【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 he ground. 舉一個例子，如果我們知道我們坐擁一座金礦，我們會想盡一切辦法把這些金子從地底挖出來。但是在教育上，正好相反，我們把千千萬萬孩子的潛力永遠(yuǎn)深埋在了地下。
　　Fortunately, we have the means at our disposal to transform lives. 幸運的是，我們擁有改變這一切的工具。
　　The same digital technologies that transformed every other aspect of modern life can transform education, provide our businesses with the talent they need to thrive, and give hundreds of millions of young people at the fringes of prosperity the opportunity to make their own mark on this global economy.
　　科技改變了這個時代的方方面面，科技也能一定能改變教育。這樣既能給我們的企業(yè)輸送人才，又能幫助千千萬萬的年輕人在這個全球經(jīng)濟(jì)一體的時代里留下他們自己的篇章。
　　This afternoon, Iamp。39。d like to offer just three examples of how bringing digital innovation to the classroom can substantially improve education for children throughout the world including many now callously written off as hopeless.
　　今天，我想給大家?guī)砣蚪逃缛齻€科技改變教育的例子。甚至有一些曾經(jīng)不可能實現(xiàn)的例子。
　　We must begin by exciting the imaginations of our young people. The key is not a puter or a tablet or some other device. The key is the software that will engage students and help teach them concepts and learn to think for themselves.
　　我們首先要激發(fā)年輕人的想象力。關(guān)鍵不是簡單的只是讓他們?nèi)ナ褂眯碌碾娔X或者平板，而是給學(xué)生帶來學(xué)習(xí)興趣，知識和獨立思考的好軟件。
　　Every study will tell you that the more interactive and intimate learning is, the better the student will perform.
　　所有的研究都指出，越是直接互動的教學(xué)方法，對學(xué)生的效果越好。
　　Letamp。39。s say I was trying to teach a 10yearold about Bernoulliamp。39。s principle. Itamp。39。s named after the famous 18thcentury mathematician. According to this principle, when speed is high, pressure is low. Sounds pretty dry. But what if I could link the lesson to the football star Roberto Carlos whose famous curved shot is an illustration of this principle at work. And suppose I then included an explanation from one of the worldamp。39。s leading airplane engineers about how this same principle works in aviation.
　　比如說我要教一個10歲小孩柏努利法則。這是起名于一個很有名的18世紀(jì)數(shù)學(xué)家柏努利的法則。根據(jù)這個法則，當(dāng)速度高的時候，壓力就會低。聽起來很無聊吧?但是如果我能把這個法則聯(lián)系到以香蕉球著名的足球明星羅伯特 卡洛斯的時候，這樣就很有趣了吧?(球的一側(cè)高速旋轉(zhuǎn)，造成低氣壓，球就會劃出弧線。)又或者是我再加入一個世界級的飛機(jī)工程師對這個法則的解釋，并且舉出這個法則對飛機(jī)的飛行有何影響。
　　Some businesses who are looking ahead are already giving us an idea of what this would look like. In two small schools in California, a traditional textbook publisher has partnered with Apple to teach algebra. Theyamp。39。ve given the kids free iPads, and theyamp。39。ve created an app that gives students guided instruction, instant feedback on practice questions, and access to several hundred videos. If students donamp。39。t understand the lesson the first time, they can watch that lesson repeatedly until they get it.
　　有些企業(yè)已經(jīng)加入到我們的行列并付諸實際。在加州的兩座規(guī)模較小的學(xué)校，一個傳統(tǒng)教科書出版商和蘋果合作提供代數(shù)的課程。孩子們配備有免費的iPad， 并且開發(fā)了一個軟件來指導(dǎo)孩子學(xué)習(xí)，習(xí)題的成績也有及時反饋。除此之外，還有上百個教學(xué)視頻可以供孩子們觀看。如果學(xué)生們第一次沒有看懂，他們可以重復(fù)看視頻來慢慢理解。
　　Is anyone surprised that the teachers say the students using this new algebra program are testing better than those who donamp。rsquo。t?
　　有沒有人會覺得驚訝這些學(xué)生的代數(shù)成績比以前好多了呢?
　　Exciting young imaginations leads directly to my second point: more personalized learning.
　　聽完這這令人鼓舞興奮的例子，讓我們來看看第二個例子：更個性化的學(xué)習(xí)方法
　　In media and technology, we have learned how to microtarget audiences to maximize the stickiness of our websites, to personalize our news feeds. Now we need to bring these kinds of expertise to education to make mathematics sticky to microtarget the 8th grade girls who might want to be physicists, and to personalize the reading for each student.
　　在媒體和科技領(lǐng)域中，我們學(xué)會了細(xì)分我們的垂直用戶。這樣可以增強(qiáng)我們網(wǎng)站的粘性，個性化我們的News feed(新聞饋送)。現(xiàn)在我們需要把這些方法運用到教育上。比如讓數(shù)學(xué)增加粘性，細(xì)分出未來想當(dāng)物理學(xué)家的初二女孩，然后個性化他們的學(xué)習(xí)方法和過程。
　　If a gifted child can finish a fouryear course in two years, shouldnamp。39。t we encourage her? Likewise, if a struggling child needs more time, shouldnamp。rsquo。t we help him too? Unfortunately for too many students in too many classrooms, itamp。39。s still onesize fitsall.
　　如果說一個天才兒童能夠在2年內(nèi)完成4年的課程，我們不是很應(yīng)該鼓勵他嗎?同樣的，如果一個有學(xué)習(xí)障礙的兒童需要更多時間，我們不是也應(yīng)該幫助他嗎?
　　Ask teachers how thatamp。39。s working out. Ask them about the challenge of dealing with 30 k