Learning from practice

These days, students are really happy to go to school. They get to participate in activities to celebrate Lunar New Year, but through activities outside the classroom, they learn many things about life, things that they may not be able to touch on a daily basis.

Traditional festivals, folk games, how to make traditional dishes, the meaning of each custom... in fact, students can read about them in documents, on the internet, or even see and hear them through technology applications. But when they do it in real life, many things will come to light. For preschool and primary school students, these are memorable practical experiences. Students from middle school and high school do not participate passively but create activities with their teachers. Through these events, students learn how to organize, work in groups and many other skills that are not easily taught in any subject or lecture in the classroom.

In contact with many high school students, we realize that what they are proud of having learned in 3 years of high school is not knowledge (because that is obvious) but maturity, understanding, experience, skills... through activities from clubs and groups outside of school hours. In recent years, we are no longer unfamiliar with large-scale art and gala programs that are not inferior to professional events, with students themselves carrying out every step. To have such a program, there are many things that students have to overcome, many things for them to learn and grow.

For teachers, if they know how to take advantage of these activities outside of the classroom, they will be practical knowledge to teach students. Not only social subjects such as literature, history, geography, economics , law, but also math, physics, chemistry, biology... can draw knowledge and lessons from practical activities. Then, knowledge will come to students in a gentle, easy to remember and deeply absorbed way.

This is even more consistent with the 2018 General Education program that has been implemented for the past 5 years, when the goal is no longer to emphasize knowledge but to focus on skills. The change in teaching has led to innovation in testing and assessment when the exam questions no longer focus on academic and bookish issues but on practice. Therefore, many teachers, when guiding students to review for the 2025 high school graduation exam, which is the first time implementing the new program, advised: Instead of learning by rote, guessing questions or memorizing academic knowledge, this year students need to change their learning mindset to understand and apply through experimental questions related to practical contexts...

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a companion of students, just like the time with Google search engine. Teachers now, whether they like it or not, have to accept the fact that students use AI to solve exercises, do research...

Teaching students what they need to know in a context where almost all knowledge and solutions in books can be looked up through AI is extremely important. Lessons from life, real-life collisions and emotions, and the skills needed to solve problems in a VUCA world (Volatility - Uncertainty - Complexity - Ambiguity), are probably what educators need to think about.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/hoc-tu-thuc-tien-185250118200558786.htm