today I’m going to tell you about a
technology that will shape the future of
our education in the beginning I would
like to ask you going back to your
school days in your mind and think about
how did you feel how did you feel about
sitting the whole day like you’re doing
right now how did you feel about
listening to physics mathematics biology
chemistry and so on and if I had
interesting you get the information you
get the knowledge but often it is
difficult to get the concept to
understand the concept behind the
knowledge how did you feel about reading
or listening stories and again you’re
able to get the information to get the
knowledge but it is hard sometimes to
see through the eyes of the people who
actually experienced those stories in
our schools we get a lot of knowledge
here you can sit here and over the last
decades this knowledge increase and
improved a lot which is very good but
often we miss one important point
attaining knowledge is not the same as
because attaining knowledge can simply
be done by memorizing information but
there’s no guarantee that you can
actually use this knowledge by learning
you’re able to create skills in
problem-solving and you are really able
to use this knowledge in a productive
way and before I show you this
technology that will shape the future of
our education I would like to introduce
you to a special group of people on our
planet Earth
that could be called master learners I’m
talking about children because if you
watch children you can see that they
often learn and observe the environment
in a slightly different way than we
usually would do it if we want to learn
something and they do this by mainly
three factors of course there are a lot
of different values when we want to
learn something effectively but
especially those three factors are
important when we learn something new
and interesting in law enough those
three factors are also highly covered by
a lot of studies that show that those
three values lead to effective learning
the first one is attention and I hope
you have the attention right now this
attention is really important and when
you watch children they are highly
highly focused on one specific task they
don’t scatter around different things
they are not multitasking they don’t
think about tomorrow or what they did
yesterday
they are highly focused what they’re
doing right now and they are also highly
motivated to do this specific task so
attention if it is used right and in the
right way it’s very powerful
second one interaction when you watch
children they are interacting with
everything around them with very
completely environment with the objects
around them and also by communicating
with everything and using language but
they do some slightly different way in
interacting because they try out
different things that’s what we’re
missing in schools often they experiment
they find out and reflect what different
behaviors lead to different results
that’s the power of interaction and
using it to explore to experiment with
your environment and what it’s in it
last but not least the last one is
pretty obvious seeing and hearing but of
course we use all services when we learn
something but especially our auditory
and visual senses play a major role when
we learn something and kids children
they use this senses in a very powerful
way because they are think and imagine
things in a very creative way and this
is also some kind of exploration so by
those three factors we can learn
effectively fortunately last year I was
able to go to Tokyo and attain an
internship at the Tokyo University of
Science and they had the opportunity to
speak to some very incredible people and
through a lot of conversations I learned
about this new technology and I
experienced and I discovered that this
technology will have a major impact on
those three factors and therefore in
effective learning and the technology I
am talking about I’m finally introducing
it to you is this theirs
of course something missing that’s what
I’m seeing so I’m talking about virtual
reality and some of you might already
experience virtual relics before but for
those of you who don’t you can see here
it’s basically a device you’re wearing
and you’re able to see an 3d environment
but you’re not limited to one direction
you can actually look around you can
turn your head as you can see and you
can dive into any 3d environment and can
enter again interact with two
controllers like you’d say here and by
that you’re able to go into any
environment and Inc and interact with
almost any objects in there so to give
you some insights what is actually
possible with this technology I want to
show you some examples and for that I
would like you to ask one more time to
go back in your school days in your mind
and think about and imagine what would
be possible if we could use such kind of
a device in our daily education first of
all you could already see here I’m at
the OTA Regensburg the campus here where
we are right now and I’m able to look
around I’m able to discover the
environment and I’m even able to go into
our new building and to dive into
location and look around it’s like I am
there and it really feels like if you
are in virtual reality it feels really
you are there as in reality this is all
possible with almost any place on planet
Earth
for example here I’m able to go to the
second tallest building on our planet
the Tokyo Skytree in Japan and again I’m
the able to dive into the location and
I’m able to discover and see as I am
standing there in real life
think about what would be possible if we
can use such kind of device in our daily
education for example in geography
before you learn some boring things
about a city
how much people live in there and a lot
of punch other things you absolutely not
interested in you can dive into the
location and really can learn how it
feels like when you are there or what
would be possible if you can even go to
places that are usually not able to go
at all for example here I’m able to
visit the International Space Station
and again I’m able to look around I’m
able to discover the environment and it
you really get a sense how it really
might feel if you are US astronaut and
being at the ISS think about physics and
you imagine what would be possible if
you can visit the solar system and you
can really see and feel how the planets
in our solar system work how the
different sizes are think about what
explaining time that was safe if we just
dive into that like when you learned in
school they talk hours about this and
you’re just able to dive in with virtual
reality and you can learn it in a power
like two minutes and you know everything
about the solar system think about
biology or even magic medical science
when you’re able to see organs right in
front of you and you’re able to really
feel how they work I was astonished if I
when I saw this application at first
like I did saw it like two weeks ago and
I was like I know so much more about my
body right now like I never learned this
in school and it’s just amazing how you
can really feel how it works when you
see it before you and you can look
around and you can discover it yourself
so that is the power of virtual reality
and I really want to show you more
examples because it’s very exciting to
show them but I actually want to really
show you that virtual reality will and
will have an impact in our future
education and to start by that we should
ask a question if virtual reality will
really come more in the future of our
daily lives and also after that into our
education
therefore let’s look at some data this
is an estimation of international data
cooperation and they made an forecast
that virtual reality will grow over the
next few years and this very fast you
can see here with the growth rate that
over every year there is a growth of
more than 100 percent so this is doubled
every year and when you think about a
technology we have already right now our
smartphones and we go back to the year
2007 the release of the iPhone and we
look at this growth rate of smartphones
pretty similar right so we can expect
that virtual reality will come in the
next few years so we now know it will
come the question is how can we really
use it in our daily education in our
classrooms and the first one is very
obvious if you discovered virtual
reality yourself or you saw the examples
right now the first one is discovering
of course you’re able to go anywhere you
want on any place on planet Earth you
can go to places you’re usually not able
to go and you can create even completely
new environments at all for example this
solar system that wouldn’t be possible
in reality right or going into a human
body yeah it’s not really possible so in
virtual reality you can do almost
anything that’s the power of discovering
things in virtual reality the next one
is pretty similar but it’s more about
objects in virtual reality because
you’re not only able to create any
environment you want you’re actually
able to create any object you want and
you can interact with them so for
example in physics or chemistry when you
think back to your school days how were
those experiments you did like sometimes
it was pretty exciting but most of the
time like you didn’t really learn about
much about those experiments in virtual
reality you can
do any experiment no matter how danger
it is or how expensive it is or maybe
it’s even not possible in reality in
virtual reality you can do all that at
the same time because everything is
possible this one is powerful because
when you think about distance learning
you can imagine it like that you’re
sitting in a room like you’re doing
right now only that it is virtual and
put on an Internet by that every person
on planet Earth would be able to visit
this room in order to attend lessons
lectures discussions and much more that
would make everyone here able to attend
any education all over the world and you
can ever imagine and this will have an
incredible benefit for people that live
in poor countries because as you know
the educational structure in poor
countries and the availability even not
by availability of teachers in poor
countries is a real problem and only by
an internet connection and unsympathetic
any person in the pecans we will be able
to attend any education they want to so
this will make a huge impact on our
global education so we learned about
that virtual relative will come and we
learn about how we can use it there’s
one more major question that’s left that
you probably already thought about
should we really use it should we really
use virtual reality in our daily lives
or education and this is a question that
is highly discussed because when you
think about on virtual room or virtual
environment and your ability to dive
into that there are
concerns because if you think about this
virtual room and you’re able to go
anywhere you want you can do anything
you want it is pretty easy to lose
connection to reality it’s also possible
that you lose social contacts and that
you reduce your amount of physical
activity when we think about those
issues we come probably to a point where
we say should we put virtual reality
completely away should we do that of
course I don’t think so when you think
you come to a point that you think oh
that’s what we are already facing in our
today’s life with our current technology
so this is not a problem about virtual
reality that’s a problem of our healthy
use of all technologies so in order to
solve those kind of issues we should
think more about the awareness to those
problems and educate our children and
also adults about the awareness to those
issues so we can create a healthy use of
every technology including virtual
reality of course this whole topic about
virtuality and using in an education is
still pretty futuristic I am it nada but
you saw that virtual reality will come
in the next few years
and it will appear in our daily lives
and also in education and since
education is our future because our
children’s will create our future and
they get to education education is our
future it is our responsibility to see
the opportunity
of new technologies like virtual reality
trade and healthy use and including them
into our educational system so we can
create an incredible learning experience
for our children so they can create the
best possible future our future the
future of humankind thank you [Applause]
technology that will shape the future of
our education in the beginning I would
like to ask you going back to your
school days in your mind and think about
how did you feel how did you feel about
sitting the whole day like you’re doing
right now how did you feel about
listening to physics mathematics biology
chemistry and so on and if I had
interesting you get the information you
get the knowledge but often it is
difficult to get the concept to
understand the concept behind the
knowledge how did you feel about reading
or listening stories and again you’re
able to get the information to get the
knowledge but it is hard sometimes to
see through the eyes of the people who
actually experienced those stories in
our schools we get a lot of knowledge
here you can sit here and over the last
decades this knowledge increase and
improved a lot which is very good but
often we miss one important point
attaining knowledge is not the same as
because attaining knowledge can simply
be done by memorizing information but
there’s no guarantee that you can
actually use this knowledge by learning
you’re able to create skills in
problem-solving and you are really able
to use this knowledge in a productive
way and before I show you this
technology that will shape the future of
our education I would like to introduce
you to a special group of people on our
planet Earth
that could be called master learners I’m
talking about children because if you
watch children you can see that they
often learn and observe the environment
in a slightly different way than we
usually would do it if we want to learn
something and they do this by mainly
three factors of course there are a lot
of different values when we want to
learn something effectively but
especially those three factors are
important when we learn something new
and interesting in law enough those
three factors are also highly covered by
a lot of studies that show that those
three values lead to effective learning
the first one is attention and I hope
you have the attention right now this
attention is really important and when
you watch children they are highly
highly focused on one specific task they
don’t scatter around different things
they are not multitasking they don’t
think about tomorrow or what they did
yesterday
they are highly focused what they’re
doing right now and they are also highly
motivated to do this specific task so
attention if it is used right and in the
right way it’s very powerful
second one interaction when you watch
children they are interacting with
everything around them with very
completely environment with the objects
around them and also by communicating
with everything and using language but
they do some slightly different way in
interacting because they try out
different things that’s what we’re
missing in schools often they experiment
they find out and reflect what different
behaviors lead to different results
that’s the power of interaction and
using it to explore to experiment with
your environment and what it’s in it
last but not least the last one is
pretty obvious seeing and hearing but of
course we use all services when we learn
something but especially our auditory
and visual senses play a major role when
we learn something and kids children
they use this senses in a very powerful
way because they are think and imagine
things in a very creative way and this
is also some kind of exploration so by
those three factors we can learn
effectively fortunately last year I was
able to go to Tokyo and attain an
internship at the Tokyo University of
Science and they had the opportunity to
speak to some very incredible people and
through a lot of conversations I learned
about this new technology and I
experienced and I discovered that this
technology will have a major impact on
those three factors and therefore in
effective learning and the technology I
am talking about I’m finally introducing
it to you is this theirs
of course something missing that’s what
I’m seeing so I’m talking about virtual
reality and some of you might already
experience virtual relics before but for
those of you who don’t you can see here
it’s basically a device you’re wearing
and you’re able to see an 3d environment
but you’re not limited to one direction
you can actually look around you can
turn your head as you can see and you
can dive into any 3d environment and can
enter again interact with two
controllers like you’d say here and by
that you’re able to go into any
environment and Inc and interact with
almost any objects in there so to give
you some insights what is actually
possible with this technology I want to
show you some examples and for that I
would like you to ask one more time to
go back in your school days in your mind
and think about and imagine what would
be possible if we could use such kind of
a device in our daily education first of
all you could already see here I’m at
the OTA Regensburg the campus here where
we are right now and I’m able to look
around I’m able to discover the
environment and I’m even able to go into
our new building and to dive into
location and look around it’s like I am
there and it really feels like if you
are in virtual reality it feels really
you are there as in reality this is all
possible with almost any place on planet
Earth
for example here I’m able to go to the
second tallest building on our planet
the Tokyo Skytree in Japan and again I’m
the able to dive into the location and
I’m able to discover and see as I am
standing there in real life
think about what would be possible if we
can use such kind of device in our daily
education for example in geography
before you learn some boring things
about a city
how much people live in there and a lot
of punch other things you absolutely not
interested in you can dive into the
location and really can learn how it
feels like when you are there or what
would be possible if you can even go to
places that are usually not able to go
at all for example here I’m able to
visit the International Space Station
and again I’m able to look around I’m
able to discover the environment and it
you really get a sense how it really
might feel if you are US astronaut and
being at the ISS think about physics and
you imagine what would be possible if
you can visit the solar system and you
can really see and feel how the planets
in our solar system work how the
different sizes are think about what
explaining time that was safe if we just
dive into that like when you learned in
school they talk hours about this and
you’re just able to dive in with virtual
reality and you can learn it in a power
like two minutes and you know everything
about the solar system think about
biology or even magic medical science
when you’re able to see organs right in
front of you and you’re able to really
feel how they work I was astonished if I
when I saw this application at first
like I did saw it like two weeks ago and
I was like I know so much more about my
body right now like I never learned this
in school and it’s just amazing how you
can really feel how it works when you
see it before you and you can look
around and you can discover it yourself
so that is the power of virtual reality
and I really want to show you more
examples because it’s very exciting to
show them but I actually want to really
show you that virtual reality will and
will have an impact in our future
education and to start by that we should
ask a question if virtual reality will
really come more in the future of our
daily lives and also after that into our
education
therefore let’s look at some data this
is an estimation of international data
cooperation and they made an forecast
that virtual reality will grow over the
next few years and this very fast you
can see here with the growth rate that
over every year there is a growth of
more than 100 percent so this is doubled
every year and when you think about a
technology we have already right now our
smartphones and we go back to the year
2007 the release of the iPhone and we
look at this growth rate of smartphones
pretty similar right so we can expect
that virtual reality will come in the
next few years so we now know it will
come the question is how can we really
use it in our daily education in our
classrooms and the first one is very
obvious if you discovered virtual
reality yourself or you saw the examples
right now the first one is discovering
of course you’re able to go anywhere you
want on any place on planet Earth you
can go to places you’re usually not able
to go and you can create even completely
new environments at all for example this
solar system that wouldn’t be possible
in reality right or going into a human
body yeah it’s not really possible so in
virtual reality you can do almost
anything that’s the power of discovering
things in virtual reality the next one
is pretty similar but it’s more about
objects in virtual reality because
you’re not only able to create any
environment you want you’re actually
able to create any object you want and
you can interact with them so for
example in physics or chemistry when you
think back to your school days how were
those experiments you did like sometimes
it was pretty exciting but most of the
time like you didn’t really learn about
much about those experiments in virtual
reality you can
do any experiment no matter how danger
it is or how expensive it is or maybe
it’s even not possible in reality in
virtual reality you can do all that at
the same time because everything is
possible this one is powerful because
when you think about distance learning
you can imagine it like that you’re
sitting in a room like you’re doing
right now only that it is virtual and
put on an Internet by that every person
on planet Earth would be able to visit
this room in order to attend lessons
lectures discussions and much more that
would make everyone here able to attend
any education all over the world and you
can ever imagine and this will have an
incredible benefit for people that live
in poor countries because as you know
the educational structure in poor
countries and the availability even not
by availability of teachers in poor
countries is a real problem and only by
an internet connection and unsympathetic
any person in the pecans we will be able
to attend any education they want to so
this will make a huge impact on our
global education so we learned about
that virtual relative will come and we
learn about how we can use it there’s
one more major question that’s left that
you probably already thought about
should we really use it should we really
use virtual reality in our daily lives
or education and this is a question that
is highly discussed because when you
think about on virtual room or virtual
environment and your ability to dive
into that there are
concerns because if you think about this
virtual room and you’re able to go
anywhere you want you can do anything
you want it is pretty easy to lose
connection to reality it’s also possible
that you lose social contacts and that
you reduce your amount of physical
activity when we think about those
issues we come probably to a point where
we say should we put virtual reality
completely away should we do that of
course I don’t think so when you think
you come to a point that you think oh
that’s what we are already facing in our
today’s life with our current technology
so this is not a problem about virtual
reality that’s a problem of our healthy
use of all technologies so in order to
solve those kind of issues we should
think more about the awareness to those
problems and educate our children and
also adults about the awareness to those
issues so we can create a healthy use of
every technology including virtual
reality of course this whole topic about
virtuality and using in an education is
still pretty futuristic I am it nada but
you saw that virtual reality will come
in the next few years
and it will appear in our daily lives
and also in education and since
education is our future because our
children’s will create our future and
they get to education education is our
future it is our responsibility to see
the opportunity
of new technologies like virtual reality
trade and healthy use and including them
into our educational system so we can
create an incredible learning experience
for our children so they can create the
best possible future our future the
future of humankind thank you [Applause]
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