the majority of American kids are not being set up to succeed in the future that’s coming.

大多數的美國小孩卻還沒準備好面對即將到來的未來

We're entering a world where there's not a lot of value

我們所將要進入的世界並不看重

in just kind of sitting there and doing what you're told.

只會坐著等待和聽話的人

Increasingly a computer could do that kind of stuff.

電腦就可以做到這些

We are eventually going to create a new model of education suited to the 21st century,

我們終將為21世紀創建一個全新的教育模式

instead of the last half of the 19th century.

而不是像19世紀中葉那樣

This is going to happen.

這是必然的趨勢

We're just trying to make it happen sooner.

我們只是讓它發生的...快一點

My name is Max Ventilla, and I'm the founder and CEO of AltSchool.

我是 Max Ventilla，我是AltSchool的創始人以及執行長

Working in Silicon Valley, and being at Google, and living here,

在矽谷的Google工作，並且住在這裡

it's kind of impossible not to have it shape your worldview

很難不改變你的世界觀

and to believe that a mission-driven technology company

也很難不相信一家任務導向的科技公司

can have an incredible impact, beneficially, on the world.

能夠對世界造成意想不到正面效益

And being a parent of young kids there's really nothing I can think of that is

而身為一個父親，讓我確信

more important than their education that I can be working on.

沒有比教育更重要的事值得我去努力

As an entrepreneur you have that startup bug.

作為一個企業家，常有所謂的啟動程式上的錯誤

You need to work on something that catches you, and this was the thing that caught me.

你必須在吸引你的東西上努力，而這正是吸引我的東西

There is this problem, which is that the model that we have for educating kids,

問題是，我們過去教育孩子的模式

it is a mass production model, it is a factory model.

是一種工廠大量生產製造的模式

It doesn't provide an individualized experience to kind of anybody.

而沒有適性化發展來因材施教

Every 45 minutes kids switch to a different subject,

每45分鐘，孩子們就要轉換到不同的主題

and they open a textbook, and they read the next chapter.

他們打開教科書，讀下一章

And at the end of the week they take a quiz.

然後，到了周末就會有一個小考

That experience is teaching kids how to think like computers.

這樣的教育方式就像教小孩子像電腦一樣的思考

And that's not going to be very valuable when these kids actually grow up to be adults.

而這種方式對於孩子們將要面對的真實成人世界並沒有意義

If you're trying to fundamentally transform the education experience,

如果有心要改變這個教育機制的根本

that is not something that you can just whiteboard with a bunch of research,

並不是一件把一堆研究放在白板上就可以的事

and a bunch of smart people in a room somewhere.

或是把一堆聰明的人集中在一個房間裡可以解決的

You have to learn what that model looks like.

你必須搞清楚模式的樣子

For us, that meant immediately, almost from starting the company, opening a school.

對我們而言，這代表我們必須在開設公司的同時，開一所學校

And then we opened three more schools, and then we opened three more schools,

然後我們又開了3所學校，然後又3所

and now we're opening two more schools that are focused on personalized education.

現在，我們又開了2所學校專門進行適性化教育

Each child defines their own experience to learn in a way that feels natural,

每一個孩子根據其個人經驗用自然的方式學習

takes advantage of their curiosity

讓他們的好奇心帶領他們學習

and that doesn't try and corral them to learn this thing right now, in this way.

而不是試著限制他們學習的時間及方法

And that's where technology plays a foundational role versus a superficial role.

科技在這裡扮演了基礎作用而非表象

There are two tools that fundamentally enable personalization in our schools.

有兩項基本工具在學校中的個人化上發揮作用

One tool is called the Portrait.

一個是人物側寫

So this is a representation of all of the things that are important about each child

這是每一個孩子所關注的不同重要事項的一種表現

that different people can add to for curating a day-to-day education experience

讓不同的人可以加入每天的教育經驗發展

that's going meet them where they are.

讓他們自然的學習

That maps to a second tool, which we call the playlist,

這引導我們進入第2種工具，我們稱之為清單

which is the, the kind of scaffold for each child's day.

這用來規劃每個孩子的一天

It's a to do list, and a calendar.

是一個執行清單，和日程表

It allows each child to decide what order they do things,

讓每個小孩決定自己學習的順序

or they can decide what's on that playlist as they get older.

他們也可以在清單上加入當他們大一點的時候要做的事情

It’s allowing a child to have agency.

讓小孩子有自己的動力

None of us like being told what we need to do, when, where, how, with whom.

沒有人喜歡被要求去做什麼、什麼時候做、在哪裡做、怎麼做、跟誰做

There's nothing that's more demotivating than that.

這是最讓人失去動力的了

And if you're not motivated, you don't actually learn.

而一旦你失去了動力，你就沒有辦法真正的學習

There's no way to force a kid to learn.

學習是一件無法勉強的事情

They have to actually go along with a certain experience, they have to actually think.

這必須要跟隨著某種特定的經歷，必須經由他們自己進行思考

What we see is incredibly promising out of the gates in the first two years.

在打開界限的最初2年，我們看到了無窮的希望，

We're seeing much more than a year's worth of progress on kind of nationally norm tests.

我們在所謂全國型的標準測驗中看見了很大的進展

But, as importantly, they’re making progress on the social, emotional pillars.

但是，重要的是，他們在社會、情緒兩大標準上有極大的進步

Things like grit, ability to work with others, ability to manage your time,

像是意志力，和其他人合作的能力、時間管理的能力

to set goals that are going to serve those kids critically

能夠設定目標，這些都將是孩子們所需要的關鍵能力

when they enter a world that's going to demand those kind of characteristics from them.

這些都是真實世界將會要求孩子們必須具備的特性

I mean my daughter is going to have a different life

我的意思是，我的女兒將會擁有一個不一樣的人生

because this is the kind of school that she went to.

因為這就是她進入的學校

I love this Bill Gates quote, that,

我十分喜愛比爾蓋茲說過的這句話

humans tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year,

人類總是對於自己一年內能完成的事情有過多的期望

and underestimate what we can accomplish in ten.

卻對於十年內能完成的事情期望過低

First year, it probably costs us $100,000 per student.

第一年，每個學生的教育成本可能是10萬美金

The next year it's like 60,000, the next year it's like 35,000, this coming year it's like 25,000.

第二年大概是6萬美金，第三年，大概是3萬5千元美金，接下來的一年大概是2萬5千元

I think that when you get down to about $15,000 per student,

我認為當每位學生的教育成本下降到1萬5千元美金時

now you're in the realm of the kind of median experience in lots of parts of America.

這是美國許多地方中等階段的經驗值

There are lots of public school districts that spend way more than that on average.

有許多地區的公立學校的花費比這多得多

We're starting to say okay,

我們才會說可以了

how do we take the platform that we use to support our own schools,

我們要如何利用這樣的平台支撐我們的學校

And how do we expand that platform with partners?

還有我們要如何和我們的夥伴一起擴張這個平台

We're just starting to work with the first set of partners

我們正準備開始和第一批合作夥伴一起努力

who would open schools which aren't run by us.

他們將要開設他們自己經營的學校

It's on that path that eventually you get to what you want.

這是得到自己想要的結果的一段歷程

A new ecosystem where all schools, existing schools and new schools,

這是在所有學校，不管是現有的或新的學校中的一個新的生態

are able to take advantage of a new way to educate kids for their future.

能夠用新的教育方式教育我們下一代的機會

There's literally a technology company behind their school working tirelessly.

真正的擁有一個不知疲倦的科技公司在他們的學校背後努力工作著

That's the kind of ten-year future that we believe is possible.

這就是我們認為擁有極大可能的未來十年的成就

In general a startup is hard. In general a startup takes a long time.

起頭是最難的，一般而言，開始一件新的事項需要花費漫長的時間

One that's trying to do something this ambitious in this space,

當我們想要在這個宇宙中進行一件野心勃勃的事情

that's twice as true, ten times as true.

那是兩倍的真實，十倍的真實

This is mile three of a marathon, and I feel good.

這僅是馬拉松競賽的一開始，但我自信十足