2015年10月13日,一个叫做Jason Silva的人,在 Youtube上发出一段视频,全长4分52秒,题目是:The Big Picture.
这是视频的一部分,前2分20秒内容:
简单说就是,当第一张地球全景照片在太空被拍下时,所有人都沸腾了!
这是历史上,我们第一次,从一个远观角度去看地球,去看它的全局。
This provided an ontological awakening. It changed our story, our narrative. It upgraded our self-image and expanded our consciousness. New maps for new realities, as they say.
因为科技进步,我们处于一个可以随时联系,随时沟通,随时进行连结的时代。就像Gordon Brown (英国前首相,财政大臣)在2009年的一场TED Talk中所提到那样:
But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. We now have the capacity to find common ground with people who we will never meet, but who we will meet through the Internet and through all the modern means of communication.
来自哈佛大学福特基金会国际教育实践(Ford Foundation of Practice in International Education)的Fernando Reimers教授,有对国际胜任力做出具体定义:
三个方面。原文有些长,我列出最后的总结:
Affect:情感
A vector focused on the development of character, affect, and values.
性格,情感,价值观。——你的Heart,你的心。
Action:行动
A vector focused on skills and the development of the motivation to act and the competency to act.
技能,有行动的动力,有行动的能力。——你的Skills,你的技能。
Academics:学术
A vector focused on the development of cognition, academic knowlege, and the ability to draw on distinct knowledge domains to understand global issues.