请网友在楼下回帖听写，听力原文在本楼。 [post=1] Technology at Teaching GARETH MITCHELL: But first it started as a search engine and has gone on to be pretty much everything engine. Googles march to world domination has taken in advertising, mapping, television and at most recently news. And now it appears to be entering the classroom, if a recent speech by googles chief technologist is anything to go by, and we are not just talking about students typing assignments titles into google and then copying and pasting the contents of the top five hits into their essays. The firms director of research Peter Norvek has been in the UK speaking at a meeting organized by the association for learning technology, a scholarly group interested in the information society. And just before he addressed delegates to the get together called learning for the social network generation, Norvek took a few moments to give me his views on technology at teaching.
MR NORVEK: Instead of trying to control all the learning so that there is a set lesson plan, instead set the students free ,and give them an interesting problem to work on, give them some collaborators to work with, either fellow students in the class or people they meet in the online community throughout the world and let them use all the world’s information to solve the problems that are interesting to them, and then the teacher can just serve as a mediator so they are going back and forth checking the progress of the students. GARETH MITCHELL: And there maybe people over the age of sixteen listening to this horrified at that thought, they’ll say this is all very undirected and so on. MR NORVEK: Yes so I think you are really shifting the burden from upfront of trying to teach them the right thing to the back end of saying well now what we got to do is evaluate them, so you set the students free we're out of control, they go out and learn something. There is still this task of evaluating. What have they learned? Have they learnt it well? And are they ready to move on? And we've got to do that instead. And I think you know you always have a choice when you are working on a process, do you make sure upfront that you are doing it perfectly, or do you let things go, and then check them? And you know only release the products that actually make it passed quality control. I think that we are seeing a shift more towards that second type of model. GARETH MITCHELL: And where does that quality control come in? Because one of my questions was going to be is this the end of the teacher? Or is this the whole point of where the teachers would come in and they'd somehow would enforce that quality control and direct this learning somehow? MR NORVEK: Yes I think that becomes more the job of the teacher to react to the way the students are going, saying, “yes this is a good direction, yes you accomplished what you needed to do.” or “know, that this isn’t quite right.” GARETH MITCHELL: And people might be saying how come google has suddenly become an expert in education? Ok you guys know technology and as a research director you definitely know your technology and I know that you have worked at NASA and places like that. Teachers might be saying “but he doesn’t know anything about the way children learn, who is he to tell us how these things should be done.” MR NORVEK: At google we recognize that we are being used informally, if not formally as part of the learning tools for students or supplementing what they are getting at schools. So if we are being used this way anyways, we might want to understand better, how that might be done better and how it might integrate with both the classroom and a non classroom setting. GARETH MITCHELL: Peter Norvek there. Well Bill Thompson is in the studio with us, he joins us every week as our studio commentator. Hello Bill! BILL THOMPSON: Hello there Gareth! GARETH MITCHELL: Right. So teachers around the world might have been listening to that and start thinking along the lines of the questions that I just asked which are: who is this technologist to come in and tell us how to run our classrooms? BILL THOMPSON: They might be, but I suspect many of their students will also be thinking, way. Hey! At last somebody who realizes we are using Google we're using MSN search and all these other tools already when we're doing course-work when we are out of the class, why can’t we have access to them in the classroom setting as well? Maybe be shown how to use them more effectively, but at least give us access to the same sort of services and tools as we're gonna get in the wider world, why should we be stuck in a classroom with a much more limited domain of activity just doing the tasks that the teacher sets them. GARETH MITCHELL: But if I was a parent and my child came home from school today, and said “what did you do in the classroom?” and they said “Oh we spent all day just on Google typing things in and seeing what we were going to find out!” I wouldn’t be that impressed, but I guess Peter Norvek is making more new once argument than that. BILL THOMPSON: Well actually perhaps although he did say that set the students free let them collaborate, then he said let them use all the world’s information and I think that will be a real danger. Because the thing about the classroom setting, the thing about teaching, the things that teachers bring to the process. They say “ok look over here” or “these are the boundaries for your observations at the moment”, because then there is stuff in there that you will understand, you can make sense of yet you can bring back into the classroom. I think it will be a real danger to just let students go out onto the big wide internet where as we know every fact is true, where as we know there is nothing salacious or unpleasant for them to come across. Much better to have tools，in place, to help them in their guided research, and areas where they will go out and do research where they can be pretty sure their gonna come across things that are useful. It's much harder to build an educational environment, than just to say let the kids go, let them go and have a look. I’m sure they will come up with something. GARETH MITCHELL: Sure, alright Bill, well, thanks for that. [/post]
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