The hardest thing to learn for students is the ability to self-assess accurately.

对学生而言 最难学的一点就是准确地进行自我评估

And so unfortunately in schools we don't give kids enough space, enough autonomy to learn the skills of self-reflection and self-assessment.

不巧的是 在学校 我们没能为学生提供足够的空间和自主权去学习反省和自我评估技能

Now, what's really interesting about this time is that because of coronavirus kids have all this time to self-reflect and self-assess.

现在比较有意思的一点是 因为冠状病毒的爆发 孩子们有时间去反省和自我评估

And so we should be actively promoting meta learning during this time.

在这段时间 我们应该积极促进元学习

And so what I've suggested is that we promote the idea of a learning journal.

所以我建议推广学习日记这个想法

So the idea is this: Let kids decide their own learning path.

它是指：让孩子们决定自己的学习路径

Let them decide what they want to learn.

让他们决定想学什么

It could be if they want to learn how to cook. It could be they want to learn how to drive a car.

他们可能想学做饭 相学开车

It could be they want to learn programming. It could be they want to participate in a fitness challenge. It doesn't matter.

也可能想学编程 或者是加入健身挑战 都可以

What's important is that they write down their learning journey.

重要的是要让他们写下自己的学习日记

And so there are three components to a learning journal.

学习日记有三大要素

First is to define the goal concretely and precisely.

第一 要具体精准地确定自己的学习目标

It's better to say I want to be able to run a marathon in less than four hours than it is to say I want to finish first in a marathon.

最好是说 我要在四小时内跑完一场马拉松 而不是我想在马拉松比赛中拿第一名

Second is to write down the learning process.

第二 要写下学习过程

So think of a cooking recipe and writing down how you cook something.

比如一个食谱 写下来你要怎么去煮一种食材

The third and most important component of a learning journal is to write down your observations, collect data, self-reflect, and develop new learning strategies for yourself.

第三 也是学习日记最重要的一点 要写下你的观察 收集数据 自我反思 并且为自己设计出新的学习策略

And during this process teachers don't go away.

这个过程也离不开了老师

Teachers play a very important role in that they become coaches.

老师的角色很重要 他们变成了教练

I would say that being a coach has three main functions.

我觉得教练有三大功能

The first function is to motivate the student.

第一就是让学生有动力

Second function is to identify witnesses in the learning journal.

第二是见证学习日记中的目击者

And the third and most important function is to constantly suggest new learning strategies.

第三 也是最重要的一个功能 就是持续给出新的学习方法

So let's go back to the marathon example.

我们再说回那个马拉松的例子

Students when they're learning, when they're in a process they tend to become very focused so they keep on running.

在学习的时候 在这个过程中 学生往往会变得非常专注 所以他们会一直跑步

So as a coach you might want to say to the student hey, have you thought about sleep patterns.

作为教练 你应该告诉学生 嘿 你有考虑过自己的睡眠模式吗

Have you thought about diet. Have you thought about lifting weights.

你有没有想过饮食 考虑下举重

Have you thought about running with friends.

你想过跟朋友一起跑吗

The idea is not to give correct solutions.

不要给出正确的解决办法

The idea is to suggest new possibilities so that students can self-diagnose more accurately.

你只需要给出新的可能性 让学生做出更为精准的自我诊断

That's the idea of a learning journal.

这就是学习日记的观念

I believe that if we go through this learning journal students when they come back to the classroom will be much more motivated and they'll be much more effective learners.

我相信 只要我们坚持学习日记这个想法 等学生回到教室的时候 会成为更有动力和更高效的学习者