近日，北京中学部分九年级学生有机会与Apple 公司 CEO 库克先生进行零距离对话，就本次课程体验的感受、课程创新进行了有趣的交流，库克先生也发表了官方微博，现摘录学生代表的心声与大家分享。

    

青出于蓝胜于蓝——有感于与库克对话

北京中学 高贺然

库克先生并没有他平时看上去那样矜持，深邃的眼睛里总能露出和蔼可亲的目光。从来不存在居高临下的感觉，交谈中还会时不时地带一些手势，给人以莫名的亲切感。最初，我跟他交流了一下自己对于苹果手机的看法，从小学四年级开始就一直用苹果手机的我也可以算是对苹果手机情有独钟了吧。后来，在与库克先生简单地谈了谈我对Swift Playgrounds的看法后，我补充道，这么好的编程软件应该将它引入学校的课程啊，库克先生微笑地点着头，答道：“你这个点子给了我一些灵感。”

库克先生在与人随时的沟通中都可以获得灵感，我想这也就是他能够成功成为乔布斯接班人，并将苹果发展的越来越好的原因之一。我们也应该像库克先生学习，从生活的每一个细节入手，不断地发现新的问题，制定解决方案，并尽快执行。让好的灵感不光停留在想法的层面，而是真抓实干起来，正如库克先生当天工作坊结束后发的微博中的话一样：迫不及待想要看看这些未来程序员们的创作，相信’青出于蓝而胜于蓝’！展现北中“四个学会”理念中学会创新的风采。

A CurriculumAdventure

Beijing Academy Huang Yanqing

“I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.” – Tim Cook.

With the release of Apple-made app “Swift Playgrounds” coming out soon, ten techy students from my school were invited to have a personal hands-on experience with the app, seen for the first time in a Chinese edition. We weren’t extremely excited at this prospect at first, but after a day at the Apple store in China Central Mall, we can proudly claim that this was one of the best days of our lives.

We started with two wonderful and funny teachers, Mr. Chen and Mr. Bao. They were extremely helpful and explained to us the fundamentals of programming, and a very thorough understanding of the word “coding”. We were introduced to the Apple-made programming language Swift, which none of us had experienced before.

We quickly progressed through the app, flying by the fundamental exercises with flying colors, and to the astonishment of the two instructors, we were quickly onto the topic of functions, one of the hardest elements to grasp in every coding language. But the instructors used a very playful and very interesting game to help us understand the concept better. We used the app GarageBand to create our own musical beatbox, and grouped a few sounds into something called a function.Then we could just “call” on one of our functions and have our iPads play acertain series of sounds.

Completely unknown to us, a tall handsome man walked into the store, and walked around our table, watching us learn the Swift language and our usage of their new app. But I realized that the man was none other than the Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Tim Cook himself. He walked around the table, and was astonished to see that I progressed much faster than my fellow comrades. He patted my back and I was shaking with excitement and I turned around and just blubbered “Oh my God, Hi, Mr. Cook, so nice to meet you.”

Mr. Cook was one of my personal heroes, and I really wanted to work for Apple since when I was around ten years old. Then I decided to learn computer science and received a Mac Mini on Christmas. I told him about how I really looked up to him, and how much I loved Apple products. He was smiling the whole time, and joked that Ineeded to buy an iPhone some time this year. He was a very cordial man, and seemed to warm up the whole atmosphere around him. While I was talking with Mr. Cook, I wasn’t entire on my nerves, I was exceptionally at ease, and it seemed like talking to an old friend. I think that he has that aura around him, a likable, powerful but warm-hearted, feeling. I think it was one of the main reasons he is the CEO of the biggest electronics company in the world.

The visit ended perfectly, and we took a group photo with Mr. Cook himself. It was wonderful and exciting. I think that as middle school students, we need to learn to be more like Mr. Cook, and learn to lead without the “grip of power” feel. We should embrace everyone’s opinions, and like Mr. Cook said, we need to have a strong point of view to be able to be appreciated more.

There is an old Chinese proverb: “The student surpasses the teacher.”I believe that with great teachers like our instructors, we could even surpass them and hopefully use our new found knowledge of the visit to make our own apps, and maybe even publish them. We should always remember our school's slogan: “Better me, better world”, no matter where we go or what we do. With the experience of the Swift Playgrounds curriculum, I truly believe that I can make the world a better place.     

北京中学人格教育课程体系，通过学院、阅历、雅趣、健身、服务五大系列课程的建设，为同学们提供了多元开放的支持性课程体系，建构了丰富多样化的学习环境，采取以个性化、联系性、体验性为主的学习方式，极大的激发了同学们的学习热情，鼓励了课内外学习创新，较好的促进学生了全面而自由地成长。

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