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In the era of digital intelligence, how should we respond to changes and challenges?
On April 13th and 14th, sponsored by Chengdu Normal University, the School of Teacher Education of Chengdu Normal University and the Sichuan Provincial Education Informatization Application and Development Research Center hosted the "Cross-project Future - Project-based Learning Chengdu Forum in the Digital Intelligence Era", and more than 400 experts, scholars, teachers, principals, and principals from all over the country gathered at Chengdu Normal University to discuss the development, reform and practice of project-based learning in the context of the digital intelligence era.
Professor Zhang Zejun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Chengdu Normal University, delivered a welcome speech, and Yang Yuchun, member of the Party Group of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, Zhou Longjun, Chairman of the Wisdom Education Research Branch of the China Tao Xingzhi Research Association, and other leaders came to the scene and delivered speeches.
As a high-quality education event, the forum featured 6 keynote speeches, 4 parallel forums, 4 visit routes, and 34 basic education leaders from all over the country conducted in-depth theme exchanges, discussions and sharing on how to better implement project-based learning and how to better improve the quality and effect of education and curriculum through scientific and technological means.
Professor Sang Guoyuan of Beijing Normal University:
Project-based learning will transform the school curriculum
Sang Guoyuan, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University, shared with the participants on the development of project-based learning methods, the development and change of new quality productivity and education reform, and the high-quality development of education and curriculum reform on "Structured, Comprehensive and Practical: Project-based Learning Leverages School Curriculum Reform".
"In the context of the era of digital intelligence, our educational philosophy should be constantly updated, and we should focus on cultivating students' innovative consciousness and critical thinking ability. While the educational content keeps pace with the times, it is necessary to incorporate new scientific and technological elements, as well as interdisciplinary knowledge. Professor Sang Guoyuan believes that it is necessary to pay attention to heuristic and interactive inquiry-based teaching, guide students to think actively, actively ask questions, and explore independently; we should pay attention to situational teaching, actively explore the integrated teaching of subject-based courses, and carry out research-based, project-based, and cooperative learning.
Professor Sang Guoyuan said that first, project-based learning encourages students to explore, cooperate and innovate, and helps the transformation of examination-oriented education to quality education. Second, project-based learning enables students to learn how to face, analyze and solve problems by participating in practical projects, which will help cultivate top-notch innovative talents. Third, project-based learning usually revolves around the topics that students are interested in, which can stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning, improve their willingness to learn actively, and enhance students' sense of learning. Fourth, project-based learning is in line with the trend of global education, which is conducive to the integration of China's education system with international education and cultivates talents with international vision and competitiveness.
Professor Sang Guoyuan said that as a constructive learning method, project-based learning will not only reconstruct the curriculum content, change the teaching mode, promote student-led learning, and advocate a diversified evaluation system, but also enhance the cooperation and communication between students and between teachers and students, improve the practicality and effectiveness of learning, and realize the application of learning. In addition, project-based learning will further integrate various educational resources to help schools adapt to future education trends and cultivate talents that are more in line with the needs of society.
Professor Sang Guoyuan said that a good project-based learning design not only needs to have six degrees of problem-driven, continuous inquiry, student participation, discipline integration, product orientation, and evaluation guidance, but also needs to have six implementation elements: focusing on curriculum standards, building culture, project management, building scaffolds, evaluating learning, and reviewing and reflecting, so as to achieve real deep learning, develop students' core literacy, and achieve the purpose of comprehensive education.
Ke Qingchao, a professor at South China Normal University:
Keep an open mind and forward-looking vision, and embrace change positively
With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, machines "learn to be adults" and "useless classes" are generated, how should we deal with them? Ke Qingchao, deputy dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Educational Information Technology of South China Normal University, said that there is no need to panic.
Professor Ke Qingchao believes that generative AI is to train large-scale datasets, learn the essential laws and probability distributions of data, and imitate human thinking processes to independently generate new content with a certain degree of logic and coherence. Although it has subverted the mode of knowledge content production, and even broken through the forbidden areas of human intelligence, consciousness, thinking and rationality that cannot be surpassed by traditional technology, it has detonated a new round of artificial intelligence revolution. However, as in the past, machinery is still an extension of human organs, and it has always been a certain way of self-realization of human collective wisdom and values, which cannot be separated from the influence of our entire human collective wisdom and values, and is a new perspective and tool for human beings to explore themselves and the external world.
For education, there are many implications. On the surface, it will have a certain impact on students' learning and teachers' teaching, such as students will face a new learning interactive environment, personalized learning upgrades, intelligent companion learning, etc., and teachers will face the impact of real-time education content generation, human-computer collaborative teaching design, and human-computer collaborative teaching implementation. From a deep point of view, it will have an impact on the educational concept, educational content, educational evaluation mechanism, and the transformation of teachers' roles, such as human-computer co-learning and human-computer co-teaching, which will produce a new type of teacher-student-machine educational relationship, and will undoubtedly produce deep-seated changes for the entire education system.
"With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, how can we improve the AI-related literacy and practical ability of teachers and students? How to explore the new ways and models of generative AI active application in basic education, how to empower teachers to prepare for teaching, and how to empower students' learning?" Professor Ke Qingchao said that in the face of generative AI shaping the new ecological and new order of education at an unprecedented speed, we should maintain an open mind and a forward-looking vision, actively embrace the changes brought by generative AI to the field of basic education, and jointly explore and build a new ecology of large-scale personalized talent training empowered by intelligent technology.
A number of basic education leaders shared
Project-based learning exploration and practice in the era of digital intelligence
As a constructive teaching and learning method, in the context of the era of digital intelligence, how can teachers use project-based learning to achieve precise teaching, how can students use project-based learning to achieve personalized growth, and how can schools use project-based learning to achieve better development?
At the keynote forum, Yu Kailian, deputy dean and professor of the School of Preschool Education of Capital Normal University, gave a speech on "Project-based Learning and High-quality Development of Preschool Education", Zhou Xinyi, Dean of the School of Teacher Education of Chengdu Normal University and director and professor of Sichuan Provincial Education Informatization Application and Development Research Center, spoke on "Using the National Smart Education Platform to Carry out Project-based Learning Activities", and He Hui, Vice President and Senior Teacher of Chengdu Jinjiang District Institute of Educational Sciences, gave a speech on "The Connotation and Design Logic of Project-based Learning" Long Xuena, deputy dean, associate professor and doctor of the School of Teacher Education of Chengdu Normal University, shared the practice of project-based learning on the practice of project-based learning on the local experience of project-based learning to promote the solution of key problems in education.
"Smart Education", "Cross-border Integration", "Future-Oriented", "Leading the Future", in the sub-forum of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, leaders from Chengdu Paulownia Primary School (Tianfu Campus), Chengdu Shuangliu District Jiujiang New Town Primary School, Chengdu Normal Yindu Wisteria Primary School, Chengdu Shishu Middle School, Experimental Primary School Affiliated to Sichuan Provincial Institute of Educational Sciences, Yizhou Primary School of Chengdu High-tech Zone, Chengdu Golden Apple Public School, Beijing Shiyi Jinyuan Kindergarten, Zhuhai High-tech Zone Tangjiawan Central Kindergarten Education Group and other schools were The in-depth practice of project-based learning in schools, "Design and Innovation of Interdisciplinary Project-based Learning", "Practical Direction of Project-based Learning for Young Children", and "New Path of Project-based Learning under Digital Empowerment" were shared. They said that in the face of the magnificent digital era, project-based learning meets the requirements of personalized learning methods for students and teachers' precise teaching in the era of digital intelligence, and is a powerful starting point for cultivating students' core literacy, improving the quality of basic education, and promoting the reform of education methods.
"Authentic, Participatory, Collaborative, Practical, Equitable, Inclusive, Openness, and Sharing!", as a concentrated display of the phased achievements of the in-depth reform of project-based learning methods, this forum not only brought together a number of relevant experts and front-line teachers in multiple stages, disciplines and fields of basic education across the country, but also closely focused on international hot spots, academic frontiers and practice orientation, and shared and discussed how to better implement project-based learning and how to improve the quality and effect of education and curriculum through scientific and technological means. The participants said that the successful holding of this forum not only provides an open and diversified communication platform for domestic project-based learning researchers and practitioners, but also provides useful experience for promoting the deep integration of project-based learning and smart education and realizing the digital transformation of education.
In addition, on the morning of the 14th, the participants also visited Jiaxiang Foreign Chinese School in Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Park Primary School in Chengdu High-tech Zone, Primary School Affiliated to Chengdu Tianfu New Area Institute of Educational Sciences and Chengdu Shuangliu District Kindergarten, and held a series of activities such as open class displays, lesson discussions, expert roundtables, and interactive exchanges. Everyone said that the visit not only broadened their horizons and enhanced their awareness, but also gained a lot and benefited a lot.