Name: 【TEDx】Curiosity driven learning: Aya Sakaguchi at TEDxBeaconStreet
Uploaded: 2014-06-15T14:52:56.000Z
Duration: 6 min 47 s
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A Gallup Student Poll recently found that,

It's as if they are just going on a slide

Everyday, 8,300 students drop out of school.

That's over 3 million students every year.

Unless we make a critical turnaround fast,

our students are gonna turn into zombies.

We can support them in a new type of learning environment.

9 out of 10 of today's elementary, middle and high school students

believe that mobile technology will change the way they learn in the future,

In fact, 56% of today's high school students own smartphones

and this number is only going to be higher in the future.

For the longest time, we used papers, pencils, erasers,

to share what we've learned and our observations.

I've noticed students in the US, Japan and France

use mobile technology to share, communicate and interact with each other.

It's time to start adding mobile technologies to classrooms.

Now, I know that there are critics of this,

But the benefits of having these students learn to use

how these students should learn to use the mobile technologies.

So I started thinking: "How may we use mobile technology

to address that issue of the student engagement slump that we saw?"

I worked on a solution with fellow educators and designers

from Harvard graduate school of education and MIT media lab

We designed a learning platform and environment

where students can use mobile technology as real world observation tools.

After learning a new concept or theory, they can go and explore

and find evidences or examples of what they've just learned.

They can even share their curiosities and observations

with their classmates and their teachers.

The teacher assigns real world assignments to their students,

For example, they can ask students to find

examples of geometric patterns for math or polination for biology.

And then students go out into the real world

and find examples and evidences of what they've been learning.

based on the students' curiosities and observations

and brings those photos back into the classroom.

He is learning about fractals in his math class.

It's an infinitely complex and self-similar pattern.

into the city and find an example of a fractal.

and he is amazed to see that there are examples of fractals everywhere,

and he decides to take a photo of an interesting leaf

His classmate Anna, she decides to go to the piers.

but she isn't quite sure whether this is a fractal or not.

So, she decides to take a photo, to ask her class.

collects all these photos and they discuss

and share and compare them with each other.

Remember that sudden engagement slump that we saw ?

As students, educators and designers and more,

we can imagine and create these new learning environments

that allow teachers to connect  the curricular content

First, we can allow students to have a voice with their curriculum,

to make learning more fun and accessible to them.

And third we can allow more opportunities

These students want to see mobile technology in their learning environment.

It's part of their daily routine to take photos

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