Comments: What the Internet age to bring college students back to class

In the age of network, a powerful interfering factor of teacher's classroom teaching, not mobile phone. The Chinese youth newspaper has used "mobile phone Internet prevalence challenges University class" as the title, reported that college students listen to the teacher, but also better than mobile phone online to pass the time. Mobile phone network occupies a lot of classroom time, so that some teachers think that today's classroom, teachers to test whether they can withstand the test, to see the students mobile phone traffic. Of course, we can blame our students for being "kidnapped" and "enslaved" by Internet technology. However, as a teacher, I often hear students complain, tangle most often is some of the most realistic, the most serious problem, even pointed to the ills of the current university. For example: Today's knowledge of learning, after graduation may not be used, the underemployed, why come here to waste 4 years of time? What is the value of these expertise? Clearly is after class reading can self-study knowledge, and the classroom teacher always love to read the book, youkouwuxin, no attraction can say, such classroom study what significance? This kind of rhetorical question not only reflects the no purpose of many students ' learning, also exposed some teachers classroom teaching organization of no purpose, so, all kinds of chaos in the university campus breeding: Truancy into a student's "compulsory", classroom students play mobile phone more than serious, and the day seemingly hectic teachers actually mediocre, There is no goal, some even easy to blend in the university classroom, the tacit understanding of each other, teachers and students of the phenomenon, is now spreading in some university campuses, even more sad is that the university itself is not vigilant, but rather become a common consensus. The future, high-speed network may be everywhere, old and socially disconnected curriculum, boring and sleepy classroom, obviously can not be the enemy of the colorful network life. In the face of the various attractions and temptations of the Internet, it is a question to be vigilant and ponder how the university should bring the students back to class. On the other side of the ocean, the Khan College in the United States used the Internet to play the game of education and cartoon. This story may sound more legendary, a Bangladeshi-American Khan, a graduate of MIT, has used the Internet to guide revolutionary changes in teaching and to design boring math, physics, and chemistry classrooms as well as playing games, thus promoting the teaching of "reversal", which is designed to motivate students in their own way. ”。 According to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Education, "mixed teaching"--the combination of online learning and classroom learning--has increased student performance by 14%. Stanford University is making great use of this new approach to online education, and is also working with 16 American universities to advance exploration. Play games at home to master the basic knowledge, to the school in the classroom and the teacher discussion, such teaching model has undoubtedly improved the participation of students, embodies the focus on student development, as well as the process, heavy experience, the concept of re-exploration. At present, our classroom teaching is still more to instill mainly, the teacher prepares a great deal of knowledge, anxious in the classroom to pour it directly into the student's head. According to the author's teaching experience, I understand and let others understand is completely different。 This type of indoctrination is likely to benefit most teachers themselves, after all, the ability of students to accept different, digestion of knowledge also takes time, the effect is not ideal, what is more, teachers "all the hardships" is futile. Obviously, in the age of knowledge explosion and the high development of information technology, the traditional teaching methods can not meet the needs of today, under the new teaching environment, teachers should not only prepare teaching materials, prepare knowledge, but also prepare students, pay attention to students ' participation and interactivity, fully arouse and arouse students ' interest in learning. On the other hand, since the "popularization" of higher education, the "professionalism" of university education has become more and more prominent, and students ' demand has become more and more practical. If the students are not going to do what they have learned, what is the meaning of their professional knowledge? Should a course be set up and what knowledge should be imparted to students in the classroom, and what is the standard of measurement? Undoubtedly, to see whether it meets the needs of society, universities should base their courses on what students need to learn, not what teachers want to teach. On the contrary, the reality is that some of the university's development goals are not clear, never find a clear positioning, not to mention the close integration with regional economic development, the practice of the curriculum is congenitally deficient, can not meet the needs of students in the actual work. Max's survey showed that 2010 of undergraduate and vocational college graduates thought that important core courses were not good enough to meet the job requirements (the course satisfaction was less than 60%). The question is, is our university now aware of this challenge and dilemma? Do you really want to make some convincing changes to the system and mechanism? The development of education must be forward-looking, it is necessary to join in teaching reform, only rely on the university itself to seek breakthroughs. The urgent task is whether the existing development model can be broken, the key of the change lies in the guide of the manager, the change of the teachers ' personal ideas, the recognition of the reform education, the teaching idea and the effective execution, the exploration and the persistent pursuit of the innovative teaching method. Of course, to improve the quality of teaching is not easy, relying on the personal exploration of teachers may take a long time, but also need to assemble team strength, organized, have exchanges, form a tradition, and continue to update and develop. In the network age, to improve the attraction of the classroom, to bring the students back to the classroom, teaching methods and curriculum reform is only a point of entry, behind the overall atmosphere of the university should be based on innovation. After all, the university's loose teaching management, lecture-style lectures, infrequent communication between teachers and students and infrequent learning feedback ... Each link is missing, may let the student's study goal and the pressure lose completely, is trapped in the confusion and does nothing of chaos.