2023年一丹奖颁奖典礼的欢迎致辞中，陈一丹请大家“都为这样一个世界而努力：在那里，最佳教育理念能够广泛落地；在那里，年轻人有动力去学习、去合作、去将所学应用于解决现实世界的问题；在那里，每个人无论身处何地，都能充分发挥自身才能。这是年轻人应得的世界，也是人人需要的世界”。
尊敬的香港特别行政区行政长官李家超先生、尊敬的一丹奖得奖者、各位嘉宾、同事们、女士们、先生们:
非常荣幸欢迎各位莅临2023一丹奖颁奖典礼。衷心感谢各位支持一丹奖履行使命愿景：以教育提升人类福祉。今晚我们聚在一起，因为我们相信教育的力量能改善生活品质。
在过去的50年里，我们见证了对教育的广泛投入如何帮助人们摆脱贫困，推动科技进步，改变我们生活的每个方面——从医疗、通讯、交通、农业到公民社会和社交空间。
然而，新的挑战层出不穷。许多人称之为生存挑战——气候变化、和平与安全、就业和技术、不平等、人工智能带来的颠覆变化。因此，尽管进步如此之多，年轻人仍感觉他们的世界在社会、环境和经济断层冲击下支离破碎。
我们的教育系统需要像应对过去20世纪的挑战一样，应对今天21世纪的挑战。在一丹奖，我很高兴能与那些在全球范围内改善教育系统的教育者们一起工作。
今晚我们要表彰的2023年度得奖者，提出了两个关键问题：孩子们应该如何学习，以及谁有学习的机会。
我想对季清华教授（Michelene Chi）表示由衷的祝贺和感谢。季教授，您把积极学习的各种创新方法汇总为一个简单且广泛适用的ICAP框架，清晰地定义了学习者以最主动有效的方式自主建构知识的过程，给无数年轻人的生活带来深远影响。这些积极的、合作的学习模式，帮助学生发展21世纪所需的技能 ——团队协作、沟通能力、好奇心和同理心。
我也想对夏·雷谢夫（Shai Reshef）表示由衷的祝贺和感谢。雷谢夫先生，您认识到所有年轻人都需要有学习的机会，创立了免学费模式的在线学历认证平台，运用技术、教育者及志愿者网络的力量，改变了许多人的生活。在条件局限、贫困、疫情、战争等各种因素的阻隔下，我深知，这一机会将给年轻人的生活带来怎样的改变。您与您的团队为难民和弱势年轻群体所做的努力，是对我们共同命运的一个深刻提醒。
最后，我想请大家都为这样一个世界而努力，在那里，最佳教育理念能够广泛落地；在那里，年轻人有动力去学习、去合作、去将所学应用于解决现实世界的问题；在那里，每个人无论身处何地，都能充分发挥自身才能。这是年轻人应得的世界，也是人人需要的世界。
谢谢大家！
陈一丹
一丹奖创办人
2023年12月3日
The Honorable Mr John Lee, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR, esteemed Yidan Prize Laureates, distinguished guests and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2023 Yidan Prize Awards Ceremony. Thank you very much for being here and for supporting the Yidan Prize’s mission to create a better world through education. Tonight, we have come together because we believe in the power of education to improve lives.
Over the last 50 years we have seen how widespread investment in education has lifted people out of poverty, and spurred advances in science and technology that transformed almost every aspect of our lives—from healthcare, to communication, transportation, agriculture, and the civic and social spaces we live in.
But there are new challenges. Many people call them existential challenges—climate change, peace and security, jobs and technology, inequality, and the disruptive changes brought by artificial intelligence. So despite so much progress, young people feel like their world is fragmenting along social, environmental and economic fault lines.
Our education systems need to rise to the challenges of the 21st century as they did to the challenges of the 20th century. At the Yidan Prize, I am very pleased to be associated with educators whose ideas and practices are shaping education systems for the better around the world.
The 2023 Yidan Prize laureates we honor this evening address two critical questions: HOW students learn, and WHO has the opportunity to learn.
I’d like to offer my personal congratulations and gratitude to Professor Michelene Chi. You have organized profoundly different approaches to active learning into a simple and widely applicable ICAP framework, which clearly defines how learners can create knowledge for themselves in the most active and effective way, making a long-lasting impact on the lives of countless young people. These active, cooperative learning models help students develop the skills they need for success in the 21st century—curiosity, teamwork, communication, and empathy.
I’d like to extend my personal commendation and appreciation to Shai Reshef. Realizing all young people need an opportunity to learn, you founded University of the People，leveraging technology and educator and volunteer networks to change many lives. Under the limitations of circumstances, such as economic deprivation, pandemics, armed conflicts, and a host of other setbacks, I know the difference this opening can make in any young person’s life. You and your team’s efforts to reach refugees and other marginalized young people is a poignant reminder of our common destiny.
Let me conclude by asking everyone to strive for a world where the best ideas for improving education are put into place on a large scale—where young people are motivated to learn, collaborate, and apply their learning to solve real world problems—where everyone, everywhere can develop their talents to the fullest. This is the world young people deserve, and the world we all need.
Thank you!
Charles CHEN Yidan
Founder, Yidan Prize
3 Dec, 2023
