零慧:友成携手华为,数字包容助力教育公平

在4月20日举行的2023年华为全球分析师大会媒体圆桌会议上,零慧秘书长代表友成基金会分享了与华为合作科技赋能教育的实践经验,并探讨了数字技术如何实现一个更平等可持续的数字世界。

会议期间,多位华为全球TECH4ALL合作伙伴介绍了目前正在全球范围内运作的项目,“青椒计划”是其中之一。数字技术与多方合作的强大结合是推动每个项目产生积极成果的基础,华为ICT Marketing总裁周军在圆桌会议上致开幕词时表示:“我们在TECH4ALL倡议下的所有项目都是由数字技术和伙伴合作的结合才得以实现的。”

2020年,友成基金会与华为公司达成合作,共同推动公平优质教育,创造更平等并构建可持续的未来。华为技术赋能的“青椒计划”项目至今已开展六年,为全国25个省级行政单位的607个区县培训了12万余名乡村教师。在圆桌会议上,零慧秘书长分享了友成的新公益理念,强调基于技术的支持平台如何通过提供在线培训来提升乡村青年教师的专业能力和信心,并通过互联网建立起彼此连接的乡村青年教师网络社群,并表示:“人的发展是最大的公益。未来,我们希望继续与华为合作,通过技术助力乡村教育,赋能乡村教师。”

以下为发言译文:

尊敬的华为伙伴、媒体朋友、女士们、先生们:

大家早上好,我是友成企业家乡村发展基金会秘书长零慧。首先感谢今天所有分享嘉宾为我们带来关于华为科技助力环保的启发性思考。非常荣幸应华为的邀请与大家分享友成和华为为乡村教师赋能的成果。“友成”是中文里“友谊”和“成功”的谐音,我们是一家以建立跨界合作的社会创新网络支持平台为使命,以推动更公平、更有效和更可持续的社会生态系统的建立为目标的全国性慈善组织。

华为公司“科技助力教育普惠”的理念与友成基金会运用互联网助力乡村新教师成长的探索高度契合。2020年起,友成基金会就“青椒计划”公益项目与华为进行了合作,为广大乡村青年教师提供为期一年的系统性网络培训。3年中,借助华为的数字化平台WeLink,我们共同为来自全国25个省级行政单位的近10万名乡村青年教师进行赋能和支持。华为云WeLink提供定制化服务技术,让青年教师实现了随时学、自由学、反复学。

新入职的教师普遍面临持续培训少、职业生涯受阻等问题。“青椒计划”的使命就是帮助乡村青年教师站稳讲台、建立职业自信,进而推动实现教育公平。作为项目核心发起方,友成基金会负责规划“青椒计划”项目设计并联合各方资源,其中包括北师大的课程资源、华为云的技术资源以及教育部和各地教育局的日常对接。我们把这个项目看作一次集合影响力的实践。

这位年轻的教师叫范琳琳,来自中国西南地区的云南省富宁县。2017年,她毕业后成为了一名乡村特岗教师。一年后,她从“青椒计划”顺利结业,并从全国3万多位教师中脱颖而出,成为“百优学员”。优秀的成绩使她被当地教育局看见,经过5年的成长,现在她已经成为地方教育系统的骨干成员,负责全县新教师的信息化培训工作,也是“青椒计划”富宁县的对接人。

“青椒计划”教师代表范琳琳(云南省富宁县)

这位是李亚萍,来自贵州省雷山县,是“青椒计划”2020年第四届青椒学员。亚萍告诉我们,因为交通等限制原因,她从来没有出过贵州省。但在2021年和2022年,她分别以“百优学员”和“青椒助教”的身份去到北京和杭州,都是因为“青椒计划”给了她机会和平台。我们去年九月到她的学校参观,才知道她刚刚被县里评选为“优秀班主任”,这个称号很少授予刚刚入职一年的特岗教师。她说:“我并不完美,但是我相信我可以成为别人的微光,用微光点亮微光。”我们能够看出来,她非常享受现在的工作生活,她的学生们也很喜欢她。在最近的项目评估结果中,我们可以看到,“青椒计划”正在提高老师们的教学水平以及他们的职业幸福感。

“青椒计划”教师代表李亚萍(贵州省雷山县)

像范琳琳和李亚萍这样的典型代表,“青椒计划”已经培养了千余人,也是“青椒计划”培训、赋能、激励、支持下结出的硕果。

“青椒计划”每周为老师们提供15节网络课程,涵盖教育学、心理学、学科技能等各大教育主题。每学年里,“青椒计划”在WeLink里组建全国性教师学习社群和主题社区,为交互学习提供了通道,让老师们可以互相鼓励,并展示他们的才能和想法。有了华为的支持,我们可以说互联网学习是一种为乡村地区输送高质量专业化资源的最低成本、应用性强的方式。

“青椒计划”是TECH4ALL理念的一场生动真实的实践。

我们相信培养一位好老师,就能带出一批好学生;培养一位好老师,就为乡村教育注入新的活力。友成基金会在助力教育公平和乡村振兴的道路上一直在探索,因为我们坚信人的发展是最大的公益。我们未来也会与华为进行深度合作,挖掘科技的社会价值潜力,用科技助力教育普惠。

数字包容,我们一起推动公平优质教育。谢谢大家!

>>>附:零慧秘书长发言英文原文

Distinguished friends from HUAWEI and friends from media, ladies, and gentlemen, good morning. Thank all the presenters for presenting very inspiring thoughts about environment protection using HUAWEI’s techonology. I am Ling Hui from YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation. It’s my pleasure to be invited to share our work with HUAWEI to empower teachers across rural China. YouChange, similar to the pronunciation of “友成” in Chinese which means friendship and success, is an independent, innovative, private foundation, aiming to promote comprehensive social innovations, to build a neo-philanthropy value chain and to facilitate the creation of a more fair, efficient and sustainable social eco-system.

Since 2020, YouChange Foundation and HUAWEI have been working together on the Youth Teacher Empowerment Education Plan, which delivers a year of online training to early-career teachers in rural areas in China. This cooperation was based on the consensus that technology can bring educational resources to where they are needed most.

In the past 3 years, we have jointly supported nearly 100,000 early-career rural teachers from more than 600 counties of 25 provinces, using digital technology powered by HUAWEI CLOUD WeLink. WeLink enables them to learn and connect wherever they are and whenever they want.

Rural young teachers face problems such as lack of career development and upskilling opportunities. The mission of the program is to promote educational equity in China. As a backbone organization, our key responsibility is to design the program and to mobilize resources including academic knowledge from Beijing Normal University and online platforms from HUAWEI CLOUD, and also to secure the resouces from local and central government. We call it a collective impact model.

This is Ms. Fan Linlin, a young teacher in Funing county, Yunnan Province which is in southwest China. In 2017, she became a rural teacher in a small village. One year later, she graduated from our program ranking top 100 among over 30,000 participants, which made her stood out in the eye of the local education bureau and was on secondment there to implement educational digitalization programs.

This is Ms. Li Yaping, from Leishan county, Guizhou Province. She had never been out of Guizhou Province because of budget and transportation constraints until our project invited her to a study tour in Beijing as one of the top100 graduates in 2021, and then the next year to Hangzhou as our teaching assistant. We were invited to her school last September and got to know that she just won a county-level teaching award which was rarely given to first-year teachers. She said that I am far from perfect, however, I believe I can become the torch for others. And we can tell that she is very satisfied for her job and her students love her very much. Recording to a recent program evaluation, significant improvement on teaching skills and awareness and teaching performance satisfaction can be found in evaluation.

These are just 2 examples of our beneficiaries, showing that the change and impact our program and the partnership have brought them. There are thousands of Fan Linlins and Li Yapings outstood in our program, which is exactly what we were envisioning when we initiated this program 6 years ago.

The program provides 15 online live interactive courses per week covering all the major subjects such as Chinese, math and English, as well as pedagogies, psychology and other education-related topics. It also ran online communities where rural teachers helped and motivated each other. In each semester year, the program created hundreds of chatting groups and online communities on different educational topics on WeLink, which enables rural teachers to share their talents, successes, concerns, doubts and happiness with fellow teachers across the country. With the support of HUAWEI, web-based learning proved to be the most practical and cost-effective way of delivering quality professional development to a significant number of early-career rural teachers.

THIS program is a true and vivid demonstration of tech4all spirit.

We believe that the development of rural education counts on rural teachers' capabilities. YouChange Foundation has been devoted to rural educational revitalization since 2010 and we believe the greatest development is the development of human beings. In the future, we would love to continue the partnership with HUAWEI and enhancing rural education by deploying the technology and maximizing the social value of ICT technology.

Together, tech4all and tech4education. Thank you.