And when school is fun, you don't get kids waking up in the morning and saying,

而當學校是有趣的，你不需要早上叫起孩子起床時聽到他們說：

"Do I have to come to school again?"

「我又必須去學校了嗎？」

So we embrace technology, because it helps us make learning more engaging.

所以我們擁抱新科技，因為它幫助我們讓學習變得更有吸引力

I believe that when kids are engaged, when kids are interested,

我相信當孩子更有興趣時，他們能更投入

that's where learning takes place.

學習正是從這裡開始

Ho: The kids are really from a very different world now.

Ho: 現在的孩子們來自一個非常不一樣的成長背景

And really to reach out to the kids, you need to be savvy with technology.

而要真正幫助他們，你需要了解現在的科技

If you are not savvy with technology, you're going to lose the kids in the school.

如果你不了解現在的科技，你將會在學校裡失去和他們的連結

>>Teacher: What you want to do right now is, okay,

老師：你們現在想要做的事情是，好吧，

think of the Socratic questions.

想想這個蘇格拉底的問題

>>Adrian: Ngee Ann Secondary School is a typical school in Singapore where we take in students with different academic abilities,

Adiran: 義安中學是一個新加坡一個典型接收各種不同學術背景學生的學校

and we have about 1,512 students in this school.

我們這間學校擁有大約 1512 名學生

And they all come from the neighborhood.

他們都來自鄰近地區

We've got students from the age of 13 to about 16.

我們的學生年紀從13到大約16歲

Many students want to come to this school because of its strong program,

許多學生想就讀這間學校因為它擁有完整的程式課程

especially in the use of IACT, Infocom Technology.

尤其是使用 IACT (International Academy of Computer Training) 和資訊通信技術 (Infocom = Information & Comunication ) 課程

And the teachers here are known to produce very good teaching materials,

而這裡的老師以能做出非常優質的教學素材聞名

and very innovative teaching ideas to engage the students in the classrooms.

還有非常創新性的教學點子讓課堂內的學生參與

>>Lee: In the early 1990s, the teachers really are the monopoly on knowledge,

Lee: 在 1990 年代初期，老師們擁有所有的知識

and they are the one that comes to the class to deliver that knowledge so that the students can acquire them.

而他們來課堂上傳授這樣的知識如此學生才能學習到那些知識

But today, knowledge is no more a monopoly among the teachers.

但時至今日，知識不再由老師們所壟斷

Because students can get knowledge from a myriad of sources.

因為學生可以從各種來源獲得知識

And hence, the role of the teacher today is facilitation.

因此，今天老師扮演的是一個輔助的角色

That means facilitate students where they could get the right knowledge,

意思是輔導學生哪裡可以得到正確的知識

how they could synthesize things, how they could discern the information that they get.

如何整合資料，以及如何分辨自己所得到的資料的好壞

>>Teacher: Velocity defines the rate of change of the sense of time.

老師：速率定義的是時間內的變化率

Is it true or false?

這是正確還是錯誤？

So I want you to Tweet me answer.

我要你們把答案傳給我

So this is how you Tweet.

這裡是說明你要如何傳送答案

This is the format that you need to Tweet.

這是你傳送的答案格式

So you put in "at" sign, "votebytweet 1."

你要放上 @ (唸作at) 這個符號，後面接著"votebytweet 1."

>>Adrian: We look at technology very meaningfully.

Adrian: 我們認為科技非常有意義

And we see how can we leverage this technology to make a very significant impact in the classroom instruction.

而且我們看到如何利用科技在課堂指導上產生很大的影響

I'll give you an example.

舉例來說

In a classroom of 40, it is really impossible to get 40 students to ask 40 questions at one go.

在一個 40 人的教室裡，一次讓 40 個學生問一共40個問題真的不可能

When we use the instant messaging tool, we open 40 windows to 40 kids.

當我們使用即時通訊工具，我們開了 40 個視窗給 40 個孩子

They could ask 40 questions at the same time,

他們可以同時問 40 個問題

and the teacher could see their thinking on the technology tool that they use.

而老師可以在他們使用的科技工具上看到他們的想法

And kids get more excited, because they are using the tools that they are very, very good in using.

而孩子會感到很興奮，因為他們正在使用他們非常非常擅長的工具

Not just a pen and pencil.

不只是原子筆和鉛筆

>>Ben: Okay, so same thing, we will have two students at every terminal.

Ben: 好的，同樣地，每兩個學生使用一個主機

If you have any issues through the terminals, raise your hand, and I'll come to you.

如果你在使用主機過程中有任何問題，舉起你的手，我就會過去找你

Okay? All right, let's go.

沒問題吧？好，我們開始

>>Ben: What the students are doing, they are currently exploring this Second Life Art Gallery, which the school has set up.

Ben: 這些學生正在做什麼呢，他們正在瀏覽的是學校先前建立的 Second Life 藝廊 ( Second Life 為一3D 社群平台)

And the works that are shown in this gallery is actually made up of local works.

在這個藝廊裡的作品事實上來自本土的創作

They have been done by local artists.

他們是由本土藝術家所完成

Of course, of all the online platform is very, very useful because it's something that really engages the students.

當然，所有的線上平台都非常非常有用因為這些都可以讓學生真正投入

They will be chatting with one another about the works using the elements, principles of design.

他們將會彼此用設計元素和原則的觀點來討論這些作品

As well as reading other students comments as well.

也可以觀看其他學生的評論

If they want, too, they can actually leave notes for other students to read.

如果他們願意，他們事實上可以留言給其他同學來觀看

>>Student: [speaking foreign language]

學生：(說外國語言)

>>Adrian: Web 2.0 with Wiki, with your Facebook, your blogs, you find that it's a very participatory culture.

Adrian: Web 2.0 伴隨著維基、你的臉書、你的部落格，你發現這是一個非常強調共享的文化

It calls for a lot of collaboration.

它需要很大量的合作共享

They no longer become just a consumer of knowledge.

他們不再只是一個知識的消費者

They actually produce knowledge.

他們事實上也創造知識

>>Patricia: What is one of the things that you have discovered so far?

Patricia: 你們到目前為止發現其中一件事情是什麼？

>>Student: The electron has a tendency to lose their actions.

學生：電子有逐漸減弱功用的趨勢

>>Patricia: I find that students themselves are often on Facebook,

Patricia: 我發現學生他們常常在關注 Facebook

so instead of looking at Facebook as a distraction,

與其把 Facebook 當作會分心的事物

I would rather use it to engage them.

我寧願使用它讓學生更投入學習

So even like when they're stuck with a certain question,

甚至當他們被一個特定的問題困住

they post up the question to the class, and you see responses,

他們會把問題貼到班級群組裡，而你可以看到回覆

and they are learning from each other, which I think it's better,

他們正在彼此互相學習，這樣的方式我想是更好的

because there's more interest and motivation for them to learn,

因為這樣會有更多的樂趣以及動機讓他們去學習

rather than, "Okay, I'll tell you to do this. And I'll tell you to do that."

相較於「好，我告訴你要做這個，而你要做那個」

>>Adrian: I would say that the teachers in this school, myself included,

Adrian: 我會說這所學校的老師們，包含我自己在內

we scan the globe for best practices.

我們從全球尋求最好的教學方式

>>Teacher: Now, all that URL, you will use the [inaudible].

老師：現在，對於所有的連結，你將使用這…(聽不見)

Okay? Using that hook-up, I want you to see some of the things that will help you.

有問題嗎？藉由使用那個連結圖，我希望你可以找出一些會能幫助你的東西

>>Deepa: We are in the process of watching a model lesson that's being run by my colleague here.

Deepa: 我們正在收看一個我的同事主持的示範課程

And her process of us watching the lesson is to gain some kind of points from her lesson,

他要我們收看課程的目的是從他的課程中得到一些觀點

and also to provide our feedback.

並且也提供我們的意見回饋

We discuss it to come up with a better lesson.

我們經由討論它來激盪出更好的課程內容

Because definitely learning grows with sharing and communication,

因為學習的成效藉由分享和溝通得以增強

and there's definitely in school for improvement for any lesson.

而這點無疑是學校裡的任何課程都要改進的

>>Teacher: All right, first of all, I understand that the purpose of this Skype session,

老師：好的，首先，我了解這個 Skype 會議的目的

we want to confirm the suitability of the pretest.

我們想要確認這個預先調查是否合適

Is this the common agenda that we have?

這是我們得到的共同綱要嗎？

>>Teacher: Yes, a common agenda, yeah.

老師：是的，一份共同綱要

>>Teacher: Yeah, that's right, yeah.

老師：是的，這樣沒錯

>>Teacher: It might be we can think about it is if we give it to the children as is,

老師：如果我們照這樣的方式教給孩子，結果或許是我們可以想像的

some of them might actually come up with the idea of the steepness of the slide.

他們或許實際上會想出最有突破性的想法

>>Muneira: There's always something new to learn. You're never at a standstill.

Muneira: 總是有新的事物可以學習，你絕對不會停滯下來

You're always moving ahead, pushing boundaries, trying to discover new things, new ways of teaching.

你總是往前邁進，拓展視野，試著探索新的事物，一些新的教學方式

So it's exciting, because even if the pedagogy is sound,

這很令人興奮，因為即使教育很健全

there's always a technology that's always challenging us.

總是有新的科技會挑戰我們

And we always have to find new ways to connect with the kids.

而我們總是必須找到新的方式和孩子們建立連結

And to challenge them.

並且讓他們接受挑戰

>>Adrian: So I think we do look at how the world has changed.

Adrian: 所以我認為我們有確實關注這個世界如何轉變

And teaching cannot stay stagnant.

而教學不能停滯不前

So the teachers recognize the fact that they cannot teach the same way that they are taught ten/twenty years ago.

所以老師們認知到他們不能用過去十年、二十年前同樣的方式進行教學

That they have to be very adaptive in their matters.

他們必須在自己的本分上因應時代而做出許多改變

And when they do that well, they know they're going to engage the kids.

而當他們做得好，他們知道他們正在帶領孩子更加的投入

And when you engage the kids, that is where real learning takes place.

而當你讓孩子更投入，那是真正學習的開始