If we ask people in another way: Why do you want to study? I think the answer is relatively simple. Books are the crystallization of human experience and knowledge. Reading is to absorb the knowledge and experience of predecessors, so as to make up for their own lack of knowledge and experience, solve various problems and improve the quality of life. Ask others again: Why should we form a reading club? The answer is: although the book has the wisdom of predecessors, people who have read the book are often limited by their personal knowledge, experience, talents, likes and dislikes, and there are considerable differences in cognition, even diametrically opposed views. But no matter what kind of viewpoint, it is just a kind of viewpoint, and it has its blind spots, which will hinder comprehensive cognition and then affect the effect and quality of dealing with problems.
Reading club is a learning organization that tries to gather a group of people, share each other's knowledge and experience, and compare each other's feelings and experiences, so as to find their own blind spots and improve their cognitive level in an all-round way.
Extending the above statement, then the reading room should collect rich and varied information about reading materials; When reading, when strict and accurate reasoning is needed; In the process of discussion, we should adopt a positive learning attitude and express ourselves modestly and appropriately. Therefore, collecting, criticizing and publishing information is the basic ability of reading members. These three abilities, the so-called autonomous learning ability (note 1), are the basic abilities that all citizens should have in the era of lifelong learning.
Schools should cultivate the ability and habit of lifelong learning. If teachers in all subjects can cooperate with subject teaching, assign topics, list books, invite students to conduct special research and write reports on their reading experience, this ability will be easily developed. However, under the background of entrance competition and cramming teaching, few teachers are willing to carry out this kind of training, so that our young friends generally lack this quality.
There is something missing in the main class, so we can only organize a reading club to remedy it. This is the reason why young students (note 2) need to attend the reading club, and it is also the reason why I set up the "high school students' online reading club".
Highlights of Youth Reading Club
Because the purpose of youth reading club is to "cultivate the ability and habit of lifelong learning", the activities of youth reading club are different from those of general reading club. The main purpose of its activities is to train basic abilities. What need to be trained? One is the ability to collect information, the other is the ability to criticize information, and the other is the ability to publish information.
Collecting information can be further divided into traditional and network. The former refers to finding reference books such as publication catalogue, periodical paper index, word dictionary and encyclopedia; The latter refers to the retrieval and utilization of network resources. If you don't know how to check the publication catalogue, you may choose old books to read, wasting precious time on outdated knowledge or theories that have long been abandoned by the author; If you don't know how to search the index of periodical papers, you can't know the relevant information. It is inevitable that you will still read the book "Revolution in the Brain" as a Bible after the fallacy was exposed in the New Newspaper (Note 3) and the mistake of the revolution in the brain (Note 4) were severely criticized.
Information critical ability refers to basic discipline accomplishment, logical and semantic reasoning and thinking ability. Think about it: without common sense of cultural relics history, how can you question the picture of Guan Yu sitting in a chair reading a thread-bound book? Without the concept of semantic logic, faced with emotional narratives such as "I'm strong, you're fat, he's a fat pig" and "I'm eloquent, you talk a lot, he's a gossip", how can we tell whether the three are the same? How can you judge right from wrong? Lack of basic common sense and reasoning ability, more reading and discussion, at best, is only repeated recording and collective hypnosis of the original work.
Information publishing ability refers to the writing ability of opinion discussion, experience report and special paper format. "Tongue ploughing and heart weaving", discussion is not debate, how to question heresy, state your own views and find blind spots in thinking without hurting others, all of which need training. "Publication is the best absorption". Paper reports have a certain format and strict specifications, which is also the focus of training. No matter how good the content is, it will not be recognized and affirmed.
Time arrangement of youth reading club activities
At present, regardless of high school and junior high school, the courses are quite compact and there are continuous quizzes. In fact, it is quite difficult to set aside a fixed time for reading activities in class. Under the pressure of entering a higher school, it is ok to read novels and comics as leisure. If young students are forced to have a serious discussion on extracurricular reading materials, it is tantamount to depriving them of the opportunity to rest, even if they are excluded. If it is serious, it may also trigger a rebound and be accused by parents!
In the era of further education, "further education" is the greatest motivation for learning. Therefore, to make teenagers read successfully, it is best to cooperate with subject teaching in reading materials. For example, when attending the "Gene Unit", the biology teacher may wish to list books such as Organ Store, Cell Transformation and Gene Jihad, and ask students to read one or two of them, write a report on their experiences and supplement the project assignments. Moreover, it is best to cooperate with the homework in winter and summer vacations, so that students can read during the holidays, discuss after the start of school, and hand in reports by stages. In this way, reading club activities are combined with course study, project assignment, recommendation and selection of small papers, which improves the wishes of students and parents. Studying during the holidays will not bring too much burden to students, nor will it make teenagers bored to go out and drive fast, and parents will not protest.
Publication of the results of the Youth Reading Club
"Every road you walk will leave a mark." Teenagers are eager to show off and should be encouraged to publish their own reports. Only books and newspapers that are willing to accept articles published by teenagers in China are extremely limited, and the following methods can be used to remedy them:
1. Collect the report of each student in the class, and compile it into class magazine together with class activity information and class honor list. It can also be compiled into a class magazine and published separately.
2. Build a class web page, collect students' experience reports and make an online class magazine.
3. Burn the online edition of the class magazine into a CD and publish it.
4. Schools can hold academic reading experience report writing competitions and publish their works. You can also hold a webpage making competition for the subject reading experience, and the results will be posted on the school website for public reading.
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"High school is the preparatory education for universities". Prepare what? It is nothing more than learning self-study ability and forming research habits as the basis for learning advanced knowledge after entering the university. To tell the truth, these abilities and habits should be the responsibility of teachers in all subjects, and cultivate students in the teaching process. Therefore, the teaching materials of all disciplines should be compiled with the research method units of all disciplines, with a basic bibliography for teachers to teach and students to learn, and included in the scope of the college entrance examination. If this can be done, then every young student has the ability of self-study, develops the habit of reading and research, and becomes a lifelong learner. At that time, it won't be a problem whether young students want to attend the book club or not.