Tsinghua freshman students create "fishing class" and become popular
Thousands of people have signed up for school teachers without formal teaching: unofficial behavior of the school
There are no exams in the course, no credits, no roll call, the content of the class is to share "fishing" skills...Do you want to take such a class?
Recently, "Introduction to Fishing", founded by a freshman at Tsinghua University, became popular on the Internet.
The creator of the course responded by saying that the course was created only to improve the happiness of students, and the format of the course also hopes to explore with more people.
In fact, this course did not appear in the official course selection system of Tsinghua University, but was created on a Tsinghua online learning platform called "Lotus Pond Rain Classroom".
One of the functions of the platform is that students can create their own "rooms" to start courses and allow other students to enter the "rooms" to listen to classes.
At present, more than 1,300 people have taken this course, reaching the upper limit of the number of online courses.
Many professors at Tsinghua University stated that this is not an official behavior of the school, but a personal choice of the students.
Hot registration/
Haven't started teaching yet,
1300 people signed up
After "Introduction to Fishing" became popular, more than 1,300 people have taken this course, reaching the upper limit of the number of online courses.
Student Long, a second-year graduate student of Industrial Design at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, also took the "fishing course". He told reporters that he chose this course entirely out of curiosity about the course itself.
"Does the school still offer such a course?" Student Long felt incredible when he first saw this course.
He still remembered that on March 10th, many students in the circle of friends were forwarding the QR code for the optional "fishing class".
Out of curiosity, Student Long scanned the QR code to sign up for this course.
Other students scan the QR code to select courses soon, and the system shows that the number of courses is full.
But Long soon discovered that this course did not actually appear in the official course selection system of Tsinghua University, nor would it be included in the final credits like traditional courses.
Student Long introduced that "Introduction to Fishing for Fish" was actually created on a Tsinghua online learning platform called "Lotus Pond Rain Classroom". This platform is an online learning platform specially built by the school for students during the epidemic and is limited to Tsinghua students. use.
One of the functions of the platform is that students can create "rooms" to set up courses by themselves, and allow other students to enter the rooms to listen to classes.
Thus, the course "Introduction to Fishing" came into being.
"After choosing the course, I learned that the teacher for this course is actually a freshman in the school." Student Long said bluntly: "This course has nothing to do with the school, but the younger brother did it himself.
Course purpose/
Not simply emphasizing the pleasure of being lazy
Improve learning efficiency in relaxation
After "fishing class" became popular on the Internet, a netizen named "Gu Jielian" posted a post on Zhihu platform, saying that he was the teacher of the course, and explained in detail the reasons and reasons for the course. Future planning of the course.
The reporter contacted Gao, the starter of "Introduction to Fishing", and said that the article on Zhihu was indeed from me.
When the reporter expressed his wish for further interviews, Gao refused the reporter's request.
In the article, Gao stated that he established "Introduction to Fishing for Fish" in a half-joking form.
The reason is because he discovered that everyone in the "Lotus Pond Rain Classroom" can create a course and have a podium.
But he did not expect that the course he created unintentionally attracted more than 1,300 people to choose courses.
In order to prevent more people from misunderstanding the course, he made a PPT of the course description.
In this PPT, Gao made it clear: "The course does not count credits, nor will it have any impact on the transcript." As for the purpose of starting the course, he stated that it is to enhance the happiness of students, harvest a happy campus life, and share " At the same time as "fishing skills", learning materials and related information can also be shared within the group.
According to "China Youth Daily" report: "Introduction to Fishing" is not only to "teach" fish fishing strategy to classmates, or to encourage students to be lazy in fishing and to ignore the legitimate rules and regulations of the enterprise without principle.
It is based on people's happiness, hoping to relieve students' stress and anxiety through scientific and effective means, so that they can improve their learning efficiency in self-relaxation, and enjoy the fun of learning and life.
For example, the positive psychology content in the course does not simply emphasize laziness for pleasure, but uses relevant psychology theories to find the psychological root of people's fatigue and implement them.
Teacher support/
In the way of young people
Demonstrate the idea of positive psychology
Regarding this matter, Peng Kaiping, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Dean of the Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, previously expressed support for the student's behavior in an interview with the media.
Peng Kaiping believes that the student actually turned his own attempt into an attempt to reform the school, that is, everyone can start classes.
At the same time, Peng Kaiping pointed out that the student did not emphasize "fishing" too much, but instead demonstrated the concept of positive psychology in a more grounded and more in line with the tastes of young people.
Peng Kaiping told reporters that positive psychology is a very new field and not yet a truly mature subject. He had been hesitant to open a related course before.
However, in this semester, Tsinghua University launched a teaching reform experiment called "Graduate Positive Psychological Ability Improvement"—equivalent to an elective course for graduate students.
The course is lectured by Peng Kaiping and the subtitle of the course is "Scientific Guidance for a Good Life".
Peng Kaiping said that this course is similar to the concept of "Introduction to Fishing for Fish". There is no final exam, and students only need to hand in two homework.
One of the assignments is "to spread your happiness to others", and write a popular science essay on this, explaining the importance of psychology.
Due to the limited number of students in the course, there were more than 60 students in the class at first, and now there are about 100 students after the expansion.
So, is the course "Introduction to Fishing", which has attracted thousands of people, is being taught in an orderly manner as planned?
Student Long told reporters that up to now, the course has not taken shape, nor has it been carried out as planned like a traditional classroom.
Another student Li, who took the course, said that there is no offline class at the moment, and most of the time online is only limited to the WeChat group communication.
"Sometimes the group will send out some beautiful scenery of the school, so that everyone has time to "fishing" to have a look, and some students ask for notes in the group, and another student will share the information." According to classmate Li, the fishing class is currently mainly The main course is group exchanges. Gao sometimes shares some psychology-related materials in the group, but so far the members of the group have not met in a group, and Gao has not officially given a lecture.
"The biggest significance of the establishment of this course is the establishment of this course group. Every day in the group chat with everyone will relax, but the help to learning is actually minimal." Long said.
In response to the phenomenon that "fishing lessons" attracted many students, the reporter called a number of professors from various departments of Tsinghua University and learned that many teachers at the school level knew about this, and they also responded that this is not an official behavior of the school, but only of students. Personal choice.
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