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哈囉，我叫安德森先生

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而我的教室是個電腦遊戲

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我想不出有什麼開場，會比以下的更好

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愛麗絲掉到一個兔子洞中

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然後她找到了一個瓶子

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瓶子上簡單的寫著「喝我」

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我是個老師，我想嘗試創造出類似的環境

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所以我就把一台電腦放在教室裡

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然後我把憤怒鳥打開，並且在電腦旁放紙牌

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紙牌上簡單的寫著「去玩」

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我就走開了

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但我想知道會發生什麼事

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所以我把筆電的攝影機打開

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於是我就得到這段班上孩子的影片

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那...你們想看嗎？

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[群眾：要！]
要...好像你們有其他選擇，哈

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我好喜歡他們交換玩的樣子

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我也好喜歡傑克森眼中

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如果你仔細觀察

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太好了！

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成功！

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So that look at his eyes, that look of learning

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try something new and failing and try something new again

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is something we inspired to see in the eyes of our kids

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we don't do that

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a lot of the time it's glazed over look

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and so I want to try to apply some of these dynamics into my classroom

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so I grew up in 1980s

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playing video games, and these video games taught me lessons

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that we could apply in schools today

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the first thing I learned, is the video games are fun

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and school should be fun as well

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unfortunately, most kids wouldn't say the school day is fun

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however there are elements of school that all students love

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they love seeing their friends, and they love learning

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unfortunately they spend most of the day, just passively sitting down in front

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Sitting, listening to a teacher lecture

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so I think school should be fun

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second thing I learned, is that failure is OK

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is it takes you 8 times to clear the third elevator stage in donkey kong, that's OK

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failure is simply part of a learning process

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however, in schools, we tend to stigmatized failure

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you don't take a quiz over and over and over agian

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until you finally pass it

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in fact, failure individuals

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right now, failure in schools is highly stigmatized.

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so I think we need to send a message that failure is OK!

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The third thing I learned is the importance of leveling

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This could be applied in schools in two ways

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When a teacher decides to move in a specific pace

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that's ok for some of the students in their class

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but some of the students are automatically to be bored

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some of the students are quickly gonna be confused

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so I think students should be able to move on their own pace through mastery system

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where they master a level and they can move on to the next one

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they also should be able to level up

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becoming more powerful as they learn new material in the class

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I also think that, we give the wrong lecture at the beginning of the year

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as I said the lecture at the beginning of the year, I would say,

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You all have an A, from this point forward, you will fall spitefully, until eventually you land your final grade

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no game will ever be designed this way

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so one of the great thing to be a great teacher

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is you have a summer break

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Summer break is great because you get a break from school, but you also can reinvent your class

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make it something that's never been before

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if you try to do that during the year, if you try to make it radical changes, kids will just simply be confused

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but if you change during the summer, you make huge swiping change in your class

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the kids will never know what hit them

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this was my dream, I wanted to reinvent my class as a video game

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but i didn't want kids just sit in front, and watch the video game like Oregon Trail where the world is in common Sandiego

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I want to take them in most compelling elements of gaming, then applied in the classroom

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this took a lot of work, so I created a class, it's called "Biohazard 5"

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It's got narrator, got the narrative, all the kids come together there

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I've created about 150 podcast that take them through the lecture

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and so when they get that point, they get kind of learned

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I have all the special activities in class, that kids can applied the material that we're learning in the real world

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I have a bunch of inquiry labs, this one right here, is a photo of synphetheis lab

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you can see my students very vivid

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they're studying photo synthesis using little chop we cut from a leaf

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I've developed hundreds of questions that I have a mastery where the system, students can take quizzes over and over and over again

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until they finally get it

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I have a leveling system, so they start with zero experiencing point at the beginning of the year

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I borrowed this from Lee Sheldon in the University of Indiana

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so basically they coming on day 1

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I invented the button level as the primordial soup cause I teach Biology

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So they gain their experience point, and they can move their way up like dumble octpus,

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and mountain gorilla, and maybe grand master at the end

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I also have a leader board, so they play with the avatar

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and they can see how they're doing in the class

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how they're doing to against everybody else

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this is the most popular resource in the class

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kids are constantly logged in and see how they're stacked up

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I also got a piloting set that of a iPad

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so kids got an internet connected devices at all times

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Finally, the summer is over

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and I stood in front of the class

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Like this, apparently

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(laugh) and I said

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Hello, my name is Mr. Anderson

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and my class is a video game, so what I want you to do

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is grab an iPad

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I want you to logging into Biohazard 5

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I want you to watch a video, I want you to do some reading

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I want you to take a quiz, and head off the class

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now if I have done this with my students' parents, that would be the most frustrating day of my life

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but the kids grew up with the technology

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and the technology today simply works

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so they were headed off on their own

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So my class, is a learning classroom

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if you come in, you'll find the kids are reading, watching videos, applying,

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doing special activities, trying to solve challenges, working together or working alone

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so it's really need at the teacher come

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we were just talking in the half way of the class

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he said " well you created is like a shop class" cause he was a shop teacher once

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he said

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the shop teacher, you teach them some skills and the kids can apply that

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so it's like that

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I would love to keep telling you how great it is

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how the test score seem to be going up

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and how the kids learning how to learn independently

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but I am a science teacher

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and that's not what get us excited

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in science, what gets us excited

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is discovering something new

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so I wanna talk about 3 ways that I failed

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Number 1

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a conventional classroom is like a school bus

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where all the students were all logged in they just get on

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and the teacher is like the bus driver

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and it drives from point A to point B

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you can make sure that all the students get there

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so what I have done is like I get each of them

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a brand new car, keys, and I said "Drive"

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so some of them stalled out

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and some of them raced ahead

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and some of them drove right into a wall

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so I need to get them more scaffolding next year

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next thing I learned is the importance of reading

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kids struggled with reading when you make your class independant

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and I should've seen this coming because this is the biggest indicator of success

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and I think the reason I didn't see it coming is that I never stopped talking, because that's what good teachers do

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we read the book, and then we come out with really good examples

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then we present it in a really dynamic way

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and the kids can just sit there

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and then they can learn it

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why would they want to read the book? we read it for them

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so when I forced them to read the book

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a lot of them struggled and we have to work with that

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the last thing I learned, is that we're not Vulcans

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In the most recent star trek movie, young Spock sits in a little module and he surrounded by computer screens

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and the computer keeps throwing questions at him, and philosophy, and relativity

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and that's his school day, just sits in a module like that

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so a lot of people think they can change education by somehow use videos or automating the learning process

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that sucks, who would want to be at a school like that?

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kids are coming to school to be social

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so I add elements of social learning at the class to make it more compelling

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This is a TED talk, all the good TED talks always end with a call to action

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so what can you do?

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I think schools need to move from a passive teacher-centered learning environment

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to an active student centered environment

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that's what I did

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I was off to the side now, there's a mentor in the class

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so how do we do that?

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If you are a student, you get feedback to your teachers, everything I do in my class all I got

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is a result of feedback I got from my students

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what you do if you are a parent? Your write an email if you want your schools to change

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the only emails I get from parents are complaining about their students grades

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I never get "My students had an A in your class, but I have a problem with the philosophy in your class"

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that doesn't happen, so message you are sending to teachers

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is that the grade is the only thing that's important

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but maybe you're not a parent, and maybe you're not a student

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but you are human

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so what's the lesson? what's in the bottle?

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what's in there it's your passion, it's the one thing you wanna do

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can you figure out what my passion is? I love my family and I love teaching

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and if you can drink that bottle, also remembering to fail, learn

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and repeat the process over and over again, then I think you'll have a life worth living

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Thank you