Facing the pressure of the future, students have the right to acquire the means and concepts to survive in historical changes. You also need to know the real picture of various future societies, and you need to make people feel that you can cope with the situation. The starting point is the school. Therefore, a brand-new future-oriented course and its related teaching practice came into being. It aims to help students face and adapt to the future. The aim is to teach students in accordance with their aptitude on changing issues.
What should be taught in the course of 2 1 century? Kaufman, an American scholar, put forward the following six points in his book The Future of Education:
1. Access to and use of information: including libraries and reference books, computer databases, relevant information of enterprises and government agencies, etc.
2. Cultivate clear thinking, including distinguishing semantics, logic, mathematics, computer programming, prediction methods and creative thinking.
3. Effective communication: public speaking, body language, grammar, vocabulary, painting, photography, production, graphic drawing, etc.
4. Understand people's living environment: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology and geography, biology and ecology, race and heredity, evolution, demography, etc.
5. Understand people and society: human evolution, physiology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, social psychology, ethnology, law, ever-changing professional forms, human existence and so on.
6. Personal ability: physical charm and balance, survival training and self-defense, safety, nutrition, health and sex education, consumption and personal finance, best learning methods and strategies, mnemonics, self-motivation and self-cognition.
Second, multimedia teaching technology
Multimedia technology is the most striking technology today, and it is the basis for managing and processing all kinds of information in the 2/kloc-0 century. In the past, computers could only handle the "text" of a single medium, that is, words, numbers and the most graphics, which gave people a monotonous, boring and boring feeling. "Multimedia technology" refers to the interactive comprehensive processing of words, graphics, images, sounds and other information by computers, so that they are logically linked and integrated into a system. The emergence of multimedia computer network teaching system has produced a new teaching form and a new teaching art, which requires teachers to know their own professional knowledge, be familiar with computer knowledge, be able to control computer software, and sometimes write some application software themselves. This provides a new world for teachers to display their teaching talents.
Third, university companies.
In the face of various demands arising from the ever-changing information society, education is not only an elegant taste and leisure cultural consumption, but also an important tool to create profits for the society and cultivate all kinds of emerging talents. In the change of this concept, an amazing change in the field of education in Europe and America in the 1990 s was brewed and produced. Universities have gradually become companies, which shows a certain track of university education reform at the turn of the century.
Four. Lifelong education for all
Education will extend to people's life in time and to the whole society in space. It not only means that everyone in the future society will receive education and study anytime and anywhere, but also means that everyone in the future society will learn by participating in social activities, and it also means that the whole society in the future will assume the function of education.
The implementation of lifelong education for all requires legislation to ensure that everyone, regardless of race, color, sex and religious belief, has equal opportunities to enter school and gradually expand to equal opportunities for academic success. The so-called equal opportunity for academic success means that everyone can get an appropriate education and everyone can reach a satisfactory level of education. Nowadays, people regard equal opportunities for academic success as an important goal of "democratization of education". Although this goal can't be achieved immediately, people haven't lost confidence and are trying to fight academic failure.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) the wave of privatization of public schools
The rise of privatization of public schools has profound historical and practical reasons.
As an educational institution embodying democracy, realizing racial equality and equal economic opportunities, public schools have always been regarded as a panacea by ordinary people, especially in the prosperous period of the 1960s. However, the social, political and economic crisis that began in 1970s forced people to re-examine the functions of public schools. As a result, people find that public schools are not omnipotent. Not only have they failed to cultivate students who can meet the needs of international and domestic society, but there is also serious racial segregation in their schools, which is despised in the United States, where democracy is the national slogan. Some private schools spend less than public schools to some extent. Although other characteristics of private schools, such as expanding ethnic and religious conflicts and strengthening economic stratification, are criticized by people, in the sense of schools, private schools are real schools and the students they cultivate are real students.