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Today I am going to show you[br]how this tablet

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and this virtual reality[br]headset that I'm wearing

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is going to completely[br]revolutionize science education.

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And I'm also going to show you

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how it can make any science teacher[br]more than twice as effective.

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But before I show you how[br]all of this is possible,

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let's talk briefly

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about why improving the quality of science[br]education is so vitally important.

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If you think about it,

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the world is growing incredibly fast.

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And with that growth

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comes a whole list of growing challenges.

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Challenges such as dealing[br]with global warming,

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solving starvation and water shortages,

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and curing diseases,

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to name just a few.

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And who exactly is going to help us[br]solve all of these great challenges?

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Well, to [various degrees][br]it is these young students.

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This is the next generation[br]of young, bright scientists

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and in many ways,

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we all rely on them

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for coming up with new, great innovations

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to help us solve all[br]these challenges ahead of us.

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And so a couple of years back,

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my cofounder and I were teaching[br]university students,

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just like these,

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only the students we were teaching[br]looked a little bit more like this here.

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(Laughter)

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And yes, this is really[br]the reality out there

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in way too many universities[br]around the world.

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Students that are bored, disengaged

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and sometimes not even sure why they're[br]learning about a topic in the first place.

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So we started looking around for new,[br]innovative teaching methods,

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but what we found was quite disappointing.

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We saw that books were being[br]turned into e-books.

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black boards were being turned[br]into Youtube videos

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and lecture hall monologues[br]were being turned into MOOCs;

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massive online open courses.

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And if you think about it,

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all we're really doing here[br]is taking the same content

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and the same format,

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and bringing it out to more students.

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Which is great --

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don't get me wrong.

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That is really great,

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but the teaching method[br]is still more or less the same,

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no real innovation there.

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So we started looking elsewhere,

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and what we found

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was the flight simulators[br]had been proven over and over again

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to be far more effective

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when used in combination with real,[br]in-flight training to train the pilots.

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And so we thought to ourselves:

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why not just apply that to science?

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Why not build a virtual[br]laboratory simulator?

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Well, we did it.

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We basically set out to create

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a fully simulated, one-to-one,[br]virtual reality laboratory simulator,

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where the students[br]could perform experiments

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with mathematical equations

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that would simulate what would[br]happen in a real world lab.

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But not just simple simulations,

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we would also create advanced simulations[br]with top universities like MIT,

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to bring out cutting-edge cancer[br]research to these students.

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And suddenly the universities[br]could save millions of dollars

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by letting the students[br]perform virtual experiments

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before they go into the real laboratory.

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And not only that,

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now the could also understand --

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even on a molecular level[br]inside the machine --

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what is happening to the machines.

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And then they could suddenly perform[br]dangerous experiments in the labs as well.

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For instance also here,

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learning about salmonella bacteria,

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which is an imporant topic

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that many school cannot teach[br]for a good safety reasons.

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And we of course quiz the students

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and then give the teachers[br]a full dashboard,

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so they fully understand[br]where the students are at.

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But we didn't stop there

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because we had seen just how important[br]meaning is for the students' engagement