[Music]
in 2003 after I graduated from high
school I wanted to learn programming so
I enrolled at the University in a course
that was named computer science and
mathematics applied to science I
remember that we add only two weekly
hours of programming lessons and two
weekly hours of practical sessions
I remember that the teacher was writing
code on the blackboard and we had to
copy it down on our notebooks actual
paper notebooks not the computer the
teacher had an obsession with sorting
arrays of integrals as efficiently as
possible and I was not even sure what
was an array of Integris in the first
place actually I remember that I barely
wrote any actual line of code on an
actual computer by then so I started to
drop out slowly attending less and less
classes but soon enough the midterm
exams arrived and we had to write code
on paper and guess what we had to salt a
race of integrals as efficiently as
possible so that was when I dropped out
for good
it felt pointless and I felt unfit I
really wanted to learn programming but
not like that it could have been the end
of it but I was lucky enough to err
about a private computer science school
in Paris that add an alternative
approach it was project oriented and
really hands-on but it was also very
expensive I was lucky enough that my
father could afford that school for me
but I know that for many other young
people there they were not as lucky as I
was this school had some amazing
features that I could only
of at the time first it had rooms filled
with computers enough for the hundreds
of students who were studying there and
the rooms they were filled with students
day and night because their school was
open and accessible 24/7 second it was
project oriented and really really
hands-on we wrote tens of thousands of
lines of code we spent countless hours
actually programming but the third and
maybe the most interesting feature was
that the students were helping each
others the students were working
together and shared the knowledge they
cooperated and progressed together that
the school was also relying on more
traditional educational tools such as
teachers lectures timetables and
diplomas the lectures were not mandatory
and the attendance was poor I remember
that I learned the most working with my
friends and solving our problems I
really thrived in that school and I
successfully graduated a computer
really felt connected to that school
I really felt connected to that
educational model it basically changed
my life so I eventually enrolled as a
teacher there and I taught for five
years and during those five years of
teaching I learned many things but I
also realized how difficult it was to
stay up to date my students would come
to me pointing out new tools new
versions new libraries new trends I was
constantly fighting against change and
evolution in only five years of teaching
programming I already felt old school
compared to my students into
2013 everything changed in 2013 I joined
a new project a new school with a
radical approach the name of that school
is 42 in only five years of existence 42
was so successful that soon enough its
concept was exported in several
countries across the world now including
the Netherlands in 2018 I had the honor
to become the managing director of
Amsterdam’s coding College khuddam 42
and kadam offer a cutting-edge education
in computer science based on many years
of experience in computer science
education it is all the news that
technology evolves at an insane pace
think about the technological landscape
from 20 years ago and now compare it to
nowadays this evolution implies that
most of the technologies that our
students will use in 20 years from now
they just don’t exist yet so in order to
stay relevant with all Korea programmers
must be able to adapt to any new
challenge and technology yet to come
that’s why the core idea of 42 and
kadam’s
educational model is learning to learn
we want our students to be able to seek
to knowledge necessary to solve a
problem not being taught or to solve
them our educational model is complex
but I will boil it down to five main
features the first one is accessibility
we don’t require any diploma or
experience whatsoever beforehand we
start our education from absolute
absolute absolute scratch but our school
is also completely tuition
free we want to lower as many barriers
as possible between young people and our
education second we don’t have any
teachers and we don’t have lectures we
use an educational model called peer
learning the students learn together and
from each other free it is really
project oriented and really really
hands-on but the beauty of it is that
the students are not supposed to know
how to solve the projects before and
identifying and acquiring the bits of
knowledge necessary to solve the project
is a full part of the experience forth
with new teacher to assess the progress
of our students we use a system called
peer evaluation with this system the
students grade each other’s using scales
provided by the staff the students are
evaluated by their peers by their equals
not by someone we’re supposed to have a
definitive answer to their problem the
fifth is all of our students are
different they all learn at their own
pace vast comparison I like about that
is when you consider the age at which a
toddler learns to walk should it be nine
months or 13 months this will make no
impact on the adult life of his toddler
we believe that it should be the same
with learning programming that’s why our
projects have no deadline the students
can take the time they need to acquire
the knowledge necessary to solve them
but was more failing is a full part of
the learning experience that’s why the
only consequence to failing a project is
that the students are allowed to start
over and do better the next time
it’s
not a race it’s about learning with such
a flexible time frame our curriculum was
designed to last about three years and a
half some of the students needed a bit
less than two years to go through and
some other needed up to five years but
again
what matters is learning but computer
science must be much more computer
science is a formidable engine that
drives innovation but there are only
about three thousand and five hundred
students studying computer science in
the Netherlands each year when the tech
industry actually requires several times
more however it is really interesting to
know that in 2017 about 90% of the
students studying computer science will
men living roughly half of the potential
talents out that’s why we at Kadam want
to make inclusion and representation of
women one of the core idea of our
identity because we know that only in
diversity can we drive real innovation
thank you [Applause]
in 2003 after I graduated from high
school I wanted to learn programming so
I enrolled at the University in a course
that was named computer science and
mathematics applied to science I
remember that we add only two weekly
hours of programming lessons and two
weekly hours of practical sessions
I remember that the teacher was writing
code on the blackboard and we had to
copy it down on our notebooks actual
paper notebooks not the computer the
teacher had an obsession with sorting
arrays of integrals as efficiently as
possible and I was not even sure what
was an array of Integris in the first
place actually I remember that I barely
wrote any actual line of code on an
actual computer by then so I started to
drop out slowly attending less and less
classes but soon enough the midterm
exams arrived and we had to write code
on paper and guess what we had to salt a
race of integrals as efficiently as
possible so that was when I dropped out
for good
it felt pointless and I felt unfit I
really wanted to learn programming but
not like that it could have been the end
of it but I was lucky enough to err
about a private computer science school
in Paris that add an alternative
approach it was project oriented and
really hands-on but it was also very
expensive I was lucky enough that my
father could afford that school for me
but I know that for many other young
people there they were not as lucky as I
was this school had some amazing
features that I could only
of at the time first it had rooms filled
with computers enough for the hundreds
of students who were studying there and
the rooms they were filled with students
day and night because their school was
open and accessible 24/7 second it was
project oriented and really really
hands-on we wrote tens of thousands of
lines of code we spent countless hours
actually programming but the third and
maybe the most interesting feature was
that the students were helping each
others the students were working
together and shared the knowledge they
cooperated and progressed together that
the school was also relying on more
traditional educational tools such as
teachers lectures timetables and
diplomas the lectures were not mandatory
and the attendance was poor I remember
that I learned the most working with my
friends and solving our problems I
really thrived in that school and I
successfully graduated a computer
really felt connected to that school
I really felt connected to that
educational model it basically changed
my life so I eventually enrolled as a
teacher there and I taught for five
years and during those five years of
teaching I learned many things but I
also realized how difficult it was to
stay up to date my students would come
to me pointing out new tools new
versions new libraries new trends I was
constantly fighting against change and
evolution in only five years of teaching
programming I already felt old school
compared to my students into
2013 everything changed in 2013 I joined
a new project a new school with a
radical approach the name of that school
is 42 in only five years of existence 42
was so successful that soon enough its
concept was exported in several
countries across the world now including
the Netherlands in 2018 I had the honor
to become the managing director of
Amsterdam’s coding College khuddam 42
and kadam offer a cutting-edge education
in computer science based on many years
of experience in computer science
education it is all the news that
technology evolves at an insane pace
think about the technological landscape
from 20 years ago and now compare it to
nowadays this evolution implies that
most of the technologies that our
students will use in 20 years from now
they just don’t exist yet so in order to
stay relevant with all Korea programmers
must be able to adapt to any new
challenge and technology yet to come
that’s why the core idea of 42 and
kadam’s
educational model is learning to learn
we want our students to be able to seek
to knowledge necessary to solve a
problem not being taught or to solve
them our educational model is complex
but I will boil it down to five main
features the first one is accessibility
we don’t require any diploma or
experience whatsoever beforehand we
start our education from absolute
absolute absolute scratch but our school
is also completely tuition
free we want to lower as many barriers
as possible between young people and our
education second we don’t have any
teachers and we don’t have lectures we
use an educational model called peer
learning the students learn together and
from each other free it is really
project oriented and really really
hands-on but the beauty of it is that
the students are not supposed to know
how to solve the projects before and
identifying and acquiring the bits of
knowledge necessary to solve the project
is a full part of the experience forth
with new teacher to assess the progress
of our students we use a system called
peer evaluation with this system the
students grade each other’s using scales
provided by the staff the students are
evaluated by their peers by their equals
not by someone we’re supposed to have a
definitive answer to their problem the
fifth is all of our students are
different they all learn at their own
pace vast comparison I like about that
is when you consider the age at which a
toddler learns to walk should it be nine
months or 13 months this will make no
impact on the adult life of his toddler
we believe that it should be the same
with learning programming that’s why our
projects have no deadline the students
can take the time they need to acquire
the knowledge necessary to solve them
but was more failing is a full part of
the learning experience that’s why the
only consequence to failing a project is
that the students are allowed to start
over and do better the next time
it’s
not a race it’s about learning with such
a flexible time frame our curriculum was
designed to last about three years and a
half some of the students needed a bit
less than two years to go through and
some other needed up to five years but
again
what matters is learning but computer
science must be much more computer
science is a formidable engine that
drives innovation but there are only
about three thousand and five hundred
students studying computer science in
the Netherlands each year when the tech
industry actually requires several times
more however it is really interesting to
know that in 2017 about 90% of the
students studying computer science will
men living roughly half of the potential
talents out that’s why we at Kadam want
to make inclusion and representation of
women one of the core idea of our
identity because we know that only in
diversity can we drive real innovation
thank you [Applause]
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