"Science and scientific popularization are the two wings of achieving innovative development. We must place popularization of science at the same level as scientific and technological innovation. Without the universal improvement of scientific literacy of the whole people, it will be difficult to build a grand army of high-quality innovation and it will be difficult to achieve rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements." This important instruction of General Secretary Xi Jinping is the fundamental guideline for popular science and scientific literacy construction in the new development stage. In order to comprehensively improve the scientific literacy of the elderly and turn the popular science action of the silver age into a concrete practice, Baoshan University of the elderly fully plays the role of the main battlefield of the science popularization position for the elderly, combines the learning activities and actual scientific and cultural needs of the elderly, and uses a series of tricks and takes multiple measures to carry out popular science popularization of the silver age, improve the scientific literacy of the elderly, and cultivate campus culture with popular science.
coordinated promotion and strengthening guarantee
Baoshan University for the Elderly is focusing on improving the information and health literacy of the elderly, improving the ability to adapt to social development, enhancing a sense of gain, happiness, and security, and achieving that the elderly have fun, learn, and do what they do in their old age. In 2022, under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee’s Old Cadre Bureau, we will insist on coordinated promotion and strengthen the leadership and conditions for popular science organizations in the age of the bank. First, strengthen organizational leadership. The main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee’s Old Cadre Bureau coordinated and promoted popular science work in the silver age, studied and resolved major issues in a timely manner, and reviewed and decided on major matters. The executive vice president of the Municipal University for the Elderly is responsible for guiding, supervising, tracking and assessing; the main responsible persons of each department of the Municipal University for the Elderly are leading the implementation of various specific work tasks. The second is to strengthen the vitality of the subject. The launch ceremony of the "Silver Age Popular Science· Baoshan Action" was held in the city to build a social science popularization pattern that coordinated the promotion of the elderly universities at the municipal, county and township levels, and activity centers, and stimulate the enthusiasm of the elderly in the city to participate in science popularization activities. The third is to strengthen investment guarantee. Under the full coordination of the Municipal Party Committee’s Veteran Cadre Bureau, the institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the high-quality development of popular science will be eliminated. The Municipal Science and Technology Association will arrange special funds for popular science in the silver age, establish a popular science station at Baoshan University for the Elderly, purchase special equipment for popular science in order to improve the effectiveness of daily popular science activities.
Expert Lecture: "Yunxia Live" Classroom
Leaders' Inspection and Guidance on the Construction of Science Popularization Station
Grasp the Campus Popularization Position
Baoshan University for the Elderly takes silver-age science popularization as a starting point, grasps the construction of campus science popularization positions, promotes the scientific spirit, works hard for a long time, and creates a strong campus culture that advocates science. First, the class setting demonstrates the spirit of popular science. The school offers 6 departments, 63 majors and 143 teaching classes, which closely focus on the needs of the elderly and demonstrate the popular science spirit in the class setting. For example: open a smartphone class to help the elderly cross the knowledge gap, digital gap , and smart gap, enter the intelligent era, and integrate into the digital society; open a class of fitness qigong , yoga, etc. to realize the popularization of the elderly’s health science into campus and enjoy a new life healthy; open a class of Chinese medicine health care, happiness psychology, etc. to allow the elderly to learn new knowledge in improving scientific literacy and integrate into the new era. The second is to implement the campus smart helping the elderly. Focus on the needs and difficulties of the elderly to use intelligent technology and integrate into a smart society. Open computer and mobile application classes to popularize intelligent technical knowledge and skills, and improve the ability of the elderly to obtain, identify and use information; during the epidemic prevention and control period, all cadres and staff are on duty at the school gate to help elderly students learn to use their mobile phones to scan health codes and itinerary cards to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control; use special science popularization equipment to play and widely publicize popular science knowledge, and use scientific knowledge to popularize the elderly to improve the risk identification ability of the elderly, and prevent and resolve privacy leakage, online rumors and telecommunications fraud. The third is to improve the health literacy of the elderly. Use various media such as "teacher group", "class committee group", and "admission group", "baoshan University of the Elderly" WeChat official account, "Colorful Sunset" school magazine and other media to popularize reasonable diet , food safety, mental health, physical exercise, rational medication use, emergency response and other knowledge to provide health science popularization services for the elderly and improve the health literacy of the elderly.
Teaching Achievements Exhibition
Daily Teaching
Popular Science
Implementation of Silver Age Popular Science Action
Baoshan University for the Elderly makes full use of campus position resources, give full play to the talent resources of the elderly, focus on teachers, class committees, and students of the Elderly University, and through their demonstration, we will drive more elderly people to learn science and master science, and form a benign science popularization ecological environment. First, carry out special lectures and enter the classroom. Using the "Yunxia Live" classroom, live lectures are held in the city every quarter. For example: On June 29, 2022, Wang Linnong, an expert from the Party School of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was invited to give a live broadcast training on the special lecture on "Science and Science and Technology Literacy and the Comprehensive Development of People"; using the first lesson of the school, Comrade Zhang Chunlan, deputy captain of the Propaganda Brigade of the Traffic Police Detachment of Baoshan Public Security Bureau and provincial instructor of the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Organ, went to the school to carry out a publicity lecture on the theme of "Safe Solutions of the Old Problems" - Traffic Safety Warning Education for the Elderly"; using red ideological and political quality courses, we will study national policies, current affairs and politics in each class every month, popularize scientific knowledge, methods and concepts, and use scientific methods and scientific ideas to carry the patriotic feelings of the elderly, and enhance cultural confidence. The second is to carry out the display and performance of teaching achievements. Give full play to the school’s teaching resources, organize classes to carry out teaching results display and performance, and give full play to the initiative of school students. In the exhibition, highlight the guidance of the scientific spirit, practice the core socialist values of , promote the scientific spirit and the spirit of scientists, convey scientific ideas and behavioral methods, and strengthen the construction of innovative culture of rational doubt, courage to innovate, seek truth and be pragmatic, and tolerate failure. Through the students of senior citizens' universities, we will drive the society and form a good social atmosphere of popularizing scientific knowledge, advocating innovation, and respecting science. The third is to carry out popular science activities on campus. In September 2022, a series of popular science exhibitions such as "Welcome to the Twenty Top 20, and enjoy new changes - Popular Science Promotion Month" were launched; a question was drawn from 1,000 popular science questions 10 times in 5 consecutive days, and a prize-winning quiz method was adopted to carry out the prize-winning quiz activity for popular science knowledge "learning popular science knowledge, improving scientific literacy, and striving to be a healthy elderly person" to improve the enthusiasm of teachers and students to participate, and gather a strong campus popular science atmosphere; develop the elderly volunteer team, and form five volunteer service teams, including " Yang Shanzhou Volunteer Service Team", "New Era Civilization Practice Volunteer Service Team", and "Smartphone Communication Soldier". The volunteer service team played an active role in popular science into communities, villages, families and young people. Through the implementation of the silver-age science popularization action, students' enthusiasm for learning scientific knowledge has been enhanced, and a strong campus cultural atmosphere of popular science has been formed, allowing the elderly to fall in love with Baoshan University for the Elderly. (Huang Zhibi)
