The way students in the new era adapt to the world and understand the world is undergoing tremendous changes, and the traditional way of cultivating students is no longer suitable for the requirements of the development of this era. A lot of learning does not need to be taught by teachers, as long as there are enough scaffolds and scenes, students will organize and complete it by themselves, even if there is no language barrier, even if there is no teacher guidance, as long as there are enough technical tools, students have the ability to complete relatively complex learning tasks, and students' learning and memory can be long-lasting, and the depth of understanding is not bad at all.
Facts prompt us to rethink the role of educators themselves. In today's highly developed information technology, the essence of education may be to liberate people's original inner abilities, while traditional schools, teachers and classrooms may need to be redefined.
When students have basic reading comprehension skills, coupled with a suitable learning environment (such as smart terminal + Internet) and the connection between learning members, it is possible to form a self-organizing learning system under the action of appropriate dynamic mechanisms and corresponding evolutionary inducing factors, and learning can occur on its own, self-organize, self-motivate, self-evolve, and autonomously move from disorder to order.
Self-organizing learning may be stimulated when an e-bag-based application environment has the following core characteristics. Open learning environment: readily available intelligent learning tools, ubiquitous communication networks, user-centric, support for interaction between users, participate in the organization and construction of network content, and connect learning communities, students can continuously exchange information with the outside world through e-book bags
Challenging questions: When students have an e-book bag that they can control, what they need is not just knowledge indoctrination, but a challenge that triggers them to learn and think. These challenges often come in the form of "big" questions that must contain questions that even the teacher or even anyone else can't answer.
Good incentive system: Good motivation is the dynamic mechanism of the self-organizing learning system, which stimulates students' intrinsic curiosity and strength, lets students use learning tools by themselves, interact with the learning community, experience the joy of success, and generate positive feedback operation mode, so as to promote the evolution of the entire learning system.
Nonlinear knowledge acquisition mode: The formation and evolution of self-organizing learning systems need to break through the linear knowledge acquisition mode and move away from the equilibrium state. The learning and acquisition of knowledge does not have to be carried out in a strict order, it can be leapfrogging and reciprocating;Knowledge not only comes from schools and teachers, but also makes full use of the Internet's diverse knowledge channels and socialized interaction modelsThe learning of knowledge is not necessarily a uniform class progress, and personalized learning choices can be realized through intelligent engines, data mining and other technologies, providing a nonlinear evolution path of self-organizing learning.
Shifting role of the teacher: The role of the teacher will change significantly to facilitate the self-organizing learning process. Teachers should no longer be transmitters of knowledge, but guides and motivators. He asks challenging questions, provides tools, makes connections, and then waits for the learning phenomenon to "emerge."
Most importantly, the teacher or designer needs to give up their authority and monopoly on knowledge, and take the initiative to become a part of this self-organizing learning system, thinking and solving common problems with the participants.