He is a famous teacher in Haidian, and has always maintained a keen observation and perception of education for 15 years.
He is a double scholar of Peking University and Tsinghua University, he is a "national teacher" of more than 30 million people on the whole network, and he is a creator of CCTV News and "People's Daily".
He is Mr. Li Yongle.
This set of books, carefully planned and created by CITIC Publishing and Mr. Li Yongle, "The Science of Powerful Youth", has exploded in the circle before it was published.
Parents of middle school students and parents of elementary and junior high school students who are concerned about changes in education and examinations, and who have been hit by the crit of the question type of the high school entrance examination, may become the "light of learning" for their children.
From last year to this year, I believe that everyone has deeply and clearly felt the changes in education. A few major events, and then I will take a look at them for you.
First thing, on May 29, 2023, "News Network" talked about education in 10 minutes for the first time:
1. The proportion of science and engineering majors has increased;
2. The country will focus on cultivating scientific and technological talents in the future;
3. The pre-high school guarantee is relatively fair, and the difficulty of post-high school is increased to select talents.
The second thing, on January 23, 2024, the Ministry of Education held a meeting and proposed:
1. Increase the proportion of science and engineering majors;
2. Develop new science and technology and strengthen the country with science and technology. In the future, the country needs talents who have ideas, can innovate, and can discover and solve practical problems, rather than just brushing up problems.
The third thing, the final examination papers of Beijing primary and secondary schools, the key information of the above two things has been implemented. There are three trends in exams:
1. Situational, flexible use of test knowledge points: combined with new reality, such as integrating traffic rules and substitute driving into math problems;
2. Interdisciplinary: No less than 400 times in the new curriculum standard. For example, the number of crickets in Xicheng's mathematics test actually uses physical Celsius knowledge points;
3. The increase in the amount of popular science reading: Needless to say, open the children's papers and take a look, including Chinese, regardless of arts and sciences, popular science reading has grown explosively.
Science and engineering, new technology, interdisdislinary, popular science reading, please keep in mind these key words.
And in today's set of books, it has all the key information above! The editor revealed that Mr. Li Yongle began to plan and create this set of books in March last year. It is somewhat of an "unpredictable prophet" ability, of course, this is based on Mr. Li's keen insight and pattern obtained at the forefront of education.
Key message 1: Science and engineering
There are 4 books in this set - Physics, Space, Biology, and Geography.
The knowledge of science and engineering is cultivated and accumulated on a daily basis.
Key message 2: Focus on new technologies and pay attention to the current and future needs
Those who follow and know Mr. Li know that his popular science videos on the Internet are very good at connecting basic knowledge with reality, and he has gained a large number of fans, and many of them are related to major scientific and technological achievements in the mainland.
Each book selects 10 major scientific and technological achievements of the mainland, and the whole book has 40 items, which are closely related to the national new science and technology development strategy and are included in the national 10 frontier science and technology fields in 2024.
These scientific and technological achievements not only represent the current international leading level of our new scientific and technological development, but also the basic principles and knowledge they contain are closely related to primary and secondary school textbooks.
Based on his years of teaching experience, Mr. Li refined the key knowledge points of the four university subjects, and also mobilized the circle of friends, inviting more than a dozen scientists, middle school and college teachers and popular science writers to screen the major science and technology in the mainland.
Only new technologies that can embody and connect the knowledge of textbooks can be selected into our books. These two points seem simple, but they are the most essential knowledge fusion.
Key information 3: 120+ knowledge points from the textbook are linked
The book not only introduces these major scientific and technological achievements to readers, but also explains the scientific knowledge in these scientific research achievements in detail, closely combines the basic principles with textbook knowledge, and combines classroom learning with scientific and technological practice.
Let young people know that behind these lofty scientific devices and achievements, they are based on the most basic textbook knowledge, which is very useful and closely related to our lives and future.
Science for a Powerful Boy: Physics
Knowledge points: controllable nuclear fusion, atoms, molecules, electrons, atomic structure, etc.; Time, Electromagnetic Waves, Beijing Time; neutrinos, neutron scattering; Relativity; light, speed of light, etc.; superconductivity, etc.; speed of sound, speed of light, wind tunnel experiments, flight, etc.; Universe, Dark Matter, Dark Energy......
Textbooks involved: Grade 8 Physics, Grade 9 Physics, High School Physics, Grade 9 Chemistry, High School Geography.
Science of a Powerful Boy: Space
Knowledge points: optics, fiber spectrum astronomical telescopes; radio telescopes and their working principles; the role and types of satellites, space science; Earth gravity, orbit, space, rocket launches; space, space experiments, etc., manned spacecraft, manned spaceflight; Moon, Earth, navigation, cosmic rays, dark matter exploration; Solar system, Mars, sunspots, flares, corona, etc......
Textbooks involved: Grade 3 Science, Grade 8 Physics, Grade 7 Mathematics, High School Physics, High School Geography.
Science for a Powerful Boy: Biology
Knowledge points: biodiversity; viruses, virus structure and classification, etc.; Vaccine; Species evolution, paleontology, Cambrian explosions, the formation of life, etc.; photosynthesis, starch; Clone; Gene; cells, cancer cells;
Rice, hybrid rice, genetic ......
Textbooks involved: Grade 7 Biology, Grade 8 Biology, Grade 8 Physics, Grade 9 Chemistry.
Science of a Powerful Youth: Geography
Knowledge points: energy, oil, earth, land and sea relations, new energy; marine resources, marine life; marine resources, oceans, climate, ocean currents, etc.; Electricity (thermal power, wind power, hydropower, etc.), hydropower; bridges, engineering; Earth's surface, atmosphere, etc.; Minerals, natural resources, etc......
Textbooks involved: Grade 4 Science, Grade 6 Science, Grade 7 Geography, Grade 8 Geography, Grade 9 Physics, High School Geography.
From the above knowledge, you must have noticed that the word interdisciplinarity is always implemented in every book.
Key message 4: Combined with front-line teaching experience, focus on the live learning and application of textbook knowledge
We all know the characteristics of school education, often talk about knowledge, the form is single, boring, and children's interest in learning is not high.
As a front-line teacher, Mr. Li Yongle is well aware of the shortcomings of school education, the confusion of parents, and the preferences of children.
In the book, it focuses on the application of basic knowledge in reality, guided and dismantled explanations, mobilizes readers' enthusiasm from major scientific and technological achievements, keeps close to reality, and stimulates children's interest in learning.
Taking the artificial sun as an example, it starts from the real energy problem, revolves around nuclear fusion in physics, integrates more physics knowledge, and expands to geography, chemistry and other disciplines.
Through a kind of technology, the knowledge points of different disciplines can be flexibly organized and used, which is the thinking of a top student, which cannot be done by brushing questions and rote memorization.
By following Mr. Li's mode of thinking and learning knowledge, I believe that children will be able to establish their own knowledge network and greatly improve their ability to solve practical problems with knowledge.
At the same time of disseminating knowledge, the idea of scientific and technological innovation is given:
Propose a realistic problem - put forward an idea - verify the idea - verify the difficulties encountered - need to use the knowledge - propose solutions to the difficulties.
This also coincides with the reform of the new textbook.
It is the child's learning ability, learning autonomy and autonomy, which must not be brushed by rote memorization and brushing questions, and the test is the ability to learn transfer and flexible use.
Key message 5: Link textbook knowledge points and test points to break the barriers between learning and examination
Let's take a look at a simple high school exam question: how the exam is tested and how we talk about it.
A section of material on the hot topic of Chang'e-6 is given in the exam question to explain the hovering of the probe. The core principles applied are action and reaction forces.
In the book, Chang'e-3 is used as an example to explain the entire lunar landing stage of the probe very clearly, what each stage is, and what knowledge is used to achieve it.
Although it is not exactly the same as the exam questions, if the child reads and reads thoroughly, it is easy for children to learn to "transfer knowledge points" to answer other similar questions.
The book always implements one idea: new technology + scientific principles + textbook knowledge.
As long as you flexibly grasp the application of knowledge points in practice, no matter how the question changes, you can calmly deal with it.
In particular, the books are full of high-tech scientific and technological achievements, and when children use textbook knowledge to understand how they operate, their future learning and exams will be more like a fish in water.
Key message 6: Popular science reading
School teaching cannot take into account "popular science reading", and can only rely on students' accumulation.
The editor whispered: At the beginning of the creation of the book, I encountered many peers and parents inside and outside the company, will this amount of text be difficult, after all, many new technology-related books on the market are mostly introductory popular science books, with little textbook knowledge content, and textbook knowledge-related books, the amount of reading is not enough.
Popular science reading, you need: reading accumulation. Books that can combine textbook knowledge with popular science reading complement each other, and you can't go wrong with this set of books.