Students remember what they watched, sang and did.学生记得住的，是他们看过、唱过、做过的东西。
Not what they copied. Everything I make comes from that one observation, and from five beliefs I have tested on about two thousand teenagers.而不是他们抄过的东西。我做的一切都从这个观察出发，再加上五个信念。这五个信念，我在大约两千个青少年身上验证过。
Five beliefs五个信念
History is a story before it is a syllabus.历史先是一个故事，然后才是课程纲要。
If students care what happens next, they will learn the dates without being told to. If they do not, no worksheet will make them.如果学生在乎接下来发生什么，不用催他们也会记住年份。如果不在乎，再多作业纸也没用。
Memory needs a hook: a picture, a tune, a face.记忆需要一个钩子：一张图、一段旋律、一张脸。
A date on its own slides away. A date inside a chorus, next to a painted port, said by a character with a name, stays.单独一个年份很容易忘。放进副歌里、配上一幅港口的画、由一个有名字的人物说出来，就记住了。
Every class deserves the good version.每个班都值得拿到好的版本。
Films and songs used to be for competitions and lucky schools. With the right tools, the ordinary Tuesday class gets them too.以前影片和歌只出现在比赛里，或是资源多的学校。有了合适的工具，平常星期二的那一节课也能有。
AI makes the form. The teacher owns the content.AI 做形式，内容归老师。
The tools draw, animate and compose. I decide what is true, what matters and what my students see. That line does not move.工具负责画、动、作曲。什么是对的、什么重要、学生看到什么，由我决定。这条线不会动。
One unit done well beats ten half-done.一个单元做好，胜过十个做一半。
I make one full unit at a time, teach it, fix what did not work, and only then start the next one.我一次只做一个完整的单元，教完、把不行的地方改好，然后才开始下一个。
Story · Song · Play, then Check故事 · 歌 · 玩，然后检查
Every unit I make has these four parts, in this order. Here is each one, with what it looked like in the Melaka unit.我做的每个单元都有这四个部分，按这个顺序。下面每一项都附上马六甲单元里的实际样子。
Story故事Cerita
The unit opens with a short film. Ninety seconds, narrated, with subtitles. Nobody writes anything. The only instruction is: watch.单元用一部短片开场，九十秒，有旁白和字幕。不写任何东西，唯一的指示是：看。
- In Melaka马六甲单元
- 1:28 film, 30 shots, 1400 to 15111:28 短片，30 个镜头，从 1400 到 1511
- Lesson time上课时间
- 2 minutes, then 3 questions2 分钟，然后问 3 个问题
- Why原因
- Students need the whole story once before we take it apart.拆开来学之前，学生要先完整看一遍故事。
Song歌Lagu
The dates the exam will ask for go into a chorus. The class sings it at the start of the lesson and shouts it at the end. I write the lyrics; the music is generated.考试会问的年份写进副歌。上课开头唱一次，下课前喊一次。歌词我写，音乐用工具生成。
- In Melaka马六甲单元
- “Pelabuhan Dunia”, 0:59, with karaoke《Pelabuhan Dunia》，0:59，附卡拉 OK
- Lesson time上课时间
- 1 minute, twice a lesson每节课两次，每次 1 分钟
- Why原因
- Rhythm holds numbers better than prose. Shouting makes it a game.节奏比文字更容易记住数字。用喊的，就变成游戏。
Play玩Main
Character cards, a sorting game, a quick quiz. Students handle the facts: put five events in order, match a person to a year, argue about who mattered most.人物卡、排序游戏、小测验。学生动手用这些史实：把五个事件排好顺序、把人物和年份配对、争论谁最重要。
- In Melaka马六甲单元
- 5 character cards, a timeline sort, a 10-question quiz5 张人物卡、时间线排序、10 题小测验
- Lesson time上课时间
- 15 minutes, in groups of four15 分钟，四人一组
- Why原因
- Using a fact is how it moves from the page into the student.把史实用起来，它才会从课本进到学生脑子里。
Check检查Semak
Before anything reaches students, I check it: every date and name against the textbook, every picture for errors and stereotypes, every song for pronunciation. This step is mine and only mine.任何东西给学生之前，我都会检查：每个年份和名字对照课本，每张图看有没有错误和刻板印象，每首歌听发音。这一步只由我来做。
- The list清单
- Five checks before any AI image reaches my studentsAI 图片给学生看之前的五项检查
- Time时间
- About 10 minutes per unit每个单元大约 10 分钟
One double period, minute by minute一节 60 分钟的课，逐段看
The first lesson of a new unit. After this, the materials stay online and students come back to them.新单元的第一节课。之后教材都在网上，学生随时可以回来看。
| 0–4 | Film, twice. Lights off the second time.放影片两遍。第二遍关灯。 |
| 4–10 | Three questions: Who arrived? What did they want? What changed?三个问题：谁来了？他们要什么？什么改变了？ |
| 10–14 | Karaoke, first time. Chorus only.第一次唱卡拉 OK，只唱副歌。 |
| 14–34 | Groups of four: character cards and the timeline sort. I walk around and listen.四人一组：人物卡和时间线排序。我走一圈听他们讨论。 |
| 34–50 | Notes on the class page, five facts, in their own words.在班级页读笔记，用自己的话写五个考点。 |
| 50–60 | Five-question quiz, then the chorus once more, loud.五题小测验，最后再大声唱一次副歌。 |
How I use AI我怎么使用 AI
Parents and colleagues ask. Here is the full answer.家长和同事常问。以下是完整的回答。
AI doesAI 负责
- Paintings and illustrations画作和插图
- Film clips from those paintings用画作生成影片片段
- Narration voice and music旁白配音和音乐
- Page layout and the games' code网页排版和游戏程序
I do我负责
- Choose every fact and date选每一个史实和年份
- Write the narration and the lyrics写旁白和歌词
- Check everything against the textbook对照课本检查所有内容
- Decide what students see, and when决定学生看什么、什么时候看
I never我绝不
- Make images of real, living people生成真实在世人物的图像
- Use a student's face, name or voice使用学生的脸、名字或声音
- Let AI write work that I grade让 AI 替学生写我要打分的作业
- Publish anything I have not checked发布任何我没检查过的东西
Labelling.标注。 Every AI-generated picture, voice and song on this site and in my classroom is marked as AI-generated. I keep a log of the instructions I gave the tools for every unit; the Melaka log is public.这个网站和我课堂上所有 AI 生成的图片、声音和歌曲，都标明是 AI 生成的。每个单元我给工具的指令都有记录；马六甲单元的记录是公开的。