The Future of Learning, Networked Society - Ericsson
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0:01 - 0:04"This is the first generation of people that work, play, think and learn differently than their parents.
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0:04 - 0:08They are the first generation to not be afraid of technology. It’s like the air to them." - Don Tapscott
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0:15 - 0:18Everything looks bigger than life when you are five.
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0:18 - 0:24So everything was big, everything was strange, and I remember feeling a bit scared.
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0:24 - 0:30Like many children, I remember my school years fondly but the bits I remember fondly aren't
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0:30 - 0:31the bits I should have remembered.
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0:31 - 0:38I remember the play and the sport and the naughtiness and the playfulness and the mischief.
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0:38 - 0:41In fact, I remember the bits that were non-standard.
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0:41 - 0:45It's an incredible privilege for me to have had education be such
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0:45 - 0:50an important and present part of my life.
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0:50 - 0:58I remember being bored a lot. It didn't bring out the best in me, I got through it anyhow.
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0:58 - 1:02I wasn't a great fit or the system wasn't a great fit for me.
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1:02 - 1:05It's kind of crazy when you think about it.
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1:05 - 1:08That we take all these children and we force them to try to adapt to this really complex
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1:08 - 1:12bureaucracy system, the system should adapt to them.
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1:12 - 1:18The origins of traditional education lie inside the military, to a large extent.
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1:18 - 1:24They needed identical people; soldiers, administrators, and so on, so they produced this system.
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1:24 - 1:27When the industrial revolution happened they do wanted
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1:27 - 1:30identical people in their assembly lines.
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1:30 - 1:33Even with consumers, they wanted consumers to be identical
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1:33 - 1:35so that everybody would buy the same things.
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1:35 - 1:39So if you look at school that way, if you look at the fact that we process twenty or
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1:39 - 1:43thirty kids at a time, in a batch, just like in the factory.
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1:43 - 1:46If you look at the fact that if you fail third grade, what do you do?
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1:46 - 1:48We hold you back and we reprocess you.
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1:48 - 1:53All matching with the factory works, we built it on purpose.
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1:53 - 1:57And it was really useful for its function.
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1:57 - 2:01But we don't have a shortage of factory workers any more.
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2:01 - 2:04We are probably at the death of education right now.
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2:04 - 2:10I think the structures and strictures of school, of learning from nine till three,
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2:10 - 2:13working on your own, not working with others.
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2:13 - 2:22I think that's dead or dying. And I think learning is just beginning.
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2:23 - 2:27THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
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2:45 - 2:50I had ADD when I was growing up, like so many people now do.
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2:50 - 2:54And there's this feeling that there is something broken about the kid,
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2:54 - 2:58because the kid doesn't conform to the system.
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2:58 - 3:03So what we do is we medicate children to fit into the system, as opposed to saying;
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3:03 - 3:07wait, the system is here for the kids.
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3:07 - 3:12And there are lots of people who can quite easily sit still for eight hours
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3:12 - 3:14and take notes, and then two weeks later say back
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3:14 - 3:16what they wrote down.
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3:16 - 3:20But there is also this huge population of extraordinarily talented
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3:20 - 3:25and engaged people who can't learn that way.
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3:25 - 3:30There's a very big difference between accessed
information and school, -
3:30 - 3:32they used to be the same thing.
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3:32 - 3:39Information is there online to anyone of the billion people who have access to the Internet.
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3:39 - 3:44So what that means is if we give access to a four year old or an eight year old or a
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3:44 - 3:49twelve year old, they will get the information if they want it.
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3:49 - 3:55Knowing something is probably an obsolete idea.
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3:55 - 3:59You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point
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3:59 - 4:01when you need to know it.
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4:01 - 4:08It's the teacher's job to point young minds towards the right kind of question.
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4:08 - 4:12A teacher doesn't need to give any answers, because answers are everywhere.
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4:12 - 4:20And we know now from years of measurements that learners who find the answers for themselves
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4:20 - 4:24retain it better than if they're told the answer.
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4:24 - 4:29Education is being very slow to look at data, to look at numbers,
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4:29 - 4:31to look at analysis and what's actually happening.
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4:31 - 4:34We measure a test here, and an exam there,
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4:34 - 4:37but the details of what's happening we don't really have.
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4:37 - 4:41That will be, for sure, the next important thing in our pockets,
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4:41 - 4:43our ability to analyze wherever you are.
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4:43 - 4:46Some of the people watching this will already be analyzing their health
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4:46 - 4:48and their wellbeing and their sport.
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4:48 - 4:50They will be analyzing their learning too soon.
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4:50 - 4:53And then we'll be really good at it.
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5:04 - 5:08Knewton is a data-mining and adaptive learning
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5:08 - 5:12that allows anybody, anywhere to upload content.
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5:12 - 5:15They could be a publisher, an individual teacher, or anything in-between.
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5:15 - 5:22And produce a course that will be uniquely personalized to each student based on
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5:22 - 5:26what she knows and how she learns best.
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5:26 - 5:30The textbook of the future is going to be delivered on connected devices.
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5:30 - 5:34What that means is the incredible amount of data that students have always produced,
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5:34 - 5:37when they studied, are now capturable and useable.
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5:37 - 5:42So Knewton and any product built on Knewton can figure out things like; you learn math
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5:42 - 5:46best in the morning between 08:32 and 09:14 am.
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5:46 - 5:48You learn science best in 40 minute bite sizes.
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5:48 - 5:51At the 42 minute mark your click rate always begins to decline, we should pull that from
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5:51 - 5:54you then and move you to something else to keep you engaged.
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5:54 - 5:57That 35 minute burst you do at lunch everyday you're not retaining any of that just
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5:57 - 6:01hang out with your friends and do that stuff in the afternoon instead when you learn better.
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6:01 - 6:05You learn this stuff best with short questions;
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6:05 - 6:05this stuff best with complicated, difficult questions.
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6:05 - 6:08We should return this type of material to you four days later for optimal retention.
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6:08 - 6:11And here's exactly the things you're going to struggle with your homework tonight because
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6:11 - 6:16you haven't learned some of the concepts that are embedded in that material.
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6:16 - 6:19And we can go in real-time and grab you the perfect little bit of content, from last month,
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6:19 - 6:24or last year, and put that seamlessly in front of you so that you don't struggle.
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6:24 - 6:30We can predict failure in advance and prevent it from happening.
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6:30 - 6:34We're going to move from this kind of alienating and in some cases boring and in some cases
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6:34 - 6:37frustrating model of everybody gets exactly the same stuff.
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6:37 - 6:39They're getting it at the exact same time, the exact same order,
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6:39 - 6:41and the exact same difficulty level.
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6:41 - 6:46For half of the class it's too hard, for half of the class it's too boring.
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6:46 - 6:49It's going to get the most advanced kids, the most stimulating material.
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6:49 - 6:52It's going to get them to unlock their potential in a way that they're not today.
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6:52 - 6:56But for every kid, no matter how much you are struggling, you've got a path to success.
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6:56 - 6:59It might take you a little longer, but you'll have a path to success no matter what.
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6:59 - 7:03And also the system gets smarter and smarter as more people use it.
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7:03 - 7:09Strategies compete against each other to be replicated in the next generation,
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7:09 - 7:13so the strategy that is the most effective for you,
once we find that; -
7:13 - 7:18any kid in the future will have that strategy teed up.
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7:18 - 7:21It's a whole new thing.
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7:21 - 7:24When the automobile was invented people weren't asking for the automobile
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7:24 - 7:26they were asking for faster horses.
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7:26 - 7:31And people aren't really asking for Knewton because they don't know what it is yet,
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7:31 - 7:35but once they see it and experience it then they'll get it right away.
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7:35 - 7:39THE SHIFT IN KNOWLEDGE
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7:43 - 7:47People say that education moves very slowly.
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7:47 - 7:50Suddenly you just need to be connected.
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7:50 - 7:56That changes everything; it changes the basis on which you can make a contribution,
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7:56 - 8:00your brain can make a contribution at a distance.
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8:00 - 8:06It's one thing to sit here in the media lab and talk about the future.
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8:06 - 8:11I often go into places that are about as different from a media lab as it can get.
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8:11 - 8:19And I think to myself; what's the value of all my ideas over here.
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8:19 - 8:21But, there is one great hope.
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8:21 - 8:27Wherever I go, the very first thing that I ask, or I take out my phone to check for,
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8:27 - 8:31is; do I have that little bit of bandwidth to give me GPRS,
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8:31 - 8:35or something equivalent to that?
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8:35 - 8:42And in the middle of jungles I find that sometimes it says connected
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8:42 - 8:47And I know then that everything that I'm saying can go anywhere,
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8:47 - 8:48and work exactly the same way.
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8:48 - 8:51It's a question of time.
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8:57 - 9:02CONNECT TO LEARN
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9:05 - 9:12Connectivity is actually opening up the world. If you open up a village, for example Bonsaaso,
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9:12 - 9:18and the students can actually now communicate with other students, say in London.
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9:18 - 9:22It means they start seeing the world in a different way.
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9:22 - 9:26Educate a youth, and you educate a nation.
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9:26 - 9:31Connect to Learn is a partnership between Ericsson, together with AF Institute
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9:31 - 9:34in Columbia University, and the Millennium Promise.
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9:34 - 9:40It's twofold, it provides scholarships to girls, and Connect to Learn gives students
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9:40 - 9:48computers and connectivity and shows them how to use it, and how to get information.
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9:48 - 9:52Education was limited to what the teacher could tell the students, and the teacher was
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9:52 - 9:55relying on a small textbook, or those few books,
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9:55 - 9:58so the teacher was not getting very exposed.
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9:58 - 10:04Now you are able to access a lot of information and the children start chatting
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10:04 - 10:09and exchanging information, you can see that there is much more things for them
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10:09 - 10:11to talk about because they feel like they are more exposed.
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10:11 - 10:14And the children are more confident.
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10:14 - 10:18They have the energy, they have quite a lifespan
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10:18 - 10:21and they are about to start thinking bigger.
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10:21 - 10:25If you bring connectivity to them, they are actually able to do transactions and they
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10:25 - 10:28can start small businesses, which will uplift them.
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10:28 - 10:37So I'd say it's actually opening up our villages, our country, and the whole continent.
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10:37 - 10:43We're rolling it out in as many countries as possible in Africa, and also in South America.
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10:43 - 10:48It has the potential to be upscaled to any country.
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10:58 - 11:02A FLAWED SYSTEM?
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11:06 - 11:09The way we solve interesting problems is we fail and we fail
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11:09 - 11:11and we fail and we fail, until we succeed.
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11:11 - 11:16And if you've talked to people who have succeeded, what they almost all have in common is
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11:16 - 11:19that they've failed a hundred times before they succeeded.
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11:19 - 11:23And what separates them, from people who aren't successful, isn't that they succeeded,
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11:23 - 11:29it's that they failed more that the other people did.
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11:29 - 11:34I'm not sure it's okay for the schools to say; we have to optimize,
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11:34 - 11:39to process as many people as we can to match this testing regime.
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11:39 - 11:45You can't imagine, in a world where you sit down to do an exam and you ask yourself
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11:45 - 11:49the question; I hope there are no surprises on the exam paper.
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11:49 - 11:52And your teachers think; I hope I prepared him for everything.
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11:52 - 11:55How would that prepare you then to go out into a world
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11:55 - 11:57that everyday is going to surprise you.
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11:57 - 12:01It's full of the surprises of the economy, of society,
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12:01 - 12:03of politics, of invention, of technology.
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12:03 - 12:05Everyday is a surprise.
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12:05 - 12:10Learning prepares you to cope with the surprises, education prepares you to cope with certainty,
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12:10 - 12:14there is no certainty.
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12:14 - 12:23The teacher stands between the child and the formal education.
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12:23 - 12:25Trying to make the child face that system.
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12:25 - 12:32And until that system breaks down, or disappears, she has an incredibly difficult job of keeping
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12:32 - 12:37the child's curiosity alive, while at the same time saying; listen, by the time you
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12:37 - 12:42are sixteen, you'll have to start memorizing certain things, so that you can go and sit
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12:42 - 12:48for the examination, clear it, and get out of school properly.
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12:48 - 12:51No one I know takes standardized tests for a living.
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12:51 - 12:55So why are we using standardized test to see if you are going to be good when we don't
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12:55 - 12:57have standardized tests after you take it.
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12:57 - 13:03It's infected the entire marketing eco-system of education, because famous colleges are
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13:03 - 13:07famous because they are picky about your SAT scores.
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13:07 - 13:10Parents want their kids to go to a famous college.
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13:10 - 13:15Parents push their school to create kids who will get into
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13:15 - 13:17a famous college by doing well on the SAT.
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13:17 - 13:22All which is corrupting the entire reason we have education in the first place.
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13:22 - 13:28If we can get parents, and teachers, and kids, and administrators, to have this conversation,
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13:28 - 13:35to just talk about it, then if at school board meetings, or if, at ten year reviews the questions
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13:35 - 13:40we are asking are not; how did your students do on the SAT.
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13:40 - 13:45But instead we say; the SAT makes no sense, famous colleges are a scam,
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13:45 - 13:49we need to create a different thing and we can have this conversation.
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13:49 - 14:00Then change will start to happen.
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14:00 - 14:10Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that enables the best universities to take
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14:10 - 14:14their best courses and put them out there, so that everyone around the world with an
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14:14 - 14:23Internet connection can benefit from having access to a great education.
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14:23 - 14:29As of today, which is the end of September we have 1.5 million students from 196 countries,
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14:29 - 14:31it's a little debatable how you count countries.
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14:31 - 14:36We have 195 courses from 33 universities.
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14:36 - 14:43Our larger courses have an enrollment of 130,000, our smaller courses have an enrollment of
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14:43 - 14:48only about 10,000, of course they're still growing, most of them haven't launched yet.
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14:48 - 14:57A medium class, when it launches, has about 50- 60,000 students registered.
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14:57 - 15:05Scale is interesting because it allows us to offer a high quality product at a very
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15:05 - 15:10low marginal cost per student, which is what allows us to take people who really can't
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15:10 - 15:15pay for an education and to provide them a free education.
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15:15 - 15:21Education for free at the highest quality because the costs are so low per student.
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15:21 - 15:26The student experience in Coursera is that the course starts on a given day and each
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15:26 - 15:29week a student has access to numerous pieces.
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15:29 - 15:33One piece is video lecture, and it's interactive videos, you don't sit there for an hour just
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15:33 - 15:36watching video, you get to interact with the video.
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15:36 - 15:40There is rigorous meaningful assessments of different kinds,
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15:40 - 15:42not just multiple choice but real exercises with real depth.
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15:42 - 15:47And there is a community of students that you get to interact with to ask questions
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15:47 - 15:50and have those questions answered by your fellow students.
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15:50 - 15:56So that you get both a better learning experience via peer teaching as well as a social experience,
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15:56 - 16:03where you feel like there is a community of learners surrounding this intellectual activity.
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16:03 - 16:07People often ask us whether universities are a thing of the past, whether universities
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16:07 - 16:10are going to die out, and I definitely do not think so.
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16:10 - 16:15There is something tremendous about getting
people together in a place -
16:15 - 16:17where serendipitous interactions can happen.
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16:17 - 16:21Where you can have face-to-face mentoring between an instructor and students
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16:21 - 16:25where students can talk to each other, and create together, and learn to debate ideas.
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16:25 - 16:33So this on-campus physical experience at the moment
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16:33 - 16:35has no virtual substitute that is equally effective.
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16:35 - 16:42Our goal here, and I think one needs to be pragmatic about this, is not to equalize necessarily
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16:42 - 16:49the opportunity of students who currently don't have any access, and make it equal
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16:49 - 16:52to what a fortunate Princeton student might have.
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16:52 - 16:55Because that might be a really worthy goal, but it's not something
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16:55 - 16:57that we can necessarily can achieve in the short time frame.
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16:57 - 17:01What we'd like to do, is we'd like to bring both of these up to considerably better than
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17:01 - 17:04where they are now, even if they don't end up being equal.
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17:04 - 17:09If we've improved a lot, of both the on-campus students, and the ones,
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17:09 - 17:21who currently don't have access, I think we've done an amazing thing.
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17:21 - 17:23So let me explain how revolutions work.
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17:23 - 17:27Revolutions destroy the perfect and then they enable the impossible.
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17:27 - 17:30They never go from everything is good to everything is good.
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17:30 - 17:33There is a lot of noise in the middle.
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17:33 - 17:38If we look at the music business; first it destroyed the record label business, the Internet.
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17:38 - 17:43And only now is it enabling independent musicians
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17:43 - 17:48Education tends to move in stairstep functions, in terms of change,
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17:48 - 17:49so when it does change, it explosively changes.
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17:49 - 17:54The move from pre-printing press to post-printing press is a one-time transition
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17:54 - 17:56in history of the world, in terms of education.
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17:56 - 17:59Online education is going to be like that as well. And we want to make sure that,
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17:59 - 18:02as a species, the human species gets it right.
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18:02 - 18:07One of the revolutions that we're going to see is where less and less of education is
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18:07 - 18:12about a conveyer of content, because that is going to be a commodity, and hopefully
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18:12 - 18:15one that's going to be available to everyone around the world.
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18:15 - 18:21And a lot more of what we think of as education is going to go back
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18:21 - 18:21to its original roots of teaching.
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18:21 - 18:27Where the instructor actually engages in a dialogue with the students and helps them
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18:27 - 18:31develop thinking skills, problem solving skills, passion for the discipline.
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18:31 - 18:37The kinds of things that are much easier to do in a face-to-face setting and a lot harder
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18:37 - 18:43to do in an online format, but for which, really the college experience, as we know
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18:43 - 18:48it; that it the right place where you'd like to put that kind of development of skills.
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18:48 - 18:54Now what I want to see from schools is; get kids to want it.
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18:54 - 19:06Create an environment where kids are restless until their need for information is satisfied.
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19:06 - 19:14Every time I get a question right, I get immediate engagement. I think the teacher has to step
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19:14 - 19:22back and say; today's topic is this. Open your notebook and figure it out for yourself.
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19:22 - 19:29What we need are teachers who will look people
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19:29 - 19:32and push them forward, and it's hard to do that on the Internet.
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19:32 - 19:35It really needs to be done in person.
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19:35 - 19:38Schools decide to be better because they see children being better.
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19:38 - 19:40And teachers... what does it say on teacher's t-shirts?
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19:40 - 19:44It says: 'We're in it for the outcome, not the income!'.
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19:44 - 19:48Teachers are there because they can see the change in their children.
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19:48 - 19:52If you add up every child in history, more children will leave school
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19:52 - 19:56in the next 30 years, than they've ever left school in history.
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19:56 - 20:03If I was going to make one change, I'd make their schooling just a little bit better.
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20:03 -And that would change history faster than anything else.
- Title:
- The Future of Learning, Networked Society - Ericsson
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Learn more at http://www.ericsson.com/networkedsociety
Can ICT redefine the way we learn in the Networked Society? Technology has enabled us to interact, innovate and share in whole new ways. This dynamic shift in mindset is creating profound change throughout our society. The Future of Learning looks at one part of that change, the potential to redefine how we learn and educate. Watch as we talk with world renowned experts and educators about its potential to shift away from traditional methods of learning based on memorization and repetition to more holistic approaches that focus on individual students' needs and self expression.
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