SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
So that's a pretty strong comment there. I said schools as we know them now, they're obsolete. 这里会引来热烈的讨论。我是说我们所知道的学校已经过时了。 I'm not saying they're broken. It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. 我并不是说它们已经崩溃了。现在挺时兴说教育体系已然崩溃的。 It's not broken. It's wonderfully con...
Well, I bumped into this whole thing completely by accident. 一个偶然的机会让我想到这一切。 I used to teach people how to write computer programs in New Delhi, 14 years ago. 我从前教人写电脑程序，那是14年前在新德里的时候。 And right next to where I used to work, there was a slum. 就在我办公地点的旁边有个贫民窟。 And I used to think, how on Earth are those kids ever going to ...
I came back to England looking for British grandmothers. 我回到英国找当地的老太太们。 I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time per week for free? 我张贴了布告，写到：如果您是一位英国的老奶奶，如果你有宽带和摄像头，能不能每周免费给我一小时？ I got 200 in the first two we...
When they saw me, they said, "We want a faster processor and a better mouse." 当他们看到我时，他们说：“我们想要更快一点的处理器和更好一点的鼠标。” So I said, "How on Earth do you know all this?" 我说：“你们到底是怎么知道全部这些的？” And they said something very interesting to me. 然后他们告诉了我一些非常有意思的事情。 In an irritated voice, they said, &q...
So I tested them. I got an educational impossibility, zero to 30 percent in two months in the tropical heat with a computer under the tree in a language they didn't know doing something that's a decade ahead of their time. 跟着我测试了他们。我做了件教育上不可能的事，从零到三十，花了两个月在这热带高温下，用树下的一台设置成他们不会的语言的电脑，做着超前他们那个时代十年...
So here are a couple of images from SOLEs. 这里有一些自主教育环境的图像。 I've tried incredible, incredible questions — "When did the world begin? How will it end?" — to nine-year-olds. 我尝试问过一些非常惊人的问题——“世界是从什么时候开始的？它又会怎样结束？”我问的是一个九岁的小孩。 This one is about what happens to the air we breathe. 这问得是我们呼吸的空...
But I was curious to know, what else would they do if they could do this much? 但我好奇地是，他们既已达到如此水平还能干些别的什么？ I started experimenting with other subjects, among them, for example, pronunciation. 我开始在他们中间用别的课题作实验，例如，发音。 There's one community of children in southern India whose English pronunciation is really bad, 在南印度，有一...
The children came running in. It was three feet off the ground, and they said, "What is this?" 孩子们跑了进来。电脑离地面有3英尺，他们问：“这是什么？” And I said, "Yeah, it's, I don't know. So…" 我说：“唔，这是……我不知道。” They said, "Why have you put it there?" 他们问：“为什么你把它放在那儿？” I said, "Just like that." ...
It's been tried all over the world, and teachers sort of stand back and say, "It just happens by itself?" 在世界各地尝试过，老师们后退着说：“它就这么自己发生了？” And I said, "Yeah, it happens by itself.""How did you know that?" 我说：“是的，自己发生了。”“你怎么知道？” I said, "You won't believe the children who told me and where th...
The children came rushing, said, "What's all this?" 孩子们涌了过来问：“这些都是什么？” So I said, "It's very topical, very important. But it's all in English." 我说：“这些都是热门的，重要的东西。但都是英文写的。” So they said, "How can we understand such big English words and diagrams and chemistry?" 他们就说：“我们怎么可能懂这么多英...
What is going to be the future of learning? 未来学习是什么样子的？ I do have a plan, but in order for me to tell you what that plan is, I need to tell you a little story, which kind of sets the stage. 我有个计划，但是为了向你们介绍我的计划，我需要先给你们讲一个小故事，作为铺垫。 I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? 我试...