On May 20th, the "Programming Creative Star" award ceremony and programming product launch event under the umbrella of TAL Education Group officially kicked off.

The award-winning young students received recognition from Professor Mitch Resnick, the developer of Scratch at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. Professor Resnick specially recorded a video to encourage the children to create more creative works.

1. Programming, a basic skill essential for the AI era

Guest lineup

NOC competition chief judge, former director of Beijing Electronic Education Hall, Pan Keming

Director of Educational Network and Information Center of Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and director of NOC Beijing Organizing Committee, Qin Zujun

Deputy Director of the Center for Web and Software Technology Research, Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Zhang Yong

TAL Education Group's General School Principal, Yang Fuguang

TAL Education Group's Little Monkey Programming Project Leader, Xie Wenyi

Sheng Yilun, a student at the Computer Science Experimental Class of Tsinghua University

The above guests attended the award ceremony.
 

NOC competition chief judge, former director of Beijing Electronic Education Hall, Pan Keming, shared the details of this year's NOC competition. NOC (National Information Technology Innovation and Practice Competition for Primary and Secondary Schools) was approved by the Ministry of Education earlier this year and has become a nationally recognized science competition for primary and secondary school students. It is this standardized and professional platform that provides outstanding students with the opportunity to showcase their talents and unleash their creativity.

NOC competition chief judge, former director of Beijing Electronic Education Hall, Pan Keming sharing

"Igniting interest, cultivating habits, and shaping character" is the educational philosophy of TAL Education Group. We not only focus on students' academic performance, but also on sparking their interest in learning, cultivating study habits, and shaping their thinking mode. Yang Fuguang, the General School Principal of TAL Education Group, said: Learning programming is not just about learning programming, but using programming to teach children how to think, and further studying and exploring.

General School Principal of TAL Education Group, Yang Fuguang sharing

Sheng Yilun, a student at the Computer Science Experimental Class of Tsinghua University, also shared his learning experience on the spot: "Early planning. I have a special liking for mathematics and computer science majors. I hesitated when choosing my major, but now that I have entered the experimental class, I should have been exposed to programming earlier."

2. TAL Education Group's Little Monkey Programming Product Curriculum System Officially Released

The era of artificial intelligence has arrived, and programming has become an essential skill for core talents of the 21st century as the language to communicate with the future world.

In 2018, TAL Education Group officially established the programming discipline, allowing children to cultivate creativity, logical reasoning, and teamwork through modules such as syntax algorithms, programming math, and engineering projects.

Xie Wenyi, the project leader for TAL Education Group's Little Monkey Programming, presented the product release on the training goals, product structure, curriculum system, and the PACSI project-based teaching five-step method.
 

TAL Education Group's Little Monkey Programming Product Curriculum System Officially Released

Project leader Xie Wenyi releases TAL Education Group's Little Monkey Programming Product Curriculum System
 

Training goals

Through the study of six modules (basic syntax, logical application, algorithm principle, programming math, engineering projects, and artificial intelligence), cultivate 3C skills (logical reasoning, creativity, and teamwork) to help enhance the core competitiveness in the AI era!
 

Product structure

From interest-driven to achievement-driven, the combination of programming and math
 

Curriculum system

The teaching and research team of Little Monkey Programming, with the assistance of the Scratch development team at MIT and the CodeMonkey development team in Israel, has integrated and incorporated Scratch and Python courses on the basis of CodeMonkey's learning tools, advanced to study C++ competitions or artificial intelligence applications, and created the Little Monkey Programming 12-level system.
 

Teaching five-step method

Little Monkey Programming has created the PACSI project-based learning method based on the Creative Learning Spiral proposed by Professor Mitchel Resnick, the father of Scratch, and combined with the learning characteristics of Chinese children.
 

3. Programming, helping children grow better