2024-04-04
27 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
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In the funny or die ethos that dominates our online spaces, humor has become a golden ticket, propelling messages far and wide across the digital landscape.
Even the official social media accounts of famous textbooks and renowned educational apps start to publish playful posts and trendy online jokes.
Here on Roundtable, we ask ourselves, is education blending well with entertainment?
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I'm Yu Hong Lin with Yu Shan and Josh.
It might be a cliche, but I do believe technology is a double edged sword, especially for students in the modern era.
On one hand, the digital world is awash with distractions, offering an endless stream of entertainment that can easily distract a not so firm learner.
Yet on the other hand, a wealth of knowledge is just a click away.
I guess this partly explains why many educational platforms and brands adopt drastic measures to vie for students attention.
That includes certain examples that we are about to explain today.
But before doing that, Yuxian, can you explain to us what are some posts that got your attention the most, especially from these educational brands?
It's actually like a new trend that I freshly learned just not really quite long ago, that, you know, we've got this here in China.
So many of my generation of students who were born at the late 1990s and received, say, middle school or high school education among the early 20th, 10th, or, say, around that time frame, we all have this teaching reference book called in Chinese.
I've had that, which in English means five years of gaokao and three years of mock exam.
So it's the full name.
What I said is the full name of this teaching reference book, which kind of specifically are designed to help students to prepare for the gaokao, or national college entrance examination here in China.
So they first came to the market around early 2000, I think 2003, according to some sources.
Soon they just become popular in all high school and middle schools and was widely used by teachers and students all across China because they're really good at covering materials that students would need to know about the exams and also other practices that they can practice over to get ready for the exams.