携手MIT，诺德安达STEAM教学帮助孩子迎接全球挑战 STEAM Program with MIT

Anthony老师于2004年完成商务管理以及信息技术本科荣誉学位，在工作七年后完成教育学硕士，继而开启计算机科学教师之路，至今已有11年教学工作经验。在来到北京市房山区诺德安达学校之前，曾从教于卡塔尔石油公司，杜汉英语学校和梅赛伊德国际学校以及卡塔尔和乌兹别克斯坦诺德安达学校。

Anthony老师说：“我第一次接触到STEAM课程是在卡塔尔石油公司做培训师的时候。当时在卡塔尔工作的Macaulay先生，也是现任北京诺德安达学校教育学监，让我参加了一次机器人制造培训，从此以后我便走上了STEAM教学之路。在那次培训上，我观察到学生，不管是女孩还是男孩，他们紧密合作并讨论如何使用不同的技能去完成不同产品的规划、设计和制造。在经过了小组讨论以及获得了完成项目所需的技能之后，学生们便开始独立工作，规划可行性解决方案。北大西洋学院前信息技术系主任Theodore Chiasson博士从另一个角度解析道：“我发现，当你要自己建造一个机器人的时候，如果想要它做一些新的事情，你就必须要学习更多的数学、自然科学或者物理知识。因此，学生的求知欲望转变为学习动力，使得学习环境和思考模式发生了彻底的转变。

Anthony has been an educator for 11 years, 8 of those in international schools predominately in the Middle East. Anthony previously worked as a teacher for Qatar Petroleum where he worked at both Dukhan English School and Mesaieed International School before moving to Nord Anglia Education where he has worked in Qatar and Uzbekistan, and now in Beijing.

I was first introduced to STEAM when I was teaching in Qatar.  The current international principal of Nord Anglia School Beijing, Mr. Macaulay, who I worked with at the time in Qatar, gave me the permission to attend this training and I never looked back.  I have observed students, girls and boys, working collaboratively using variety of skills to consider the planning, design and making of different products for a purpose.  By providing the students the skills they need to completing projects, they can be allowed to work independently to come up with workable solutions.  Dr. Theodore Chiasson, former dean of IT from the College of North Atlantic put this in a different perspective, “I have found that when you build a robot yourself and you want it to do something new, you have to learn more mathematics, more science or more physics, to be able to do that. The motivation for the learning is then within the student, for which makes for a complete paradigm shift in terms of the learning environment”.

随着STEAM相关学科，科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学在全球的发展，诺德安达教育集团鼓励学生发展他们在这些领域的技能和才能，并希望他们能够从事与STEAM相关的工作。有研究发现，学习过STEAM的女孩进入工程领域工作的机会更大。

机器人制造技术仅是STEAM学习的一小部分，它是攻坚克难进行二次发明的重要方法，例如用钢管制造火箭。与此同时，STEAM会更多专注现存社会问题并通过各种方式和渠道来寻找解决方案，研制新疫苗就隶属其中。STEAM也包含近距离观察事物，例如近距离拍摄物体等。

STEAM立足于打破学科障碍壁垒，使学生能够建立跨学科领域思维方式，并将其应用于课程之外的真实生活中。它可以引领学生们用小组讨论的模式来分析问题并探讨出解决方案，并能比对手更快、更有效率的撰写出一篇相关论文。STEAM不仅仅建立在学生对不同学科领域知识和理解的基础上，还帮助他们增强IB学习潜力。

With the global growth in STEAM related careers – science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics - Nord Anglia Education is encouraging its students to develop their skills and talents in these areas and hopefully move into careers in these disciplines.  Research has found that girls that get into STEAM are more likely to go into engineering careers.

However, STEAM is not just about learning robotics.  Robotics is just a small part of what STEAM is about.  STEAM is about hacking things and reinventing them, for example, constructing rockets out of tubes.  STEAM is about looking at problems that there are in society and finding solutions, for example, discovering new vaccines. STEAM is about looking closer at things, for example, taking close shots of objects.

STEAM allows barriers to be broken down between subjects, enabling pupils to make connections between them, developing a holistic understanding and applying them to real-world scenarios outside the normal curriculum. It allows students to get together into teams to analyse problems, suggest solutions and develop a finished article that will hopefully be quicker, faster and more efficient than your opponents.  STEAM does not just build on students’ knowledge and understanding of different subject areas, but also helps them develop their IB learner profile.

诺德安达教育集团与麻省理工学院共同开展的项目，创建了世界知名的STEAM合作伙伴关系。通过这一合作关系，诺德安达所有学生都有机会通过诺德安达全球校园项目参与到麻省理工学院优秀教授提出的STEAM挑战，并参与麻省理工学院区域和全球会议。通过诺德安达教育集团门户网站和全球校园活动，学生们更有机会与来自世界各地的学生分享他们的设计。

通过STEAM项目，北京诺德安达学校学生可以参与全球校园挑战当中去。在之前的几周内，我们的学生在家里创造了纸造的高塔，废物利用的二次发明，还创造了弹射器。接下来，学生们将更多的参与到全球校园的Xtra挑战中去，这包括MIT教授给所有诺德安达学校学生提出的用玻璃器皿弹奏一首歌曲以及大弹珠跑步挑战。学校现有的Botball设备为学生提供了一个非常好的机会，让他们通过实践来学习编程和工程。我们希望未来能带领我们的学生参加更多的全国性和世界级比赛。

接下来，让我们一起看看学生们在STEAM方面的成果吧！

Nord Anglia Education has developed a collaboration through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create a world-renowned STEAM partnership.  Through this partnership, Nord Anglia students get the opportunity to partake in STEAM challenges developed by outstanding professors from MIT, in addition with the chance to attend regional and global conferences to other schools in China as well as MIT.  Further, through Nord Anglia Education’s student portal, Global Campus, students get the opportunity to partake in challenges and share their designs with students from across the world.

Nord Anglia School Beijing is embracing the STEAM principles through getting students to complete challenges using Global Campus as well as in-house challenges.  Students have created tall towers made of paper; reinvented material around the home that would otherwise be thrown away into something new; and created catapults.  Over the coming weeks and months, students are going to attend Global Campus Xtra Challenge -create a music using glassware and the Marble Run Challenge.  With the Botball equipment currently in the school, we have a fantastic opportunity for students to learn programming and engineering in a very practical way and hopefully take students to the national competition.

 let’s watch students ‘work.

学生需要在家中使用玻璃器皿创作音乐，并思考以下问题的答案：• 如何创建您能听到的音符？• 玻璃中的水位如何影响音高？• 玻璃中的液体类型是否会改变声音？6年级的Jackey同学不但用玻璃杯创造了音乐还用钢琴演奏了这段音乐。

For this challenge, you need to create a music using glassware in your house and think about the answers to the following questions: • How are the notes you can hear being created? • How does the water level in a glass affect the pitch? • Does the type of liquid in the glass change the sound? Jackey create the music and play with glass and piano.

学生需要创建一个弹珠运行装置，将保持弹珠移动尽可能接近一分钟。3年级到7年级学生都参与了此次挑战，让我们看看3年级学生的作品吧！

you need to create a marble run that will keep a marble moving for as close to one minute as possible. Work from grade 3 and grade 7.

运用传统的教学方法教授单个学科已经不再适合现代世界、社会和职场，仅仅教会学生如何应对考试是远远不够的。我们需要寻找更为合适的方法让学生能更好的适应未来世界的职场要求，STEAM教育这种跨学科、协作式的学习方法应运而生，它可以帮助学生应对未来一切的挑战。这也是北京诺德安达学校老师的教学宗旨，所以我们会把跨学科教学和学习方法更好的运用到未来的教育教学当中去，让我们的学生在未来的生活和工作中更具竞争力。

The traditional approach of teaching individual subjects in isolation simply doesn’t fit with the challenges of the modern world, society and workplace; teaching students how to pass exams in various areas is simply not enough. STEAM education offers an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to learning, that prepares students for real-world tasks and success.  NAS Beijing provide STEAM course to all students to make sure that they could meet all requirements for future work.