1、Lesson 1 Audio 1Obama Thats what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that youre good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a resp
2、onsibility to yourself to discover what that is. Thats the opportunity an education can provide.Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper thats assign
3、ed to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice - but you
4、 might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that youll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of o
5、ur military? Youre going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. Youve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.Lesson 1 Audio 2Intro to Yale college and graduate school Yale College, the undergraduate s
6、chool, is the heart of the University. Its been setting the standard for educating American leaders for over three centuries. One of Yales most distinctive assets is its residential college system, 12 colleges are diverse, yet intimate communities of 400 students, providing all of the benefits of a
7、small college along with the resources of a great research university. Each college has its own dining hall, library, gymnasium, and multi-purpose rooms, which students use for everything from theatrical productions and concerts to publishing newspapers. The colleges also offer seminars, host speake
8、rs, organize social events, sponsor sporting teams and provide tutoring. The residential college system ensures students at Yale have a support structure that fosters relationships that will last a lifetime. Yales Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the first school to award PhD in the united Stat
9、es, offers programs leading to PhD and Masters degrees, and is known for its academic excellence, extraordinary resources, and world-class faculty. Today more than one third of its students come from abroad. Every PhD student in the school pays no tuition and receives the generous annual stipend for
10、 living expenses. Lesson 1 Video Student report join a clubStarting a university career can be an intimidating event for some people. Making new connections isnt always easy. One of the best ways to meet people is to join a club. At CJLO, the universitys radio station, people volunteer as radio DJs,
11、 news readers or technicians.(Brian Joseph) “When I first started, it was a smaller group, it was very tight in, and just over a year, Ive just see expand, and more people join. More people come with friends and friends and network, and just this huge family, and its just a really great thing to see
12、.”Cassandra Keating moved to Montreal from Saskatoon to study journalism. “So its still a process. Im still getting used to the city and being back in school.” vThere are many types of clubs that Concordia students can join. Many of them are registered with the Concordia Student Union. (Heather Luca
13、s) “The best way to get involved is by checking out the mezzanine, usually a lot clubs and associations are tabling, so they have a presentation of all their events, all the things that are happening. Its a good way to get plugged. Its very casual. You just come up to them and you say what are your
14、events, what are you about, what do you do at Concordia?”Some groups like HILLEL also know how to throw a party. (David Adelman) “First of all, I make really fun parties. So we make parties, I get to have fun. I ring my friends and after a while a lot of my friends are having so much fun, they actua
15、lly join HILLEL, too.”And a new club has recently been formed, the Shotokan Karate club. Its a kind of karate that combines basics, patterns of moves and sparring. (Melarie Taylor) “The students are self-motivated. If theyve signed up for the class and they decided to stay, then they like the high-e
16、nergy demand, and they like the vibes of the class and people training.”(Jean-Philippe) “Karate has to be friendly. Thats our motto. We are friendly with people, we dont look for we dont want any tension between people. So, that leads to, naturally, to friendship.”Now while we only got to touch on a
17、 few clubs here at Concordia, there is a whole wealth of information on the dean of student website at Concordia. ca. And as far as my karate belt is concerned, sensei told me to start with the basics of bowing. “Wonderful!”“How was that?”Not bad for my first try, but it may take me a little longer
18、to get the rest. Im Michel Boyer, for Now Concordia. Lesson 2 Audio 1 College planning Well, everybodys experience is very different. There are a few guidelines you can follow for each of your four years. Freshman year, dont worry too much about your career plans. Try lots of activities, get your fe
19、et wet on campus and take several different classes to see what it is you most enjoy. Sophomore year is the time to narrow down your academic focus and decide on a college major. You also want to narrow your options in terms of your extracurricular activities to focus on your biggest commitments. An
20、d finally I recommend getting a professional internship the summer between your sophomore and junior years to start having professional experience youll be able to list on a rsum. Junior year is a time to take on leadership positions in the extracurricular activities that youve chosen. Its also real
21、ly important to get your GPA above a 3.0 because thats the cut-off for many employers to give you a job. And finally if you havent done an internship already, its essential to have at least one on your rsum by the end of your junior year. During your senior year, your goal should be to find a balanc
22、e among the leadership positions youve taken on in your extracurricular activities, keeping up your grade point average in your college major and focusing on the job search for a position after graduation. Lesson 2 Audio 2Cambridge Orientation So what does Cambridge have to offer you? Top rated teac
23、hing by top-rated lecturers. You are often being taught by the person who wrote the textbook that you are studying from. You are not just being lectured by them. We have a system called supervisions here, which is small group, oftentimes one-on-one teaching. With these people who are world experts i
24、n their field, its your chance to discuss your ideas with them. It may be that you have really really strong opinions, and you want to get that across and to have that chance to discuss it with somebody who is the leading expert of the field. It might sound quite daunting, but its very rewarding exp
25、eriences. Its one of the best things of being a Cambridge. Our courses roughly fall into arts, sciences and social sciences, but each course is very individual. You need to make sure that you are studying the right subjects that provide the factive preparation for that course. They are traditional c
26、ourses, and thats the reason why you need to make sure you are doing the right subjects for them. So make sure that you check in the perspectives or on the websites. All of the courses start very broadly, and then they narrow in focus. So in you first year, you do a bit of everything, you get a good
27、 grounding and everything for you to choose where you want to focus. It means that you can make that decision with good knowledge and a good grounding in your subject as a whole. Lesson 2 Video The future of digital education30 years ago, students did all their learning inside of a classroom and got
28、 all of their information from encyclopedias, libraries, and dictionaries. Today, students can download an E-book in less than a minute, search for anything in seconds, and find any topic on Wikipedia instantly. Technology is opening up the world of education. But there is a problem. Today, in the U
29、S, a student drop out of high school in every 26 seconds. 30% students in the US fail out of high school, and of US college students 46% will not graduate. Currently, education is a one-size-fits-all model. Visual learners, audio learners and hands-on learners are required to learn in ways that dont
30、 always best fit their needs. We need a system that adapts to our students, not the other way around. Today, technology allows for a customizable system that can be tailored to individual students. In what used to be a world confined to a classroom, students are now able to learn anywhere, whether t
31、hats at home, at the local coffee shop, half way around the world, or anywhere that suits their needs. With the future of digital education, we can also expect more blended learning with courses that incorporate online teaching into a classroom environment. There will be more textbooks available in
32、digital formats. In fact, its estimated that by 2016, 30% of textbooks will be bought in a digital format, and there will be more collaboration between people from many parts of the world. US colleges educate 19 million students every year, and 96% of those universities offer at least one online class. The future of digital education is now. And we have been doing it online since the mid-80s, with more than 415 online classes and 18 full degrees.
