The skills we all need

新时代新技能

在康桥，我们拥有给力的管理团队和师资力量，带领学生立足当下，走向世界。计算机领域的老师更是把未来带到学生眼前。我们的课程设置并不着眼于考试或者只是将理论知识传递给学生，更致力于培养学生学习如何为自己的未来获取更多技能。

计算机课程里的班级任务以团队建设和团队合作为基础，以便更好地增强全班的信心。学生们喜欢竞争，因为这是他们的天性，所以我们设计课程，使学生在相互竞争中完成任务，这反而可以呈现他们的优势。在执行任务的过程中，新的领导者有机会被发掘，因而每个团队都会非常努力的去超越其他团队。为此在找寻任务完成的策略时，各个团队都努力尝试发掘正确的策略，争取赢得胜利。就像在软件开发小组或团队中一样，我们试图把同样的态度传递给学生。

说到编程，许多人在大学开始学习如何编写程序，也有人从未了解过它，而对于我们的学生来说，大学阶段的方法却过于复杂。究其根源，是因为在他们正在学习如何解决新的世界性问题时，没有人带领他们进入这个完全未知的新领域。这就是为什么我们决定将编程游戏化，融入到计算机的课程中。有时路过我们教室，可以看到大家真的很兴奋。这种兴奋来自于两个方面，首先是学生们在玩游戏的时候能够得到快乐，同时通过游戏也解释了最初看起来很复杂的特定问题或解决方案，使学生能够至少在最基本的水平上理解编程。  

对于康桥的老师来说，终极目标是让学生喜欢一门学科中最难的部分，并将其转化得简单明了。我们一直致力于做到不仅教授学生知识，而且培养他们适应21世纪新兴行业相关的技能。当他们在年少时便开始掌握这些技能，那么他们一定会在征服未来的路上走得更加坚定。

Being a computer teacher and a researcher in computers, I have never thought of a day when I didn’t encounter a computer in some respect. I do completely understand the purpose of traditional learning because it turned everyone into the person they are today. However in Kang Chiao, we have a committed team of administrators and teachers to bring the world to the students, But in the computer department, we bring the future to the students. Our curriculum does not only focus on exams or passing theoretical information to students, but we emphasize training students to attain skills for the future. Our class tasks are based on team building and working in teams, this encourages confidence in our class. Since young learners like competing as it’s part of their nature, we design our classes so that they have to compete while doing tasks which in turn gives them an edge because during the course of these tasks, new leaders are discovered and each team usually works hard to outcompete the other. So, laying down the right strategy is needed along the way. And all this is left to the students to figure out. Those that lay the best strategy, they win the challenges. But the other teams get to copy the same strategies or even invent better strategies. Just like in software development groups or teams, we try to pass the same attitude to the students.

When it comes to programming, many people start learning how to program at university or some can never learn about it, but the approach at university level is very complex for the students. The reason for that is, no one initiated them into this absolutely new world. But they are learning how to solve new world problems. That’s why we decided to gamify most of our topics. Sometimes you can pass by our class and you can see us really excited, that excitement comes from two places, the first being the joy the students get while playing the games. And how the game explains the particular problem or solution that seemed complex at first. So this interconnection is a powerful tool we apply to make things easy for them and for them to understand programming at a basic level. Because the games are designed to train them to solve problems. Which is exactly what programming is all about. In our Cbot programming class, we allowed the students to figure out the basic concepts of programming. We as teachers realized that from the games we had played before, almost 90% of the students were able to figure out at least a 10 commands in programming. And this assured us that the foundation was laid well. 

What we still remain committed to passing as many skills as we can to the students with fun and encouragement and allow them to be as creative as they can. My ultimate goal as a teacher is to make the students love the hardest part of a subject and make it so simple for them to understand where sometimes they get well acquainted with a certain topic such that they can teach others or somewhere when they encounter the same problem that requires the same skills, they know how to apply those skills. We always stay committed not only teach the students but train them in what is considered the 21st century industry. And when they start at a young age to get their hands on such skills, they are on the way to conquer the future.