Classroom + "Temple": Give children the most vivid museum education

The treasure of the town hall of the National Museum, Simu Pengding, was "moved" to the classroom.

Children observe it 360 degrees, listen to it as a "self-introduction", listen to experts explain the story behind it, and explore the relationship between bronze and "model" under the leadership of the teacher...

This is a lesson in the digital curriculum system of "Bo Wu Erudite" developed by Beijing Xinwei Shangzhi Science and Technology Culture Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinwei Shangzhi"). Since 2020, in cooperation with Beijing Historian Education Group to send museum courses to campus, nearly 200 schools have introduced this digital curriculum system, or incorporated into after-school services, or listed as featured courses, or as comprehensive practical activity courses...

Feelings meet "wind outlet"

Before the establishment of New WeiShangzhi, its chairman Hui Pengyu had been precipitating in the cultural and expo circles for many years, based on cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and somatosensory interaction, and digitizing cultural resources.

What is collected in the museum is a condensation of human civilization. Hui Pengyu, who has scanned more than 100,000 cultural relics in various museums, knows that every object can become a nourishment for children's growth. But in reality, there are too few links between children and museums. As of 2020, China has registered more than 5,500 museums, but the ratio of museums to schools is only 1:93. To popularize museum education, digitalization is almost the only way to go. This is the original intention of Hui Pengyu and several partners to use digital technology to do museum education.

In 2018, New Wei Shangzhi was established, committed to "enlightening wisdom and enriching the heart with culture", with the vision of "letting more than 200 million Chinese students have a campus digital museum". The company team presents the museum cultural relics in 3D form, invites experts to record videos to explain the knowledge, stories, history and culture behind the cultural relics, and makes them into a digital course system.

Initially, this set of courses was applied in the "Social Practice Classroom" in Beijing. Shijia Primary School in Dongcheng District, Beijing has become the starting point for the application of the curriculum in the campus. Museum education at Shijia Elementary School has been carried out for ten years, and in the spring semester of 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, the museum study course was interrupted. In this context, New Wei Shangzhi cooperated with Beijing Historian Education Group to develop online digital courses for museums. The broadcast rate of this course is 2-3 times that of other online literacy courses offered by the school during the same period. The course has also been launched on the information platform of the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education, the digital television platform of the five provinces, and the information resource platform of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and has been broadcast more than 2 million times.

Data feedback allowed New Weishangzhi to focus on the research and development of a museum education curriculum system that adapts to the normal application of campus and is experienced by digital interaction. The introduction of national policies and documents has added a lot of impetus to the development of the cause. In September 2020, the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage jointly issued the "Opinions on the Use of Museum Resources to Carry Out Primary and Secondary Education Teaching", proposing: fully excavate museum resources, research and develop a series of activities and courses; include museum youth education in the content of after-school services... After the introduction of the "double reduction" policy this year, the "5+2" after-school service has been fully covered in primary and secondary schools. In the context of these policies, the museum's digital curriculum enters after-school services as an excellent solution.

New Wei Shangzhi ushered in the "outlet", but also ushered in an important partner - the intelligent interactive display industry well-known brand HiteVision Technology Co., Ltd. HiteVision Technology has been cultivating education informatization for more than 20 years, providing intelligent interactive products and solutions to schools. Chairman Xing Xiuqing found that the current school's information infrastructure equipment has been relatively perfect, but it lacks education and teaching content that can apply the equipment well. "The school's smart device should become a window for children to see the world", HiteVision Technology, which is determined to transform the education information service provider, has launched a digital museum to provide strong support in technology, and has conducted a lot of analysis of teachers' teaching behavior and courseware production, demonstration needs, etc., and is committed to creating better teaching resources.

Today, New Wei Shangzhi has developed the "Bo Wu Bo Dian Digital Museum Intelligent Terminal System", the Bo Wu Expo Exploration Classroom Resource System, the Bo Wu Expo Digital Cultural Relics Exhibition Chen Resource System and other products, and together with HiteVision Technology, it has carried out application and promotion to carry out museum education after-school services, comprehensive practical activities, characteristic school courses, research and learning practice activities, digital museum functional classroom construction for primary and secondary schools, providing professional services such as courses, resources, activities and spaces.

Classroom hand in hand "hall"

What is taught in the museum course for children? This question, New Wei Shangzhi invited cultural and expo system experts, education experts, front-line teachers, and parents to answer. Yu Tao, vice president of the company, introduced that through research and symposiums, it was finally determined to take precious national treasures and cultural relics as the core, take the knowledge, skills, culture, historical memory and civilization light condensed in the cultural relics as the content, take "enlightenment, erudition, enlightenment, morality, and practice" as the teaching method, and "one lesson and one thing and one thought" as the main line of teaching, teach students the thinking and ability of "natural objects", "lattice objects" and "creation", and cultivate students' feelings of home and country, humanistic qualities and scientific spirit facing the future.

There are countless museum artifacts, which ones to choose to enter the classroom? Mr. Qi Jixiang, the first generation of Chinese docents and tenured research librarians of the National Museum, led the experts of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society to screen from three dimensions: representative of the times; informative, storytelling, inspirational; and loved by students. After considering the course schedule, 64 cultural relics were finally selected.

How are cultural relics integrated with teaching? New Wei Shangzhi has worked teaching and research. The personnel and experts of the company's Cultural Heritage Knowledge Research Institute will make professional interpretations of cultural relics; the technical team will enhance the sense of experience and interaction of the course; and the teaching and research team and invited education experts and special teachers of various disciplines will study the teaching objectives and curriculum design together.

In the end, there is this set of immersive situational teaching, inquiry-based practical interaction, and systematic goal construction of the "Bo Wu Erudite" digital curriculum system. The curriculum is set up at three levels: primary (first and second grade), intermediate (third and fourth grades), and advanced (fifth and sixth grades), forming a targeted, systematic and spiraling teaching design. Artifacts are displayed in a digital form with connoisseur-grade precision. The course is presented in the form of "three sayings": "cultural relics say" makes the classroom vivid and interesting, "experts say" makes the classroom rigorous and in-depth, and "student says" arouses students' interest in exploration. Set up a pre-class, in-class, after-class study list, clear learning and inquiry tasks... From the content to the method, let the students enjoy learning it.

When museum courses enter the campus, the operability of the teachers should be considered. "Our curriculum should not increase the pressure and burden on teachers, but make teachers easy to get started and at the same time make teachers feel fulfilled." Yu Tao said. In order to facilitate the use of teachers, New Weishangzhi provides teachers with teaching plans, teaching courseware, teaching demonstration courses, teaching instruction manuals, and operation training. In the classroom, the teacher only needs to do a good job of "3D display", "cultural relics said", "expert said", "student said" and other links in tandem; teaching can refer to the teaching ideas and teaching key points in the teaching plan. Teachers only need to prepare for 20 minutes per lesson.

Wang Huan, president of Beijing Shijia Education Group, once mentioned the bottleneck faced by schools in carrying out museum education at the two sessions of the National People's Congress: schools need to invest more manpower and material resources to select museum resources suitable for campus education, and at the same time design and develop courses that meet the needs of students' quality education. The "Erudition" digital curriculum system solves these two major problems.

When Qi Jixiang saw this curriculum system, he was excited to tears. He has been committed to educating children on cultural relics for many years, and in his view, the education carried out by the museum itself does not fit well with school education. The curriculum is systematic, closely coordinated with the teaching of teachers; carried out in different grades and targeted; and high-tech means make cultural relics "alive". He lamented: "This is the real museum into the campus." ”

Naturalism towards "Bo Enlightenment"

Hui Pengyu said that when he did museum education, the children educated him instead.

In a class of "Bo Wu Erudite" at Shijia Primary School, he talked about the national first-class cultural relics - the Painted Bronze Goose and Fish Lantern of the Western Han Dynasty. The shape of the lamp is that of a "big goose" holding a fat fish in its mouth. Some children said that they had not seen geese, so they looked up on the Internet. This investigation, the problem comes - the shape of the "big goose" of the goose fish lamp is inconsistent with the big goose found out, and in contrast, it is found that it is not a big goose, but a green-headed duck! Could it be that the experts of the National Expo have made a mistake? So I continued to look for information and seek verification. Finally, I learned that the name of "Goose Fish Lamp" was handed down in ancient times, taking the meaning of "Hongyan Fish", and the biological classification is only in modern times. Hui Pengyu did not know this knowledge. "Whether it is a goose fish lamp or a duck fish lamp, in fact, it does not matter, what is important is the child's questioning and exploration."

In addition to inadvertent questioning, a large number of questions are set up to guide thinking and inquiry in the study list for students. The "Bo" in "Bo Wu Erudite" refers to a broad field of vision, and "Wu" means "Wu Si". Through the curriculum, children go from naturalism to "enlightenment".

Today, through HiteVision's nationwide marketing service network, the digital curriculum system has been rolled out in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaoning and other places. Li Lei, vice president of HiteVision Technology, said that the high-quality digital solution content of New Weishangzhi has been unanimously recognized and praised by users. Through practice, users also realize that in addition to nourishing children's growth, the curriculum can also empower teachers to improve.

A teacher in her 40s sent a long message saying that she had grown up with her students through this course. After nearly 20 years of regular teaching, she is happy with the innovation of the classroom and the improvement of herself. This course has also infiltrated other disciplines. A Chinese teacher in Kunming called Xinwei Shangzhi and asked if he could use the course content to give an open class; in the science class, the teacher explained the urban drainage system in conjunction with the ancient city of Liangzhu 5,000 years ago; in the music class, some teachers talked about the chimes to the liturgy... Providing the teacher with the "Stone of His Mountain" is an "Easter egg" for this course. Yu Tao said: "In the course, we provide a lot of expansive materials, hoping that interested teachers will take a look, learn a lesson, and then find a point of convergence with their own disciplines. ”

The next plan of New Wei Shang Zhi is to empower schools and teachers in the long term, and to build bridges between museums and schools. Provide the school with more campus culture construction and special activity support resources; invite museum experts to give general knowledge courses to teachers; organize sharing and exchange meetings, invite school teachers who have done a good job in museum education to share for teachers in remote areas; and also hope to have the opportunity to join hands with cultural heritage experts and teachers to go to the vast land and enter the museum to jointly perceive Chinese civilization and exchange the way of bacon casting the soul. "Even if it affects a teacher, it is to sow a seed of fire." This is Yu Tao's little wish.

(Author: Zhou Caili)

Source: Educator Magazine