Chapter 447: Experimental School

After the Lantern Festival, the newly built Dongfang Shi Yàn Middle School opened. The school covers a wide area and is luxurious in the construction of hardware facilities; In terms of software, it is the world's best.

The city now has a permanent population of more than 160,000, but the vast majority of them are young unmarried workers, so only four primary schools were built.

Because it is not the beginning of the semester in September, all the students who come to Shiyàn Middle School are transfer students, and there is no senior high school class for the time being, and there are only three classes and 104 students in the second year of high school.

In the next two years, before the graduation of the first batch of senior high school students, Oriental Education and Training Company will also prepare to establish a private college at the university level.

The school under the Oriental Education and Training Company is unique in terms of educational philosophy, in addition to general cultural courses, it pays more attention to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor.

In middle school, military training, wilderness survival, long-distance hiking, and emergency rescue are added.

This long-distance hiking training is not a simple spring outing and picnic, it requires students to carry their own dry food, water and camping equipment, etc., to carry out long-distance field marches, and requires cooperation with other students to complete camp construction, tent construction, search for water sources, solve food and clothing problems, etc.

Each student is required to join more than two interest groups to develop their hobbies and talents.

Middle school students themselves are required by the school to do a good job in their own management, and they must not allow waste that they can't even wash their own socks.

There are also more than three learning opportunities organized by the school each semester to visit and hike to broaden your horizons, not only in the local area but also in your home country. Of course, all of this requires a certain amount of financial resources to support.

In the age when everyone has a smartphone. No matter how strong your memory is, it can't compare to an internet search. Some rote knowledge can be taken less, and when you need to use it, you can't just check it on the Internet.

What's more, now is the era of infinite breakthroughs in knowledge, and we must follow the footsteps of the times.

Campus education should be broader, less about rote memorization, and more about cooperation, hands-on skills, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

And not like an assembly line. Students run from classroom to classroom to receive a cramming education.

Schools should pay more attention to cultivating students' interest in learning, even if they leave the campus and enter the society in the future, when they feel that their knowledge is insufficient, they can maintain that motivation to seek knowledge, instead of burning all the previous examination papers and textbooks as soon as the big exam is over; Or as soon as you leave the campus, you throw away your books in boredom.

However, today's schools equate education with book knowledge and test scores, and overemphasize test scores, other knowledge, conduct, ability, talent, sports, and analytical thinking ability. All are secondary.

As a result, many students with high scores and low ability are cultivated who are unable to apply what they have learned.

In fact, the knowledge that everyone worked hard to learn in high school. After going to university, or after entering the real world, there is a clear mismatch in the knowledge required, that is, it is basically not used.

In ancient times, books were controlled by the family and the gate valve, and the channels for ordinary people to learn knowledge were very narrow, and later with the reduction of the cost of paper and the progress of printing, it was slowly improved, but it was still difficult.

But in the age of the Internet, if a person wants to learn, he can learn enough new knowledge without being in school.

In Ye Quan's view, it is more important to develop a habit of being good at studying, being able to learn, and persevering for life than getting high scores in school every time.

Last month, Galaxy Software officially launched the "Primary and Secondary School Curriculum Teaching Software" and "Personal Teacher Software", which aroused heated discussions from all walks of life.

Considering the particularity of primary and secondary school curriculum teaching software, Galaxy does not set a high price for the software, and takes out one-third of its profits every year to donate software and learning computers to primary and secondary schools in poor areas.

Naturally, the school adopted the "primary and secondary school curriculum teaching software", which was one of Ye Quan's experiments on education reform.

Through guò this intelligent software, the teaching content has changed from a single text information to a collection of graphics, images, animations, text and other forms of hypertext information.

After more than a month of trial, almost all the teachers and students at the school applauded.

In terms of teachers, the burden has been reduced by more than 60% after the school has installed this intelligent teaching software, and the school also has an intelligent management system, and the homework and test papers handed in by students are completely generated, reviewed and scored by the software.

In the school, the role of the teacher has changed to that of the student's self-directed learning, and the teaching of knowledge has become a secondary job, and how to guide the student is the main part.

The burden on homework and exams is small, but the curriculum has not decreased, but the content of learning is richer and more personalized, and it can arouse students' interest more.

The biggest change in the curriculum is that there are no English classes, and students who want to learn English can only join English interest groups, which is no longer a compulsory course.

In the eyes of many people, English classes are more important than all other courses.

In fact, in the recent recruitment work of the four major groups such as Dongfang and Taoyuan, except for a few departments and overseas agencies, there are no foreign language requirements for all other positions.

The Oriental Group dares to stipulate this, naturally it is confident, relying on advanced technology, only others come to the Oriental Group, and no Oriental Group asks for people, even if the other party is a Fortune 500 company.

When you can't communicate, I'm sorry, I don't understand, please speak Chinese.

The fact that the four major groups want to follow the path of historical regression and open their own schools for their children has aroused heated discussions in China.

The school even canceled English classes, which even most of the group employees couldn't understand, and they couldn't send their children to the school with confidence.

Of course, some people praise this, thinking that the four major groups are fighting for the country.

Many students who have encountered difficulties in learning English have found excuses and shouted to hell with English, and that they can still enter the Eastern Bloc in the future if they do not learn English.

It wasn't until the end of April that the puzzle was finally solved, and Galaxy Software launched translation software and a spoken language translator that supported multiple Chinese pronunciations.

At the press conference, the speaker demonstrated the translation software, which has been partially developed and supports Chinese, Cantonese, English, French, German and Rakshasa languages.

In the next six months, the system will also accommodate Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean and Japanese.

The software can smoothly carry out simultaneous electronic interpretation and full-text translation of texts, which can be input in any language and output in any language, and the accuracy of translation is extremely high.

As soon as this news spread, it shocked the whole world, and people with a little common sense know how technical this software is.

When general translation software even has a problem translating whole sentences, Galaxy Software already has the technology of full-text translation and simultaneous interpretation.

And this software will greatly change the way the whole world communicates, as long as this software is perfected, learning foreign languages is no longer essential, everyone can communicate through the guò system, and the status of English as the most powerful language will also be greatly shaken.

As soon as Galaxy intelligent translation software came out, some critics said that it was about to "change the whole world", which is really not an exaggeration at all. (To be continued......)