尊敬的各位嘉宾、伙伴、同事、朋友，
欢迎大家出席“在变化中的世界学习：教育实证、创新和创造性思维”会议。
此次会议由一丹奖基金会与“经济合作与发展组织”（以下简称“OECD”）合作举办，共同探索如何以教育实证为基础，拥抱创造力，打造富有韧性、面向未来的教育体系。
首先，我向OECD教育团队表达衷心的感谢。一丹奖团队与OECD教育团队的合作和友谊渊源已久，如与一丹奖得奖者卡罗尔·德韦克（Carol Dweck）教授合作展开成长型思维相关的研究，以及参与得奖者埃里克·哈努谢克（Eric Hanushek）教授的项目，提升非洲教育研究能力。
此外，我感谢OECD教育与技能总监安德烈亚斯·施莱彻（Andreas Schleicher）。安德烈亚斯还担任一丹教育研究奖评审小组主席，他能够敏锐地洞察杰出的教育理念，及其背后的教育创变者。这些教育理念都彰显出创造性思维的力量——这正是此次会议所探讨的主题。
创造力在不同语言、文化下有不同的解读。它或许难以定义，却能被一眼认出。
人们对创造力的理解可以归纳为两方面：它是大胆想象，以新视角看待问题或事物的力量；它也是从无到有——创造的力量。
总体而言，创造力可以是产生新想法、新事物、新思想、新行为的能力。
创造力令人兴奋不已。当我们从全新的视角审视世界，思绪会为之飞驰，内心也灵感翻涌。创造力可以是一本好书、一件颠覆传统的艺术品、甚至是改变我们固有观念的一段对话。有时，它也可以是改变人类生活方式的科技，比如飞速发展的AI模型。
那么，作家、艺术家、发明家们是如何构思出全新事物和想法的？他们如何将想法化为具体可感的事物？研究人员和开发者如何构思出强大的AI模型？他们如何赋予机器不同领域的想象力和创造力？
道家有言：一生二、二生三、三生万物。道始于混沌，是混沌中升华而出的原始秩序，也是对混沌极具想象力的一次重塑。想象需要化为现实，就需要专业知识、批判性思维，更重要的是——众人齐心合作。
一丹奖得奖者正在构想并开创教育下一代的新方式，如卡罗尔·德韦克教授提出的“成长型思维”；薇奇·科尔波特（Vicky Colbert）创立“新学校基金会”使用的合作式的学习方法；季清华（Michelene Chi）教授关注主动学习的ICAP框架；及卡尔·威曼（Carl Wieman）教授对教育科学的研究。他们的工作正在培养下一代大胆想象，积极创造。
在人工智能的时代大背景下，其革命性的影响是共识的。然而如何做，如何变化，仍是一个不断探索不断印证的阶段。回到教育，互联网时代对教育体系起到了工具和信息的连接作用，人工智能时代，会对教育体系有颠覆性的影响，这是我们即将卷入的革命性课题。在这样的时代背景下，创造力、实证、创新将是引领我们驶向未知水域的关键驱动力。
我们身边不乏通过融会贯通、批判性思维以及合作激发创造力的例子，使创造力、创新与教育实证成为环环相扣的生态体系。
创新是将创造性思维付诸行动的过程，它使想象在实践中不断得以优化。教育实证则为这一过程提供方向并激发新的思考。
当创造性思维、创新、教育实证万事俱备，与其说他们指明了点到点之间的方向，倒不如说他们编织成了一张点亮世界、连接你我的地图。
在瞬息万变的世界中，我们确实需要这张地图的指引，来应对贫困、不平等、冲突及气候变化等复杂问题。需要创造性地思考解决方式，并付诸行动。积极与他人的创意互动，不仅可以重塑我们自身的世界观，也能让我们更好地理解彼此。
简而言之，保持创造力需要保持开放的心态，无论作为学生、老师、学校、教育体系还是政策制定者都是如此。
我非常荣幸参与此次会议，期待会议接下来两天的讨论，与大家一起发挥创造力，构筑教育未来。
谢谢大家！
Esteemed guests, partners, colleagues, and friends, welcome to "Learning in a Changing World".
This collaboration between the Yidan Prize Foundation and the OECD will explore how we can build resilient, future-focused education systems. Based on a foundation of learning from evidence and embracing creativity.
Before we get started, I must extend my warmest thanks to the OECD Education Team for many years of friendship and partnership. Our history of working closely together includes research on growth mindset with Yidan Prize laureate Carol Dweck, and building research skills in Africa with laureate Eric Hanushek.
I am also grateful to Andreas, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and the head of the judging panel for the Yidan Prize for Education Research. He has a keen sense for the most effective ideas in education and the people behind them. These ideas showcase the power of creative thinking—something we will be exploring in detail over the next two days.
Creativity can be difficult to define. Every culture has its own interpretation. Every language provides its own nuance. But we know it when we see it.
We often talk about creativity in two ways. The first is the power to imagine—to see an issue or problem in a different way. The second is the ability to "make"—literally to create.
Put together, then, we can think of creativity as the ability to produce new ideas, things, insights, or behaviors.
And creativity excites us. Our thoughts race, or we feel the rush of magic in seeing the world from a different perspective. We can all think of a great book, a radical piece of art, or even a conversation that changed our point of view. Sometimes, it’s a technology that changes the way we all live—like the rapidly developing AI models.
How did the writer, artist, and inventor imagine something completely new? Where did they get the skills to turn an idea into something tangible? How did researchers and developers envision such powerful models? How did they endow machines with imagination and creativity across diverse domains?
Traditional Taoism tells us that the Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets infinity. Tao starts from chaos and is the primitive order out of—and imaginative reordering of—chaos. Imagination is followed by actualization. Actualization involves expertise and critical thinking, and more often than not, many people working collaboratively.
Many Yidan Prize Laureates are imagining a new way of educating young people and building pathways forward. We can see this in Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset; Vicky Colbert’s approach to collaborative learning; Micki Chi’s ICAP framework for active learning; and Carl Wieman’s work on science education. They are helping to unleash the power of young people to ‘'imagine’' and to ‘create’.
In the vast landscape of the AI era, the revolutionary impact is unquestionable. Yet, how to adapt and evolve remains a topic of ongoing exploration and validation. Circling back to education, the internet age connected educational systems with tools and information, but the AI age is set to profoundly transform the very bedrock of education. This is the groundbreaking challenge we are about to dive into. Creativity, evidence, and innovation will be the key drivers steering us through uncharted waters.
All around us we see examples of how creativity comes to life through adaptive expertise, critical thinking, and collaboration. That makes it part of an ecosystem with innovation and evidence.
Innovation is the process that takes us from imagination to action, and helps us evolve ideas as we go. To take those steps successfully, we need evidence to inform us—which in turn sparks fresh thinking.
When we have all three elements working together, they are not so much street lights showing the way from A to B, as an intricate map that lights up our world and connects us together.
And it’s essential that we do. After all, our fast-changing world has many problems like poverty, inequality, conflict, and climate change which defy easy answers. Creative minds will help us imagine solutions and build them. The capacity to engage with another person’s creativity can reshape our world view, and bring us to a new place of understanding.
In essence, a creative mind is an open mind. That’s something students, teachers, schools, systems, and policymakers all need to embrace.
Over the next two days, we’ll all hear about insights that can help us reimagine the future of education to do just that. I am very pleased to be here with you, and look forward to our discussions and the transformative ideas that will spring from them.
Thank you!
