The national trend "blows" into the summer vacation. Putuo District Youth Center creates the 3.0 version of the fun course "Exploring China"
2024-08-27
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Photo caption: Putuo students are taking the course "Splendid Jiangnan - 3D Creative Design" (Photo provided by the interviewee, same below)
Enjoy the "beauty of mountains and rivers" in laser engraving classes, taste the lingering tea fragrance in tea art classes, and practice "Chinese soul" in Chinese martial arts classes... This summer, the national trend has blown into the holiday life of young people in Putuo District. In the rich experience of the "Exploring the New Play of Chinese National Trends" series of courses designed by the Putuo District Youth Activity Center, the children "transformed" into national style "hexagonal little warriors". "I didn't expect that traditional culture can be combined with high-tech technology. It's so fun!" The fifth-grade children of the Second Experimental School Affiliated to Shanghai Normal University, as personal experiencers, exclaimed.
Xu Beina from the Pudong District Youth Activity Center said that the "Fun Play" course is a series of extracurricular courses created by the Pudong District Youth Center, integrating various resources and forces to form a new field that effectively connects students, teachers, resources, courses, environment and other elements. Through exploring the museum, learning through playing, learning through creation, learning through practice, and learning through research, it provides a broader fertile ground for students' growth. "Not only that, every semester, we will upgrade the Fun Play course around a theme. This summer, we have upgraded Fun Play to version 3.0 of the 'National Trend', creating a variety of courses that combine ancient Chinese art and modern technology, providing children with a rich experience."
"Fun Play" upgrades the past and integrates the future
"I originally thought that 3D printing was very far away from our lives, but I didn't expect that this technology could be used to print small items in our lives." Xiao Zhao, who lives in Changfeng Community, is a fifth-year student at the Second Experimental School Affiliated to Shanghai Normal University. This is her first time to come into contact with the modern technology of 3D printing. In the lively and interesting Chinese-style printing class "Splendid Mountains and Rivers 3D Printing", Xiao Zhao designed a "dragon" work with programming and printed it out in a few days under the guidance of the instructor. "This year is the Year of the Dragon, so I chose this very Chinese element and designed a personalized work. 3D printing is not as difficult as you think. As long as you use your imagination, beautiful mountains and rivers can also be printed out with this small machine."
Photo caption: Children are full of interest in the summer course "Splendid Jiangnan - 3D Creative Design"
"What is the 'Fun Play' course? Fun means interpreting children's interest in the course from an emotional perspective; Play means emphasizing that the course is centered on students' lives and based on experience, providing children with a free and natural educational environment." In the fall of 2023, the Putuo District Youth Activity Center will open the "Spring and Autumn Fruits" course for extracurricular education under the new "suitable education" system for students in the district. The "Walking Fun Course" comprehensive course is one of the four major activity courses of "Spring and Autumn Fruits". Xu Beina said: "Only when you play with interest can you learn with interest. During the summer vacation, we upgraded the Fun Play course, allowing traditional culture and modern technology, which were originally unrelated, to "join hands" to create a different experience. In course design, we must not only let students understand the vivid expression brought by advanced technology, but also let children experience the charm of personalized creation."
During the interview, the reporter also found that the children were particularly interested in the "National Trend New Play Series" curriculum of the fun classes. Innovative courses that blend the past and the future, such as "Splendid Jiangnan - 3D Creative Design" and "The Beauty of Mountains and Rivers - Laser Engraving", were particularly eye-catching.
Rich experience of five practical courses
Chenchen, who lives in Caoyang Community, is 12 years old this year. This summer, he became a family tea artist, and from time to time he would brew a pot of tea to relieve the heat for the elders at home. "It's hot in the summer, but people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms, which sometimes makes them prone to headaches and fever. At this time, a pot of green tea, which is suitable for summer, can refresh the mind and reduce internal heat, and can also relieve summer irritability and lack of energy. If you don't like this kind of tea, chrysanthemum tea and honeysuckle tea are good choices. My favorite is actually lemon tea. Soak a few slices of pickled honey lemon in the tea, which can quench thirst and supplement vitamins." Chenchen opened up when talking about tea. In fact, his fate with Chinese tea originated from the tea art class of Teacher Cai at the Putuo District Youth Center.
Picture caption: Savoring the aroma of tea in the "Tea Art" class
Teacher Cai, the person in charge of the tea art class, said: "Shanghainese people like to drink coffee, but they also love to drink tea. In Chinese civilization, tea culture has a very long history and contains rich cultural elements. Children can taste the different tea aromas and the long history of traditional culture."
The horse-faced skirt is popular all over the country, the Hanfu culture is on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the national style figures are cute and fashionable, and the Chinese tea drinks have a unique flavor... In recent years, the "national tide" has frequently gone viral, integrating the new trend of traditional Chinese culture and modern creative design, and establishing people's increasingly strong cultural confidence. Children also have more opportunities to get in touch with the traditional culture that was originally far away in life. Taking this opportunity, this summer vacation, the Putuo District Youth Center took "Taste of China" as the core, deeply integrated multiple themes such as "Red Gene", "Chinese Elements", "Chinese Craftsmen" and "Chinese Scenes", integrated social resources, practical resources, and position resources according to local conditions, and carefully planned five major courses, allowing Putuo students to explore in curiosity, inherit in experience, and feel the beauty of mountains and rivers and culture in practice, and jointly tell the moving stories belonging to Putuo, Shanghai and even China.
Photo caption: Children experience Chinese art in the "Painting Portraits" class
According to the introduction, "New Fun in China" consists of five units: revitalizing Chinese studies, promoting the national spirit, passing on Chinese arts, abiding by national laws, and enjoying national customs. The "12+9" has a total of 21 comprehensive "fun classes" that focus on "interesting questions, interesting thoughts, and fun". It not only focuses on students' practical experience and cooperative expression, but also emphasizes "joyful creation, capable creation, and intelligent creation", focusing on students' thinking development and creative initiation. Among them, revitalizing Chinese studies includes "Reciting Ancient Poems" and "Splendid Jiangnan - 3D Creative Design"; promoting the national spirit includes "Video Editing of "Chinese Spirit in Movies"" and "The Beauty of Mountains and Rivers - Procreate Animation"; passing on Chinese arts takes children to experience "Gourd Needle Carving", "Southern Opera and Northern Drum", and "Chinese Martial Arts"; abiding by national laws covers "Moot Court" and "Praise the New Era - Digital Story Production"; enjoying national customs introduces traditional skills such as "Tea Art", "Ceramic Art", and "Incense Art".
Public welfare innovation pioneers community targeted recruitment
This summer, the Pudong District Youth Center has expanded the supply of high-quality extracurricular education resources and continued to improve the level of public education services. With the theme of "Exploring China", a six-week "Fun Play Class" series of national trend new play theme activities was designed from July 1 to August 12, and the "Exploring China" comprehensive practice activities were launched. Under the guidance of off-campus teachers, the children carried out 26 comprehensive practice activities from campus to society, from farmland to museums, applying book knowledge to real life and enhancing their understanding and application of knowledge; relying on the shared classes of 16 school children's palaces, 68 student clubs such as art, music, sports, and technology were opened twice a week; three full-day classes were held every week for 100 community members.
The center also explores the design of activities based on real problems and real situations, and conducts 2 to 4 "creative classes" aimed at problem solving every day at the Changfeng campus. Each "creative class" can satisfy 100 students' scientific exploration experience at the same time.
Picture caption: The drum beats were passionate in the "Southern Opera and Northern Drum" class
Xu Beina said that this year, not only has the fun class been upgraded to the national trend, but also innovative explorations have been made in student recruitment. The community-oriented recruitment was pioneered, inviting young people from Caoyang New Village Street, Changfeng New Village Street, and Zhenru Town Street around the center to play with the charm of the national trend and inherit innovation. "In the past, public welfare summer care was sold out online by parents, which sometimes may cause waste of quotas or uneven distribution of resources. This year, before the summer vacation, the street school organized students in the jurisdiction to register uniformly. We reasonably allocated extracurricular education resources based on the registration situation around the three campuses of the center, and carried out different summer vacation activities in a targeted manner, so that resources have been optimized and the coverage of student experience has been expanded." It is understood that the Changfeng Community Youth Practice Guidance Station and Changfeng Community School alone jointly organized nearly 100 primary school students in the jurisdiction to enter the Putuo Youth Center and participate in the three-day summer "Fun Class" national trend new play series theme activities.
In addition, the combination of online and offline learning is benefiting more children. This summer, the online micro-course "Exploring China" was launched. The teachers of the center designed 40 online micro-courses covering 28 major courses in art, music, sports, and technology.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Ma Dan
