Learn 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 sometimes cannot touch on a daily basis.

Traditional festivals, folk games, how to make traditional dishes, the meaning of each custom... in fact, children 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 real-life experiences. Students from middle school and high school do not participate passively but create activities with their teachers. Through these events, they 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 all stages carried out by the students themselves. To have such a program, there are many things that the 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, etc. can draw knowledge and lessons from practical activities. At that time, knowledge will come to students in a gentle, easy-to-remember and deep 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 focus on 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 associated with practical contexts...

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a companion of students, just like the 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 to do in the context of almost all knowledge and solutions in books can be looked up through AI is extremely important. Lessons from life, collisions, real emotions in reality, the skills needed to solve problems in a VUCA world (Volatility - Uncertainty - Complexity - Ambiguity), is probably what educators need to think about.

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