Name: President Obama on Computer Programming in High School in a Google+ Hangout
Uploaded: 2013-03-26T06:13:54.000Z
Duration: 2 min 42 s

過去簡單式

Limor Fried: On Tuesday, you challenged American high schools to better

利莫-弗裡德週二，你向美國高中提出了挑戰，要求他們更好地... ...

equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy.

使畢業生適應高科技經濟的需求。

情態助動詞 A2

When I attended high school, I had to take a foreign

我上高中的時候，要考一個外國的

So my question is, can we make it a national effort to also add

所以我的問題是，我們能不能在全國範圍內努力，也增加

a computer programming language requirement?

The President: I think it makes sense, I really do.

總統。我認為這是有道理的，真的。

And, you know, part of what I'm trying to do here is to make

而且，你知道，我在這裡試圖做的一部分是使

sure that we're working with high schools and school

確保我們的工作與高中和學校。

districts all across the country to make the high school

not all of whom are going to get a four-year college degree or an

並非所有的人都會獲得四年制大學學位或獲得...

And, you know, I think that the concept of vocational education

而且，你知道，我認為職業教育的概念。

got a bad rap at a certain point because the perception was,

在某一時刻得到了不好的評價，因為人們的看法是。

well, you know, we're tracking folks into, you know,

你知道，我們正在跟蹤人們進入，你知道，。

blue-collar jobs and we're reserving white-collar jobs for

藍領的工作，而我們為白領保留工作。

All those categories, I think, have eroded.

我想，所有這些類別，都已經被侵蝕了。

So, you know, you look at somebody like Mark Zuckerberg,

所以，你知道，你看像馬克-扎克伯格這樣的人。

I was sitting next to him at dinner a couple of years ago,

幾年前吃飯的時候我就坐在他旁邊。

and he basically said, you know, he taught himself programming.

他基本上說，你知道， 他教自己編程。

Primarily because he was interested in games.

And there are a whole bunch of young people out there,

I suspect, who if in high school are given the opportunity to

我懷疑，如果在高中時，誰都有機會。

figure out here's how you can design your own games,

弄清楚這裡'就是你如何設計自己的遊戲。

but it requires you to know math and it requires you to know

但它要求你知道數學，它要求你知道。

science or, you know, here's what a career in graphic design

科學或，你知道，這裡'是什麼在平面設計的職業生涯。

looks like, and we're going to start setting those -- you know,

看起來，我們'要開始設置這些 - 你知道。

programs in our high schools, not waiting until the community

在我們的高中，而不是等到社區的計劃。

college, and then you can apprentice with somebody who's

大學，然後你可以學徒 與某人誰'的。

已經是你所在地區的平面設計師。

What it does not only is to prepare young people who may

它所做的不僅是為年輕人做準備，他們可能會

choose not to go to a four-year college to be job ready,

選擇不上四年制大學是為了做好就業準備。

but it also engages kids because they feel like I get this.

但它也吸引了孩子們，因為他們覺得我懂這個。

This is not just me sitting there slouching in the back of

這不僅僅是我坐在那裡懶洋洋地在後面的。

And I think given how pervasive computers and the Internet is

而且我認為鑑於電腦和互聯網的普及性

now and how integral it is into our economy and how fascinated

現在，它與我們的經濟是多麼的密不可分，它是多麼的令人著迷。

kids are with it, I want to make sure that they know how to

孩子們和它在一起，我想確保他們知道如何。

actually produce stuff using computers and not simply

真正用電腦生產東西，而不是簡單的