http://s1/bmiddle/64a24467g7ebfea6572e0&690    最近在一次教育研讨会上，谈到新科技对教育和职业的影响时，一个重要话题是教育模式需要改变。根据统计和预测：现在的学生在38岁之前将更换10-14个工作；2010年的前10个最受欢迎的工作是在2004年之后出现的；科技信息每两年增加一倍。

    这些数据显示，教育需要改变，需要从一个让学生记忆大量知识的模式，转向如何使学生发展出一套寻求知识的关键能力。这些关键能力，尤其是思考和判断的能力，应该是建立在自发索取知识，拥有强大的分析和解决问题的能力的基础之上的，促进学生终生学习和进步。

包玉刚实验学校着重培养学生以下五种关键能力：

- 自我管理能力

- 与人相处能 

- 参与贡献能力

- 独立思考能力

- 语言，符号和文字运用能力

    我们非常重视教师的培训，如何改变传统教育模式，使其适应现代教育的需求呢？

    在第14届国际思考研讨会上，我有幸遇到了Edward de Bono先生。他是著名的“六顶帽子思维法”的创始人。六帽思维法是一种针对小组讨论和个体思考而开发的思考工具，视觉效果很强，适合孩子理解和使用。

    六帽思维法帮助人从不同的角度考虑问题，目前被世界前100强公司广泛使用，同时也可以帮助儿童发展思考能力。

    1月19日，de Bono组织派员来我校培训教师，增强学生思维能力的培养，为包校学生在变化的未来世界中获得成功做好准备。

 

    At a recent conference I attended about the impact of modern science and technology on education, I was struck by a constant theme running through the keynote speeches: ‘change’.  According to statistics:

● today’s learners will have had 10-14 jobs by the age of 38;

● the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004;

● the amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

    These figures all point to a paradigm shift in education; transforming education from a system focused on students remembering extensive amounts of knowledge to a new paradigm where learners develop a set of key competencies, precisely defined concepts underpinned by a thirst for knowledge, analytical and problem-solving skills, which allow the learner to become a life-long learner.

At YK Pao School we have such a set of key competencies:

● Managing Self

● Relating to others

● Participating and Contributing

● Using Language and Symbols

● Thinking

    But how do teachers educated in the old paradigm learn to teach in ways that develop these key competencies and, in particular, how do they teach students to ‘think’?  At the 14^th International Conference on Thinking I attended a session presented by Edward de Bono, the person who developed the Six Thinking Hats programme. Six Thinking Hats is a thinking tool for group discussion and individual thinking presented in a very visual and child-friendly way. Using The Six Thinking Hats enables people to think about a problem from different perspectives ‘wearing’ each of the thinking hats in turn. These are powerful thinking tools used by top companies around the world; they are also tools that help children to develop their own thinking skills.

    To this end a trainer from the de Bono organisation was at school in January, strengthening how we teach students to think, to provide them with the requisite skills and competencies for the 21^st Century.