The first subject test of the 2024 college entrance examination has ended, and the essay topics for this year's Chinese have finally been revealed. Among them, the essay question in the first volume of the new college entrance examination is related to AI, and the question stem is "With the popularization of the Internet and the application of artificial intelligence, more and more questions can be answered quickly." So, will we have fewer and fewer problems? "Candidates are required to associate and think about the material and write an essay of no less than 800 words.
As a result, after the topic of this essay was exposed, it sparked heated discussions on the Internet, and many netizens accused the experts of discriminating against rural children and intentionally taking care of urban children.
Why? Everyone's point of view is relatively consistent, that is, the information in rural areas is blocked, and many rural children usually can't connect to the Internet, and they don't know anything about artificial intelligence, so they can only write according to their own imagination and understanding, and it is easy to write off-topic; Candidates in the city are usually exposed to a lot of scientific and technological products, have a better understanding of artificial intelligence, and even play more than many middle-aged people engaged in artificial intelligence, and they are familiar with writing. In this way, the effect of pulling points will be obvious, which is very unfavorable to rural students.
Some netizens even ridiculed, how can the experts use the crops and life in the countryside as materials for candidates to write essays? For example, distinguish between weeds and rice, and see if children in the city can write.
Objectively speaking, if rural candidates respond calmly and do not panic, even if they know nothing about artificial intelligence, it will not affect the answer of the essay question.
From the point of view of the question stem, there is a correspondence between "the popularization of the Internet", "the application of artificial intelligence" and "more and more questions can be answered quickly", so we can replace "Internet" and "artificial intelligence" with advanced tools that can answer many questions, and then answer on this basis, basically without going off topic.
Of course, in terms of the presentation of specific details, rural candidates may still be inferior to urban candidates. After all, there is a big difference between what you imagine and what you have really come into contact with, and this is where rural candidates really suffer.
The controversy caused by this essay title actually reflects the problem of uneven distribution of educational resources, due to economic and geographical location and other reasons, rural children are significantly behind urban children in many aspects such as access to new things and new information, which belongs to "falling behind the starting line". In addition, urban schools are far ahead of rural schools in terms of supporting facilities, curriculum and teacher qualifications, and many rural schools are already very good at teaching the knowledge points in the textbooks, but they cannot expand their teaching at all.
In this way, even if rural students and urban students have the same level of mastery of textbook knowledge, when some conditions for new things are set in the examination questions, the ability of rural students to answer questions will be weaker than that of urban students. Especially in recent years, the reform of the college entrance examination, the creation of test questions is increasingly combined with the real life scene in the city, and rural candidates need to spend more time to understand the meaning of the questions, and even cause emotional interference, thus affecting the quality of the answers.
It doesn't take much for each subject to be dragged down, as long as it drags five or six points, it will have a great impact on the overall score and ranking, and that is the difference between different batches.
In general, the proposition direction of the essay questions in the first volume of the new college entrance examination is very good, but it has also objectively caused more obstacles to many rural candidates, which can be said to be unfair. It is necessary to increase investment in education in rural schools, and narrow the information gap between rural and urban children and the gap in the breadth and depth of knowledge between rural and urban children from the source of schools, so as to achieve more thorough educational equity.
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