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Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology

AI & the Future of Technology2019.02.19
Writing Robot: The Conflict Between Education and Technology
Still a submission for Jiemian, with the published title changed to “The Writing Robot Has Arrived: Smash It to Pieces, or Throw Up Your Hands and Surrender?” Recently, the “writing robot” has burst onto the scene and sparked heated debate. Because it can imitate a child’s handwriting to finish copying textbook passages, copying new characters, and even hand-copying a class newspaper, some parents angrily smashed the machine to bits, while others welcomed it with open arms and wanted to buy one to help their children cope with “boring homework.” The “writing robot” is a new thing, but the conflict it reflects is not new. In essence, it is the distance…
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2019年2月19日
Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?

AI & the Future of Technology2019.02.16
Don’t Universities for the Elderly Teach You How to Play Games?
This Spring Festival, my wife and I, as usual, went home to keep our parents company. This year was a bit special: on the one hand, we finally finished our wedding ceremony last year (we had already been legally married long ago, but the ritual was only just completed), which put our parents’ minds at ease; on the other hand, they were also, one after another, just entering retirement. My parents had been retired in name for a long time, but in practice they had been running their own storefront all along. Last year they finally rented the shop out and let go of it to enjoy life for themselves….
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2019年2月16日
Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2019.01.25
Is Chinese Studies Anti-Science?
At the request of China Science Daily, this was published in the January 28, 2019, issue of China Science Daily, page 1. Recently, two things within the education system have stirred up heated discussion: one is the “mind-boggling exam paper” from Beihai College of Art in Guangxi, and the other is Sun Nan and his wife sending their child to attend a “Guoxue class.” These incidents are by no means accidental isolated cases. Some commentators have already linked them to “Quan Jian,” seeing in them all the spread of a certain “anti-intellectualism,” or, to put it another way, a lack of public scientific literacy. The college that produced the mind-boggling…
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2019年1月25日
Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?

Culture & Public Commentary2018.12.14
Can a Screen Change the Fate of Education?
It has also been posted on Jiemian; for reposting, please contact Jiemian~ When it was published, the title was changed somewhat clickbaity, becoming “It Is Hard for a Screen Alone to Change the Fate of Education; Bullet Chat May Be Able To.” In fact, that sentence is not quite accurate. What I meant was that there may be many ways to change the fate of education, and this screen may not be the right direction. But since we’re dealing with mass media, I’m willing to accept a bit of clickbait in the title; the content itself was not changed much. When it was published, I deleted a middle section, “The…
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2018年12月14日
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class

Teaching & Courses2017.08.30
How Technology Has Shaped Our Daily Lives: Attending Class
Getting upeatingusing the toilet, and then the next steps should be getting dressed, going downstairs, riding a bicycle, and so on. This time, since a reader requested it, I’ll first jump ahead to “going to class” and talk about that. Another key point is that I was not in good shape before this class, so “going to class” happened to be something I could talk about fairly casually without much preparation. This part is relatively rambling; it is only a record, and not recommended reading. Next time will be the last class, and I may jump back and talk about riding a bicycle, but it will mainly be free exchange….
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2017年8月30日
[A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher

Life & Notes2017.08.29
[A Little Grumble] You Only Realize How Annoying Procrastination Is Once You Become a Teacher
The admissions notice went up four months ago, and last month I posted a supplementary note, hoping that students interested in applying would contact me as early and as soon as possible, so that we would have plenty of time to communicate with one another.
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2017年8月29日
“Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”

Life & Notes2016.07.11
“Our” Magazine, “Shared” Youth — A Commemorative Essay on “Gongqingyuan”
During my undergraduate years, I once served as the editor-in-chief of Peking University’s Department of Philosophy magazine *Gongqingyuan*, and I put out Issue 40; at that time, it happened to be the 15th year of *Gongqingyuan*. Later, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary, it was said that a commemorative issue was to be made, and I was invited to write a little text. This year is the 25th anniversary, and another commemorative issue is being prepared, so I, this senior alumnus, was dug out again for an interview, and was also asked to write whatever I liked. When faced with requests from younger classmates, I generally never refuse, and…
philosophy everyday life education Peking University
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2016年7月11日
On Small-Class Teaching

Teaching & Courses2015.09.20
On Small-Class Teaching
I once supervised the small-group discussion section attached to the course “What Is Science?,” and at the time I also talked about related experiences and thoughts. But I did not say much. Recently, it seems that the Peking University Yuanpei Program hopes to promote small-group teaching across the board, and Teacher Wu hopes that I will once again systematically sort out my thoughts on the matter, so I am writing another piece here. Form By small-group teaching here I mainly mean the form of a small-group discussion class led by teaching assistants as an adjunct to large-class teaching. And unlike the “problem-solving sessions” attached to the usual foundational courses in…
scholarship course education Peking University
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2015年9月20日
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science

History of Science & Technology2015.04.17
Lecture Notes on the General History of Science 7: The Middle Ages and Christian Science
After finishing with the Arabs and China, let us return to the West and talk about medieval science. As for the Middle Ages, I was wondering whether I should spend two classes on them, because traditionally this period has been rather neglected; people probably know very little about it, yet in fact it is extremely important. To discuss why modern science did not arise in the Arab world or in China, on the one hand we have to talk about what was lacking in Arab and Chinese civilization, and on the other hand we must also make clear what medieval Europe actually had. In this lecture we will mainly talk…
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2015年4月17日
Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]

History of Science & Technology2015.03.18
Lectures on the General History of Science 3: The Classical Greek Period [Classroom Changed Starting Next Week]
下 week starting next week, the “History of Science” class will move to Jiao Ba 306 In the last class, we went from primitive humans to the four great ancient civilizations. We mentioned that human history is, in a sense, the history of technology; no human culture is cut off from technology. Where there is technology, there is also “knowledge,” and every culture passes on its own knowledge. By the time we get to the ancient civilizations of Babylonia and Egypt, people’s knowledge and skills had already reached a very high level. But I still regard ancient Greece as the origin of “science.” That is to say, the “science”…
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2015年3月18日