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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.44,0:00:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi I'm dr Tae and this is a talk similar to the one I recently gave to my last group of students
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.60,0:00:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At northwestern university. On the last day of class.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.04,0:00:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of my students wanted me to post the video of the original lecture online.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.62,0:00:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But instead of doing that I'm doing this,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.60,0:00:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm re-reccording this presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.74,0:00:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just for you!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.64,0:00:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here it is: Building a new culture of teaching and learning
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.59,0:00:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But why do we need to build something new?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.46,0:00:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's wrong with our current current culture of teaching and learning?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.14,0:00:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can summarize the problem in two words:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.59,0:00:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,School Sucks!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.30,0:00:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kids say this all the time and nobody listen, but now I'm saying it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.40,0:00:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And its an idea that we need to start taking very seriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.55,0:00:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because its true school does sucks, especially when it comes to math and science education,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.16,0:00:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is going to be the main focus of my talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.20,0:01:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So before we get to the part about building a new culture of teaching and learning,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.78,0:01:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to take a carefull look at what's wrong with our education now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.99,0:01:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NLet's start at the top with universities:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.15,0:01:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the environnement I've been in for the past sixteen years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.86,0:01:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Universities are ideal places to teach and learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.14,0:01:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can certainly turn to them for educationnal leadership.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.37,0:01:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually no!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.59,0:01:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Universities are not doing a good job."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.100,0:01:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NAnd I'm not the only one whose noticed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.78,0:01:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this quote is actually from Leon Lederman,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.26,0:01:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nand he thinks there is a problem we should at least here him out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.16,0:01:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr. Lederman is a former director of Fermilab he won the nobel price in physics,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.42,0:01:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he also know something about education:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.54,0:01:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he started his own school the "illinois mathematics and science academy".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.21,0:01:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is Leon Lederman in an interview with the science network.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.37,0:01:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now my biggest anger is with the universities,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.68,0:01:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because universities are not doing a good job.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.14,0:02:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do not continue the insperation that kids getting out of high schools have about science.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.94,0:02:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's teachers, and their students that are getting out of high school who say:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.48,0:02:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a science major I love chemistry I love biologie,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.21,0:02:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they go to college and 50% of those kids change feels into none science feels.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.10,0:02:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NThat's the statictical data.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.67,0:02:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.09,0:02:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they go onto a class of 200 kids they see a small professor somewhere down there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.93,0:02:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, or maybe a teaching assistant whose english is not so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.02,0:02:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blame is on the universities, depersonalized.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.36,0:02:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Kids in high school ok at least there is 20 or 40 kids in a class,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.75,0:02:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these lecture rooms for physics one or chemestry one they are hudge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.09,0:02:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think its UCLA, at least at one point had an auditorial with 400 kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.24,0:02:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All just sitting there listening to this one professor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.48,0:03:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could hardly, you know, see him, or with binoculars.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.43,0:03:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh! there he is, he's down there...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.49,0:03:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doctor Lederman use the word depersonalized,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.65,0:03:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it captures a lot of what's wrong in our universities.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.03,0:03:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a picture I took of a lecture class at NorthWestern.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.37,0:03:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just one of many examples of "depersonalizition 1 0 1".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.90,0:03:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First this snapshoot illustrate a gigantic failure in leadership:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.65,0:03:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people at universitie approve this ridiculous format has an ok way to teach.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.13,0:03:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second the professor at the podium made no attempt to engage the students
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.41,0:03:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nthat were right in front of him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.81,0:03:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The final and most disturbing thing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.69,0:03:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what the students are doing:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.56,0:03:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're falling asleep, checking facebook or they're email,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.04,0:03:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nor paradoxically regestering for next term classes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.82,0:03:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right in the midlle of class they're completely tuning out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.15,0:03:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they want to make sure they get a spot in "depersonalization 1 0 2".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.06,0:03:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just try and put yourself in this room.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.14,0:03:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you pay tuitions to sit in this room?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.46,0:04:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does this environement suit how you learn?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.38,0:04:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Universities are supposed to be places where students and faculty I've a lively exchange of ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.30,0:04:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that isn't happening because the culture is become so depersonalized.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.12,0:04:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And university leaders faculty and students collectivly let that happenned.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.76,0:04:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should think twice before we refered to a prestigious university has a good school.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.41,0:04:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly universities arn't exempt from school sucks.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.33,0:04:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I need to explain why secondary school suck.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.90,0:04:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll start by citing american finest news source: the onion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.27,0:04:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Increasing number of educators found to be suffering from teaching disabilities"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.26,0:04:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is my favourite part of the article:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.78,0:04:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's funny cause its true!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.08,0:04:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here is some comments from Lawrence Krauss that might explain why its true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.34,0:05:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr Krauss is director of the Origins initiative at Arizona state,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.21,0:05:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he does a lot of work to promote good science education.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.32,0:05:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a scary statistic:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.17,0:05:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we compared american students to their counterparts in other 20, 25 other industrialization,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.48,0:05:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there were recent study that came out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.28,0:05:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we look at kids in grad three and grade five
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.55,0:05:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then fifteen year old.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.26,0:05:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what's amazing is grade three and grrade five american students
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.77,0:05:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the whole do better in science and mathematics
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.93,0:05:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than their counterparts.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.38,0:05:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but by the time they're fifteen they do subsentially worse
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.76,0:05:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've be doing something very effective to de-educate them or disinterest them in science
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.05,0:05:45.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the reason is another equally scary fact which is that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.100,0:05:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over ninety percent of middle school science teachers in this country
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.64,0:05:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have never taken a science course outside of highschool.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.01,0:05:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and..
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.40,0:05:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what..what percentage was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.75,0:05:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over ninety percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:05:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ninety!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.100,0:05:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ninety, yea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.84,0:05:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not nine!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.35,0:06:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no, ninety ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.75,0:06:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had the same reaction than richards dawkings:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.29,0:06:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what! How did this happened? How did we let so many unqualified teachers into our schools?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.74,0:06:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one reason is hiring practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.82,0:06:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,School sucks because the people who run them don't hire great teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.36,0:06:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once again lets start at the top:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.30,0:06:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At universities professors aren't really hired to teach.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.92,0:06:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they hired and promoted based on the research they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.54,0:06:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result teaching its rarely a priority for professors and it shows.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.58,0:06:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year I was on a faculty pannel for advising graduate students
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.33,0:06:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about getting academic jobs and, the other professors on the pannel admited
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.41,0:06:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that teaching wasn't that important in getting a faculty position
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.66,0:06:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the professor on the pannel was a department chair.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.13,0:06:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she actually reffered to her department school offerings
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.47,0:06:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a teaching burden
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.85,0:07:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the kind of leadership we have at our universities.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.69,0:07:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the secondary level the problem is hiring teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.07,0:07:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who just don't know what they are talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.65,0:07:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in the sciences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.80,0:07:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here I want to point out the difference between: certification and qualifications.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.53,0:07:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example: I have a Phd in physics, I've been teaching for fireteen years,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.75,0:07:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'd probably have a hard time getting job teaching at a public school.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.14,0:07:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why? Because I never wasted time in a programm to get certified
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.98,0:07:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to teach in a public school.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.52,0:07:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's backwards!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.93,0:07:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If its true that our public schools are already full of certified teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.04,0:07:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who don't know what they're doing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.48,0:07:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then that means the certification process we have right now doesn't work!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.29,0:07:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want to start getting truly qualified teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.01,0:07:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to get ride of this fraudulent certification system.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.46,0:07:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And start hiring people based on real competency.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.36,0:08:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lesson here is that schools have hiring practices that are barriers to getting great teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.38,0:08:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the immediate consequence is that schools at every level
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.32,0:08:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are full of teachers who can't teach or don't want to teach.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.08,0:08:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if math and science education
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.41,0:08:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really in shambles,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.38,0:08:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how did someone like me get into science?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.32,0:08:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well its not because I was immerse in a nationnal culture dedicated to math and science education:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.96,0:08:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just lucky!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.09,0:08:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Dean Goldgar the person who got me interested in calculus.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.49,0:08:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His high shcool calculus class was better than all the math classes into college.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.44,0:08:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mister Goldar have even work with me outside of class
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.37,0:08:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I can study more advanced topic in mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.51,0:08:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a real mentor.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.03,0:08:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Kurt Wiesenfeld.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.93,0:08:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My undergraduate mentor.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.66,0:08:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr wiesenfeld taught the very first college physic class I took,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.63,0:08:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he inspired me to major in physics.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.76,0:08:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that first class was special.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.86,0:09:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an honor section that only eight students bother sign up for.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.67,0:09:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How lucky was that!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.48,0:09:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why hundreds of other kids were sitting in lecture halls.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.75,0:09:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight of us hit the jackpot and had this professor all to ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.54,0:09:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five days a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.20,0:09:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was personalized. And it had a huge impact on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.78,0:09:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Noticed I'm not telling you stories about shiny new building or computer labs or
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.86,0:09:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interactive whiter boards that really had an influence on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.24,0:09:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about great teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.73,0:09:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unfortunately great teachers are rare.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.79,0:09:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Griffiths understand this important point
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.73,0:09:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.34,0:09:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That exactly right,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.56,0:09:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but schools aren't doing enough of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.77,0:09:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I want to shift years and talk more specifically about sciences classes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.68,0:09:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dean Zollman had this great story about giving its eight year old daughter
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.06,0:10:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tour of the physics building at his university.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.17,0:10:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enventually they came across a lecture hall full of students.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.71,0:10:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His daughter asked:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.88,0:10:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What do all those people doing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.23,0:10:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Zollmen gave what seems like a reasonable answer:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.41,0:10:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They're learning physics."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.45,0:10:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And its daughter responded with the exactly the right question:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.98,0:10:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"DO they just sit there?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.12,0:10:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,YEA, they do just sit there!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.03,0:10:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And an eight year old can see right away
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.84,0:10:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is something horribly wrong with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.50,0:10:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of science classes are set up to be completely unscientific.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.96,0:10:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first problem is that students just sit there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.07,0:10:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you're going to learn science you can just sit there!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.38,0:10:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to think, and better yet, you have to do experiments: that's what labs are for.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.62,0:10:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately many labs exercices aren't any fun,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.46,0:10:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes they don't even demonstrate phenomena in a convincing way.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.92,0:10:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But teachers don't have to be convincing: because they have authority on their side.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.49,0:11:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they can use grades to enforce that authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.91,0:11:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who needs evidence!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.26,0:11:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science its true because the teacher said so and I have to know it for the test otherwise I'll get a bad grade!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.10,0:11:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the message that comes across when science teachers doesn't really understand science.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.04,0:11:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And its the exact opposite of what science is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.16,0:11:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.79,0:11:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lets assume you've never seen this thing before.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.37,0:11:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boy it sure does look like sciency!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.84,0:11:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to memorize the content of this slide all of it:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.82,0:11:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the names of the compounds, the sequence of the reactions were are the arrows
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.63,0:11:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you even have to learn how to prounonce "phosphorylation".
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.11,0:11:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must reproduce this drawing from memory next week on a test.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.99,0:11:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lets say you manage to pull this off and get an hundred percent on the test.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.43,0:11:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Congratulations! You haven't learn a damn thing about science.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.07,0:11:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whay I just describe was my experience in highschool biology.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.04,0:12:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to memorize a lot of stuff that wasn't justified with any evidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.57,0:12:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't get to do a single expirement to convince myself that anything in that diagram is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.21,0:12:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I didn't memorize all that stuff. I was gonna get a bad grade.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.26,0:12:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, it was worse than that:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.57,0:12:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I did a really good job at memorizing the material without thinking or understanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.51,0:12:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd get a good grade!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.71,0:12:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is NOT the lesson we want to teach in our science classes.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.57,0:12:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has to be a better way.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.29,0:12:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where can we fing a good role model for science classes?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.21,0:12:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about these guys?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.40,0:12:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Myth Busters" is the most scientific show on television.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.44,0:12:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because as they say:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.14,0:12:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They don't just tell the myths they put them to the test!"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.71,0:12:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea at the core of Myth Busters is the same as the core of science.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.10,0:12:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to figure out if something is true, you have to do the experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.14,0:12:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in Myth Busters if the claims of a myth agree with experiments the myth is confirmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.07,0:13:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the claims of the myth disagree with the experiments its busted.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.74,0:13:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just how science work.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.91,0:13:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the lessons that kids need to learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.88,0:13:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Science classes should be Myth Busters projects that kids can do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.04,0:13:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is one itch.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.84,0:13:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Addam and Jammy always give this warning at the beginning of every show:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.26,0:13:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please don't try anything that you are about to see us do at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.26,0:13:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.04,0:13:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe lawers are getting in the way of science education.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.21,0:13:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course we don't want kids injuring themselves by filling their lunchboxes with thermite.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.40,0:13:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we do want kids to copy the spirit of Myth Busters.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.39,0:13:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should encourage kids to try experiments at home, and try to figure things out for themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.98,0:13:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's way more scientific than just telling kids to memorize stuff in science books.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.41,0:13:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our last stop in school sucks, has to do with learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.41,0:13:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If schools and school reforms are going to be effective.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.28,0:13:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to be design to help people learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.90,0:14:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's how school are typically structured:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.81,0:14:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a school year divided into terms, and in each term there is specific courses avalaible and a fixed amount of time to learn the material in each course and the instructor evaluates the students somehow and gives our grades...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.57,0:14:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NONE of these features are necessary for learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.14,0:14:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think they actually interfere with the learning process.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.36,0:14:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why would I say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.63,0:14:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I have a better model of learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.33,0:14:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Skatboarding!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.21,0:14:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what can skatboarding tell us about the learning process?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.16,0:14:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lets find out.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.97,0:14:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This next section also happens to be the motivation from my physics of skateboarding project.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.79,0:14:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which you can check out at: physicsofskateboarding.com
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.71,0:14:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'm going to show you is a video of me trying to learn a new skateboarding trick.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.43,0:14:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a trick I had never even tried before:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.18,0:14:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pop shove it nose manual shove it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.52,0:14:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to focus on this video, really watch it carefully.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.63,0:15:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because its a vivid example of what the learning process is really like.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.58,0:15:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here the ingredients of the trick.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.06,0:15:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A pop shove it were I pop the board up and it turns an hundred and eighty degrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.93,0:15:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A nose manual were I balance over the front wheels.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.03,0:15:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, a little shove it off the nose another hundred and eighty degrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.68,0:15:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now I have to learn how to put those tricks together into something new.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.13,0:15:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiiit !
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.14,0:15:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woua. Why am I almost dying every time I try this?!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.23,0:15:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doing the trick is impossible!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.16,0:16:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holly shit!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.91,0:16:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Noticed that I didn't get it first try or second try.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.32,0:16:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't show you all of the attemps, but I had to try this trick fifty eight times!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.97,0:16:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means in the process of learning this trick:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.84,0:16:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I failed fifty seven times!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.96,0:16:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interesting...
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.16,0:16:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Skatboarding had helped us discover the secret to learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.97,0:16:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it is:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.21,0:16:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Work your ass off until you figure it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.22,0:16:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If that seems overly simplistic to you, let me some more examples.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.53,0:16:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning how to walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.48,0:16:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a picture of me and my sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.78,0:16:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't need to send toddlers to walking schools
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.10,0:17:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that can get bad grades if they don't learn how to walk in exactly one semester.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.85,0:17:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just let toddlers keep trying to walk untill they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.15,0:17:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning an instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.90,0:17:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time when I was actually pretty good at playing the guitarre
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.24,0:17:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But its not something I learned in school.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.71,0:17:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just practiced as much as I could because I wanted to play better.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.16,0:17:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know of many people who take guitarre lessons
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.24,0:17:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's involve hundreds of students in a lecture hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.81,0:17:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music instruction is almost always personalized.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.45,0:17:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning Mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.12,0:17:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that he needs one but I have to give Malcolm Gladwell applaud here.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.32,0:17:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because he has new book out called "Outliers".
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.66,0:17:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is a great story in there, from Allan Schoenfeld,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.21,0:17:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a professor at Berkeley who studies how people learn mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.37,0:17:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shoenfeld tells us the story of a nurse named Renee,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.79,0:17:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is using computer program to understand the slope of a vertical line.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.50,0:17:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is the important passage:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.20,0:18:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Twenty-two minutes pass from the moment Renee begins playing with the computer program to the moment she says:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.64,0:18:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Ahhhh, that means something to me now.' That's a long time."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.26,0:18:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renee had to wrestle with a mathematical concept for a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.57,0:18:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before it started making any sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.97,0:18:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what learning mathematics and science is really like!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.31,0:18:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our schools arn't set up to handle that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.85,0:18:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientific Research.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.07,0:18:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an entry of one of my notbooks from grade school,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.93,0:18:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I finally figured out how to solve a problem I've been working on for months.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.02,0:18:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But before that day I had already filled a bunch of other note books with tons with other ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.83,0:18:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that didn't work at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.72,0:18:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had lots and lots of failures before I finally figured it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.76,0:18:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sound familiar?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.22,0:18:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here is the head to head comparison:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.77,0:18:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools vs Skateboarding.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.34,0:18:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I say skatboarding I really mean the process of learning anything properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.32,0:18:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't go into details with all of these points,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.46,0:19:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just look how different these two cultures are.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.51,0:19:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools have rigid time-tables, fixed amount of time for learning material.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.03,0:19:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's incredibly stupid!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.60,0:19:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that does is stop us from develloping the kind of persistents we need,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.90,0:19:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for real learning and real understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.91,0:19:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're learning something new, it doesn't make the least bit of sense to decide ahead of time
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.47,0:19:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly how long its supposed to take you to learn it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.36,0:19:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's like saying I'm gonna get an 'F' if I don't land my skateboarding trick in ten tries,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.02,0:19:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I'm never going to understand the fundamental theorem of calculus if I can't do it in a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.53,0:19:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.04,0:19:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's something you really have to learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.92,0:19:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you keep working your ass off untill you figured it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.48,0:19:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that crucial for math and science education.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.80,0:19:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like skateboarders struggling with new tricks,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.16,0:19:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,students need to learn how to struggle with new ideas without getting cut off.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.99,0:20:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next its surprising how many schools plays authority and coercion at the fundation of the learning environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.16,0:20:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of giving good reasons for learning teachers give threats in the form of bad grades.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.03,0:20:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That just pits teacher and students against each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.91,0:20:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most experienced teachers know that you can't really force someone to learn something,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.71,0:20:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they don't want to learn it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.11,0:20:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's exactly what our schools try to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.22,0:20:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real learning is largely self motivated.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.33,0:20:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If students have good reasons to learn they'll want to learn,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.38,0:20:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a self-motivated student, paired with the right mentor can learn a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.10,0:20:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In schools grades gives also students a sense of false certification.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.76,0:20:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's disturbing how many students think they mastered something,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.62,0:20:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because a teacher gave them an A in a class.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.89,0:20:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In real learning student have to be honest and evaluating themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.51,0:20:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't kid about themselves about they learned.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.39,0:20:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example the skateboarding trick I did in the video.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.32,0:21:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is an honnest assesment: "I only landed that trick once, and I can pretend I mastered it".
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.62,0:21:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With skateboarding and calculus and physics, nobody ever gets it at first try,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:07.54,0:21:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can let students think they mastered something just because they've seen it once.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.96,0:21:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mastery takes practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.68,0:21:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schools also have to worry about preventing cheating and other forms of academic dishonnesty.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.86,0:21:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be way easier to have a culture that just didn't give incentives to cheat: like grades!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.57,0:21:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're goal is to learn something properly there isn't much point in faking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.39,0:21:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in skatboarding I'm not even sure what it means to cheat.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.14,0:21:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how to cheat in skateboarding it doesn't really exists, it's not applicable.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.13,0:21:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there you have it:
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.45,0:21:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we want to improve education especially math and science education.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.27,0:21:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should make it more like skateboarding.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.57,0:21:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you ever want to ruin anything...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.28,0:21:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make it more like school!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.64,0:22:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we can get back to the original optimistic purpose of this talk:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.06,0:22:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Building a new culture of teaching and learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.91,0:22:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Were do we start?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.35,0:22:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well we need to fix our schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.06,0:22:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I say that, it means that we have to change the fundamental culture in schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.73,0:22:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to support how people actually learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.57,0:22:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of that, we need to get leaders, who hire great teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.30,0:22:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to emphasize that changing the cultures is the priority.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.64,0:22:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If get better teachers, they need to teach the right things, in the right environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.91,0:22:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If all they do is re-enforce the existing culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.37,0:22:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just do better job of teaching to the test,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.26,0:22:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I don't think that's progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.97,0:22:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I'm weary of teacher recruiment programs like "Teach For America".
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.29,0:22:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because changing the structure of schools isn't an explicit goal in those kind of programs.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.54,0:22:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, making all of these changes might seem like trying to polish a turd.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.12,0:23:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here is the case for optimism, and if you've seen that episode of Myth Busters,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.60,0:23:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what's coming up...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.08,0:23:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it turns out: you CAN polish a turd!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.26,0:23:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is how I polished a turd called physics 330-2: advanced classical mechanics.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.39,0:23:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The typical way to teach classes like this is to get a professor to lecture,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.34,0:23:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have the students sit there, screw that! I did something different.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.26,0:23:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all I didn't give a single lecture. I didn't want my students just sitting there,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.57,0:23:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I turn the classes into workshops.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.67,0:23:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My students came to class, worked together and really wrestle with difficult physics problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.88,0:23:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course they got a lot of stuff wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.22,0:23:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would help them through that. But in that process the big advantage from me,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.56,0:23:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that I could see how my students were thinking into real time,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.31,0:23:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could give them meaningfull feedback on the spot.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.03,0:23:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the students and the professor were actually having a:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.07,0:23:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lively exchange of ideas".
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.62,0:24:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole point at being at the university!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.02,0:24:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it really is possible to change the culture in the classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.74,0:24:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just need teachers who are willing to take a chance on making those changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.02,0:24:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we also need to work outside the world of our classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.64,0:24:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this where I think the biggest changes in our culture of teaching and learning can happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.18,0:24:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I invented the term distributed teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.93,0:24:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There doesn't seems to be a Wikipedia page for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.82,0:24:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, google says that other peolpe have used the phrase.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.16,0:24:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I should probably explain my version.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.88,0:24:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The name distributing teaching was inspired by distributing computing.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.64,0:24:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not familiar with distributed computing,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.44,0:24:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you should look out the SETI@home project as an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.94,0:24:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the basic idea is that using a lot of relatively slow computers part time,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.89,0:24:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might be just as usefull as a single super-computer running full throttle.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.67,0:24:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I mean by distributing teaching,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.32,0:25:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that, if everybody did some kind of teaching in they spare time,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.43,0:25:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might be just as effective as having a group of full time teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.49,0:25:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do we start doing distributing teaching?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.72,0:25:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, we're already doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.83,0:25:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main tool using for distrubuting computing, is also usefull for distributing teaching:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.39,0:25:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.05,0:25:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm putting this talk online, that's one form of distributed teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.59,0:25:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wikipidea is another kind of distributed teaching.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.24,0:25:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of people can share what they know in varying amounts,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.45,0:25:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and contribute when they can.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.39,0:25:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it works just as well as traditionnaly encyclopedia
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.99,0:25:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offer by a limited number of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.84,0:25:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course the idea of distributed teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.39,0:25:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't just for the Internet, you can also do it in person.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.62,0:25:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This summer I'm going to film a documentary about a group of scientist and engineers,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.93,0:25:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are going to be teaching at a space camp in south Korea.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.03,0:25:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of these people are professional teachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.08,0:26:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just spending a little of their time, to share what they know with some kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.76,0:26:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If all of us started things like this it would start adding up pretty quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.98,0:26:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But distributed teaching is only going to work, if you start contributed.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.56,0:26:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, why should you bother spending time sharing what you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.59,0:26:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well because if you don't, you're being unreasonably selfish!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.07,0:26:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Knowledge isn't like a cheesburger."
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.07,0:26:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could remember where I got this, its great really simple point:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.50,0:26:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I have a cheesburger, and I want to share it with someone.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.32,0:26:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means I going to end up with less for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.27,0:26:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge doesn't work that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.43,0:26:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can share what you know as much as you want and you won't lose any of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.72,0:26:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no reason to be selfish with knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.08,0:26:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's exactly why everybody should be teaching in some capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.56,0:26:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe the most usefull thing distributed teaching can do,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.17,0:27:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is drag people away from this weird notion that teaching and learning only happens in schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.27,0:27:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Building a new educationnal culture isn't just about fixing schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.94,0:27:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really about making teaching and learning cultural habit.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.02,0:27:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things that all of us do all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.69,0:27:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And building that new culture isn't hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.00,0:27:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just have to follow just one simple rule:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.89,0:27:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Share What You Know.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.98,0:27:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much for listening.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.99,0:27:24.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to keep track of my projects:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.77,0:27:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please visit: drtae.org physicsofskateboarding.com and universitae.com
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.24,0:27:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks again.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.34,0:27:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody is gonna watch this!