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Published: 2012-04-02
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEJ_ATgrnnY
it'll enough new Glasgow a DB who moved my accent of actually lived in Brighton for the last fifty years which is far away from school and you get without being a weights and that Graham Greene famously described brightened as a tire and it looks as though it's been up all night helping the police with their enquiries and I still don't know what that means but I
think it's better to place the glass who actually I think here you got the wrong CityVille in any case I'm gonna make a rather bold claim which you can see behind me here which is that we've had more pedagogy change in the last ten years than in the last thousand years and my first piece of evidence is Ted okay doesn't work because you guys in this
live room in this audience Ted works because there are between a billion and one and a half billion people on the internet to have access to paid hoax and pay talks went bowling lane in two thousand and six and pains of millions of people have seen this is a massive leap in scalability in pedagogy and illustrative of what I'm about to speak of this area is
an illustration from manuscript recapping for killing you look at the guy up in the top left hand corner heal the lecturer and we still call them lecture arose is that what we do the stand the just talk people but if you look very carefully at the slight fifty for the university of Bologna one of the very first educational institutions of the four and a whole einkorn
who is of course fast asleep and I'm sure you've been in lettuce when you've had pains in your chest aboard the if you look at the guy in the green thing up the back there think is on these black body and fact if you look almost everybody in the screen no peace thing anything and you can walk into a modern university which deliver slabs of lectures
a week on week and what this this any D. the week you could go universe in Moscow and witness it tomorrow no if I were a lectern much stupidity the pedagogic stupidity of this imagine if I were to lecture or a novelist or a journalist wouldn't novelist teratoma see I would remind noble to your ability to read once I'm not gonna put it in a book
you better take notes by the way with a journalist say I'm gonna write an article on who could read it to you once because that's what modern educational pedagogy feed in higher education is based upon it so based upon the lecture and there is nothing then the psychology of learning that suggest you should be sitting for another three or four five six seven times a week
well everything in the psychology of learning suggests that we should be much more proactive and sophisticated the budget we know the last ten years we've had a whole raft of things and Papa KPO eh the rise in social media we have of course had this explosion in open source that's led through open educational resources an absolute burden in terms of wikipedia published here in Edinburgh recently
completely destroyed by %HESITATION Jim age we will see a whole raft of things it is give ms access to content and learning and when we look at windows as most people who teach look at their behavior because the world has changed dramatically in the last decade and the base assumption here is a very simple warden that skill nonetheless thousand years we had this massive boost in
the fifteenth century when they're Gutenberg invented printing press the books are only scalable in terms of being replicable the real skill ability and education comes with the internet because it gives us a world of digital replication for free a world of digital abundance we're some aspects of learning content available for anyone anywhere at any time it's absolutely freeze us from the tyranny of came on location
far many more people watch these code cokes at their own time in their own home than will ever come up and sit on the to what and that's the trick freeing education from a place from a specific time no it's not as if this is a new message here we have in this country but we pioneered this the open university has two hundred and fifty thousand
students none of them on a campus how does it work smart use of technology nineteen sixty nine it didn't come from within higher education came from how to loosen the civil servant came from outside the system that's when the invasion came from quietly why has a lot more will be picked up by universities because they didn't have to acquire the stew stock in a primitive pedagogy
boat will be delivered Felix is a week and most of the academics actually want to get out of teaching concentrate on research but no lasting used the research and I want to talk about research here because it is Mr Missouri here who teaches physics at Harvard who teaches physics along paper alongside several Nobel Prize winning physicist said something very interesting when he came across as physics
students which is the Nobel Prize winning teachers when they talk about education result I think though it's like being in a day not popular with such and I'm sure you've experienced this when people talk about education them very quickly default and go and what it's like for their kids in their school but of course the plural of anecdote is not data and is a physicist and
he spent the last ten years looking at spacing with lectures improving the lectures so that his students at Harvard who a smart kids can learn better and indeed that's what he has achieved by stopping lectures by stopping them every five minutes getting asking natural language questions in physics and getting the students to adult peeling techniques active learning techniques that really do teach those kids physics and
he's had a dog like in terms his results last year I spent a good deal of my time in the Middle East I was in Syria just a week before a thing kicked off here if you need to pick up the things the Gulf states and I was doing some research there on social media no if as is clearly the case the internet and social media
can be young people to change the parameter hole and corrupt governments can we really say the social media will have no role in education how do you think those kids input here square want to avoid few gas by using Pepsi Cola how do you think moves revolutions the rules first through blogging them through Facebook then throughput of them for you to have you become to mobile
devices we'd be fools to ignore the pedagogy lessons the right in front of our eyes politically and in terms of educating and the terms of this peer lending technique here in university Bosko interestingly living pioneered some of the stuff when you really get peer learning techniques going remember the kids don't see teachers as part of their peer group my will to students the sea the peer
group of people who own age once you get in schools and some of these are open source tools you really can accelerate the pedagogy within your institution now I'm just a mystical it just for a little bit and move on a little bit but as I see it this dome look to record lectures which is white kid because things ambiguous because you have to give people
a second bite the Chevy everything and the psychology of learning suggests the repeat access the content matters you have well nothing without repeated access and repeat the practice you have absolutely nothing because adding Harris in eighteen eighty five show that your skills and knowledge to key really rapidly on a single event exposure you will forget almost everything I'm telling you today within fifteen minutes in three
months almost everything will be gone unless you go back and look at the video take notes use reinforcement and if I can university of Eindhoven great people list of the great that title recording can improve a battling each other I could not be well if you've ever had to write a one hour lecture frankly Ted talks look show her you know that you Pat as you
move some stuff in the beginning you move the last about twenty minutes you kind of turnover smart students notice so when you look at recorded lectures you get the empirical evidence the watch but some five percent which and get rid of the tangential stuff introductions this you don't actually need okay no there's been a revolution in content here as well this is quite things are so
exciting in terms of this revolution moment we have faced some ten in the U. S. who has route two thousand all videos up two thousand eight hundred videos under a creative Commons license on the internet someone like me started teaching maths using Skype a eventually got stuff we've done in video but look at the number bought computer if you're a teacher an academic you'll be lucky
to hit to a few thousand students in a fifteen year career some of us had a hundred and ten million in just a few years that's scalability and if you want to look at his video on the size of the sun then moved to the brilliant teaching that can be achieved you don't see someone on this video but he does say that a match you fire
a bullet run the sun from a rifle how long will that do it take to run the sun brilliant analogy and he has a six month this thing is huge brilliant teaching simply recorded many of them just a few minutes alone exactly what the students need and what he's done is he's flipped the classroom he says and he's right the kids should not be given difficult
problems as homework they should be doing the exposition home and teachers in the classroom should be giving them form of feedback teachers should be teaching no standing in poking its students absolutely right flipped the classroom this is a blasting through is one of the top software engineers and Google teaches at Stanford high and AAI Nkosi's he was teaching classes of two hundred students of Paul when
he decided to prove as a I course only it goes online how many students visit half a hundred and sixty thousand a hundred and sixty thousand people pick the course because I sophisticated healing techniques good formative assessment and off he goes he's flipped to lecture I know that when you see his lectures the wrong line you don't see the basket you see the content you focus
on the content then you went to very sophisticated techniques in terms of formative assessment adoptive lonely we will over the next five years see a massive rise in very sophisticated back in software the lemmings mostly front and stuff at the moment you see sophisticated algorithms AI techniques coming into play which a personalized his pen Robinson said to your learning what you've left before where you're going
it will become massively sophisticated sat allow me the movie you've come from where you're going if you go through to get you back on track and as the company had recalled Kobuk sewer as we speak developing the software social media the numbers are absolutely phenomenal here you know we could be looking at getting over two billion people on the internet this is a huge numbers and
when it comes to the sharing of social media the sharing of media itself the numbers are phenomenal way beyond anything I come education establishment deliver if you look at what social media actually is simple for men elegance that like this one is ripped off a week goes through social media explained Twitter I need to pee Facebook I P. fullscreen this Israeli peace a kuro quietly peeing
you to look at this piece link then I'm good at P. that's about everything needed to know about being guys you know and this is what kids through you when you go into the internet you know when I have to repeal move the window of my car recently I think of the cottage I found a YouTube video from a kind of fun to go Jim I've
never met Jim and it wouldn't fix that and the window my Cup I think to some deals with this recent UN into that move the home the garbage quit the mechanic look up your troops her pills that they couldn't stop the world has changed guys and of course in our schools and colleges and universities students are already doing this don't imagine for one minute that students
aren't on Facebook saying when's the same we got to going can you help me with this question the do it anyway and if you want to get students you have to gore they are you have to go to questions hang out if you gonna pop to speak in this medium and the assessment the horrific process I have twin boys who just turned eighteen the horrific process
of going through and the last eighteen years of being you may as well while I'm up to some perpetual testing machine but no one any good sessions filtering if you look at the process Congress likely this question friend explained thank you see sputum okay but I love the way this could reply to this question yeah yeah I have run businesses owe my life believe me I
want to know who this kid is I don't care about the guys who pie fight us is the hope this guy whose humor innovation smiled thinking I would amend my company what does the assessment system test this a poll no zero meticulous is a red pen mark but what we will see sooner assessment systems that are free free from the institutions that hold you to ransom
remember about twin boys name thousand pounds a year three years plus lost income but simply Grandia put to them this is an expensive business education shouldn't we be looking at making it cheaper should educational institutions be closing down to the agricultural pal into should we be building web to host a have an occupancy rate of twenty and fifty percent a year or should we be looking
at talent of mortals Douglas Adams the hitchhiker's fame I like the school everything that's already in the world and your bones just normal anything that gets invented between then before you Tom Petty is incredibly exciting and creative and then you look in that you might clear out of it which you are done anything invented after your therapy is against the natural order of things and the
beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it's been around from opinions and it gradually comes out all right really I'm versus what's happening we're actually disco bring that this stuff is not only alright really really rather good course overall aspect who's so the influence of these people has been phenomenal my argument is that Pentagon change is not coming from academic institutions or
education departments within academic institutions or teachers I pedagogic change it's coming from technology first through self open source the wonders of wikipedia with Tim Berners Lee who gave us the gift the worldwide web Jeff Bezos anybody never use I wasn't here so pick up okay isn't great hitting open that cover books you can book Sabine revolutionized by Jimmy Wales ago things should get a Nobel Prize
for creating wikipedia which was abhorred by academics for the first few years launched eva Whitley great Steve Jobs aux plug casting media sharing iTunes thing taller holds open source open educational resources which holds massive conus in terms of access especially people in the developing world and who is the most boring billionaire on the planet month Zuckerberg a game giving us Facebook social media the guys from
Google attach Mutu and the guys from Twitter these are the people who are changing pedagogy for the good because they're giving us to switch a scalable resort fees which almost everyone in the planet almost has or will have access to and it changed the education world forever this is a revolution that is already in progress so the argument about evolution and revolution is a bit passi