eLearnings Many Faces Issues and Potential.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Comments from the Aspen Symposium 2005 On a global scale, the level of academic inequality is staggering. More than 1 billion people are living in extreme poverty in the world today.全球范围教育不公是惊人的 。大约有10亿人过着极端贫困的生活。 Approximately 8 million people will die this year because they are simply too poor to get the basics they need to stay alive (Devlin, p. ix) 今年大约有800万人会因为过度贫穷而死亡。 Educator’s Comment It is the author’s belief that this single statement should set the tone for any discussion we might have related to the integration of emerging technologies in education globally.笔者相信这次演讲代表了全球教育界所有关于新兴技术整合讨论的基本观点。 Educator’s Obserrvation What, if anything, can be done to repair the dwindling respect the United States has in the eyes of others in the world. Stephen Walt of Harvard examined American power from the point of view of foreign leaders: 什么能够拯救美国在世界其他国家眼中正在衰退的地位？哈佛的Stephen Walt调查了其他国家领袖对于美国地位的看法： Walt wrote… The task we face now is to rebuild the trust, admiration, and sense of legitimacy that the United States once enjoyed, so that the rest of the world turns from looking for ways to tame American power and focuses instead on the benefits that U.S. primacy can create. 我们现在面临的主要任务是重新建立美国曾经享有的信任、敬重和正义感，这样世界其他国家能够从致力于削弱美国的权力和焦点转向美国能够带来的利益。 Higher education can help accomplish this broad task in many ways. At the grass roots level, more than half a million foreign students study at U.S. colleges and each year. Generally, upon returning to their native countries these students are likely to have a more realistic and at least somewhat more favorable view of the United States than if they had not studied there. 高等教育能够以多种方式帮助完成这个巨大的任务。在平民阶层中，每年有50多万的外国学生在美国大学学习。 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said in 2001 he could ?think of no more valuable asset to our country than the friendship of future leaders who have been educated here (2005,Walt, as quoted by Devlin, p. x