VTV.vn- On September 16, Professor Ho Ngoc Dai held a book launch event "Modern Education" to celebrate the 45th anniversary of his journey of researching, experimenting, and developing educational technology.
"During my doctoral studies in the Soviet Union, my professor asked me to research a method for teaching multiplication to primary school students. I had to research many documents, meet the world's leading mathematics professor at that time, and was surprised to wonder: is it so complicated to teach multiplication to primary school students? And it took me 2 years to research and experiment on this topic," Professor Ho Ngoc Dai shared at the book launch of Modern Education - his latest book which took place on September 16.
According to Professor Ho Ngoc Dai, it was the process of studying and researching in the Soviet Union that helped him truly understand what it means to do scientific research when every stage in education, even the smallest, is meticulously and carefully researched.
That has become the consistent viewpoint and ideology of Professor Ho Ngoc Dai when he always affirms: the pedagogical capacity of a teacher does not only develop based on experience, making it necessary to have good teachers for students to learn well, but education must be technologically advanced, teachers must teach according to scientific pedagogical methods and therefore, any teacher can teach good students.
It can be said that Professor Ho Ngoc Dai has devoted his entire life to only one thing: researching educational technology, especially educational technology for teaching first graders, especially Vietnamese, even though he has taught mathematics, philosophy, and has been an elementary school teacher and a university lecturer. And throughout his life, now nearly 90 years old, he and his educational technology have always been a controversial topic, with many supporters and many opponents.
The book launch event "Modern Education" is also Professor Ho Ngoc Dai's way of marking his 45-year journey of researching, experimenting and developing educational technology, starting when the Experimental School on Lieu Giai Street (Hanoi) recruited the first batch of students for the 1978-1979 school year with only one grade: first grade.
Professor Ho Ngoc Dai interacts with readers.
'Modern education', according to Professor Ho Ngoc Dai, is the method of design and construction, instead of traditional teaching and memorization, with the goal of allowing each student to become themselves, to become a unique individual, one of a kind on this planet. Fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education is to innovate the philosophical principles of pedagogy. "What will happen if the teacher does not teach? From "teaching" to "not teaching" is fundamental and comprehensive innovation".
As a book about education but interpreted from a philosophical perspective, Modern Education is the remaining piece of everything that Professor Ho Ngoc Dai has said and done over the past 45 years.
For many years, many people still do not have answers to the questions: Why Educational Technology? Why does Professor Ho Ngoc Dai firmly believe that Educational Technology is the solution for comprehensive and radical innovation in modern education? Why can a person persistently pursue one thing for 45 years with so many challenges?
The answer can be partly found in the book Modern Education. With a concise, concise, yet very "poetic" writing style, and with "music" in every word; the book can bring special experiences to those who are always thinking about education.
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