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New Technology is Poised to Disrupt Schools,The Economist,June 27th,2013
新技術(shù)將擾亂學(xué)校教育，經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人，2013年6月27日
In a small school on the South Side of Chicago, 40 children between the ages of five and six sit quietly learning in a classroom.
在芝加哥南部的一所小學(xué)校里，40名年齡在5歲到6歲之間的孩子安靜地坐在教室里學(xué)習(xí)。
In front of each of them is a computer running software called Reading Eggs.
在他們每個人的面前都有一臺計算機(jī)，計算機(jī)上正在運行著一個名叫“閱讀雞蛋”的軟件。
Some are reading a short story, others building sentences with words they are learning.
一些孩子正在閱讀一個簡短的故事，還有一些孩子正在用他們學(xué)習(xí)的單詞組成句子。
As they complete each task they move through a cartoon map that shows how far they have progressed in reading and writing.
每當(dāng)他們完成一項任務(wù)時，他們都要通過一個可以顯示出他們的閱讀和寫作的進(jìn)度卡通地圖。
Along the way they collect eggs which they can use to buy objects in the game, such as items to furnish their avatar's apartment.
他們一路一邊閱讀一邊收集雞蛋，這些雞蛋可以供他們在游戲中購買物品，例如購買物品來布置他們虛擬人物的公寓。
Now and then a child will be taken aside for scheduled reading periods with one of the two monitoring teachers.
孩子也會偶爾被叫到一旁進(jìn)行預(yù)定的由兩名監(jiān)控教師中的其中一名進(jìn)行指導(dǎo)的閱讀課程。
The director says this sort of teaching, blending software with human intervention, helps her pupils learn faster.
校長表示，這種形式的教學(xué)把軟件與人工干預(yù)融合在一起，能幫助學(xué)生學(xué)得更快。
It also allows teachers at this school to spend more time teaching and less time marking written work
同時，這種教學(xué)形式可以允許教師花更多的時間在教學(xué)上，而在批改書面作業(yè)
and leading pupils through dull drills of words and numbers.
和引導(dǎo)學(xué)生對單詞和數(shù)字進(jìn)行機(jī)械訓(xùn)練上花的時間會更少。
The idea that technology can revolutionize education is not new.
技術(shù)可以徹底改變教育的想法并不新鮮。
In the 20th century almost every new invention was supposed to have big implications for schools.
在20世紀(jì)，幾乎每一項新的發(fā)明都被期望能對教學(xué)產(chǎn)生很大的影響。
Companies promoting typewriters, moving pictures, film projectors, educational television,
一些公司推出的打字機(jī)、移動圖片、電影放映機(jī)、科教電視、
computers and CD-ROMS have all promised to improve student performance.
電腦和光盤驅(qū)動器都承諾能提高學(xué)生的成績。
In many classrooms, computers have been used to improve efficiency and keep pupils engaged.
在許多教室里，電腦已經(jīng)被用來提高學(xué)習(xí)效率和讓學(xué)生參與其中。
But they did not transform learning in the way their boosters predicted.
但它們并沒有使學(xué)習(xí)方式變成支持者所預(yù)測的那樣。
It is wise, therefore, to be sceptical about the claims made for the current wave of innovation.
因此，對當(dāng)前要求創(chuàng)新的浪潮持懷疑的態(tài)度是明智的。
Yet there are also reasons to believe that a profound shift is occurring.Thank you.
然而，也有理由相信學(xué)校正在因此而發(fā)生著巨大的改變。謝謝。
