☆☆Economist Debate阅读写作分析☆☆----Technology in education精华整理版

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语句方面的好句子
1. since only by experimenting can we ever make progress
2. Technology has transformed everyday life in much of the world.
3. For them （universal secondary access） is a distant dream.
4. Technology is replacing scarcity by abundance in other aspects of life
5. improving any one outcome makes the others worse
6. First, we assume too often that technology is the answer without asking what the question was.
7. The task is to use them to create a world where education of quality is abundantly available.
8. at least under certain circumstances
9. Typically, self selection is a fatal design flaw in research studies（Argument）
10. All of these factors constrain the generalizability of the findings and certainly do not allow the authors to make the general claim（针对research的Argument）
11. there are important features of this study that limit the results
12. In order to make a general statement about the impact of technology on education, a large number of studies that cover a variety of situations must be included in the analysis.
13. it is clear that technology can make contributions to the quality of education that are both statistically significant and educationally meaningful
14. knowledge is replacing physical resources as the main driver of economic growth
15. The death of distance
16. All this sounds as though a golden age has arrived
17. help is on the way in the form of internet tuition and for-profit universities
18. and disingenuous to confuse the pursuit of truth with the pursuit of profit
19. The conservative argument falls at the first hurdle
20. are bound to shake up a moribund
21. Education is not just about transmitting a body of facts, which the internet does pretty well. It is about learning to argue and reason, which is best done in a community of scholars.
22. hard-headed不感情用事的，讲求实际的
23. turned out to be a pact with the devil
24. A sophisticated economy needs a wide variety of universities pursuing a wide variety of missions.
25. These two principles reinforce each other
26. And since they explored the ability to think deeply rather than to regurgitate information or whizz through tasks（教育的目的）
27. value speed over depth, and passive entertainment over active
28. as the pace of life accelerates, but hardly a substitute for original thought
29. A key here is using technology in ways that draw on its inherent strengths as a tool for human activity— in particular to support the goals that humans have in producing things and learning in ways that empower them to achieve their goals.
30. As we move into the 21st century，
31. There is plenty still to resolve.
32. Printing made written words widely available and the book remains the most universal and useful educational medium.
33. Although later technologies have embroidered additional features onto the achievements of print, the book retains its central place in education.
34. Good use of technology in education enhances and enriches the interaction between human beings.
35. A fundamental principle of technology is to identify the distinct elements in a process and focus on making each element as good as possible through specialisation.
36. But this is still mostly an aspiration. We are not there yet.
37. Chinese sage（中国圣人）
38. the relationship between teacher and student isparamount
39. as students build on each others' ideas
40. Technology is not a silver bullet.
41. Still, I would argue that technology is a powerful tool if it is used intelligently.
42. is beginning to take shape
43. the climate has shifted over the past few years
44. This represents an important swing of the pendulum from innovation to accountability. That is a good step. But it would be counterproductive（事与愿违的） if the climate shifted too far in this direction.
45. most of the world's most powerful economies were built on innovation
46. The lesson for the United States and other countries—from that report and more recent developments—is to eventually find a balance between innovation and accountability. That should be everyone's destination, because that is the point at which educational technology is likely to have its greatest impact.
47. germane to my decision to oppose the proposition are the arguments and the evidence presented thus far that
48. on the question of quality versus quantity
49. technology has underperformed because it is usually applied to help the teacher teach rather than to help the learner learn
50. None of this would be possible without new technologies
结构方面的好句子
1．All of this, moreover, assumes that resources are plentiful. But what about
2．Likewise 同样的，照样的
3．The tragedy is that these successes are rare.
4．Let us take as an example a study conducted in Israeli schools
5．This is happening for four reasons.
6．just as radically as
7．, on the other hand,
8．Almost inevitably
9．Which brings me, in passing, to a related point
10. Let me describe two of many projects that illustrate what can be done when
11. That is the mistake that
12. Moreover
13. That's an excellent starting point
14. they were handicapped from the start by a willingness to agree that
理论
1. Adam Smith's pin factory: higher volume, consistent quality, lower cost.
2. It was an exciting time for many people in the field. But the problem—as noted in "Technology Counts 2007: A Digital Decade", Education Week's annual report on ed. tech.—was that not enough attention was being paid to documenting what impact those innovations were having on student learning.
3. Not measuring the gains was an absolute error on our part, and we need to go deeper and deeper with good research," Donald G. Knezek, the chief executive officer of the Washington-based International Society for Technology in Education, told Technology Counts.
例子
1. Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have estimated that in the four years from 1999 to 2002, the amount of new information produced approximately equaled the amount produced in the entire history of the world up to that time (Varian & Lyman, 2003).