooms, and each room must be reserved.

There are no concepts such as classes, grades, classrooms, etc., there is no fixed class schedule, and there is no such institution as a "principal's office". The operation relies on "teacher guidance and student self-management of the learning community" Own. Very much like today’s new network master.

2) There is no unified teaching material.

Traditional teaching is popular all over the world with one textbook. If you understand the textbook, you will not be afraid of the test. This is not enough for creative exploration.

In order to meet basic standards and pass examination evaluations, and to make learning better, more interesting, and more challenging, the learning center should have teaching materials of different levels, different personalities, and different challenge levels. Of course, students are also allowed to choose the teaching materials that suit themselves.

3) There are no winter and summer vacations, and no time for commuting to and from school.

Study time is more flexible. It is open to everyone, there are no weekends, and there are no winter or summer vacations. Students can arrange their study time according to their own needs. Classes can be 45 minutes, 40 minutes, or even 10–15 minutes. You can study one subject for half a day, or you can study several subjects, as long as the students are willing. This is humanistic thinking.

In the 45 minutes of the traditional classroom, due to the different foundations and learning backgrounds of the students, 1/3 of the people cannot understand, and 1/3 of the people have already understood. In fact, they accompany the rest When people take classes, this is not humane.

4) There is no academic system. You can enroll at the age of 8 or 80. It is more personalized and flexible.

In the future, the learning cycle of schools will be flexible. It can be nine-year compulsory education or ten-year compulsory education; it can go to school at the age of six or eight; it can have classes at eight o'clock or nine o'clock; the elderly and children can study in the same classroom. In the face of the unknown, everyone is equal, and mixed age has become an important learning feature. It is a common phenomenon, not a rare sight.

The unified things are the unified management methods of the big industrial era. You can study at any time, and all study records can be saved in the credit bank and different data centers.

5) There is no teacher in the traditional sense. Those who have gained the Tao are the first, and those who are capable are teachers.

Teachers are more diverse and open, and are guides and companions for independent learning. The smartest person in the room is not the teacher at the podium, but the combined wisdom of everyone. Teachers can be self-employed, teachers within the system can transfer to another position, they can have their own teaching studio or curriculum company to provide curriculum services for the school, or they can be special resources provided by the school by people with "unique skills" in society. Such as the current "Nanming Education".

4. Who will learn in the future school?

1) Teach without distinction

Anyone who wants to learn is a student. This is the highest state of Confucius’ teaching without distinction.

"It is an extremely wrong and very arbitrary approach to put all games and learning into childhood, all work into middle age, and all regrets into old age."

In future schools, capable people will be teachers and scholars will make a living.

2) Mixed-age learning

"Separating people according to age is a very cold and inhumane thing. The same is true for children, which will interrupt life The connection between people makes it impossible for people to learn from each other." - Montessori

Mixed ages can help each other and learn from each other's strengths. For example, college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination include both 20-year-old young people and 40-year-old parents of children. Another example is the mixed-age school run by the Sandford couple in the United States.

Children can come to study, their parents can come to study at the same time, and the elderly can also come to study. Three generations can study in the same class, and it is possible to read, write, and live a comfortable life; different Students from the community and different cities can come to study; in the learning center, underage students are not necessarily the mainstream, and can also meet the learning needs of people of all ages.

5. Who will teach in the learning center?

A capable person is a teacher, and anyone who can teach will teach.

1. Intelligent robots have become popular, but they will not replace the role of teachers. Because it does not have the core function of teachers: emotional communication between people, that is, human touch and interactivity. However, in the future, education will enter a new era of "human-machine education". Teachers are required to do two things: learn to do things that robots cannot do; learn to get along with robots and let robots work for me.

2. Teachers will become freelancers in the future. With the increasing demand for personalization, differentiation, and customization of education, the era of obtaining knowledge and skills entirely from teachers is coming to an end, and the era of "qualified people as teachers" is coming. “Logical Thinking, Himalaya, and Zhihu” are all paid courses provided by freelance teachers.

3. Among the professional skills of teachers, imparting knowledge, checking homework and other functions will become the guidance and companionship of students' learning; they are both coaches and partners, growing together with students. Focus on communication, focus on helping students solve problems, and focus on students’ intrinsic needs for growth.

Traditional teachers are responsible for "covering the bottom line" and implementing the will of the country; social education institutions such as New Oriental are responsible for providing better teacher resources.

Anyone who has learned a lot can impart his or her knowledge and skills to students through schools, educational institutions and other platforms.

6. Learning Center, what to learn?

It is based on life courses, with intellectual education courses, civic education courses, and art education courses as the backbone, and "special courses" as necessary supplements.

1. In the future, people’s learning will change from learning for diplomas to learning to improve their interests and abilities.

The richness of courses determines the richness of life, and the excellence of courses determines the excellence of life. Strictly speaking, the curriculum should not be limited to the scope of school education, but an all-round, whole-process system with family education as the foundation, school education as the backbone, social education as the supplement, and self-education as the foundation. The foundation of the curriculum is the life experience of both teachers and students, which is an important energy that gives teachers and students life growth. Curriculum, as the energy of life growth, is formed through the superposition inside and outside the classroom, the collision between school and family, various forms of interactive work, from quantitative change to qualitative change, and finally the integration of knowledge and social life, and the lives of teachers and students.

2. The life course curriculum focuses on "expanding the length, width and height of life" so that everyone can become the best version of themselves. (The length of life, the breadth of knowledge, the height of spiritual life)

The foothold of intellectual education courses is "truth". It reconstructs the intellectual classroom by integrating the great humanities of literature, philosophy, history and geography with the great science of mathematics, physics and chemistry. The purpose of the curriculum is not to impart knowledge, but to develop the wisdom to govern knowledge and the ability to apply knowledge. Learn with the method of "project-based learning and thematic learning".

The goal of civic education courses is "goodness".

The goal is to cultivate people to abide by social ethics, identify, understand, abide by and safeguard our country's constitution, care about and participate in public affairs, have the ability to think independently and dare to take responsibility, and have ownership and management of the national tradition and culture. citizens.

The focus of art education courses is "beauty". Integrate curriculum with big art concepts.

The above courses should not exceed 50% of the student's learning content, so that students have time to learn their own "special courses" calmly. Solve the "personality" problem.

3. The learning content is personalized. Students’ goals, ambitions and potential are the starting point of the school and teachers’ work. Students have the final say on what to learn. They can learn at their own speed and rhythm and have the knowledge to learn. Motivation and sense of ownership; there are not so many "walls" in the learning center, which breaks down the barriers of disciplines, integrates disciplines, and emphasizes practice; and customization of learning content.

7. Learning Center, how to learn?

Online and offline are combined, individuals and teams are combined, and space and time are broken.

1. Be student-centered, not knowledge-centered.

The system management is student-centered and dares to leave personal affairs to students for independent management;

Major events in the school are also managed by students, and every student has the right to vote, from learning to personnel matters. Everything from finance to finance can be managed by students, and students can vote to decide whether a teacher should stay or leave. (The school sports meeting is hosted by students, which is also a reflection of student-centeredness)

Student-centeredness is also reflected in the academic system. Encourage students to do what they want to do. They can study mathematics in fifth grade or study it in high school. The student knows what is most important to himself.

2. Academic ability is important, but academic qualifications are not.

Academic qualifications represent the past, while academic ability represents the future. Those who are not good at learning will be eliminated. By 2030, personal abilities will be highly valued and school diplomas will be challenged by professional certifications. Without learning, there can be no real creation, and without abundant academic ability, there can be no vigorous creativity.

3. Personalized learning based on learning to determine teaching

Determine the starting point, methods and strategies of teaching based on the specific situation of the students.

"Academic situation" includes the student's knowledge and ability foundation, the student's cognitive level by age, the student's pre-class preview level, the student's emotional state of new knowledge and other basic conditions of the learning subject. It can be digitized with the help of artificial intelligence.

"Defined teaching" means determining that the starting point of teaching is not too low or too high, choosing the most appropriate teaching content and optimizing teaching methods at the appropriate starting point, so that each student can achieve the greatest possible develop.

Change the problems of large classes, the problem of unified curriculum, the problem of unified difficulty, and the problem of unified progress

4. Future schools will break the traditional class teaching system and the traditional teaching system. The classroom teaching model forms a new learning method that combines online and offline, collective teaching and group learning, and active learning and cognitive outsourcing.

Advantages:

1) Ubiquitous learning that breaks through the limitations of time and space.

Ubiquitous learning refers to learning that occurs all the time and everywhere. It is a learning method in which anyone can obtain any information they need at any place, at any time, and in any way. Also called seamless learning, pervasive learning and ubiquitous learning.

2) Flexible learning time and diversified learning space.

Time flexibility means that there are no fixed times for going to and from school. Different learning centers can arrange their time freely, and learners can also reserve time for study guidance, experiments, and exchanges.

The diversification of learning spaces means that you do not need to study in a fixed classroom. You can study in schools or community libraries, study in science and technology museums, museums, study in various special learning centers, and also use online education Resource Learning.

3) Gamification of learning

"Games are a sign of the integrity and unity of children's mental attitudes" - Dewey

Games are children's nature, It's human nature. Games are a new force in future learning.

Freedom and creativity are the most important characteristics of the game spirit, and the courage to challenge is also the basic characteristic of the game spirit. Awareness of rules is also indispensable to the spirit of the game; games can help reading; games can help learning. Using games to learn is a buzzword in international education.

4) Use virtual reality technology to achieve immersive learning.

Virtual reality technology refers to the use of computer simulation to generate a three-dimensional virtual world, providing users with simulations of vision, hearing, touch and other senses, allowing users to feel as if they are actually on the scene, and can interact in real time and without interruption. A restricted view of events in three dimensions.

5) Project-Based Learning

PBL: Project-Based-Learning.

Relative to problem-based learning. Regardless of subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, teachers lead students to find real, meaningful, and coherent problems in projects, so that students can focus on the projects and gain an in-depth understanding of relevant knowledge, involving mathematical problems, using mathematical knowledge to solve them, and involving chemistry. , solve it with chemical knowledge.

6) Collaborative inquiry learning replaces receptive learning.

Project-based learning is achieved through collaborative inquiry learning.

Inquiry learning is a learning method oriented to researching and solving problems. It is a revolutionary change in the way students learn. How students discover concepts and rules through various facts; whether they find problems and effectively carry out inquiry activities for the problems; whether they find solutions through assumptions, reasoning, and analysis; and then collect facts through observation and experiments, and can Whether they can summarize, compare, and statistically analyze the obtained information to form an explanation of the problem; whether they can effectively discover new problems during exploration and conduct more in-depth research on the problem.

It is the trend of modern teaching reform, which is more in line with the laws of scientific discovery and scientific creation. It can give full play to learners' own learning initiative and enthusiasm, and stimulate learners' interest in learning.

7) Cognitive outsourcing, methodological learning

Blended learning and cooperative learning will become the main learning methods in future learning centers.

Blended learning means that the main body of learning in the future is a combination of human and machine. With the help of external brain, artificial intelligence, big data and computer technology, the phenomenon of cognitive outsourcing is a very important feature. In other words, accessing information, sorting and summarizing, etc. can all be entrusted to machines.

Cooperative learning is also an important feature of future learning, that is, a process based on project-based and theme-based learning. It is also a process of teamwork to complete learning tasks together.

8) Guiding students through the Internet

Under the Internet model, learning is no longer about presentation, reception, evaluation, and feedback, but a brand new cognitive process. Curriculum and teaching need to pay more attention to progress design, user experience, social participation, etc.

It will become an important feature of learning in the future.

9) Big data and artificial intelligence achieve precise learning

Big data not only refers to the large amount of data, but more importantly, it refers to the interweaving of dimensions, multiple sources, and types. In-depth mining and analysis of diverse large-scale data seeks the logical relationships behind the data, allowing people to break away from speculation or emotional preference choices that relied on small sample data in the past, and shift to decision-making based on rational evidence.

Through the collection, processing and analysis of big data, students can be helped to discover and develop their learning potential and improve their academic performance. Students can take the initiative in learning, plan their own learning plans, decide personalized learning content, paths and methods, monitor their learning progress at any time, and check learning effects. Teachers can fully grasp students' learning behaviors and learning results based on big data , carry out targeted teaching.

(My class now uses a small class punch card to summarize students’ learning status, and the county’s final exam “Seven-Day Network” can analyze students’ scores at a glance and in detail. Therefore, big data and artificial intelligence are Basic skills necessary for teachers)

10) Students change from knowledge consumers to knowledge innovators

Research-based learning will become the main way of learning. The process of future learning itself is a process of exploration. Students can not only verify the knowledge they have discovered, but also create new knowledge in the learning process.

Research-based learning will become a very important learning method in the future.

8. How do you evaluate the learning center?

In the future, schools will establish a credit bank system and establish a credit account for each student to evaluate the quality of learning results. Don’t use the single standard of “only scores are important”.

Educational evaluation is an important link and means of school and social education, and has multiple functions such as detection, diagnosis, screening, prediction, and guidance.

The problem with the current evaluation system is that school education emphasizes "examination-oriented", standard examinations are "selective", and selection examinations are "lifelong".

The credit bank uses credits as the unit to measure learning outcomes. It establishes a circulation tool by assigning different credits to various learning outcomes, and uses the storage and exchange of credits to make the equivalence between different learning outcomes. Conversion is possible. Simulate the organizational structure of a bank, from "central bank" to "local banks" to "savings offices at all levels" and finally to "personal accounts".

The credit bank spans five major gaps: the gap between various education stages; the gap between academic education and non-academic education; the gap between public education and private education; the gap between domestic education and foreign education Gap; the gap between knowledge learning and ability development.

Xueyin Online has established a lifelong learning profile for each student. It can ensure the smooth progress of online learning, conduct learning certification evaluation, and realize credit redemption and certificate issuance. A reward system can be established.

9. Learning Center, what can parents do?

Parents are the discoverers, creators, managers, participants, teachers, and learners of the future learning center.

Future learning is not only a matter between teachers and students, but also has a close relationship with every family and parents. Learning is not just a unilateral task for children. Growing together with parents and children will be an important feature of future learning centers.

The family is the true center of learning. In the future, various forms of family schools will appear, and children studying at home will become a part of the educational landscape.

Family education was once the "center" of human learning. After the modern education system, parents walked out of the house and participated in social life, "fading" from the stage of education; the return of the king: the family once again became the "center of learning". The educational affirmative action movement in the West has drawn attention to “home-school cooperation”.

1) Minors do not have the ability to explore their own strengths and identify the characteristics of learning centers. Parents’ suggestions play a big role; when parents completely return to education, many families may become a new type of learning center. In the center, different families help each other's children learn through the call for educational resources; the organizers of the learning center are diverse entities, which require democratic management and in-depth participation of parents. They can form a home-school cooperation committee; parents can be truly capable Voting board directors; can participate in the management of the learning center and supervise the work of the learning center.

2) Participation is also a way of management. Parent volunteers are not only a way to participate in the management of the learning center, but also an important form of sharing family education resources; the New Parents Classroom invites parent teachers , becoming one of the most important forms of affecting family resources. It can be integrated with subjects, combined with specialties, integrated with reading, and can become a source of rich characteristic curriculum resources for schools.

3) Growth is not a staged task, nor is it just a task completed in school. Growth is a habit and an ability. Endless life and endless growth are the most beautiful aspects of a person's life.

Growth is the same thing for parents and children, and it is the same problem that children and parents must face. Therefore, family education, school education, and community education are not simply for children, but also for self-education of parents, teachers, and community personnel. The growth process of parents and children is completely interactive. The growth of parents will promote the growth of children, and the growth of children will also promote the growth of parents. Good parents are more likely to raise better children. In turn, learning how to scientifically raise children also promotes parents themselves to become better.

4) Growth also has a cooperative effect, and there is a growth field of life. Parents and children reading together, exercising together, going on outings into nature, and visiting museums together can not only broaden their children's horizons and enhance their physical fitness, but they themselves will also gain a lot.

"Children are the fathers of adults" - Montessori

Parents' learning should have a child's perspective. The greatness of a real child lies in seeing the world with a pair of unpolluted eyes and thinking about the world with a brain without any utility. Children can become the new perspective adults provide.

5) Children are the learners in the future learning center, which also means that parents should learn from each other.

Parents in the learning center are people of the same size. It is a voluntary choice and a choice that deeply recognizes the needs. They are the most natural and best learning partners. Learning will become a selfless and noble thing. behavior.

Parents are learners in the learning center, which also refers to parents’ lifelong learning in the learning center.

Education is not simply educating children, but also the self-education of parents. Growth is not only a matter for children, but also for parents. Without parents' learning, there will never be a child's growth. If parents study hard, their children will make progress every day. When parents become learners and grow up with their children, this is the most beautiful scenery of education, the best attitude in life for parents, and the most significant feature of the future learning center.

10. Why does the future learning center have to look like this?

1. School is no longer the only place for education.

Education in ancient times was carried out in social practice; the modern school system is a product of the Industrial Revolution, and schools have become the main channel of education; the Western affirmative movement with equal educational opportunities as its basic content refers to home-schooling The connection between home and school determines the academic achievement of children; the "overlapping influence theory" mentions that the partnership between home, school and society has an overlapping impact on children's education and development. The school is not only an organization for educational activities, but also the cultural center and civilized engine of the community; the family is not only a social unit of kinship, but also an after-school school and parent-child paradise for children; the community is not only the homogeneous unit of regional life, but also the home of children. The second classroom and practice base.

In the future, families and communities will play an increasingly important role in education.

2. Learning should return to life

Education itself is life, education is the way of life and the way of action. “Education is a process of life, not a preparation for future life. Schools must present present life—life that is real and vibrant to children. Like what they experience in their families, in their neighborhoods, and on the sports field. Life is like that. Without various forms of life, there is always a poor substitute for real reality, and the result is a dull and lifeless situation." - Dewey. Education is a "simplified version" and a "condensed version" of social life.

In the Future Center, if learning and life are to return to life, we need to work hard in the following two aspects: one is to point to a happy life, and the other is to point to a complete life.

3. Knowledge-centered will become student-centered

Suitable education is the best education. In a certain sense, education is not simply for adapting to the outside world, but for the enrichment of one's own heart.

In future educational changes, the focus must shift to be student-centered, with students' learning as the center, and learning activities centered around students. Taking students' learning as the center requires de-standardization, personalization, and customization.

Personalization and customization are the main forms of learning in the future. Customize your own learning plan, determine the pace of learning, and customize learning content. The rise of learning science echoes the trend of the entire society and education from focusing on "teaching" to "learning".

Teacher Zhu Yongxin’s words are more philosophical: The future is not where we are going, but where we are creating. Direction is more important than effort. Only by recognizing the direction of future education and the direction of future schools can we create better education and better learning centers.