one of the biggest revelations of my
life has been that everything is
connected our education system does not
do a good job of teaching point number
one though it takes us through a system
and it doesn’t empower to be the drivers
of our learning and he was like
personalized experiences so why is it
wearing personalized so something’s
happening is a group love for art
convention and entrepreneurship I was
interested in many things and I went to
school and created experiences for kids
my mom’s daycare so here’s a picture of
me I’m the one dressed like a clown I
would put on experiences for the kids of
my mom’s daycare I learned how to create
balloon animals I also created a real
world story rather than our basement
finery organizing some veggies that we
have from bench bench or creating and
economy by creating our money and chefs
and having stores all in our basement
and that was a lot of fun as I was
growing up but when it was time
all that I was told get the degree that
you can use in engineering dude there
was only one problem I get an engineer
West they didn’t teach it in school so
my mom said did an engineering degree it
was like ha you want me to do something
but I don’t know what it is but I’ll try
some you know learn so I went I got an
engineering degree
it was hard we did integrals system
dynamics math vibrations electronics and
it was all interesting and very
theoretical but it wasn’t until my third
year in college that I took fluid
dynamics and I was like Oh integrals are
related to fluids and there was an issue
because all this is disconnected you’re
learning these equations we don’t know
why these equations even though these
equations were derived from something
physical but if they had just connected
it it would have made sense so it was my
third year engineering school is like oh
it was a reason why they taught it but
why did they just tell it upfront that
there’s actually a real world connection
to all of this theory because all the
theory is deriving something real but
the reason why became the
Engineering was like we wanted to mix
them and so these are some projects that
I create that this was a piggy bank way
I had a 3d model it first time I ever
got to use a 3d printer back in around
2005 we created a running assistive
device we created a lean steering
vehicle we put a title in Lego and then
we actually got to build it and I got to
weld and use the machine shop and I
loved it and so I was like yes
mechanical engineering is for me because
I finally get to make stuff but then I
start in the real world and I started in
the corporate America company most of it
is sitting in a queue doing paperwork
just converting from one unit to another
and just looking up cones for pressure
vessels and this is so different than
what I was excited about when I was in
school and I realized that my passions
had branched off from the work that I
was doing this resulted of me sitting on
my desk and looking at the clock and
waiting for those nine hours to pass by
so I could finally go home this was very
satisfying I was so far from what I
wanted to be doing that when I went home
I
had to use my creativity and so I would
paint so I realize it was a very stark
divergence of what I was interested in
and what I was catching about so what I
really wanted to happen was I wanted
these paths to merge but how would work
that’s what pays bills that’s how you
survive that’s going to make a living
you need to work together your passions
can make you happy so then the question
became how can i sustain myself and they
happy so first I need to find the
problem I was unhappy the why I was told
at work you ask too many questions we
don’t change something unless it’s
broken and I’m good you’re different at
work this was our cafeteria and there
was a bunch of round tables and the
thing was was we had grades at work
grade levels and it wasn’t culturally
acceptable to talk to someone really
above you or below you or in a different
organization because they look at you
like why are you talking to me if you
did already scheduled to have much of
somebody you would go and get lunch and
go to your desk and start being very
isolated experience
so being you I was like well this is
weird for me I kind of imagined
something different so I have an idea
the idea was to
painted table in the middle of the
cafeteria and stain colors and just
sitting there meant you’re hoping to
have a conversation
so here’s my vision people from
different organizations come in talking
to each other crazy thought right there
so I hear a team called the mr. taebel
team and very not culturally what was
there people took the hints on their
hands and they put on the table and
became a mixer table and they’re still
in the middle of the cafeteria I’ve got
some personal development classes and
they’re going to take a innovation test
and we had to take the myers-briggs
which is a personality test and then
they graphed all of us on the guy so he
was about the normal distribution of
where the majority the company was they
put some paper so we get this this plus
we have one outlier Sherman you ever
feel out of place people say you’re
different yes yes yes
okay I kind of word to describe it these
people like to do things better and
people over there like to do things
differently and one of the majority
company was an is TJ introverted that
same thinking judging oh it was a
complete opposite and ENFP extroverted
intuitive feeling receiving well now we
finally had language to explain to
people why it is different and never
could understand why they were different
so now I’m going to begin my journey to
research to find the solution so I
started reading but our termination
because the
was doing the professional development
recommended this book to me I said you
know I’m different what you recommend is
I read this book the art of innovation I
read it and that’s how I think and there
are other people who think like me so it
must not be that crazy and so I went to
the library and I started getting other
books back early and I start looking at
the front covers welcome I these books
really resonate with me and I read the
open jacket and they’re all in Palo Alto
California now I didn’t really know what
Silicon Valley was it was something that
they would say on the TV I had never
been more west in Chicago excited to do
so I realize I had to make a change so
there’s a couple things that I was
realizing now they’re kindergarten to
sixth grade you go through each from
kindergarten oh you’re going into first
grade from verse an amiable second from
elementary school you know you’re going
to middle school from middle school
before you get there you know you’re
going into high school before you take
your next step you know you’re going to
college and usually before you graduate
you have a job there’s a crib and they
become a nice little cog
and holy working machine so to make a
change and I realized I was over here
but I really wanted to get to California
where you can fix like a crazy hang out
a little bit about my journey before I
knew what job I was going to take and
now I wanted to take a different
approach because I wanted a different
result so the approach that I took at
this time was I moved to California
without having a plane okay now this is
in the heart of the recession my parents
were asking the house crazy but when
you’re genuinely unhappy then it is
easier to make a change so I have a new
plan idea was to go to the place that I
always write for me and do all of these
different things so I was teaching
tennis I had a photography company I got
involved at the Stanford design school I
started a blog I took some classes some
continuing education classes I read
business plan I was a youth trip advisor
I was even at a startup trying to embed
doctors and cellphones and all these
things were things I enjoy but the
question was was which one of these
would make money because I needed both
so some of them made some money and then
an opportunity came up where I got
involved with Design School Stanford
because this was the heart of what of
these people who thought like me and
someone was looking for someone
technical
kiss it was not even so I applied I said
hey I’m good with kids I have an
engineering degree and I started
teaching at once a week after school
program turned into becoming the
director of education and then the
director of the whole thing and I
started my career in educational
robotics Willow Garage
I had the CEO say hey I’m fourteen
million dollars of robots sitting here
on weekends can we do something it’s
your thing and get it out to kids and
then when I worked at with glass I
thought some kids and one of the parents
came up to me and said hey my kids go to
woodland school we’re looking for a
technology teacher would you be
interested so I started teaching every
four years I mean while I was doing
technique isn’t using my classroom as a
lab to create a technology program that
was scalable because I realized that was
an issue when I was working at the spots
and so now I’m doing techie kids holding
so here’s a little bit some pictures one
was laughs I could open it sent red
Belmonte so you can see that I was
teaching with a Lego Mindstorm and
teaching kids coding and programming
this is a $400,000 robot created by
Willow Garage this is called the pr2
I would bring it to the tech museum and
I hadn’t
their engines to program it was really
cool we had kids from – $2.99 coming to
program this robot they were teaching at
the rock arena Negev style school I
crafted the technology program for
kindergarten through eighth grade
teaching hands robotics and programming
and electronics and all the really cool
stuff I developed in engineering
incorporating it into the curriculum so
we have teaching engineering technology
design create two main kids all these
things I’m interested in
raise your hand if you’re interesting
that is one of these things I see a
bunch of parents and luckily I found out
that pretty much everyone is interested
in at least one of these things
so let’s rearrange those so now we have
an engineering technology teaching kids
in creativity and design if we combine
those we have teaching engineering
teaching creativity and design and
thinking and product design and if you
sum of all of this you get 10 kids i sum
up everything I was interested in
because I saw that if you have something
that
people can relate with that they get
interested as well techy kids is a way
for kids to be able to learn build
amazing projects get inspired and find
their passions it’s a platform to
connect learners maker tools schools and
teachers in an organized system that
helps scaffold the original project
creation process multiple maker tech
tools and concepts are seamlessly
integrated in a project-based way taught
with the techie kid system including
robotics with a thymio robot the
Internet of Things with a Sears cloud
professor and Arduino user interaction
design with scratch and the makey makey
3d modeling with Tinkercad and much much
more
now different tools can be taught in the
same classroom at the same time the
content is delivered on techie kids
allowing personalized learning paths and
learners to go at their own pace
now non-technical teachers can start
getting comfortable with integrating
technology into their lessons a
teacher’s dashboard allows the tracking
of a group’s progress teachers can also
use techie kids to learn and explore the
content firsthand as well making it
easier to bring the newest and most
exciting technology into their
classrooms in a meaningful way to create
extraordinary creations and inventions
that make the world a little bit better
you take in a problem and you get out of
solution that’s a great thing about
doing all this it can be used in the
real world
so if you do this stuff in the classroom
then when it comes to real life you can
apply these critical thinking skills so
as an example problem I was on happening
with my job to understand I had to ask
questions and I took those personality
tests provocation is basically when you
have to take a large leap because they
can do something crazy you can get
something to more innovative than if you
had just taken the next step but you can
do something totally crazy and then you
can take a step back I’m not a
California and brain storm was all of
those opportunities that I took
advantage of then I converged towards
solution where I started involved in
robotics education I had an idea to
implement which was too techie kids and
then you have to test inner a test
iterate which I do in my classroom as I
made it and then I would observe people
using it and so forth to come up with a
final product to share that and that’s
the solution so you can take that
methodology and you can fly in the
classroom by having kids work on
projects that they care about with
purpose so here’s our current system
except let me add a little bit
the education system is also broken down
into subjects so we have physical
education art music social studies
English and let us say you take some
math you decide to go farther with it
you end up narrowing your focus to doing
making a major in college that when you
do a job you’re usually doing an even
smaller part of that if you’re in a
large company okay let’s show you
something that’s closer to reality let’s
look at everyone’s path so here we have
a subject across time from kindergarten
through your job but the reality is
these are the options available to you
the thing is in school you’re taught so
much but in college there’s a lot more
majors that have no exposure to so
there’s no path to get from here to here
because the education system has been
around so long but colleges are usually
there to fill a need so colleges are the
next thing to start offering programs
that are available for jobs but the
thing is the variety of jobs are even
bigger than what they teach in school
but there’s no path to get there which
leads into this stack of there are jobs
like instead and engineering that are
currently there and there’s new
opportunities opening up all the time
but our education
so currently it’s pretty stagnant and
they’re not taking advantage of that
opportunity and most people will do
majors of things that they’re
comfortable with things they’ve done
before and so the pipeline to get to
these virtual reality robotics
unfortunately it’s very oh yeah
closer to reality there’s life and it
like everything is connected it’s not
broken up into subject matter and
category when was the last person I’m
about to become geometry much why don’t
you solve this no light is a lot more
involved a lot more things that not you
and you have to do at all because things
are actually connected but in school
they create that programming because
it’s better for the student they created
that program because it’s just not as
goal to pass on a kid from grade to
grade to break it down as a subject
matter but it’s not really the ideal way
to teach them money so let’s imagine a
better way so this is what I imagine I’d
imagine in the center there being a
purpose and you do that purpose in
kindergarten you do a small project and
then the river the years to do a more
complex project in a more complex
project doing a process over and over
again but getting experts in different
areas so the way you six months
like that cake your eat you expand KQ 12
so happens when people then do the
career paths it launches out except
without creating that big gap that is
there before and if you can personalize
learning people can better take their
own paths they can take their own path
from doing all their way combine your
passions with what they’re learning and
then become subject matter experts so
this could be the future of learning
where kids collaborating working
together in creating projects talking to
another or this into the future of
learning either unchanged or looking at
a computer screen listening to something
than not engaging it’s up to you will
you be an active participate or creating
your path and driving your future or
will you be passively engaging and be a
passion during your journey
though your path be I have my work and I
have my passion of separating or will
you find a way for mine so some things
to remember take control of your
learning it pass there’s lots of
resources where you can do your own
learning and take your passions and
combine them finally to connect
passions to your work and lastly is a
little the equation where I came up with
creativity plus skill plus the positive
attitude is equal to success thank you
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
[Music]
life has been that everything is
connected our education system does not
do a good job of teaching point number
one though it takes us through a system
and it doesn’t empower to be the drivers
of our learning and he was like
personalized experiences so why is it
wearing personalized so something’s
happening is a group love for art
convention and entrepreneurship I was
interested in many things and I went to
school and created experiences for kids
my mom’s daycare so here’s a picture of
me I’m the one dressed like a clown I
would put on experiences for the kids of
my mom’s daycare I learned how to create
balloon animals I also created a real
world story rather than our basement
finery organizing some veggies that we
have from bench bench or creating and
economy by creating our money and chefs
and having stores all in our basement
and that was a lot of fun as I was
growing up but when it was time
all that I was told get the degree that
you can use in engineering dude there
was only one problem I get an engineer
West they didn’t teach it in school so
my mom said did an engineering degree it
was like ha you want me to do something
but I don’t know what it is but I’ll try
some you know learn so I went I got an
engineering degree
it was hard we did integrals system
dynamics math vibrations electronics and
it was all interesting and very
theoretical but it wasn’t until my third
year in college that I took fluid
dynamics and I was like Oh integrals are
related to fluids and there was an issue
because all this is disconnected you’re
learning these equations we don’t know
why these equations even though these
equations were derived from something
physical but if they had just connected
it it would have made sense so it was my
third year engineering school is like oh
it was a reason why they taught it but
why did they just tell it upfront that
there’s actually a real world connection
to all of this theory because all the
theory is deriving something real but
the reason why became the
Engineering was like we wanted to mix
them and so these are some projects that
I create that this was a piggy bank way
I had a 3d model it first time I ever
got to use a 3d printer back in around
2005 we created a running assistive
device we created a lean steering
vehicle we put a title in Lego and then
we actually got to build it and I got to
weld and use the machine shop and I
loved it and so I was like yes
mechanical engineering is for me because
I finally get to make stuff but then I
start in the real world and I started in
the corporate America company most of it
is sitting in a queue doing paperwork
just converting from one unit to another
and just looking up cones for pressure
vessels and this is so different than
what I was excited about when I was in
school and I realized that my passions
had branched off from the work that I
was doing this resulted of me sitting on
my desk and looking at the clock and
waiting for those nine hours to pass by
so I could finally go home this was very
satisfying I was so far from what I
wanted to be doing that when I went home
I
had to use my creativity and so I would
paint so I realize it was a very stark
divergence of what I was interested in
and what I was catching about so what I
really wanted to happen was I wanted
these paths to merge but how would work
that’s what pays bills that’s how you
survive that’s going to make a living
you need to work together your passions
can make you happy so then the question
became how can i sustain myself and they
happy so first I need to find the
problem I was unhappy the why I was told
at work you ask too many questions we
don’t change something unless it’s
broken and I’m good you’re different at
work this was our cafeteria and there
was a bunch of round tables and the
thing was was we had grades at work
grade levels and it wasn’t culturally
acceptable to talk to someone really
above you or below you or in a different
organization because they look at you
like why are you talking to me if you
did already scheduled to have much of
somebody you would go and get lunch and
go to your desk and start being very
isolated experience
so being you I was like well this is
weird for me I kind of imagined
something different so I have an idea
the idea was to
painted table in the middle of the
cafeteria and stain colors and just
sitting there meant you’re hoping to
have a conversation
so here’s my vision people from
different organizations come in talking
to each other crazy thought right there
so I hear a team called the mr. taebel
team and very not culturally what was
there people took the hints on their
hands and they put on the table and
became a mixer table and they’re still
in the middle of the cafeteria I’ve got
some personal development classes and
they’re going to take a innovation test
and we had to take the myers-briggs
which is a personality test and then
they graphed all of us on the guy so he
was about the normal distribution of
where the majority the company was they
put some paper so we get this this plus
we have one outlier Sherman you ever
feel out of place people say you’re
different yes yes yes
okay I kind of word to describe it these
people like to do things better and
people over there like to do things
differently and one of the majority
company was an is TJ introverted that
same thinking judging oh it was a
complete opposite and ENFP extroverted
intuitive feeling receiving well now we
finally had language to explain to
people why it is different and never
could understand why they were different
so now I’m going to begin my journey to
research to find the solution so I
started reading but our termination
because the
was doing the professional development
recommended this book to me I said you
know I’m different what you recommend is
I read this book the art of innovation I
read it and that’s how I think and there
are other people who think like me so it
must not be that crazy and so I went to
the library and I started getting other
books back early and I start looking at
the front covers welcome I these books
really resonate with me and I read the
open jacket and they’re all in Palo Alto
California now I didn’t really know what
Silicon Valley was it was something that
they would say on the TV I had never
been more west in Chicago excited to do
so I realize I had to make a change so
there’s a couple things that I was
realizing now they’re kindergarten to
sixth grade you go through each from
kindergarten oh you’re going into first
grade from verse an amiable second from
elementary school you know you’re going
to middle school from middle school
before you get there you know you’re
going into high school before you take
your next step you know you’re going to
college and usually before you graduate
you have a job there’s a crib and they
become a nice little cog
and holy working machine so to make a
change and I realized I was over here
but I really wanted to get to California
where you can fix like a crazy hang out
a little bit about my journey before I
knew what job I was going to take and
now I wanted to take a different
approach because I wanted a different
result so the approach that I took at
this time was I moved to California
without having a plane okay now this is
in the heart of the recession my parents
were asking the house crazy but when
you’re genuinely unhappy then it is
easier to make a change so I have a new
plan idea was to go to the place that I
always write for me and do all of these
different things so I was teaching
tennis I had a photography company I got
involved at the Stanford design school I
started a blog I took some classes some
continuing education classes I read
business plan I was a youth trip advisor
I was even at a startup trying to embed
doctors and cellphones and all these
things were things I enjoy but the
question was was which one of these
would make money because I needed both
so some of them made some money and then
an opportunity came up where I got
involved with Design School Stanford
because this was the heart of what of
these people who thought like me and
someone was looking for someone
technical
kiss it was not even so I applied I said
hey I’m good with kids I have an
engineering degree and I started
teaching at once a week after school
program turned into becoming the
director of education and then the
director of the whole thing and I
started my career in educational
robotics Willow Garage
I had the CEO say hey I’m fourteen
million dollars of robots sitting here
on weekends can we do something it’s
your thing and get it out to kids and
then when I worked at with glass I
thought some kids and one of the parents
came up to me and said hey my kids go to
woodland school we’re looking for a
technology teacher would you be
interested so I started teaching every
four years I mean while I was doing
technique isn’t using my classroom as a
lab to create a technology program that
was scalable because I realized that was
an issue when I was working at the spots
and so now I’m doing techie kids holding
so here’s a little bit some pictures one
was laughs I could open it sent red
Belmonte so you can see that I was
teaching with a Lego Mindstorm and
teaching kids coding and programming
this is a $400,000 robot created by
Willow Garage this is called the pr2
I would bring it to the tech museum and
I hadn’t
their engines to program it was really
cool we had kids from – $2.99 coming to
program this robot they were teaching at
the rock arena Negev style school I
crafted the technology program for
kindergarten through eighth grade
teaching hands robotics and programming
and electronics and all the really cool
stuff I developed in engineering
incorporating it into the curriculum so
we have teaching engineering technology
design create two main kids all these
things I’m interested in
raise your hand if you’re interesting
that is one of these things I see a
bunch of parents and luckily I found out
that pretty much everyone is interested
in at least one of these things
so let’s rearrange those so now we have
an engineering technology teaching kids
in creativity and design if we combine
those we have teaching engineering
teaching creativity and design and
thinking and product design and if you
sum of all of this you get 10 kids i sum
up everything I was interested in
because I saw that if you have something
that
people can relate with that they get
interested as well techy kids is a way
for kids to be able to learn build
amazing projects get inspired and find
their passions it’s a platform to
connect learners maker tools schools and
teachers in an organized system that
helps scaffold the original project
creation process multiple maker tech
tools and concepts are seamlessly
integrated in a project-based way taught
with the techie kid system including
robotics with a thymio robot the
Internet of Things with a Sears cloud
professor and Arduino user interaction
design with scratch and the makey makey
3d modeling with Tinkercad and much much
more
now different tools can be taught in the
same classroom at the same time the
content is delivered on techie kids
allowing personalized learning paths and
learners to go at their own pace
now non-technical teachers can start
getting comfortable with integrating
technology into their lessons a
teacher’s dashboard allows the tracking
of a group’s progress teachers can also
use techie kids to learn and explore the
content firsthand as well making it
easier to bring the newest and most
exciting technology into their
classrooms in a meaningful way to create
extraordinary creations and inventions
that make the world a little bit better
you take in a problem and you get out of
solution that’s a great thing about
doing all this it can be used in the
real world
so if you do this stuff in the classroom
then when it comes to real life you can
apply these critical thinking skills so
as an example problem I was on happening
with my job to understand I had to ask
questions and I took those personality
tests provocation is basically when you
have to take a large leap because they
can do something crazy you can get
something to more innovative than if you
had just taken the next step but you can
do something totally crazy and then you
can take a step back I’m not a
California and brain storm was all of
those opportunities that I took
advantage of then I converged towards
solution where I started involved in
robotics education I had an idea to
implement which was too techie kids and
then you have to test inner a test
iterate which I do in my classroom as I
made it and then I would observe people
using it and so forth to come up with a
final product to share that and that’s
the solution so you can take that
methodology and you can fly in the
classroom by having kids work on
projects that they care about with
purpose so here’s our current system
except let me add a little bit
the education system is also broken down
into subjects so we have physical
education art music social studies
English and let us say you take some
math you decide to go farther with it
you end up narrowing your focus to doing
making a major in college that when you
do a job you’re usually doing an even
smaller part of that if you’re in a
large company okay let’s show you
something that’s closer to reality let’s
look at everyone’s path so here we have
a subject across time from kindergarten
through your job but the reality is
these are the options available to you
the thing is in school you’re taught so
much but in college there’s a lot more
majors that have no exposure to so
there’s no path to get from here to here
because the education system has been
around so long but colleges are usually
there to fill a need so colleges are the
next thing to start offering programs
that are available for jobs but the
thing is the variety of jobs are even
bigger than what they teach in school
but there’s no path to get there which
leads into this stack of there are jobs
like instead and engineering that are
currently there and there’s new
opportunities opening up all the time
but our education
so currently it’s pretty stagnant and
they’re not taking advantage of that
opportunity and most people will do
majors of things that they’re
comfortable with things they’ve done
before and so the pipeline to get to
these virtual reality robotics
unfortunately it’s very oh yeah
closer to reality there’s life and it
like everything is connected it’s not
broken up into subject matter and
category when was the last person I’m
about to become geometry much why don’t
you solve this no light is a lot more
involved a lot more things that not you
and you have to do at all because things
are actually connected but in school
they create that programming because
it’s better for the student they created
that program because it’s just not as
goal to pass on a kid from grade to
grade to break it down as a subject
matter but it’s not really the ideal way
to teach them money so let’s imagine a
better way so this is what I imagine I’d
imagine in the center there being a
purpose and you do that purpose in
kindergarten you do a small project and
then the river the years to do a more
complex project in a more complex
project doing a process over and over
again but getting experts in different
areas so the way you six months
like that cake your eat you expand KQ 12
so happens when people then do the
career paths it launches out except
without creating that big gap that is
there before and if you can personalize
learning people can better take their
own paths they can take their own path
from doing all their way combine your
passions with what they’re learning and
then become subject matter experts so
this could be the future of learning
where kids collaborating working
together in creating projects talking to
another or this into the future of
learning either unchanged or looking at
a computer screen listening to something
than not engaging it’s up to you will
you be an active participate or creating
your path and driving your future or
will you be passively engaging and be a
passion during your journey
though your path be I have my work and I
have my passion of separating or will
you find a way for mine so some things
to remember take control of your
learning it pass there’s lots of
resources where you can do your own
learning and take your passions and
combine them finally to connect
passions to your work and lastly is a
little the equation where I came up with
creativity plus skill plus the positive
attitude is equal to success thank you
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