人类学研究、纪录片制作、新闻创意写作……这群11-13岁的孩子们，在X-Teens里收获了受益一生的能力

2018年，星球孵化了一个极具开拓性的、面向12-16岁孩子的青少年项目——X-Teens。

这是一个怎样的项目？星球艺术总监、X-Teens项目负责人Anji老师是这样介绍的：

X-Teens Project is a very special term designed for students by the team of professionals, which combined a few educational methods and learning techniques in order to help students to open up their best and strongest sides. Mixture or art and documentary, human studies and social disciplines, writing and media, filmmaking and story analysing became an essential part of students' everyday life, not only in Storyland doors. 

在X-Teens中，星球邀请到了艺术总监Anji老师、前《华尔街日报》主编Colum老师，带领孩子们通过社会调查、纪录片电影制作、公众演讲和辩论、新闻采访和非虚构创意写作等方式，关注国际新闻与世界文化，对社会议题进行初步探索研究。他们用充满探究精神和创意的方式，与真实世界进行深度连结，形成并表达自己的独特观点。

Anji老师

星球艺术总监，来自法国的戏剧/电影导演、艺术教育者。在世界各地拥有超过7年创新艺术项目经验，她的艺术项目接纳过从3岁到30多岁的学员。

Colum老师

资深国际新闻专业记者，前《华尔街日报》主编，作家，拥有近30年从业经验。

参加X-Teens项目的学员是7位11-13岁、6-8年级的孩子，来自双语、国际学校和公立学校，可以说是星球最最资深的一群孩子，有的在星球学习的时间已经超过5年，跟随星球从家庭阅读一路成长至今。

X-Teens小组所有孩子与两位老师的合照

经过4个月X-Teens项目的学习，每个人从自己对生活的观察出发，自主选题，以新闻采访的形式完成了一篇新闻非虚构创意写作稿件，以及一支摄影报道短片（Photoreportage）。同时，他们还围绕主题“Smartphones ON or OFF（智能手机的利与弊）”共同拍摄、制作了两支团队纪录片（Documentary）。

X-Teens项目完成的团队纪录片作品之一：《Smartphone ON》

在今天这篇回顾里，我们希望给大家展示X-Teens项目中，孩子们的让人感动和骄傲的成果。限于篇幅，能展现的仅仅是很小一部分，相信这个学期的学习陪伴，给予了他们在探索与实践上更多、更深的影响。

垃圾食物、星巴克…他们是年轻的纪录片导演

在X-Teens中，孩子们参与的其中一个项目是从人类学出发，制作社会议题的纪录片电影，由星球艺术总监Anji老师带领。

Anji老师带着孩子们从历史、哲学、心理学、美术史等社会学科的视角出发，了解我们所身处的时代，关照自己的生活中到底在发生着什么，在学习与讨论的过程中，找到自己感兴趣的话题并进行调研和思考，最终在纪录片制作的过程中表达自己的观点。

孩子们根据自己收集到的资料，在课堂上热烈地讨论

孩子们最终的作品清单，一共7部个人作品，2部团队作品

Sandy Hua（13岁，公立学校8年级）选择了“Junk Food vs Healthy Food（垃圾食品与健康食品）”作为作品主题。她在纪录片中说，“人们都把汉堡、薯条一类的认作垃圾食品，蔬菜水果当成健康食品。我却不这样认为，食物的健康与否应该取决于食材的新鲜程度、烹饪的方式与时长，以及保存的时间，而不是以种类来简单区分。”

《Junk food vs Healthy food》by Sandy Hua 

Veronica Jiang（13岁，公立学校8年级）选择了明星咖啡连锁品牌星巴克作为自己的研究主题，在她的纪录片“Starbuck STAR?"中，她调研了星巴克国际化的历史，发现意大利最初有87%的市民反对星巴克的进入。为什么会这样呢？在进一步对意大利当地的文化传统、消费习惯进行研究之后，Veronica提出，“进入米兰市场是星巴克做过最错误的决定。星巴克并没有对意大利文化展现出任何的尊重，也不符合市场的需求。”

《Starbuck STAR?》by Vronica Jiang 

这些由孩子们自己制作的纪录片，用Critical Thinking（批判性思维）和Creative Thinking（创造性思维）的方式，通过对真实世界的记录与研究，传达着一种他们自己所独有的态度与观点。

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开启国际新闻、非虚构创意写作实践

X-Teens项目的另一位执教老师，是资深国际新闻人Colum老师，他结合自己的丰富新闻经验，带领孩子们跨进了国际新闻、非虚构创意写作的大门。

“怎样算是一个专业又优秀的采访者？”

“怎样开展一个采访？有哪些细节需要注意？”

“提问有技巧吗？”

这些在大学新闻课堂里才会出现的问题，这些十几岁的孩子们也讨论得十分热烈，也很在点上。比如他们认为一个好的采访者应该：有好奇心，敢于承担风险，还要能够把握住自己的个人观点与新闻事实之间的尺度。

孩子们在课堂上学习国际新闻理论与实践

工作坊中的国际新闻教育让孩子们在很早的阶段，就能够学会重新审视真实生活中发生的信息和事件，学习社会研究调查的技术与新闻报道的写作手法，锻炼出“解码-编码”的敏锐触角，在研究、分析、碰撞的过程中，逐渐形成自己的认知、观点和表达方式。

除了新闻理论学习与讨论，每位孩子还进行了新闻采访实践。12月中旬开始，Colum老师和孩子们一起，围绕采访对象的确定、如何挖掘受访者、采访过程中如何保持判断等等进行反复讨论。

他们选择的话题都非常有趣，有的源自自己的日常生活，有的是备受关注的社会议题。

两轮采访后，孩子们每个人都有了一篇篇幅在800字左右的采访初稿。初稿完成后，Colum老师还和孩子们进行了多次沟通，就采访稿的逻辑、修辞、行文规范提出了自己的建议。在反复打磨后，才形成终稿，每篇稿子都由师生合作修改过至少2次。

X-Teens小组经过多次反复修改的非虚构英文创意写作作品，将在今天微信推送的第二条全部放送。这里先为大家展示一篇由Sandy Hua带来的“Unlocking the life of a Chinese teen-age game streamer”，她将目光对准了时下大热的“游戏主播”这一社会话题，青少年眼中的游戏或“游戏主播”这个职业，究竟是什么样子？你可以从她的文章中找到更多答案。

  Unlocking the life of Chinese teen-age game streamer

                                                 By Sandy Hua

Nowadays, a lot of teenagers dream about being a game streamer. This is usually because of their love to video games. However, there's one thing they don't know. Being a game streamer looks easy, but actually it is hard.

Lonely Wolf is a game streamer working for a company called Hai Cheng on the website Iqiyi. He is a 15-year-old teenager, and his real name is Nie Xiansu.

Lonely Wolf was so poor at studying that he didn't enter high school. After he found himself interested in game streaming, he decided to do this job without much thought.

"This job is risky and it is slow to start," says Lonely Wolf. "You can't do it well without years of hard work unless you already know about it or have a good basis."

Lonely Wolf usually wakes up at 10 a.m. every day. During the day, he records videos. He usually goes to bed at 2 or 3 a.m. When necessary, he even stays up all night. 

He said this is because of his work, but also because it is his personal habit. He thinks he can work and think better at night when all things are still. He usually edits his videos or write some stories that time.

Although he works late, he doesn't earn much. He gets money from Hai Cheng once a month. The salary is between 1,000 yuan (around $1,480) and 1,500 yuan on average, but usually it is not steady.

"Well, it is enough for my daily budget, but perhaps I'm even inferior to a convenient store employee," says Lonely Wolf. 

"In fact, I'm not as hardworking as before now. I was so hardworking a year ago when I first step into this unknown area, but now, I don't have that much ambition to do so anymore. Hai Cheng is nice to me, and they help me with lots of problems. But I just lost my power. "

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Why doesn't Lonely Wolf try to change his situation? In this way he could rediscover his ambition.

Usually, the most efficient way to improve a streamer's situation is to do popular things or get along with popular streamers for fame, and ask audience for virtual presents.

However, Lonely Wolf never does this. He says that he is already thankful to his fans for watching his video, so he does not want his their money.

At first, Lonely Wolf's parents did not oppose his decision to be a game streamer. Instead, they provided with money and some necessary equipment.

However, after one year, his family members began to think that he should learn something useful in order to make a living. They started to put stress on him. They asked him to earn 30,000 yuan a year, or they would find him another job or send him to vocational school.

They agreed to let Lonely Wolf keep working on game streaming, provided he studied something that would allow him to make a living by himself. Clearly, Lonely Wolf's parents are pretty open-minded, and care about both his life and feelings.

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Lonely Wolf has a type of social anxiety disorder. He doesn't know many people in the real world, let alone have many friends. However, he has quite several online friends.

When asked about him, one of his online friends, Cuijimao, says:

"Lonely Wolf is a nice person. He is actually a bit decadent, but he always laughs and smiles in front of us. He only does things that he thinks is right, and he only do things he wants to do. I think it is pretty good."

Lemon, another of Lonely Wolf's online friends, says:

"I think it's true that study is not the only way to live. Well, I don't mean we should not study, but when we can't live with study, why don't we change a direction? "

"He chose this path, and worked hard to reach his goal. I think this is good enough. I respect his decision, and do not think a game streamer is different to others. Everyone has their own dream … We don't have much right to judge them," adds Lemon.

（Sandy Hua is young writer in Shanghai.）

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孩子们的作品，被作为“Young China Writers”专题发布在Medium平台上

陪伴这些优秀的世界公民们一同成长，是星球非常骄傲的事。在他们身上，我们看见了独立探索和创意表达真正的力量。

借由英文这门语言，精读、写作、纪录片制作、新闻采访、Storytelling故事讲述等等方面毫无障碍地跨界融合，孩子们能更游刃有余地进行研究、思考、提炼、表达，带着更清晰的自我，去往更大、更广阔的世界。

而这些在他们十几岁的年华就获得了的宝贵能力，将伴随他们一生。

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