/PRZWT/BEIJING, April 17, 2024 - Quality-oriented education is a buzzword in education in recent years and a new trend in future education. In the face of the development of the times, changes in the inspection system and educational needs, what should parents and children do to prepare for the future calmly? In the face of complex, changeable and unknown environments, only by being able to transform what they have learned from books into effective tools for observing the world, thinking about the world, and expressing the world can they truly have the ability to grasp opportunities and face challenges head-on.
Therefore, the new era cultivation concept of solving real problems and building new thinking came into being. Recently, Yuanfudao New Thinking Class was specially invited to share its exploration and practice in cultivating children's new thinking ability from the four dimensions of "new", "true", "fun" and "value" in the national journal "Educator".
"In the era of artificial intelligence, children can't just rely on their past learning paths. Only by improving their core literacy and learning abilities, establishing higher-level cognitive habits and transfer abilities, and having the ability to solve unknown problems can they adapt to the rapidly changing future society." Ma Min, executive principal of Yuanfudao School, said. "Implementing literacy education on online courses is a common development problem faced by all educational institutions inside and outside the school."
In June 2023, Yuanfudao officially launched the quality-oriented education brand "Yuanfudao Literacy Course". The three course products of its humanities and liberal arts new reading and writing course, new thinking class, and bilingual reading and expression class are from three aspects: reading, thinking, and language learning. It aims to "cultivate children's bottom-level ability to learn" as the core, help improve children's reading ability, thinking ability, and bilingual reading expression ability, and cultivate the core literacy of primary school students.
From the perspective of Yuanfudao Thinking Class, doing abstract and difficult topics trains skills, but it also invisibly raises the threshold of learning, which cannot effectively improve the learning ability of most students. It is difficult to quickly grasp the essence of the problem and solve the complex problems in the real world by only having knowledge or skills and understanding memorable knowledge points. At the same time, the learning materials provided to children should be strictly screened, relevant to the times, and closely related to the real world. Providing children with real-world scenarios and real problems can make children motivated to learn, know what they are learning, and why they are learning.
The key to cultivating thinking ability lies in the ability to transfer, and the ability to transfer is also an external manifestation of innovation consciousness. When children see the practical application of knowledge, they will want to explore its various forms and use it to solve new problems in life, and new thinking will naturally emerge. Yuanfudao Literacy Class New Thinking Class spends more time with children to understand the essence of knowledge from all angles. Maybe the progress will be slower at first, but the more you go, the easier it will be. This short-term "slow" is actually for long-term "fast".
In the AI era full of unknowns and changes, it is no longer a single knowledge or problem-solving method that can help children calmly cope with new topics and challenges, but the thinking ability to discover problems, think about problems, and solve problems. Yuanfudao New Thinking Class will lead children to discover the common logic behind different problems, learn the essence of knowledge in real situations, and build the underlying thinking ability that will benefit them for a lifetime.
