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搜狐出国主持人：随着互联网的技术发展，国际化优质教育资源的共享会给国际教育带来什么样的影响？
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: As the development of the internet technology, in your opinion, what kind of influence of the sharing of the excellent education resource can bring for the international education?
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：我认为新型网络技术能应用到教育当中具有非凡的意义，将给传统的教育方式带来深刻影响。在过去，标准的教学方式就是面对面授课，典型的课堂就是一个教授在一群学生面前不停地讲课，学生在课堂下面不停地记笔记，记完笔记后就回家复习老师上课讲过的内容。但是现在情况就不一样了，通过现代互联网技术，老师的在课堂上的所传授的知识可以在网络上获得，学生可以通过电脑学习知识，不明白的部分还可以重复学习。这样一些基础知识的学习，就可以通过网络来进行，预习过后来到课堂的学生们就可以成为主动的学习者，学生们可以发言提问、并回答老师提出的问题，学生们成为教育当中的主导者，而不再仅仅是基础知识的接受者。因此可以说现在的新技术提高了学生们的学习效率，学生们可以用更多的时间用于与教授和同学交流、辩论和讨论新观点、在一个团队中共同提高自己的各项技能，新技术使所有这些都成为了可能。
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：I think that the new educational technologies are remarkable and they will transform the way the universities teach. In the old days, the standard way of teaching was to use a lecture, you would have a professor who was very wise and would stand and talk and talk, the students would write and write, and they will go home, and they will try to memorize what the professors have talked, that’s the old way. Currently, the situation is different, all of that information the professor is giving in a lecture can be absorbed online, the lecture can be reported, and then the students can watch it on the computer screen, they can watch it over and over again, if that part they don’t understand. And then when come to school, they can be active learners, they can speak, they can be asked questions by the professors, they can be the ones who are masters of their own education. So what happens to the new technology is that part of what was the way people learned in the old days can be done much more efficiently, and the rest of the time a student has can be devoted much more intensively to interacting with the professors, interacting with other students, debating ideas, testing new ideas, working in groups together in teams learning those skills, all of that is made possible by technology today.
搜狐出国主持人：不知道雷蒙校长有没有关注过中国校长的演讲，因为在这几年的大学毕业典礼上，中国校长的演讲受到了很多的关注，也引起了一些争议。雷蒙校长认为什么样的演讲是优秀的大学毕业演讲？
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: I am wondering whether President Lehman has paid attention to any speech made by the President of Chinese universities. During these years, the speeches made by the Presidents of the Chinese universities in the commencement ceremony have attracted some attention and also caused some disputes. In your opinion, what kind of speeches shall be considered as an excellent speech made in a university commencement ceremony?
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：这些问题都非常好。过去一段时间我一直在专注地准备上海纽约大学的开学工作，因此说实话，我并没有很多时间关注中国大学校长的毕业典礼演讲。但是前不久我参加了北京大学深圳研究生院的毕业典礼，并有机会听到了北京大学深圳研究生院院长兼北京大学副校长的海闻校长精妙绝伦的演讲。
我认为毕业致辞对一个大学校长而言是一个特别的时刻，因为这是校长最后一次与走出校园前的毕业生交流的机会。但是由时间限制，所做的演讲往往很难面面俱到。所以我通常的做法是讲一件事或一个主题，所选定的主题通常是我能借助演讲这个机会向学生说明一个简单的想法会给人的一生带来巨大影响。在我的毕业致辞中，我会在不同的时期选择不同的主题，有时会谈耐心的重要性，有时会谈要有乐观的心态，有时会谈与不同于自己的人共事的重要性，有时会谈学习语言的重要性，以上这些是我演讲过的一些主题。
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：So these are wonderful questions, I have been very focused on the preparations of NYU Shanghai to open because we are going to begin our teaching in just a few weeks. So I have not had the opportunities to see the graduation speeches of many university presidents. I did have the opportunity just a week ago to attend graduation ceremony in Peking University Shenzhen Graduation School, and I had the opportunity to hear the graduation speech presented by President Hai Wen to the graduates there, which is a marvelous speech. But I have not had any chances to see many other this year.
I do think that a graduation speech is a very special moment for a university president. It is your last chance to retell and speak to your students one more time before they go off into the world. So I believe that it’s a special time to talk with the students, you can’t talk about everything. So I usually pick one thing, one idea that I like to develop with them and use the speech as a chance to show them how one simple idea might make difference in the whole life. So in my graduation speeches, I have spoken about different ideas in different years. So sometimes I have spoken about the virtue of patience, sometimes about optimism, having an optimistic heart, sometimes about the importance of engaging with the people in the world who are different from yourself, sometimes I have talked with them about the importance of the language, and how important this to care about words, these are kinds of ideas that I have talked about in the graduation speeches in years gone by.
搜狐出国主持人：方不方便透露接下来上海纽约大学的演讲上，雷蒙校长会准备什么样的话题？
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: Is it possible that you can release a little about the topic you’ll talk in the speech during the opening ceremony of NYU Shanghai University?
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：现在只能暂时保密，我希望我们的学生是第一个听到我演讲的人，但是在我演讲结束之后，我会把所有演讲稿都放在我的个人网站上面，到时每个人都能看到。
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：That is a secret because I want my students be the first to hear. I usually then post my speeches online on my website, so afterward, anyone can read them, but the students should be the very first to them.
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