[Applause]
Highschool
it’s finally finished we excited that
it’s over and we excited there’s new
chapter coming up University an endless
ocean of opportunity exciting subjects
who on earth you may think will show as
he’s the last speaker to an audience who
may to a small percentage be sleeping a
picture of people sleeping me and why am
I doing this now I raised my hand now I
want you to raise your hand who
recognizes the story that I just told in
this image from people in classrooms
raise your hand oh my goodness there’s a
lot more unexpected that is definitely
most of you and what we’re seeing here
is not a student sleeping it is a
student sleeping because he’s bored and
disengaged in class in fact research
shows that 60% of all students consider
at least half of the lectures to be
boring and 30% say most of them which
means and you just confirmed that even
though you’re a kid eighth grade school
right but even you are also very often
disengaged and it is a global problem
and guys I’m not blaming you I’m not
blaming you and the people who are
watching this right now who is to blame
or disengaged lecturers and the system
that fertilizes the ground for
disengaged lecturers to grow in the book
excellent sheep from William dresser
veyts where it’s about the elite
university system in the u.s. he points
out ambitious academics regarded
teaching undergrads as a distraction and
burden an efficient College today isn’t
one with the most teachers of the Year
awards but one with the most research
output if you read this you realize
there it must be something wrong and
it’s not only in the u.s. it is frankly
everywhere the minister of science and
universities Joe Johnson and UK
described the relationship most
lecturers have to their students as the
disengagement contract
which states this is the minimum amount
of time that you need to distract me
from our research for me to give you
your paper and this is the minimum
amount of time that I want from you so I
don’t distract you from partying this
ladies and gentlemen needs to stop and
I’m here today not only to talk about
the negative sights of lecturers in our
system and want you now to think about
all of those inspiring teachers and
lectures you had the ones that really
got it great
and I’m here today to tell you that
there could be so many more people who
are exactly like those people that you
just thought about but we don’t even
give them a chance and the people I’m
talking about could maybe sit here in
the audience who I’m talking about is
youth it’s young people in their early
and mid twenties who may not have two
teaching credentials and vast
ten years of experience and and a lot of
research papers to that title know these
young people who have the power to
inspire and engage and I’m here today to
not only tell you ravenel revolution but
most importantly to start a movement and
this movement is called the young
lecture movement and as we saw today in
that quick video to start a movement it
takes two people one leader I’m not sure
if I can be the leader but definitely
initiator and then there’s a second
person who needs to the second step I
want to do one and a half steps today so
please bear with me until the end of the
presentation when I’m gonna reveal step
two or step sorry zero point five of the
young lecture revolution but first of
all let me tell you why am I here and
why I think we need to start this
revolution so I’m Danielle I’m 23 and I
became a university lecturer this year
and despite my sweaty palms and
anxiousness I was also rewarded as the
best lecturer of my program so I’m here
to tell you today that the world needs
more people like me no not quite I’m
here to tell you why the world needs
more people like kind young and I’m also
to tell you that we need and want to
make a general case for why we need more
young lecturers but how did I become a
lecturer and who is kind young all right
let me tell you a small story it all
started with a no rejection I can
remember it like it was yesterday this
cold winter day when Saint John who was
the course coordinator of a course at
the Amsterdam School of International
Business where I teach
who sent me an email and said Daniel I’m
so sorry
I tried everything I could but the
program manager won’t allow me to make
your lecture simply because you don’t
have the formal requirements and in fact
I didn’t even have a bachelor and sorry
mom it’s taking me a bit I still don’t
but why did signed John think that I
would make for a great teacher well
first of all I did the same course
myself in the first year the students
pretty successfully we had a student
company which was awarded the best
company of the school then I became an
assistant lecturer in the second year
and John spotted the talent I had and
the ability to engage students and
passion I had for teaching and the
subject so he had this brief idea that
he wanted to make people who are in the
last years of their study teach the
course themselves even if they were
maybe even almost the same age as their
students or just some years older so we
agreed to stay in touch two years later
I had gained a lot of entrepreneurial
experience setting up my own business
and also working for several startups in
Amsterdam and London so I reached out to
him for actively and said hey John
what’s up is the offer still standing
and gladly he was as excited as I was
about my email and about me still
wanting to do it but there were other
people who just didn’t think this way
and well long story short as I mentioned
to you I actually did end up eventually
in class because while I was emptying a
lot of bottles of wine to get over this
you know hard winter day when I was
rejected all of a sudden my phone
vibrated and I got this email I know
what you may think now thank God I
didn’t tell you his surname it’s
complicated to say the least but what
was actually in this email well kind
John told me that lecturer had canceled
last minute and that he had convinced
the program manager of allowing me in
she’d agreed and he asked me if I wanted
to do it and I said yes and two weeks
later I found myself in a classroom
people were looking at me like you are
now excited young ambitious people 35
of them and I was seriously my
pants but six months later I receive
another email from client John to me and
to all the other lectures of the program
about 17 I think and he sent the
evaluation results and I studied them
thoroughly and turns out I was at the
top and I was like how is this possible
I’m 23 and there are people who were
twice my age have done this for 10 or 15
years and they have not been rewarded
for this as much as I did
there was once a student in the feedback
session who told me I was the best
lecture he ever had but I thought you
know that’s like telling every girl you
meet in the bar you’re the most
beautiful girl I ever ever seen you know
anyways I talked to them to my students
in person why this was the case and why
they thought I was so exceptional to
them and I also talked to many other
young people who have found out had also
been given this chance to be a lecturer
at a young age people in Europe and in
Holland and everywhere and what I found
was amazing every one of those young
people showed the same pattern in the
same pattern for teaching and all of
them have either been at the top of
their evaluation or the top 10% so I’m
here to tell you today why we need more
young lecturers and this by the way is
an image of me teaching and if you think
I just became the best lecturer because
I have central pictures in the
background of my PowerPoint
no that was not the primary reason so um
I studied hard for preparing this TED
and I realized three seems to be the
perfect number of arguments to give you
some here to present you to four reasons
on why young people make for better
lecturers okay first of all enthusiasm
and passion
please meet David David Juan became a
lecturer for academic study skills and
fiscal economics at the University of
Amsterdam and if you think you can’t
make a course it sounds that boring
interesting you have met David here are
some quotes of his students David is a
great teacher and makes any course
interesting what I like about having
David as a lecturer David enthusiasm and
work spirit and it is this exact
enthusiasm that I found in all of the
evaluations from the student
lecturers and from the young people who
lectured this enthusiasm ins has got
lost in many of all the generation
lectures and to be honest how do you
want your students to be enthusiastic
about your course if you aren’t I can
understand if your enthusiasm has gone
lost you’ve maybe been teaching this for
several years in decades and you totally
overworked with grading at papers and
and things that you don’t even want to
teach so it is understandable but young
lectures we have given the chance they
grateful for the opportunity they have
shown exceptional Drive and talent to be
there where they are to be able to teach
others and they want to do the
opportunity justice it’s exactly this
fire that burns in them that is the
ground for enthusiastic and energetic
teaching and it is also the foundation
for passion and you won’t believe it but
passion equals competence why do I say
this we always think that an an person
is competent in the lecture field needs
to have done this amount of research at
this amount of experience but very often
it comes down to some experience in a
professional field that is happening
right now and the passion I was the only
one out of all the lectures who received
a 5.0 out of 5.0 for the question does
the does your lecture actually know what
he’s talking about in terms of having
experience in the real practice and it
is this passion that is fueled by
enthusiasm that can make it happen
secondly out-of-the-box teaching for a
digital age
plutarch once said the mind is not a
vessel that needs filling but the wood
that needs ignition and this is even
more relevant in today’s society the
only problem we have with filling and
information is overload there is too
much information available I have
information available 24/7 at the thing
at my fingertips
so it is not only about what we teach it
is about how we teach that matters and
all of these young lectures I talked to
understood there and applied new
techniques to teaching please meet
Katarina katana she’s another one of
those highly rated and young lectures
that I found in my research what I liked
our cuddly as unorthodox teaching
methods it was definitely a breath of
fresh air compared to other classes and
teaching out of the box is not even
bringing your students into the park or
showing them sensual pictures in the
background of your PowerPoint it is
sometimes simply stopping with teaching
at them and showing them overloaded
powerpoints but instead co-create the
learning process with them which
Catalina used as one of her primary
teaching methods have every end of the
class you would ask for feedback and
adapt her class next time again she
discussed real-life examples interactive
discussions actually when I talked to
Albert today I was I heard about a young
lecturer who is almost famous at kth she
was 25 and is very popular and and used
different colors and all of that to make
classes very interesting so even you
have an example of that and also we’re
dealing with digital gnome digital
natives I can give you one example where
I showed my students a couple of tools
of apps that I have realized the
professional field uses to make team
collaboration and learning much easier I
told them I leave it up to you if you
use it or not and I can even give you a
crash course because I knew something
about it
four days later they had adopted those
tools and knew much more about it than I
ever knew we are dealing with digital
natives here so we better treat him like
it thirdly we speak the language it was
about April when my class had to perform
a pitch competition against other
classes and in front of a selected jury
we rehearsed two hours before the show
all of my students were great except two
boys two guys in a class who really
sucked big time and I really wanted to
let them know
and I thought how do I do this well it
was my time to give them feedback and I
told them guys I’m really sorry but this
is
this is if you want to go and
perform like this you better don’t show
up but then I told them that I still
believed in them and I gave them
detailed feedback on how they could
improve I was really struggling myself
because I thought was I being too harsh
turns out the day came out as number one
of all the classes at the competition
they used these two hours to turn
everything around
afterwards they walked up to me and said
Daniel thank you we really needed a kick
in our ass and this example is not to
show you that we need to use more
profanities this example is to show you
how we need lecturers of actually all
age groups who are able to connect to
their students and to tell them things
articulated in a language that they do
understand it seems authentic to them
and not fake forth and probably the most
important young lecturers can be
empathetic role models to their students
we live in the same generation we have
to be with the same problems the same
struggles and we have showed them that
we have navigated our way through the
same marketplace that they are about to
enter in one two or three years time
saying that you can’t achieve or do
something it’s really hard if you have
someone in front of you who is just like
you and tells you yes you can and this
ability makes us all so much more
relatable and tangible it is very great
to hear from your you know much older
senior lecturer or Bill Gates or Mark
Zuckerberg that they’ve done great
things but they are living frankly in a
very different and circumstances right
now and begged then also a very
different time and this this aspect of
us being in the same cohort that makes
us also understand their struggles much
better the problems that they are
dealing with
and that’s led us develop empathy the
vice-chancellor of the present
University of Buckingham once said that
some universities regard their students
but we young lecturers don’t see them
see our students like it we take them
seriously as individuals and not just as
research enablers and if you care if we
care about you you will care about us
and you will care about what you’re
learning which is the ground for you to
actually grow as a person and as a
professional initially I showed you a
quote of lecturers who regarded teaching
as a burden and a distraction we need to
turn this around we need to close the
door for lecturers who do not seem to
have any interest in teaching and
frankly do it in very outdated and not
interesting ways for the students we
need to open the door for young
lecturers who actually do have passion
for teaching and we need to open the
doors for people like Ryan John for
young people who want to get in because
right now we run against closed doors
I was just lucky that I got in because
initially I was not supposed to so we
need to open those doors and hopefully
this talk today can be an opener to the
minds of many university managers but I
also want to create an open door which
is you remember the zero point five of
the movement I want to begin
I’m not a programmer but I still manage
to create a website it’s possible and
this website is called young electro
movement comm it’s online since about 20
hours see about the first ones to see it
I don’t know where this is going but I
wanted to give more meaning to my talk
so in this website young lecturers but
also university stuff can sign up and I
will personally make the connection
maybe even some of you today will check
it out and I want to finish off this
talk by giving you a quote of Ken
Robinson who has performed one of the
most viewed TED talks of all times it is
about the broken education system and in
this book creative schools he says at
the heart of education is the
relationship between the student and the
teacher everything else depends on how
productive and successful that
relationship is if that is not working
then the system is not working if
students are not learning education is
not happening something else may be
going on but it’s not education we need
to for the sake of our new generations
education we need to get people in we
can establish these connections young
people who can help the senior lecturers
who are able to connect to students in
the way that education really happens let’s start today thank you
Highschool
it’s finally finished we excited that
it’s over and we excited there’s new
chapter coming up University an endless
ocean of opportunity exciting subjects
who on earth you may think will show as
he’s the last speaker to an audience who
may to a small percentage be sleeping a
picture of people sleeping me and why am
I doing this now I raised my hand now I
want you to raise your hand who
recognizes the story that I just told in
this image from people in classrooms
raise your hand oh my goodness there’s a
lot more unexpected that is definitely
most of you and what we’re seeing here
is not a student sleeping it is a
student sleeping because he’s bored and
disengaged in class in fact research
shows that 60% of all students consider
at least half of the lectures to be
boring and 30% say most of them which
means and you just confirmed that even
though you’re a kid eighth grade school
right but even you are also very often
disengaged and it is a global problem
and guys I’m not blaming you I’m not
blaming you and the people who are
watching this right now who is to blame
or disengaged lecturers and the system
that fertilizes the ground for
disengaged lecturers to grow in the book
excellent sheep from William dresser
veyts where it’s about the elite
university system in the u.s. he points
out ambitious academics regarded
teaching undergrads as a distraction and
burden an efficient College today isn’t
one with the most teachers of the Year
awards but one with the most research
output if you read this you realize
there it must be something wrong and
it’s not only in the u.s. it is frankly
everywhere the minister of science and
universities Joe Johnson and UK
described the relationship most
lecturers have to their students as the
disengagement contract
which states this is the minimum amount
of time that you need to distract me
from our research for me to give you
your paper and this is the minimum
amount of time that I want from you so I
don’t distract you from partying this
ladies and gentlemen needs to stop and
I’m here today not only to talk about
the negative sights of lecturers in our
system and want you now to think about
all of those inspiring teachers and
lectures you had the ones that really
got it great
and I’m here today to tell you that
there could be so many more people who
are exactly like those people that you
just thought about but we don’t even
give them a chance and the people I’m
talking about could maybe sit here in
the audience who I’m talking about is
youth it’s young people in their early
and mid twenties who may not have two
teaching credentials and vast
ten years of experience and and a lot of
research papers to that title know these
young people who have the power to
inspire and engage and I’m here today to
not only tell you ravenel revolution but
most importantly to start a movement and
this movement is called the young
lecture movement and as we saw today in
that quick video to start a movement it
takes two people one leader I’m not sure
if I can be the leader but definitely
initiator and then there’s a second
person who needs to the second step I
want to do one and a half steps today so
please bear with me until the end of the
presentation when I’m gonna reveal step
two or step sorry zero point five of the
young lecture revolution but first of
all let me tell you why am I here and
why I think we need to start this
revolution so I’m Danielle I’m 23 and I
became a university lecturer this year
and despite my sweaty palms and
anxiousness I was also rewarded as the
best lecturer of my program so I’m here
to tell you today that the world needs
more people like me no not quite I’m
here to tell you why the world needs
more people like kind young and I’m also
to tell you that we need and want to
make a general case for why we need more
young lecturers but how did I become a
lecturer and who is kind young all right
let me tell you a small story it all
started with a no rejection I can
remember it like it was yesterday this
cold winter day when Saint John who was
the course coordinator of a course at
the Amsterdam School of International
Business where I teach
who sent me an email and said Daniel I’m
so sorry
I tried everything I could but the
program manager won’t allow me to make
your lecture simply because you don’t
have the formal requirements and in fact
I didn’t even have a bachelor and sorry
mom it’s taking me a bit I still don’t
but why did signed John think that I
would make for a great teacher well
first of all I did the same course
myself in the first year the students
pretty successfully we had a student
company which was awarded the best
company of the school then I became an
assistant lecturer in the second year
and John spotted the talent I had and
the ability to engage students and
passion I had for teaching and the
subject so he had this brief idea that
he wanted to make people who are in the
last years of their study teach the
course themselves even if they were
maybe even almost the same age as their
students or just some years older so we
agreed to stay in touch two years later
I had gained a lot of entrepreneurial
experience setting up my own business
and also working for several startups in
Amsterdam and London so I reached out to
him for actively and said hey John
what’s up is the offer still standing
and gladly he was as excited as I was
about my email and about me still
wanting to do it but there were other
people who just didn’t think this way
and well long story short as I mentioned
to you I actually did end up eventually
in class because while I was emptying a
lot of bottles of wine to get over this
you know hard winter day when I was
rejected all of a sudden my phone
vibrated and I got this email I know
what you may think now thank God I
didn’t tell you his surname it’s
complicated to say the least but what
was actually in this email well kind
John told me that lecturer had canceled
last minute and that he had convinced
the program manager of allowing me in
she’d agreed and he asked me if I wanted
to do it and I said yes and two weeks
later I found myself in a classroom
people were looking at me like you are
now excited young ambitious people 35
of them and I was seriously my
pants but six months later I receive
another email from client John to me and
to all the other lectures of the program
about 17 I think and he sent the
evaluation results and I studied them
thoroughly and turns out I was at the
top and I was like how is this possible
I’m 23 and there are people who were
twice my age have done this for 10 or 15
years and they have not been rewarded
for this as much as I did
there was once a student in the feedback
session who told me I was the best
lecture he ever had but I thought you
know that’s like telling every girl you
meet in the bar you’re the most
beautiful girl I ever ever seen you know
anyways I talked to them to my students
in person why this was the case and why
they thought I was so exceptional to
them and I also talked to many other
young people who have found out had also
been given this chance to be a lecturer
at a young age people in Europe and in
Holland and everywhere and what I found
was amazing every one of those young
people showed the same pattern in the
same pattern for teaching and all of
them have either been at the top of
their evaluation or the top 10% so I’m
here to tell you today why we need more
young lecturers and this by the way is
an image of me teaching and if you think
I just became the best lecturer because
I have central pictures in the
background of my PowerPoint
no that was not the primary reason so um
I studied hard for preparing this TED
and I realized three seems to be the
perfect number of arguments to give you
some here to present you to four reasons
on why young people make for better
lecturers okay first of all enthusiasm
and passion
please meet David David Juan became a
lecturer for academic study skills and
fiscal economics at the University of
Amsterdam and if you think you can’t
make a course it sounds that boring
interesting you have met David here are
some quotes of his students David is a
great teacher and makes any course
interesting what I like about having
David as a lecturer David enthusiasm and
work spirit and it is this exact
enthusiasm that I found in all of the
evaluations from the student
lecturers and from the young people who
lectured this enthusiasm ins has got
lost in many of all the generation
lectures and to be honest how do you
want your students to be enthusiastic
about your course if you aren’t I can
understand if your enthusiasm has gone
lost you’ve maybe been teaching this for
several years in decades and you totally
overworked with grading at papers and
and things that you don’t even want to
teach so it is understandable but young
lectures we have given the chance they
grateful for the opportunity they have
shown exceptional Drive and talent to be
there where they are to be able to teach
others and they want to do the
opportunity justice it’s exactly this
fire that burns in them that is the
ground for enthusiastic and energetic
teaching and it is also the foundation
for passion and you won’t believe it but
passion equals competence why do I say
this we always think that an an person
is competent in the lecture field needs
to have done this amount of research at
this amount of experience but very often
it comes down to some experience in a
professional field that is happening
right now and the passion I was the only
one out of all the lectures who received
a 5.0 out of 5.0 for the question does
the does your lecture actually know what
he’s talking about in terms of having
experience in the real practice and it
is this passion that is fueled by
enthusiasm that can make it happen
secondly out-of-the-box teaching for a
digital age
plutarch once said the mind is not a
vessel that needs filling but the wood
that needs ignition and this is even
more relevant in today’s society the
only problem we have with filling and
information is overload there is too
much information available I have
information available 24/7 at the thing
at my fingertips
so it is not only about what we teach it
is about how we teach that matters and
all of these young lectures I talked to
understood there and applied new
techniques to teaching please meet
Katarina katana she’s another one of
those highly rated and young lectures
that I found in my research what I liked
our cuddly as unorthodox teaching
methods it was definitely a breath of
fresh air compared to other classes and
teaching out of the box is not even
bringing your students into the park or
showing them sensual pictures in the
background of your PowerPoint it is
sometimes simply stopping with teaching
at them and showing them overloaded
powerpoints but instead co-create the
learning process with them which
Catalina used as one of her primary
teaching methods have every end of the
class you would ask for feedback and
adapt her class next time again she
discussed real-life examples interactive
discussions actually when I talked to
Albert today I was I heard about a young
lecturer who is almost famous at kth she
was 25 and is very popular and and used
different colors and all of that to make
classes very interesting so even you
have an example of that and also we’re
dealing with digital gnome digital
natives I can give you one example where
I showed my students a couple of tools
of apps that I have realized the
professional field uses to make team
collaboration and learning much easier I
told them I leave it up to you if you
use it or not and I can even give you a
crash course because I knew something
about it
four days later they had adopted those
tools and knew much more about it than I
ever knew we are dealing with digital
natives here so we better treat him like
it thirdly we speak the language it was
about April when my class had to perform
a pitch competition against other
classes and in front of a selected jury
we rehearsed two hours before the show
all of my students were great except two
boys two guys in a class who really
sucked big time and I really wanted to
let them know
and I thought how do I do this well it
was my time to give them feedback and I
told them guys I’m really sorry but this
is
this is if you want to go and
perform like this you better don’t show
up but then I told them that I still
believed in them and I gave them
detailed feedback on how they could
improve I was really struggling myself
because I thought was I being too harsh
turns out the day came out as number one
of all the classes at the competition
they used these two hours to turn
everything around
afterwards they walked up to me and said
Daniel thank you we really needed a kick
in our ass and this example is not to
show you that we need to use more
profanities this example is to show you
how we need lecturers of actually all
age groups who are able to connect to
their students and to tell them things
articulated in a language that they do
understand it seems authentic to them
and not fake forth and probably the most
important young lecturers can be
empathetic role models to their students
we live in the same generation we have
to be with the same problems the same
struggles and we have showed them that
we have navigated our way through the
same marketplace that they are about to
enter in one two or three years time
saying that you can’t achieve or do
something it’s really hard if you have
someone in front of you who is just like
you and tells you yes you can and this
ability makes us all so much more
relatable and tangible it is very great
to hear from your you know much older
senior lecturer or Bill Gates or Mark
Zuckerberg that they’ve done great
things but they are living frankly in a
very different and circumstances right
now and begged then also a very
different time and this this aspect of
us being in the same cohort that makes
us also understand their struggles much
better the problems that they are
dealing with
and that’s led us develop empathy the
vice-chancellor of the present
University of Buckingham once said that
some universities regard their students
but we young lecturers don’t see them
see our students like it we take them
seriously as individuals and not just as
research enablers and if you care if we
care about you you will care about us
and you will care about what you’re
learning which is the ground for you to
actually grow as a person and as a
professional initially I showed you a
quote of lecturers who regarded teaching
as a burden and a distraction we need to
turn this around we need to close the
door for lecturers who do not seem to
have any interest in teaching and
frankly do it in very outdated and not
interesting ways for the students we
need to open the door for young
lecturers who actually do have passion
for teaching and we need to open the
doors for people like Ryan John for
young people who want to get in because
right now we run against closed doors
I was just lucky that I got in because
initially I was not supposed to so we
need to open those doors and hopefully
this talk today can be an opener to the
minds of many university managers but I
also want to create an open door which
is you remember the zero point five of
the movement I want to begin
I’m not a programmer but I still manage
to create a website it’s possible and
this website is called young electro
movement comm it’s online since about 20
hours see about the first ones to see it
I don’t know where this is going but I
wanted to give more meaning to my talk
so in this website young lecturers but
also university stuff can sign up and I
will personally make the connection
maybe even some of you today will check
it out and I want to finish off this
talk by giving you a quote of Ken
Robinson who has performed one of the
most viewed TED talks of all times it is
about the broken education system and in
this book creative schools he says at
the heart of education is the
relationship between the student and the
teacher everything else depends on how
productive and successful that
relationship is if that is not working
then the system is not working if
students are not learning education is
not happening something else may be
going on but it’s not education we need
to for the sake of our new generations
education we need to get people in we
can establish these connections young
people who can help the senior lecturers
who are able to connect to students in
the way that education really happens let’s start today thank you
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