Technology and Educational Innovation | Iago Jover Mariño | TEDxLeidenUniversity
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG4PbGybGl4 Video ID: tG4PbGybGl4 ============================================================ Transcriber: Brandon Kim Reviewer: AMINE HOUSNI How many of you know what it is? Please raise your hand. So almost everyone in the room. But in case you don't know what it is, is an AI. So an artificial intelligence that has become extremely popular in this past months. Because if you give it a prompt, it will write a text from it and it will do so like a human. So this has become extremely popular among students, as I could say, because, well, we need to assess assignments. So we call, ask, please summarize this book and pop. Suddenly it does it for you. However, as schools have raised awareness that from now on they no longer know if the assignments are being submitted by the students or by team. So a school subject as a threat. However, I have to be very honest. I was given the opportunity to do this tactic and I took it. Of course that took, but I didn't realize that I had to actually write a speech, a 15 minute speech that's really long. So I was the good student that I am. I went to chat a bit and I asked them why that dog on education, on pop? Suddenly a perfect, flawless ten minute speech on every point I wanted to say I was so excited. Suddenly all of this work done. So I just hung it in and I could tell it with it. It talks about how we must rethink education, how we need to move past a standardized test, how we need to teach 21st century skills, how we also need to embrace informal learning opportunities in order to further invest the interest of the students. It's great everything I wanted to say. However, this made me think. How is it possible that a robot knows about all of this? Or in other words, is it a bit sad that the robot knows about it? But still nothing seems to change. Because if we really look at the doctrinal system hasn't changed. But everybody knows this, even an AI. So then the question why? Nothing seems to change. Today we're going to answer this question and we're going to look at the five steps of the of revolution. So to change right now, the doctrinal system, the third step is size. In the new educational model, all classrooms should be on average, 20 students max and one teacher per every ten students. Now, what this will allow is for greater interaction in the classroom so that the students can meaningfully engage with the knowledge. Now, maybe you will disagree until they actually mean still a lot of research to be done on this area. There are some people that really enjoy lectures. Just go in there and listening to a teacher speak for hundred students. But anyway, the argument will be okay, if that's education, then why not just listen to a podcast or watch a YouTube video or read a book? Their doctrinal systems will be much more than just a place to transmit information, but a place to meaningfully engage with it. So, okay, let's agree for a second that indeed we need to reduce the classroom size. Maybe you have another argument. It will be yellow. It's basically unfeasible. We just don't have enough human and economical capital to achieve. So which is fair enough. That's indeed very much true in many places. However, we already have a solution, and to find it, we must look eastwards to Japan. So there should. The system might not be perfect, but they have developed this system, the top one system, which we will implement everywhere. Right now the Autobahn system is basically a presidential system. So what it is, is that on a daily basis, one student, independently of their knowledge or their aptitude is a sign class president. So it becomes the teacher, the system. It will lead class discussions. It will prepare the materials for the day. It will help for any kind of quarrel in the class. And suddenly the students have become involved in the classroom. They are no longer just actively, passively listening, but they are also actively participating in the class discussion. Furthermore, it will also make students much more empathetic to one another, and it will develop a skills such as teamwork, discipline, autonomy, responsibility. All of these skill sets that we must still start teaching our kids. Second point. Classroom dynamics. And this really was linked with the first step to reducing size. The teacher should no longer be teaching, as in should not be the almighty, powerful person that knows everything and speaks and everybody else just listens. Instead, the teacher should be a kinder, a facilitator which will allow for discussions in classroom and the students therefore become much more active and participating in the classroom. In other words, dedication should be not teacher led, but student led. The students should a mark in the pace. Third point project based. Much more duly linked with everything that has been already talked and even already said this a standardized test really are not working. And the research has proven this time and time again we need to start assessing our students in practical terms, and we really need to start applying our knowledge to real life. Because how many times have you heard, Wow , this time learning is so useful? I'm going to use it in my future career? Sadly enough, does not the case. More often than not it feels like, why am I learning this? Is this really that important? No wonder, because the knowledge and practice is completely separated. So we must merge that cup between knowledge and practical and designing our location through project based. Will be much more useful. Finally, gamification. What came ification really means is that we must introduce game like context context into non game context. So for instance, we'll try to make education a bit more fun by introducing some games into the classroom. Because my question will be when was the last time that you heard someone saying, Oh wow, I had so much fun today at school. It's like having fun while learning suddenly enough. That also doesn't happen. And my question would be, why are we trying to go away from this productive type of model in word, parents or adults now go to the office and type into a computer for eight hours and then go home. We are starting to try to move past that model. However, we insist that our students must go to a class, take a pen and spend eight hours just copying a teacher. This really is not the system to thrive and we can actually make education fun another time. I hope to do so well through technology. Now I think we can all agree. Technologies in everyday life. We basically have it everywhere. We live in our technologies society. So we must teach with technology and on technology. But the question that I post will be what type of technology are we implementing in the classroom? If we actually just look around to this room, we see technology, projector, microphone, speakers, cameras, all of this technology. What really is doing is entrenching and further developing old educational models in order to teach. Just come here with the microphone and speaks to an audience. In other words, we are investing in what we call communication technology, technology that just transfers knowledge. And what we should start implementing is technology that creates knowledge and technology that will help us encompass all of these aspects of the advocate in our revolution. And this technology is called creative technology. Now, greatest technology is not magic. It's not a platform that you just put on a classroom and pop! Suddenly everything solved. What creative technology really is about is a toolset that teachers can use in order to try and encompass all of these steps. So it helps them in order to make a more interactive classroom. As of now, creative technology has already been successfully implemented in Spain, in Barcelona, where I used to work, and it has been specifically implemented for what we call a Stem. So teaching science, technology, engineering and maths, so truly an interdisciplinary toolset. Furthermore, we have also successfully managed to teach the 21st century skills such as creativity, critical and little communication, communication, collaboration and curiosity for learning. Now how does creative technology then look when applied? Let's look at some examples. So this is the first example. It may not look like it, but this is physics class. And you may say, well, my physics class doesn't look like this. No wonder. So what we were doing here is we were teaching astronomy and we're teaching all of the engineers and the physics behind astronomy. And suddenly one of the students asked, Well, what if I want to become an astronaut? How would that look like? And suddenly the class dynamics change. The students interest becomes the forefront. And we told them, okay, well, if you want to become an astronaut, what do you think you should do? And I said, well, you probably have to study and you probably have to train for it. I said, okay, let’s develop an astronaut training. And this is how it looks. So they are training right now. And they are using the iPad in order to measure all of the different trainings that they are doing. The second example in this example, what we're looking at is a cable car. And here we ask the students to develop a smart city because we really need to start living in more sustainable cities. So here we start to see how important project base is and how we apply the knowledge to real life. And so these students developed this cable car as a more sustainable way to mobilize citizens across the city. But we wanted to take this a step further. And we also ask them, okay, in what other scenarios could it be used? And we asked them about climate change. Salinas Climate change here to come. And more natural disasters are going to happen throughout the years floodings, hurricanes, etcetera. And so we ask them, okay, try to further develop this idea so that they could, for instance, evacuate cities whenever a flooding happens. So at the end developed this idea. So once more, an example of project base and technology can help us create a more interactive and more practical education. Finally, this is during Covid pandemic 2021, and the students were really upset because they couldn't go outside and play football. And so we asked them, okay, let's try to solve this problem and let's create football inside the classroom. So created their own system and they started playing football inside. But we wanted to take this one more, a further step. And we ask them, okay, do you realize that maybe there are students that never play football, for instance, because they have physical barriers or they have security issues? How could we implement these ideas that you have developed throughout the world? So once more, we use the technology as a tool in order to try to develop a skills and values among students and to make it much more practical into real life. And this is really everything that they're cutting out. It's about trying to tackle the size of the classroom in order to change the classroom dynamics. Start being much more project based so that we can really become practical with the knowledge and to make it like a game. Truly learning should be fun and technology and specific creative technology. It's this kind of toolset that allows for all of these steps to be achieved. In other words, what they do really is all about it's about a teacher that talk less and students thinking more and students consuming less knowledge, but creating more knowledge. Thank you very much.