晴朗: April 2009

April 30, 2009

April 22, 2009

April 19, 2009

April 09, 2009

【Speech】The Globle Achievement Gap

Tony Wagner is a peofessor from Harvard, he pointed out at the very beginning that it becomes more and more important to learn how to learn and how to express in now society. The idea is samilar to "Metacognition" which I learned at education class in college. Memorization is prabobly not the crucial skill we need now, so he was trying to ask "what skills does our new generation need?" And later he talked about seven survival skills for careers, college and citizenship.

Critical thinking and problem-solving
Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
Agility and adaptability
Initiative and enterepreneurialism
Effective oral and written communication
Accessing and analyzing information
Curiosity and imagination

We must learn how to improve, how to make it matter and how to get higher quality. The ability to ask right questions is important as well. Besides, now we oftenly need to work with a group of peers. And we have to organize all things together, lead a group and inspire or guide others. Also, One needs to know happening around the world and to learn how to do analysis among millions information and make his/her own statement more persuasive. At the same time, One have to be an initiator.

Wagner mentioned that, our kids now need to memorize lots of thing for taking test. Our students are not learn the skills they need. In fact, the skills they need can not be tested. But here comes my question which is same as I raised in Yivonne's speech few months ago. Take "critical thinking" for example, how do we assess our students' ability of critical thinking? Wagner said we can find out something from profolio they made. Is that quite simple?

He told some motivatives of net generation including "always-on" connection, less feer and respect for authority, learn much from peers, want to make a difference and have their own way of self-expressing. So what can now parents and teachers do? He thought to be a educators, we must help them understand the 21 century skills matter most. That's the reason why he wanted to make some possible action items for reinventing education. What's more, we must create opportunities for teachers to work in teams to create new approachs to education.

He wanted new generation to ask themselves "what's your dream?" and reminded us to keep encouraging young people to persue their dreams and passion. After the speech, we watched a vedio about school lives at Taroko. Click the picture for complete vedio and check more details here.

April 03, 2009

夏老師

大三的時候，開始搜尋藝術管理相關的書；書店藝術管理的書並不多，但其中有很大部分的主編叫做『夏學理』，翻開內頁看看這個作者，發現他是拿加州公共行政學的博士學位，我不認識這個學者，但因為親睞這個學門，心中對這個人產生了印象。

大四的時候，推甄上研究所；美教組的學長姐請我幫忙第一屆美教論壇，我在論文發表會上第一次看見夏老師，那天夏老師脖子有點傷，在他擔任評論人的時候，他從容的走向台前，先跟大家抱歉他休閒的穿著並說他早上曾經想過要穿上西裝但不甚方便還是作罷；我心中想著：夏學理怎麼這麼年輕 ? 感覺在同個領域經常出現的作者應該都是德高望重的老教授。夏老師的評論是那天多位評論者中，我覺得很精準的一位。

在附中實習和碩一上的時候，在師大參加表演所辦的『十城十美』和『城新城藝』研討會，這兩個研討會都是夏老師策劃的，邀請了非常多國外的學者與會演講，我獲益良多；我在觀眾席中看著夏老師安排會議的種種、和外國學者的交談、落落大方的主持、在各場座談中對於世界各大城市在藝術管理層面的透徹，當然還有好聽的聲音加上十足流暢的英文，我真的打從心理非常欣賞。

進入碩班，夏老師在美教所開『媒體生態與文化藝術』這門課，我自然是為能夠做夏老師的學生感到無比幸運，老師一整個學期的課，透過很多實務經驗的分享，讓我意猶未盡；老師在去年底接了師大公關室主任，開始了更加忙碌的生活，他曾經在接了工作後一段時間在課堂上告訴我們，他雖然幫師大爭取到很多頭條，但他這段時間過的很不快樂，他完全沒有自己的時間。這是第一次我看到總是風度翩翩、充滿自信的夏老師臉上的倦容，看上去有些失落...

四月一號，就在前天，兩個同學在MSN上貼給我這則新聞...

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090401/5/1h20s.html

雜感交織在腦海，但我佩服人前光采的夏老師背後其實承擔了這麼多。『淚水過後，就是力量的開始』這句話讓我開始重新思考自己面對困難的態度，謝謝夏老師。