河北邯鄲市第一中學(xué) 閆思思

海詞積累

1.obsolete adj.淘汰的

2.resilient adj.有適應(yīng)力的

3.prominence n.重要

4.enroll v.注冊；登記

5.intervention n.介入；干預(yù)

6.dump sth on sb丟下；推卸

7.folly n.愚蠢；愚笨

8.prompt n.提示

9.panacea n.萬靈藥；萬能之計(jì)

預(yù)讀思考

1.With AItechnology developing， will teachers be obsolete？ Why？

2.Will there be panacea for teaching？What will it be？

“Books will soon beobsoletein schools，”Thomas Edison announced in 1913.They would， he believed， soon be replaced by silent films.Each new wave of information technology—radios， televisions， computers—has led to similar predictions.And each time，the old technologies of books，classrooms and teachers have proved startlingly（驚人地）resilient.

Like teachers，digital educational technology comes in many forms，from wonderful to shocking.But， used properly， it now deserves moreprominencein schools—especially in poor countries where human teachers are often ignorant，absent or both.

The UN's Millennium Development Goals included the ambition that by 2015 all the world's children would complete primary school.This has largely been achieved：nine out of ten children are nowenrolled.Alas，the figure is not as impressive as it sounds.Even though most of the world's children go to school，an awful lot of them learn pretty much nothing there.According to a recent World Bank study of seven sub-Saharan African countries，half of nine-year-olds cannot read a simple word and three-quarters cannot read a simple sentence.The reason is terrible teaching.The same study found that only 7%of teachers had the minimum knowledge needed to teach reading and writing effectively.When classrooms were inspected to see whether a teacher was present，half the time the answer was no.

Several recent studies suggest ed-tech can help.It seems to bring about bigger improvements in poor countries than in rich ones.In a study of a range of interventions in poor countries—including smaller class sizes， nutritional supplements and incentives（激勵(lì)）for teachers and pupils—tech had the biggest effect.

Some of the scarce resources being spent on teachers could therefore be better spent on ed-tech．That does not mean dumping computers on schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them，a folly on which plenty of money has been wasted．Instead，it means providing schools with software that children can use with minimal help from an adult，that gets things right more often than the teachers do，that adjusts itself to the child's ability，that sends teacherspromptsabout what they are supposed to be teaching and that allows the authorities to check on whether the teacher is in the classroom．

Technology is nopanacea．Good traditional teachers are not obsolete，and are never likely to be．And authorities need to hold teachers to account．But ed-tech can help greatly—by monitoring pupils and teachers alike，assisting the best teachers and， most important， making up for the failings of the worst．

——From The Economist

文本探究

大數(shù)據(jù)應(yīng)用方興未艾，人工智能已悄然而至，在21世紀(jì)教育科技逐漸走進(jìn)課堂的今天，老師是否會被淘汰呢？事實(shí)證明，并不會。但是教育科技的進(jìn)步很大程度上可以幫助貧困地區(qū)的孩子們提升他們的教育質(zhì)量。

探究視角1：篇章結(jié)構(gòu)

本文是一篇說明文，篇章結(jié)構(gòu)如下：

Structure Paragraph（s） Main idea（s）Introduction Para．1～2 Digital 1．_________technology should be used properly and widely in poor countries．Analysis of the problem Para．3～5●Students learn nothing because of terrible teaching．●Ed-tech 2．______poor countries to improve their education．●Provide schools with 3．______that children can use with minimal help from an adult and send prompts to teachers and allow authorities to check on teachers．4．_______Para．6 Ed-tech can 5．______to the improvements of the education in poor countries greatly．

探究視角2：語言學(xué)習(xí)

Ⅰ.文本填空

1．But， _________（use） properly， it now deserves more prominence in schools—especially in poor countries _______human teachers are often ignorant， absent or both．

2．When classrooms ________（inspect） to see_______a teacher was present，half the time the answer was no．

3.Some of the scarce resources_______（spend） on teachers could therefore be better spent on ed-tech.

4.Good traditional teachers are not obsolete，and are never _______（可能的）to be.

5.And authorities need to _______（使老師負(fù)責(zé)）.

Ⅱ.寫作推薦

in the hope that...抱著……的希望

That does not mean dumping computers on schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them，a folly on which plenty of money has been wasted.這并不意味著把電腦堆放在學(xué)校，希望孩子們能夠明白怎樣使用它們，這是一種浪費(fèi)大量金錢的愚蠢行為。

本句中in the hope that...中的that引導(dǎo)同位語從句，說明希望的內(nèi)容。

【例句仿寫】他又問了她一次，希望能說服她來。

參考譯文

點(diǎn)擊來下載“老師”吧

托馬斯·愛迪生在1913年宣稱“在學(xué)校里書籍很快會被淘汰”，他相信他們很快會被無聲電影替代。每一次新的信息技術(shù)潮流都引起相似的預(yù)測，例如收音機(jī)、電視和電腦。而每一次書籍、教室和教師，這些老技術(shù)已經(jīng)證明了他們令人震驚的適應(yīng)能力。

像老師一樣，數(shù)字教育科技以多種形式出現(xiàn)，從令人贊嘆的到令人吃驚的。但是如果恰當(dāng)使用，現(xiàn)在數(shù)字教育科技在學(xué)校更加重要，尤其是在教師無學(xué)識的或匱乏的或兼有的貧窮國家。

聯(lián)合國千年發(fā)展目標(biāo)包括一項(xiàng)雄心勃勃的計(jì)劃：到2015年，世界上所有適齡兒童都能夠完成小學(xué)階段的學(xué)習(xí)。這個(gè)目標(biāo)大部分已經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)了：九成適齡兒童如今已經(jīng)注冊入學(xué)?？杀氖?，這個(gè)數(shù)字并不像聽上去那樣令人贊嘆。盡管世界上大多數(shù)適齡兒童都去了學(xué)校，但他們之中有很多人在那里幾乎什么都沒學(xué)到。根據(jù)世界銀行最近針對撒哈拉沙漠以南地區(qū)七個(gè)非洲國家的一份研究，有一半的九歲孩子連一個(gè)簡單的單詞都不會念，四分之三的孩子讀不懂簡單的句子。造成這個(gè)現(xiàn)象的原因是糟糕的教學(xué)質(zhì)量。同一份研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，僅僅百分之七的老師有需要用來教學(xué)生有效閱讀和寫作的最基本的知識。在檢查教室看老師是否在場時(shí)，有一半的時(shí)間答案是否定的。

最近的幾項(xiàng)研究表明教育科技可以幫助改善這種情況。相比于富有的國家來講，教育科技似乎能為貧窮的國家?guī)砀蟮倪M(jìn)步。在包括更小的班級規(guī)模、為教師學(xué)生提供營養(yǎng)補(bǔ)給品和激勵(lì)措施等一系列干預(yù)措施中，教育科技效果最明顯。

因此，一些原本被用在教師身上的稀缺資源可以被更好地用在教育科技上。這并不意味著把電腦堆放在學(xué)校，希望孩子們能夠明白怎樣使用它們，這是一種浪費(fèi)大量金錢的愚蠢行為。而是意味著為學(xué)校提供軟件，這種軟件使孩子們可以在成年人盡可能少的幫助下使用它，這種軟件比教師的準(zhǔn)確率還高。它能夠根據(jù)孩子的能力自行調(diào)整，能夠給教師發(fā)送提示信息，告訴教師應(yīng)該教些什么，并使得有關(guān)部門能夠監(jiān)控教師是否在教室里。

科技并非萬能之計(jì)。傳統(tǒng)的優(yōu)秀教師并不會過時(shí)，也不可能過時(shí)。有關(guān)部門需要讓教師肩負(fù)起責(zé)任。然而，教育科技可以幫大忙——通過監(jiān)控學(xué)生和老師，幫助最優(yōu)秀的教師，以及，最重要的是，彌補(bǔ)最差的老師的不足。