background

The epidemic broke out suddenly, and the return date after the Spring Festival has been postponed; Businesses that are able to do so are starting to work remotely as much as possible; Ding Ding was automatically removed from the shelves by the primary school students’ creative “five-star praise, installment payment”;

It is difficult for students in remote areas to participate in online classes without the Internet, and at the same time, middle school students in large cities have long been accustomed to network generation.

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issue

So, what exactly is online class?

What is the difference between online and traditional classes?
Can online classes replace traditional classes? Why?
Students can get more education in online classes and in traditional classrooms?

… To put it simply, what should online classes look like?

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analysis

The noun is the most straightforward….

• Online Classes, Online Courses
• Network, Internet, Internet, a (global) network that connects various smart devices with TCP/IP as the basic protocol
• Courses, a series of process-based tutorials that teach knowledge in a specific area
• Above, is the intuitive unfolding of this proper noun

The Internet, which has nothing to explain, as the infrastructure of the information age, has become a necessity of life in underwear.

The most intuitive way to check whether there is an Internet connection is:

• Open any kind of browser
• Enter qq.com to see Tencent’s official website immediately

The problem lies in the lessons

Shuoyuan

The oracle bone inscription “lesson” is a morphophonetic and ideographic character.

Next to the word on the left is a symbol, indicating that the word is related to the speech. The “fruit” on the right is the pronunciation.

Here’s a scenario:

A well-spoken official, standing in front of a fruit tree:

• Do?
  • Counting, of course
• What do you do by counting?
  • Naturally, taxes are collected…

Therefore, the original meaning of “lesson” is to conduct experiments and assessments according to certain standards to test the results.

By extension, the state levies taxes according to the amount, such as: national tax, tax

• According to the prescribed content and weight, teaching and learning are called “lessons”.
• The teaching subjects set according to the prescribed teaching content and teaching time are also called “lessons”.
• “Lesson” is also used to denote a unit of teaching, e.g., a lesson. It also indicates a teaching passage, such as: There are fifteen lessons in this textbook

however

Lessons in the context of traditional schooling….

• The opening ceremony, everyone lined up, the principal’s speech, the content that has not changed for many years, the core idea is one:
  • Be obedient
• Formal class, everyone sits down, teachers and lecturers, the content has not changed for many years, and the core idea is just one:
  • Be obedient
• Regular exams, everyone sits down, the teacher sends out the papers, the content that has not changed for many years, and the core idea is just one:
  • Be obedient
• Finally the holiday, everyone lined up, the principal spoke, the content that has not changed for many years, and the core idea is one:
  • Be obedient
• …

Uh-huh? Listed in this order, I feel that I have been in compulsory education for 9 years, struggling with the college entrance examination before and after 4, plus 4 years of undergraduate, and I am basically being trained to be obedient…

After all:

Exams and exams, the magic weapon of teachers
Points, points, points, the lifeblood of students

It’s just that these are all the correct answers that have been set for a long time, and this teacher is basically a defender of order in the classroom; There are very few teachers who are willing to intervene in the students’ thinking process and provide targeted guidance…

Looking back now, maybe the teachers didn’t want to, but they didn’t have the opportunity:

• A class can range from 50 to hundreds
  • 20+ lessons per week
  • I also have to take care of the class work of the class where I am the class teacher…
• In other words, at least 500 or so students are faced every day
• Even if the teacher can clearly remember the real state of each student
• Even if it were used for all 8 hours of the day, each student would only be able to take an average of 57 seconds
• It is also impossible to complete an in-depth exchange of learning problems

So, in fact, in the past, when I was educated in school, everyone was essentially learning on their own, but in the form, it was all together.

Moreover, no one cares if the student’s self-taught posture is correct/effective.

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education

Therefore, learning difficulties have nothing to do with whether they are “online classes”, and they are not interested in learning and are not motivated; No matter what the scene is, it is a difficult student;

However, even all kinds of difficult students, like us, have successfully completed self-study of Chinese (the most complex and difficult natural language on the earth) and various survival skills in 2~3 years through self-study in a purely theoretical sense, without the help of any textbooks/videos/audio courses, with the fact that babies have no self-control, no basic knowledge, and a completely blank state.

Therefore, there is no problem with the self-learning ability of every Chinese, then, there must be something wrong with the education itself…

What is education?

Socrates (Greek: Σωκράτης, English translation: Socrates, 469-399 BC; The famous thinker, philosopher, educator, and civic juror of ancient Greece, he and his student Plato, as well as Plato’s student Aristotle, are known as the “Three Sages of Ancient Greece”, and are widely regarded as the founders of Western philosophy. gives an excellent analogy

Education is the kindling of a flame, 
    not the filling of a vessel.
Education is to light the torch,
    Instead of filling the container to the brim
    Education is not indoctrination,
        Rather, it ignites the flame)

That is: the most effective way to educate people is not to tell people the answers, but to ask them questions.

Socrates believed that all knowledge had been poured into every soul by the gods, but that everyone had forgotten it, and by asking questions, it could be remembered;

Socrates did just that, he grabbed any citizen in the square, starting with simple questions, until the other person was speechless, and went back to thinking bitterly…

So, Socrates was burned to the death….

Because, through the sequence of questions that every individual can dream about and think, he makes everyone realize for themselves how stupid they are…

In the past, I was forced to re-educate myself in the technical community, and then, as expected, I gained new knowledge efficiently, and this experience led to the mind, the lesson should be:

• According to the original meaning, the purpose of attending a class is to explain what you have learned to your husband and confirm the results of your learning
  • The so-called words
  • to prove it
  • Yes lessons
• What Mr. Xiang explained was the previous agreed topic/question/question/test question….
• Only in this way can everyone truly accumulate wisdom in the right direction in the most effective way for themselves
• In the past, the so-called “class” actually became:
  • The teacher asks the students to memorize the knowledge points of the unit
  • If not, use test scores, and corporal punishment to enlighten them
  • As for what is forced into the student’s mind, the teacher generally does not take it seriously
  • Anyway, whatever the exam papers require, how to teach
• In retrospect, is it scary? It’s scary, but we’ve been through it for more than 10 years
• But why do you take the initiative to ask for “enjoyment” of this senseless indoctrination? Stockholm Syndrome ?

However, the various online courses nowadays, or fashionable MOOCs/MOOCs:

• Massive Open Online Courses
  • Successful online courses
• Ha, a term that comes with its own advertising words
• Essentially, it’s just a replication of the traditional school curriculum online
• The MOOC of a famous foreign university is to put the videos in the past classes directly on the Internet
  • Part of the electronic version of the original printing tutorial
• Like online classes in famous schools in China, videos from previous classes are directly put on the Internet
  • The electronic version of the teacher’s own tutorial is provided
• For other online courses, the above course content is re-PPT reproduced by the staff
  • An electronic version of the tutorial compiled by the supporting organization
• live broadcast platform, as well as the online classes carried by Ding Ding, which was tragically removed from the shelves by one star
  • In fact, it is the traditional normal teachers who are forced to become anchors
  • From standing in the classroom and reading PPT, to sitting at home and reading in front of the camera

… In short, no matter how the form, the essence has not changed:

• Firm indoctrination, serious indoctrination
• However, whether/how/how/… to attract
• I really don’t have time to take care of it….

So, online lessons

Form determines content….

• The classroom is harmful, and cramming education has always been said to be unbearable, but it has become my only learning experience and input mode
• Live streaming is harmful, the teacher’s fluent and skillful recitation of lesson plans does not allow any doubts from students, and there is no room to keep up….
• WeChat is harmful, and the barrage-style message flow forms a powerful momentum that makes people follow flawless thinking
• Character flaws, when you feel that something is wrong, you can’t ask it reasonably at the first time, and you can’t ask it until time has passed and everything doesn’t exist… Most likely, it’s already too late…
• …

Of course, the above is a very arbitrary conjecture and cannot be made accurately.

Online classes, there was no such thing originally;

However, with the development of the times, the Internet has given the education industry another possible space; Therefore, people are accustomed to think of online classes as online classes;

In fact, if you think back to the TV university back then, it was essentially the prototype of online classes; It was the form of the telecommunication university, that limited the imagination of later Internet/online classes.

And, in the main science and technology meme creation center: “Star Trek”, in the related series, there is also the idea of online classes:

• Astronauts who are exploring deep space can also participate in the course through the interstellar network
• With the VR classroom at its core
• Students scattered across the universe project their VR images into the Earth-based classroom
• Through duplex holographic communication, real-time and real teachers complete lessons on a regular basis

Well, this kind of imagination, is not as good as the AI courses that are now emerging in the Chinese network:

• Based on a massive question bank
• According to the learning progress of each learner
• AI automatically assigns different questions
• The whole children’s online class is based on large-scale distributed online games
• Use interactive dialogues and graphics to drive learners to “learn”….

Just, this logical link on the “online lesson”:

• Originally, it was a one-way indoctrination course in the traditional classroom
• Yes, no matter how it is transfigured, it can only be one-way indoctrination
• Best, it is better to build a learning library that is becoming more and more searchable

python camp ™ online class

pythoncamp101.camp ™open-source online course framework

It is the opposite, or an attempt to return to the original meaning of “lesson”;

It’s essentially a Socrates-style teaching system; Of course, this form of teaching has been circulating on the Internet:

• All open source/free software technical communities are built spontaneously according to this mechanism
• Initially, one or more engineers built a prototype software based on their own vision
• Cooperate with repositories/wikis/lists to publish the code/documentation and communication channels of the corresponding project
• Users who are interested and capable, join spontaneously, and explore on their own based on the existing information
• Start promoting/revising/disseminating open source/free technologies
• At the same time, in this process, different levels of users/learners/developers are channeled together
• There’s something to talk about, nothing to talk about
• Everything is based on what can be expressed in code, and it is possible to communicate and learn quickly/asynchronously/effectively

In contrast, other forms of education generally replace learning itself with learning behaviors.

Socrates-style teaching, on the other hand, is based on specific problems/tasks/code/… Evaluative/Validate/Document/Track/Optimize/Reuse/… The specific artifacts are anchored and completed autonomously according to a series of tasks with a clear goal, while the course/community environment provides all the help through real partners;

Every time a task is completed, it tends to form a private tutorial, and the standard can be to the extent that I can teach myself half a year ago. Ha, this standard is familiar, yes, it’s also the Feynman method;

• That’s why teaching is reversed
• How to teach reversal? Who is the tutorial for?
• Courses/communities need to continuously learn from learners how to better articulate technology/knowledge

If you want to talk about the “lesson” in Auntie’s mind directly, it should be like this:

• The trainees asked what they wanted to become
• Based on his own experience and resource limitations, the tutor is set as a middle-level character
• Then, using the negative foundation as a starting point, design a learning path
• Finally, the route is analyzed as a task with a suitable span and released to the trainees
• Trainees, claim the task in stages, and try their best to complete the task before the expected time point
  • During the process, if there are specific difficulties/questions, you can always ask questions
  • The instructor/TAs will give you tips based on your current progress and learning posture
  • At the same time, students who are fast learners can also share their experiences through the course environment
• In the end, the students are driven by themselves to perfectly build themselves into the target characters in their minds

In other words, the “online class” on this educational understanding link:

• Originally, it was widely used in the open source/free software community
• Yes, specialized courses that can be targeted at domain skills and stand alone for sustainable operations
• Preferably, everyone can quickly build their own “online lessons” based on the relevant services, so as to form a community with the same interests and co-create with their classmates for a long time

Starting from their own prejudices, Python Camp ™ tries to solve this learning difficulty problem; Reconstruct the “online lesson” form/memory/process with the goal of returning the learning autonomy to the learner himself;

This framework, which has been open sourced for five years, how does it work?

This deserves to be covered in detail in another series of articles

So, for the good people who don’t have any programming confidence:

 learn Python
    The goal itself
        It was never Python
    It's only through programming thinking
        to understand/touch
    The cyber dimension of the real world

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shared by students:

what I understand as an online class

@hyacinth0906

Confronting the meaning of understanding is that taking classes online, and the knee-jerk reaction is how different it is from the usual classes at school.

• 1. The first dimension that feels more is freedom, you can freely control when you want to learn, everything you want to learn is there, and you can learn as long as you want to learn, rather than having to follow the time and pace arranged by the teacher at school
  1. The second feeling is that these things are all there, so if I learn or not, no one will know, although this situation can also be achieved in the classroom, after all, there is still a pair of eyes staring at (the teacher), and there are many eyes around me who are comparing, and I can’t choose to do it or not
  1. Therefore, online classes need to be designed to be more engaging than the classroom, so that students can be interested in sitting in front of the computer all the time listening and interacting, rather than being stared at by some eyes in the environment, and at least need to stimulate more initiative

Last year, because I was interested in what changes have been made in university education, and I looked at what teaching projects have been given by the teaching fund in recent years, and there are very hot “flipped classrooms”, “sandwich teaching methods”, “micro courses” and “PBL teaching”, etc., my feeling is that the intention is to put the basic content originally preached in the classroom on the Internet, or preview before class, and second, use actual cases and problems at each stage to guide students to think about the knowledge points to be told, mainly to reduce the teacher’s words and increase the opportunity for students to think actively.

In the era of online classes, initiative is a very important factor, but how to take the initiative may be a better way to start with the end in mind. Aunt said earlier that you must first imagine what kind of person you want to become. That is, what to achieve, and then backwards, and how to get there. I remembered that Xu Cen was getting a learning class, he talked about his experience of learning guitar, at first he wanted to learn guitar because he liked a famous song very much, and he asked a very good guitar teacher, what do I need to learn before I can play that song. The teacher said you could just go and learn to play that tune. (Story)

So I think that online classes, which are also a form of education now, will expose this problem more obviously than in the previous classrooms, and students will be more shaken. If it’s not worth it, it’s better to play games and watch dramas. Whether it is case teaching or step-by-step questioning, we hope to show the real application scenario as much as possible, so that students can actively think about how you should think and deal with the current situation if you are in this situation. I thought it was also an attempt to reform university education in a way that starts with the end in mind.

My understanding of the python camp is also similar to the original intention, aunt often said, with it, Buddhism, that is, in the real application of the scene to experience what actually works, to experience and feel the part that has a role, internalized into their own knowledge, is also a kind of online education that begins with the end in mind.

PS:

Xu Cen’s story source: Get – Xu Cen “How to become a master of effective learning” – 3.Go straight to the master, you don’t have to start from the basics. It is not recommended to get this class, but only to give the source.