TED演讲中英文本

TED演讲中英文本—《怎样从错误中学习》

I have been teaching for a long time, andin doing so have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning that Ireally wish more people would understand about the potential of students. In1931, my grandmother -- bottom left for you guys over here -- graduated fromthe eighth grade. She went to school to get the information because that'swhere the information lived. It was in the books, it was inside the teacher'shead, and she needed to go there to get the information, because that's how youlearned.

Fast-forward a generation: this is theone room schoolhouse, Oak Grove, where my father went to a one roomschoolhouse. And he again had to travel to the school to get theinformation from the teacher, store it in the only portable memory he has,which is inside his own head, and take it with him, because that is howinformation was being transported from teacher to student and then used in theworld. When I was a kid, we had a set of encyclopedias at my house. It was purchased the year Iwas born, and it was extraordinary, because I did not have to wait to go to thelibrary to get to the information; the information was inside my house and itwas awesome. This was different than either generation had experienced before,and it changed the way I interacted with information even at just a smalllevel. But the information was closer to me. I could getaccess to it.

我已从事教学很长一段时间，在这个过程中，获得很多关于儿童和学习的知识，但我真的希望更多人能理

解学生的潜能。1931年，我的奶奶，在相片的左下角，从八年级毕业。她从学校中获得知识，因为学校

是知识的殿堂。知识在书本中，在老师脑海中，她需要到学校获得，因为这正是学习的方法。很快的前进

了一代，这是Oak Grove的校舍，只有一间，我父亲去只有一间校舍的学校上学。他依然得前往学校，

从老师身上学习知识，存储在他唯一的便携式记忆中－他的大脑，并随身携带，因为这就是知识传播的方

式。老师传授给学生，然后在世界上运用。当我还是个孩子时，家中有一套百科全书，是在我出生那年购

买的。当时看来很棒，因为我不需要等到去图书馆时才能获得资料，这些资料就在我家。这很棒，跟上一

代人经历过的相比之下与众不同，它改变了我与知识的互动，即使只有一点点程度。但这些知识离我更近，

随手可得。（背景：当学习知识的途径越来越多时，学校和教师已不再是人们获取知识的唯一来源）

In the time thatpasses between when I was a kid in high school and when I started teaching, wereally see the advent of the internet. Right about the time the internet getsgoing as an educationa l tool, I take off from Wisconsin and move to Kansas,small town Kansas, where I had an opportunity to teach in a lovely, small townrural Kansas school district, where I was teaching my favorite subjec t,American government. My first year -- super gung ho --going to teach American government, loved political system. Kids in the 12thgrade: not exactly all that enthusiastic about the American govern mentsystem. Year two: learned a few things -- had to change my tactic. And I put in front of them an authentic experience that allowedthem to learn for themselves. I didn't tell them what to do, or h ow to do it. Iposed a problem in front of them, which was to put on an election forumfor their own community.