WEBVTT 00:05.535 --> 00:08.538 In the wave of rapid technological development, 00:08.538 --> 00:11.074 Are we sitting in the front row of a tsunami? 00:11.074 --> 00:13.610 Or are we standing in the front row with a view of the sea? 00:16.546 --> 00:18.615 This is not just a metaphor. 00:18.615 --> 00:20.583 This is a choice that everyone in our time 00:20.583 --> 00:22.919 must face. 00:29.158 --> 00:31.728 In 2023, I moved from the busy city of Taichung 00:31.828 --> 00:34.497 to teach in beautiful Taitung near the mountains and sea. 00:35.198 --> 00:37.000 Taitung is rich in resources. 00:37.166 --> 00:38.468 There are geothermal hot springs. 00:38.701 --> 00:40.370 A water resource cycle. 00:40.503 --> 00:42.105 And the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific Ocean. 00:42.639 --> 00:46.209 Taitung University focuses on "Green Sustainable Development." 00:46.442 --> 00:48.444 These things make me think 00:48.678 --> 00:51.614 about how to match the school's main focus 00:51.614 --> 00:54.517 to help students learn more. 00:56.319 --> 01:00.723 Many think "technology learning" is just learning skills. 01:01.257 --> 01:03.226 But I believe that technology learning is actually 01:03.226 --> 01:04.494 "understanding the world, 01:04.494 --> 01:08.631 and developing your own potential." 01:08.631 --> 01:11.267 For example, we are doing research on "small hydropower." 01:11.801 --> 01:13.436 We let students decide 01:13.436 --> 01:15.872 where the small hydropower site should be. 01:16.039 --> 01:18.141 They felt this topic was too big. 01:18.341 --> 01:19.142 Too far away. 01:19.142 --> 01:20.643 Impossible to finish. 01:21.144 --> 01:23.312 But when they learned a technology tool, 01:23.579 --> 01:25.581 they found they could combine 01:25.581 --> 01:27.784 data on weather, hydrology, and land. 01:27.817 --> 01:30.319 They could estimate the mechanism behind it. 01:30.787 --> 01:34.991 Then decide the best place for the power plant. 01:35.458 --> 01:38.594 They published the results in a conference paper. 01:38.594 --> 01:40.196 And won the best paper award. 01:40.196 --> 01:42.965 I could clearly see the confidence on their faces. 01:43.332 --> 01:45.268 I realized they had changed. 01:45.635 --> 01:46.836 So after they came back, 01:46.969 --> 01:50.807 they were very active in research and reports. 01:50.807 --> 01:53.076 Therefore, I believe in learning with technology tools. 01:53.543 --> 01:55.378 is actually a way to understand the world 01:55.578 --> 01:58.014 and spark your own potential. 01:59.882 --> 02:02.685 As students gain more learning experience, 02:03.019 --> 02:04.420 we want to know, 02:04.420 --> 02:05.254 is this knowledge 02:05.254 --> 02:06.722 only in textbooks? 02:06.722 --> 02:08.524 Or only inside the classroom? 02:08.524 --> 02:11.427 Can it solve real problems in life? 02:12.795 --> 02:15.098 So we took the students' professional knowledge 02:15.098 --> 02:16.733 and combined it 02:17.033 --> 02:18.167 with social problems. 02:18.401 --> 02:19.902 I will share two examples with everyone. 02:19.902 --> 02:21.537 The first example is, 02:21.537 --> 02:23.773 Taitung grows many sugar apples. 02:23.773 --> 02:26.876 But sugar apples have a short shelf life. 02:27.243 --> 02:30.980 How to effectively market them 02:30.980 --> 02:32.782 during their optimal consumption period? 02:32.915 --> 02:35.184 Our students used website design 02:35.184 --> 02:38.421 to help small farmers sell their sugar apples. 02:38.888 --> 02:41.257 This part had great results. 02:42.658 --> 02:45.428 The second is about Taitung's natural resources. 02:45.561 --> 02:46.562 That is geothermal hot springs. 02:46.762 --> 02:48.564 Taitung has rich geothermal resources. 02:48.664 --> 02:52.635 But business owners usually just use them as a hot-spring resource. 02:52.769 --> 02:54.070 But we thought about it. 02:54.070 --> 02:55.972 Can it have other uses? 02:56.572 --> 02:58.641 So we used temperature differences to generate power 02:58.641 --> 03:00.510 to save energy for the owners. 03:00.643 --> 03:03.713 To truly achieve energy savings and carbon emissions.  03:04.413 --> 03:05.548 By helping others, 03:05.548 --> 03:08.017 technology learning is not just solving a problem. 03:08.151 --> 03:10.653 It connects you to the world. 03:10.653 --> 03:12.188 And develops your own potential. 03:12.655 --> 03:16.125 I think this is very meaningful for teaching. 03:19.896 --> 03:21.798 Through these experiences, I believe more and more 03:21.931 --> 03:24.667 that technology learning should not be limited to class. 03:24.901 --> 03:28.237 It should go out of the classroom to solve problems. 03:28.504 --> 03:32.675 This way, you can make products that help society. 03:35.945 --> 03:38.181 What is the world outside the classroom like? 03:38.614 --> 03:41.217 Currently, our world is facing climate change, 03:41.617 --> 03:44.620 energy crisis and resource depletion problems. 03:45.021 --> 03:48.291 Green technology can help us solve current problems. 03:48.624 --> 03:50.827 But it is not just for now. 03:51.027 --> 03:53.696 From now to the next 10 or 20 years, 03:53.796 --> 03:57.300 we might keep improving it. 03:57.466 --> 04:00.403 It can help us think about 10 or 20 years later. 04:00.469 --> 04:03.172 Can we make use of this land again? 04:03.439 --> 04:06.475 Letting our resources exist with us forever. 04:07.944 --> 04:10.313 Green technology is an imagination of the future. 04:10.613 --> 04:13.015 It is learning how to imagine the future. 04:13.015 --> 04:14.450 Learning this mode 04:14.550 --> 04:17.587 allows us to tackle the changing challenges of the future. 04:19.989 --> 04:22.692 Students today face huge amounts of knowledge. 04:22.825 --> 04:25.494 Getting learning resources is very diverse. 04:25.494 --> 04:26.662 And very fast. 04:26.796 --> 04:27.997 If you are not careful, 04:28.264 --> 04:31.100 all knowledge will flash before your eyes. 04:31.334 --> 04:32.869 The student actually 04:32.869 --> 04:35.104 just becomes a receiver of knowledge. 04:35.304 --> 04:38.007 This is unconscious acceptance of knowledge. 04:38.007 --> 04:41.744 But we hope students can become builders of knowledge, 04:41.978 --> 04:46.148 consciously and slowly building their own knowledge. 04:46.282 --> 04:49.585 So the key is how you learn this knowledge, 04:49.752 --> 04:51.220 and how to find these problems. 04:51.554 --> 04:52.521 Do not fear problems, 04:52.688 --> 04:54.457 and we face problems when we meet them. 04:54.790 --> 04:57.326 That attitude and method of solving them 04:57.426 --> 04:59.262 is actually more important for the future. 04:59.962 --> 05:01.831 Therefore, teachers in education 05:02.064 --> 05:04.367 should change from givers of knowledge 05:04.767 --> 05:06.769 to guides of knowledge. 05:06.869 --> 05:07.403 And participants. 05:09.672 --> 05:13.342 In this wave of technology and changing nature, 05:13.509 --> 05:15.244 facing such a challenging environment, 05:15.544 --> 05:17.446 whether teachers or students, 05:17.847 --> 05:19.782 I believe they will be afraid. 05:20.549 --> 05:23.052 But if you retreat because of fear, 05:23.319 --> 05:25.288 you will be standing in the front row of the tsunami. 05:26.188 --> 05:27.923 If you face it directly, 05:27.923 --> 05:31.127 you will have the best view of the sea.