[Applause]
it’s funny usually when I’m in front of
this many people I’m not exactly giving
a formal talk
I’m usually either singing or freestyle
rapping if you don’t know freestyle
rapping is it’s very spontaneous you’re
rhyming words with one another so I
really don’t prepare for that this talk
though I guarantee you I prepared quite
a bit though it wouldn’t feel completely
natural me to leave everything not up to
chance so without that I’m gonna do a
little freestyle rap if that’s okay with
you guys
so usually start with a word in this
case gonna start with the word phone
because the phone my pockets really
bothering me right now and foam around
academic tone which is what this talk
should kind of be about academic nearly
runs with credit and I give myself
credit but that sounded better in my
head before I said it so I keep going
that’s the reason people clap yet if you
haven’t deduced by now I’m a SoundCloud
musician and a SoundCloud rapper among
many other things including a college
team and through this experience with
music I’ve learned a lot about education
many of you are probably wondering how
does this kids new music experience have
anything to do with education well it’s
a really cool story but let’s start with
something that’s kind of boring back in
English and English classes throughout
high school we have to memorize 6070
words but we never really learned those
words we just memorized them it’s not
that exciting
exciting example but I don’t remember
any of those words I don’t use any of
those words in any of my freestyle
robson going forward I mean I probably
won’t remember them but that was all
about being prepared in fact to be
successful you had to prepare quite
adequately but when I do use it I don’t
actually prepare that much I don’t know
all the words to my songs I don’t know
how the audience is going to react and I
don’t really memorize my skills I’m
doing it all on the fly leaving it up to
chance so my English teacher from 11th
grade would probably say you’re gonna
fail she’s probably right I’m setting
myself up for failure but it’s actually
been everything like that
in fact music has been one of my biggest
successes so this is a real-world
example of something I’ve taken from you
know the classroom and ideas when the
class we’re gonna brought it into the
real world many of our students in
today’s interconnected world are going
to have similar passions and goals and
motivations and they’re gonna have to
try to achieve those things what I’m
gonna do during this talk it’s going to
give the educators in the room a roadmap
to help their students take what they
learn in the classroom and what the
experience in the classroom
like I’ve done with music so without
talking too much about it let’s get
right to it the first example I want to
talk about is a prototypical champion by
the Stanford design school the maker
movement and tons of team leaders
throughout the country world it’s all
about just building it’s getting the
ideas from here your head and actually
putting them into the real world when I
make music I don’t spend too much time
thinking I spend time doing writing a
song I start with a word and then
another word and then
with a beat see if he I like I don’t
like I throw it out we just keep working
and it’s learning by doing we don’t have
enough of this in the school system and
I think that that’s a shame with the
rise of tons of open-source tools and
the information flow that rates that
menu can’t believe we can take things
like building a map and learning about
maps into something reading programmer
data into a map or you’re learning about
robots but you can actually build a
robot it seems so simple and intuitive
but it’s not happening that much
throughout the country so educators I
challenge you to take this initiative is
role and help your students connect the
tools available to them and actually
build something now the second idea I
want to talk about is memorization or in
the case of my own music it’s the lack
of I can’t really drop site all my songs
from memory and that’s not that great
but the thing is memorizing isn’t all
good in fact Stanford math educator Joe
Kohler explains that you know we’re
favoring students that memorize quickly
but that doesn’t favor the people that
think deeply creatively in fact we’re
coming up with a generation of people
that can’t think outside the box at
least in my own music I feel like that’s
all this is just thinking outside the
box thinking about different ideas and
approaching them in a different way so
educators I challenge you to instead of
focusing solely on memorization we’ve in
creative aspects something that would
benefit lives of deep thinkers one
example could be you have the vocabulary
test that boring boring vocabulary test
instead of it being word definition how
about the student write a story have
them come up with something along the
way it’s a poem or even a song I think
this is a great way to engage all types
those fingers and really inspire people
to
think outside the box now the third idea
are going to talk about is something
I’ve been sort of eating at throughout
this entire process it’s a you
spontaneous going with the flow I could
have told you that this was all going to
happen four months ago with an album a
documentary and tons of interviews and
and stories it’s it’s been a journey but
it’s all been left up to chance when I
go to a concert I’m being spontaneous I
don’t know if there’s gonna be a
microphone that works I don’t know what
the weather’s gonna be like and I don’t
know how the audience is going to react
to a song they don’t know but this
process of just going with the flow and
thinking about things in the moment is
so crucial as we see information flow at
rapid paces jobs changing daily the
exponential growth of certain
technologies we have to be able to adapt
in the moment so educators whether you
have a student who wants to become a
doctor and has to see a new disease or
they are covering a news story and have
to decide what facts to cover or maybe
they’re a business person they want to
aspire to be business persons have to
pitch an idea but something goes awry in
the meeting these ideas of spontaneity
they translate so well to this
interconnected world now in conclusion I
think with the the growth of all these
technologies the idea focused on the
education experience we have to remember
that our students are the next
generation we have to remember that we
have to prepare them for the real world
in a way that’s how I felt about school
it was preparing me for my next phase
and through hopefully the ideas and
thoughts I’ve shared you can to empower
them if I can liken it to something
educators in this case you’re the rap
star you’re the musician the children the students they’re your audience now
it’s funny usually when I’m in front of
this many people I’m not exactly giving
a formal talk
I’m usually either singing or freestyle
rapping if you don’t know freestyle
rapping is it’s very spontaneous you’re
rhyming words with one another so I
really don’t prepare for that this talk
though I guarantee you I prepared quite
a bit though it wouldn’t feel completely
natural me to leave everything not up to
chance so without that I’m gonna do a
little freestyle rap if that’s okay with
you guys
so usually start with a word in this
case gonna start with the word phone
because the phone my pockets really
bothering me right now and foam around
academic tone which is what this talk
should kind of be about academic nearly
runs with credit and I give myself
credit but that sounded better in my
head before I said it so I keep going
that’s the reason people clap yet if you
haven’t deduced by now I’m a SoundCloud
musician and a SoundCloud rapper among
many other things including a college
team and through this experience with
music I’ve learned a lot about education
many of you are probably wondering how
does this kids new music experience have
anything to do with education well it’s
a really cool story but let’s start with
something that’s kind of boring back in
English and English classes throughout
high school we have to memorize 6070
words but we never really learned those
words we just memorized them it’s not
that exciting
exciting example but I don’t remember
any of those words I don’t use any of
those words in any of my freestyle
robson going forward I mean I probably
won’t remember them but that was all
about being prepared in fact to be
successful you had to prepare quite
adequately but when I do use it I don’t
actually prepare that much I don’t know
all the words to my songs I don’t know
how the audience is going to react and I
don’t really memorize my skills I’m
doing it all on the fly leaving it up to
chance so my English teacher from 11th
grade would probably say you’re gonna
fail she’s probably right I’m setting
myself up for failure but it’s actually
been everything like that
in fact music has been one of my biggest
successes so this is a real-world
example of something I’ve taken from you
know the classroom and ideas when the
class we’re gonna brought it into the
real world many of our students in
today’s interconnected world are going
to have similar passions and goals and
motivations and they’re gonna have to
try to achieve those things what I’m
gonna do during this talk it’s going to
give the educators in the room a roadmap
to help their students take what they
learn in the classroom and what the
experience in the classroom
like I’ve done with music so without
talking too much about it let’s get
right to it the first example I want to
talk about is a prototypical champion by
the Stanford design school the maker
movement and tons of team leaders
throughout the country world it’s all
about just building it’s getting the
ideas from here your head and actually
putting them into the real world when I
make music I don’t spend too much time
thinking I spend time doing writing a
song I start with a word and then
another word and then
with a beat see if he I like I don’t
like I throw it out we just keep working
and it’s learning by doing we don’t have
enough of this in the school system and
I think that that’s a shame with the
rise of tons of open-source tools and
the information flow that rates that
menu can’t believe we can take things
like building a map and learning about
maps into something reading programmer
data into a map or you’re learning about
robots but you can actually build a
robot it seems so simple and intuitive
but it’s not happening that much
throughout the country so educators I
challenge you to take this initiative is
role and help your students connect the
tools available to them and actually
build something now the second idea I
want to talk about is memorization or in
the case of my own music it’s the lack
of I can’t really drop site all my songs
from memory and that’s not that great
but the thing is memorizing isn’t all
good in fact Stanford math educator Joe
Kohler explains that you know we’re
favoring students that memorize quickly
but that doesn’t favor the people that
think deeply creatively in fact we’re
coming up with a generation of people
that can’t think outside the box at
least in my own music I feel like that’s
all this is just thinking outside the
box thinking about different ideas and
approaching them in a different way so
educators I challenge you to instead of
focusing solely on memorization we’ve in
creative aspects something that would
benefit lives of deep thinkers one
example could be you have the vocabulary
test that boring boring vocabulary test
instead of it being word definition how
about the student write a story have
them come up with something along the
way it’s a poem or even a song I think
this is a great way to engage all types
those fingers and really inspire people
to
think outside the box now the third idea
are going to talk about is something
I’ve been sort of eating at throughout
this entire process it’s a you
spontaneous going with the flow I could
have told you that this was all going to
happen four months ago with an album a
documentary and tons of interviews and
and stories it’s it’s been a journey but
it’s all been left up to chance when I
go to a concert I’m being spontaneous I
don’t know if there’s gonna be a
microphone that works I don’t know what
the weather’s gonna be like and I don’t
know how the audience is going to react
to a song they don’t know but this
process of just going with the flow and
thinking about things in the moment is
so crucial as we see information flow at
rapid paces jobs changing daily the
exponential growth of certain
technologies we have to be able to adapt
in the moment so educators whether you
have a student who wants to become a
doctor and has to see a new disease or
they are covering a news story and have
to decide what facts to cover or maybe
they’re a business person they want to
aspire to be business persons have to
pitch an idea but something goes awry in
the meeting these ideas of spontaneity
they translate so well to this
interconnected world now in conclusion I
think with the the growth of all these
technologies the idea focused on the
education experience we have to remember
that our students are the next
generation we have to remember that we
have to prepare them for the real world
in a way that’s how I felt about school
it was preparing me for my next phase
and through hopefully the ideas and
thoughts I’ve shared you can to empower
them if I can liken it to something
educators in this case you’re the rap
star you’re the musician the children the students they’re your audience now
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