okay so early storms and today I’m gonna
be talking about curiosity that’s it
okay
so what is curiosity it’s official
definition according to merriam-webster
it’s a strong as I haven’t know where
learn something my definition is that
thing that makes you Google questions
online I think it’s the coolest thing
ever
nowadays if you have a question is
something you can just look it up and
have the answer to it before you have to
go to a library read a book and but now
getting information is almost
instantaneous nowadays finding answers
to our questions has become easier than
ever thanks to search engines and
user-generated content created by the
people for the beat that’s the beautiful
thing about the being human we wonder
and that leads us and that leads to our
thirst for never-ending answers that’s
what curiosity is so funny enough
curiosity is the leading cause for
learning learning is something that
occurs every day it occurs spontaneously
and it’s triggered by one school thing
curiosity whenever humans need an answer
to something they look forward this is
how some of mankind’s greatest
innovations were created so some sort of
problem things like cell phones collars
planes everything basically everything
we use was created to solve since we’re
all now an individual’s curiosity is led
by a certain set of interests they
acquire throughout their lifetime but
due to the limitations of the school
system it’s become impossible to pursue
these interests rather than allowing the
mind to ponder
topics and to look for answers on its
own information has basically been
forced that the students in a student
really it’s been forced by the students
in a manner that’s similar to making an
English major learn rocket science
instead of letting students director can
focus on mastering skills that they’re
good at primary education has created
the grading system which require
students to divide their attention
amongst a variety of topics and many
students have little interest in these
topics as long as your grade stands
above 70 you can pass your classes and
advance to the next level of your
academic career as a result this has
created a system in which students are
being taught how to take tests and
memorize large quantities of information
so instead of mastering these concepts
they’re basically not memorizing them
though and that’s not what learning is
so this may be one of the reason why
America has ranked one of the lowest
when it comes to test scores training
students how to answer certain questions
does not test for understanding and that
leads to a lack of comprehension or even
long-term memory recollection so how do
we reverse the effects of this well the
answer is actually pretty soon let’s do
this discover and solve problems based
on their own stimulate curiosity in the
age of hyper information learning
something is a simple
googling it watching a video etc now
more than ever there’s a vast amount of
resources to where there is no excuse to
not being able to learn the answer to
something of course take everything you
see on the internet with a grain of salt
but there is an endless amount of
knowledge experience and facts in the
sea of information looking something up
is the equivalent to independent
research you are looking for answers to
questions in a very accessible manner if
students were allowed to openly learn
about things they were passionate about
I believe that would be able to master
that concept now I get to my story every
six every year students in my high
school participate in a project called
Senor X which is just like TEDx where we
get to research whatever we want and
come up with a product at the end of the
year to show what we learned my problem
was I had so much I was interested in
and I had no idea what to pursue so what
I ended up doing was just learning what
I want to do the first thing I ended up
learning was entirely by coincidence my
friends an entire bunch of nerds when it
comes to the hip-hop music as young
rebels we love it the project one of my
friends was working on it he’s actually
in the crowd right now he wanted to
create a mixtape so one day he needed a
ride to another friend’s house and
Windham and I ended up being his rival
and so they were trying to produce music
and I watched these two were working
together to make a full-length
to demo I did up sticking around that
day and I watched these two made music
and I thought coolest thing ever was
awesome I watched these two sat in a
room and they were just on a laptop
creating beats and it was crazy and so
with the help of friend log for two by
his alias EJ Loki I ended up learning a
little bit of music theory code I ended
up learning how to make beats over the
course of a month I went from not
knowing anything to be able to produce
the whole length track and actually up
here this little picture it’s like a
little sound cloud that’s the song I
ended up making risottos not the best
but I like so I’m no expert when it
comes to making music but it’s something
I learned myself and I thought it was
really cool and I continue to do it to
this day but I didn’t stop there I still
had a much more I wanted to learn I’ve
always loved video games and this love
has led me to accomplish two things
first of all I’ve always wanted to build
a beefy computer for most of you in
audience you probably don’t know this
but it’s actually really difficult to
provide high end games you need a lot of
processing power to run these games and
so I wanted to create a really expensive
computer
these games so I was never able to
accomplish this because I didn’t have
money but now that I had a time and semi
stable income from a job I was able to
do just that
now I’ve never bought a computer before
but if there’s one thing I’ve learned
it’s the easiest thing to do and you can
save a lot of money by just making your
own but that’s beside the point
so I watched a couple of YouTube videos
I visited a couple of tech blogs and
within a couple of hours I knew what I
needed to buy and how to assemble it
with some assistance from a friend I was
able to complete building my computer
for midnight and and so these two
pictures are here or that’s the computer
before I put the parts in and that’s the
computer after it was done and it
functions perfectly well it doesn’t cry
or anything it’s brain so the final
thing that I love IDEO games brought was
it finally led me to attempt to create
my own thanks to the help of a website
called code.org I ended up making some
of my own I’m making some of my own
games now one of the games ended up
making which is nowhere near complete
it’s a basic text adventure game where
you just choose your own fate and that’s
a picture of it right there
that’s like a picture of the title
screen it’s pretty basic it’s nothing
impressive but with my technology was
the best deck of you so throughout my
learning experience I came to a
realization everything I learned stems
from curiosity I took things I was
interested in and I learned from there
on my life and you know what now once
did it feel like
learning it just felt like it just oh
gosh I was having fun and that’s all
that mattered and in this one year I I
spent learning I had the most fun in my
four years I spent a night that
childlike on wonder I had a learning
came back and each moment felt magical
the same can be said about all the
people that presented up here today and
along with every other sets of life we
were all curious and came up with their
own answers to things we were passionate
about so this is what I think is lacking
in the educational system the ability
for students to have some time in school
to pursue things they’re interested in
because you never know what great
innovations we might come up with so
this is where I ask you the listeners to
find what you’re interested in and just
do it you have plenty of resources and
opportunities take advantage of them
because you never know what you will be
able to achieve with the knowledge you
acquire learning begins with curiosity
and as long as students are curious they
will retain information that they come
across with and will brighten their
journey for not only the threat of the
further education but also the rest of
their lives now I’ll leave you all with
the quote from Albert Einstein that sums
up our research pretty well I have no
special tablet I have only passionately
curious thank you
be talking about curiosity that’s it
okay
so what is curiosity it’s official
definition according to merriam-webster
it’s a strong as I haven’t know where
learn something my definition is that
thing that makes you Google questions
online I think it’s the coolest thing
ever
nowadays if you have a question is
something you can just look it up and
have the answer to it before you have to
go to a library read a book and but now
getting information is almost
instantaneous nowadays finding answers
to our questions has become easier than
ever thanks to search engines and
user-generated content created by the
people for the beat that’s the beautiful
thing about the being human we wonder
and that leads us and that leads to our
thirst for never-ending answers that’s
what curiosity is so funny enough
curiosity is the leading cause for
learning learning is something that
occurs every day it occurs spontaneously
and it’s triggered by one school thing
curiosity whenever humans need an answer
to something they look forward this is
how some of mankind’s greatest
innovations were created so some sort of
problem things like cell phones collars
planes everything basically everything
we use was created to solve since we’re
all now an individual’s curiosity is led
by a certain set of interests they
acquire throughout their lifetime but
due to the limitations of the school
system it’s become impossible to pursue
these interests rather than allowing the
mind to ponder
topics and to look for answers on its
own information has basically been
forced that the students in a student
really it’s been forced by the students
in a manner that’s similar to making an
English major learn rocket science
instead of letting students director can
focus on mastering skills that they’re
good at primary education has created
the grading system which require
students to divide their attention
amongst a variety of topics and many
students have little interest in these
topics as long as your grade stands
above 70 you can pass your classes and
advance to the next level of your
academic career as a result this has
created a system in which students are
being taught how to take tests and
memorize large quantities of information
so instead of mastering these concepts
they’re basically not memorizing them
though and that’s not what learning is
so this may be one of the reason why
America has ranked one of the lowest
when it comes to test scores training
students how to answer certain questions
does not test for understanding and that
leads to a lack of comprehension or even
long-term memory recollection so how do
we reverse the effects of this well the
answer is actually pretty soon let’s do
this discover and solve problems based
on their own stimulate curiosity in the
age of hyper information learning
something is a simple
googling it watching a video etc now
more than ever there’s a vast amount of
resources to where there is no excuse to
not being able to learn the answer to
something of course take everything you
see on the internet with a grain of salt
but there is an endless amount of
knowledge experience and facts in the
sea of information looking something up
is the equivalent to independent
research you are looking for answers to
questions in a very accessible manner if
students were allowed to openly learn
about things they were passionate about
I believe that would be able to master
that concept now I get to my story every
six every year students in my high
school participate in a project called
Senor X which is just like TEDx where we
get to research whatever we want and
come up with a product at the end of the
year to show what we learned my problem
was I had so much I was interested in
and I had no idea what to pursue so what
I ended up doing was just learning what
I want to do the first thing I ended up
learning was entirely by coincidence my
friends an entire bunch of nerds when it
comes to the hip-hop music as young
rebels we love it the project one of my
friends was working on it he’s actually
in the crowd right now he wanted to
create a mixtape so one day he needed a
ride to another friend’s house and
Windham and I ended up being his rival
and so they were trying to produce music
and I watched these two were working
together to make a full-length
to demo I did up sticking around that
day and I watched these two made music
and I thought coolest thing ever was
awesome I watched these two sat in a
room and they were just on a laptop
creating beats and it was crazy and so
with the help of friend log for two by
his alias EJ Loki I ended up learning a
little bit of music theory code I ended
up learning how to make beats over the
course of a month I went from not
knowing anything to be able to produce
the whole length track and actually up
here this little picture it’s like a
little sound cloud that’s the song I
ended up making risottos not the best
but I like so I’m no expert when it
comes to making music but it’s something
I learned myself and I thought it was
really cool and I continue to do it to
this day but I didn’t stop there I still
had a much more I wanted to learn I’ve
always loved video games and this love
has led me to accomplish two things
first of all I’ve always wanted to build
a beefy computer for most of you in
audience you probably don’t know this
but it’s actually really difficult to
provide high end games you need a lot of
processing power to run these games and
so I wanted to create a really expensive
computer
these games so I was never able to
accomplish this because I didn’t have
money but now that I had a time and semi
stable income from a job I was able to
do just that
now I’ve never bought a computer before
but if there’s one thing I’ve learned
it’s the easiest thing to do and you can
save a lot of money by just making your
own but that’s beside the point
so I watched a couple of YouTube videos
I visited a couple of tech blogs and
within a couple of hours I knew what I
needed to buy and how to assemble it
with some assistance from a friend I was
able to complete building my computer
for midnight and and so these two
pictures are here or that’s the computer
before I put the parts in and that’s the
computer after it was done and it
functions perfectly well it doesn’t cry
or anything it’s brain so the final
thing that I love IDEO games brought was
it finally led me to attempt to create
my own thanks to the help of a website
called code.org I ended up making some
of my own I’m making some of my own
games now one of the games ended up
making which is nowhere near complete
it’s a basic text adventure game where
you just choose your own fate and that’s
a picture of it right there
that’s like a picture of the title
screen it’s pretty basic it’s nothing
impressive but with my technology was
the best deck of you so throughout my
learning experience I came to a
realization everything I learned stems
from curiosity I took things I was
interested in and I learned from there
on my life and you know what now once
did it feel like
learning it just felt like it just oh
gosh I was having fun and that’s all
that mattered and in this one year I I
spent learning I had the most fun in my
four years I spent a night that
childlike on wonder I had a learning
came back and each moment felt magical
the same can be said about all the
people that presented up here today and
along with every other sets of life we
were all curious and came up with their
own answers to things we were passionate
about so this is what I think is lacking
in the educational system the ability
for students to have some time in school
to pursue things they’re interested in
because you never know what great
innovations we might come up with so
this is where I ask you the listeners to
find what you’re interested in and just
do it you have plenty of resources and
opportunities take advantage of them
because you never know what you will be
able to achieve with the knowledge you
acquire learning begins with curiosity
and as long as students are curious they
will retain information that they come
across with and will brighten their
journey for not only the threat of the
further education but also the rest of
their lives now I’ll leave you all with
the quote from Albert Einstein that sums
up our research pretty well I have no
special tablet I have only passionately
curious thank you
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