so good afternoon everyone welcome the technical leader for b t v igniting the c e o for health sciences you can learn or college of medicine is really pleased to be hosting this event we're thrilled because we've made a huge commitment to  technology and hansa learning we if you read the national media or the local media we're going to all and all active learning curriculum by twenty one thousand are going to finish our transition so lecture halls like this will probably be going the way of the dinosaur soon we'll be in one of our active learning flat floor classrooms later in the later this afternoon when we start move to the active portion of this we have an exciting lineup of speakers today one a couple of housekeeping notes you'll see signs to the bathrooms so just out the door down left the left and you'll find it there is a tornado warning for burlington today because you can never you know we can't have nice things is what it comes down to here but we will have luckily the university has contingencies for almost anything including tornadoes so we'll be have they'll be instructions on what to do in the in the some very unlikely event that there is a tornado so we're thrilled to welcome i'm going to hand this off to our executive director for be t v ignited this moynihan to tell you about our day or afternoon or evening thanks jill and thanks for hosting us and thank you everybody for coming out i know that by scheduling it out on a friday afternoon that added a bit of challenge to people's agendas but i really appreciate it sever you and said that you're excited about this and it we're really excited to have this opportunity to to launch today the b t v ignite reverse pitch competition and give our innovators and our creators a chance to apply their talent and their imagination  to the opportunity for how we deliver education and as jill said we have a series of great folks here to talk about that both from a technical perspective and from an educator's perspective and the goal is to to give you stuff to think about to to to talk about the opportunities we have in the creativity how do we bring twenty first century technology to the exciting but the challenging role of delivering education from k to twelve even into higher education the presentations will be relatively fast paced i've told everyone i'm i'm bringing along my own my little whip to make sure people stay on schedule but mostly because we have pizza coming in a little bit and what nobody wants call pizza and the goal is a little bit about the format today's we're just going to do the conversations for the first half of the session so that we can give you different perspectives on the opportunity and then we're going to just catch our breath pivot to another room where people can sit together and and ask more extended q and a and also let the experts kind of be there to compare notes with you because this is a great chance to have these folks in the room with us a little bit about the reverse pitch and then where this goes from here even many of you particularly if you're in business or an entrepreneur you may have been in a situation where you know you've done a pitch you're trying to explain something you've created or  ignite in a few moments but the reverse pitch subset of around the idea is that we bring a number of stakeholders to a room to lay out a challenge to the developer and innovator community and let them come up with creative solutions to that challenge and that challenge could be smart cities thought it could be for all you know if intact in our case the challenge is how do we reimagine the delivery of education and you know what we're looking for our digital solutions technical solutions which we often call high bandwidth or gigabit applications but we're looking for solutions that allow you to use the internet in creative ways in the classroom and that maybe geographies and breaking down geographies is one of the important things we're interested in how can you do interesting things here in burlington how can burlington and other school districts across vermont collaborate and share resources and how can vermonters reach out to resources that across the nation and the world and that's really what we hope will stimulate some of the ideas around today now the idea of the reverse pitch many of you might have been involved in the hackathon before and this is kind of like a long term slow motion i had thought is great but if you know the format it usually means that you come for a weekend you lay out a challenge and then there's on awful lot of soda and coffee and pizza and you do the best you can creating an idea but it's the best you can do in a three day span and a lot of times that's where the ideas stop because people go back to their day job the idea of the reverse pitch the way we're going to do this is spread out just a little bit further and so we're launching today and then over the next several weeks we hope people will begin to come up with creative ideas and we're going to have an idea picture event shortly and i'll come back to the logistics but we have an idea picture event where we want individuals or teams to come back and say we thought about everything you told us and here's what we'd like to create here's how we'd like to solve a problem what problem would like to solve and of the top five ideas are are going to receive a grant to take that forward and assuming we get five ideas and things go forward the of would be that each to each presenter that we choose will receive a grant probably in the range of two thousand dollars to take their idea further and then in the fall september october timeframe we're going to have a final event and the best two ideas the best two proof of concept solutions that are presented at that time will receive a much larger grant to further complete what they're working on and those grants will be in the range of ten thousand dollars so what we're working on is a hackathon is actually trying to help you not just come up with a great idea but take that idea further in terms of development towards the marketplace and one of the reasons we want to do that is us ignite which is one of the co sponsors of of works with twenty five gigabit cities across the nation and they want to take the best ideas that we create and help other communities pick those up and use them and vice versa there is sharing ideas from other communities with burlington and with the monster that we can take advantage of that  so a couple things on the logistics of the grant funding available as you've seen in many many many many e mails is earth up to thirty thousand dollars and that's reflecting a significant grant from us ignite and there you go and and also the vermont department agency of community development commerce and community development and the grimly is here today representing them so they've also contributed to this because driving education's very important and terms of logistics i mentioned that in about six weeks we'll have the idea thing i have a real reason why i don't have a date for that and i have a strategic reason why i don't have a date for that the real reason is i'm still nailing down the logistics i don't actually have all the nuts and bolts together that's the honest answer but also to i wanted to see what questions and what feedback came out of today's session so we can understand if people had any challenge is how people might be thinking of taking their ideas forward so that's a little bit about the program in the second half of the session today after the conversations are over here the presentations you will have a chance to to join us upstairs you don't to stay for the entire window but i'll be available and many of the speakers will be available to deep dive in any questions or further information you have and also to you've probably seen on email my e mail address dennis at b t v dot com also my website please feel free to reach out with any thoughts questions ideas anything you need following today's session so i hope that gets us kicked off i want to thank everybody for coming particularly you know again on a friday afternoon and i'm glad it's not too sunny outside because then you'd really feel bad being inside but thank you again and with that i'm going to move to the speakers and our first speaker who's going to present we're so pleased to have mickey our company here from microsoft and i'll make you i'll let you describe your role with microsoft you can do better than i but he's come all the way from seattle  of being able to understand and participate in what communities do around the u s that are not the metropolitan communities not the big ones that we all know and understand and make a lot of investment in so to that end i wanted to come down kind of talk to you a little bit about what we're doing this or do i want to talk about what's the relationship between the kind of technology that we're working on in education and i have a t shirt here in my college my colleague also come later in the explain a little bit more about microsoft and education but first i want to start by talking about what what those technologies are where they go today and i this is not going to be a very technical deep dive this is just going to be kind of a level set of a background of where we are and how we think so that we can have a conversation from a place of we all understand what these things are doing and three i want to talk about specifically our cloud ai and internet of things so let's these are these clubs that we're talking about here or are huge right there they're very big they're the most efficient way to manage computer power and and storage and they provide services for basically everything under the sun today we don't even think about it once you understand that this is where everything is going do you realize that all of our technology is going to have a backend that essentially a cloud somewhere in the future the  startups that are here i'm assuming they're all are already in the matter but if you're not you know urals right there you need to sign up it's free to start later on you'll pay but for initially you get to a certain play for free  again this dish is going to tell you later we have a cloud in microsoft for educators  but the most important thing that i want to i want you to take out of what the cloud means and essentially the reason i'm here is that cloud is democratizing our access to digital innovation it means that whether you're in burlington or in your city it makes no difference you can you can create the next great starter right here and that's because and think thanks to the cloud and to the network obviously i'll talk about the networking a little bit some more of but that's also very important so we talked about cloud talk about io t for a second part of the i know we're on the pretty quickly so we have some videos to show so we kind of go through it so what i ot what internet of things centrally every device that you have that has connectivity to a cloud is an internet of things device so your phone is an internet a thing the bus your computer is if you have exponentially by twenty twenty as you can see from the numbers the bottom line of this is essentially on average each one of us is going to have six internet of things the vices that operate on our behalf doing stuff to us with us for us  in education the internet of things is getting adopted at a fairly reasonable pace i'm going to show you a video in a minute talking about one school that capitalized on that kind of adoption and use it to create efficiencies but there's lots of things that you can do that allows you things like allowing children to move directly from rote learning of something to experimentation creation playing with it being able to connect  teachers and parents and students better all of these things are part of why the internet of things is so important and again one of the one of the most important things about the internet of things yeah i kind of killed it in the in the middle because time ok so we talked about io t we talk about clouds so we have those big clouds the two tons of computation store tons of data we have those devices that emit information receive information back to stuff but somebody has to make sense of all the tons of information and this is where i comes in because people can do some of it but not all by themselves and i think everybody has heard about artificial intelligence in some way some form what i want to do right now is kind of give you a flavor of where we are in terms of ai and where it's going just as a general idea so at the top right corner you see this at all the guy who was the reigning  champion until twenty sixteen where he lost a machine alpha go from google basically be them four or five times and i do appreciate what this means i want you to realize that in chess you have ten to a power to the power of one hundred twenty bro sitting in the microsoft lab he's getting film for the mission of with the british museum where there's had they have a lot of specimens that students can't touch because they're too here so what they're doing is they're creating virtual images of those stadium of sixty thousand people an official recognition software called the just got a face out of the crowd and this is you know minority report stuff for it but it's real it's happening right now google home alexa all those things right here we see how do you notice how we start talking to them they're not very conversational yet but they're starting to pick it up personally i still use it just to make a grocery list but you can you can you can tell that in a few years you'll be able to actually have a conversation with those things they'll ask you clarifying questions though there's going to be a back and forth and all that indicates a lot of smart a lot of compute power but again how intelligent parity right so when you compare machines to what humans can do in terms of object recognition speech recognition machine reading all that stuff we already reached human parity machines can do it better to put it simply there was an experiment recently with they took like fifty lawyers and they put them against the machine in editing n d s numbers closer agreements the machines got a ninety four percent accuracy rate the lawyers got eighty five percent accuracy rate but that's not the important part the important part is the machines did it in thirty seconds the lawyer two can now so it's it's clearly moving very much and cloud and all those things in virtual reality or working for or working for medical education we've been teaching human anatomy the same way for one hundred year students get a cadaver and they look at medical illustrations and it's completely two dimensional and the human body isn't talons is a holographic computer that you wear it enables you to bring your digital world into your real world at case western reserve university we are focused on solving problems and creating new knowledge my job is to teach and really think this through the impact almost everything that we teach  you can see the muscles on top of those all of the same tone you can bring them in an hour and exactly understand things you can take any anatomical heart and show any of it you can move it around to make it kind of translucent so you can see that you couldn't do with natural hear i think this will improve students confidence in learning anatomy dramatically by creating simulations where the whole lens that lets them have an experience where they can in that prison be the best way to because we don't all and so you could imagine having your class standing around a model almost like a true or a group in museums where they're all interacting completely naturally i spend a huge amount of time to make sure they become the best professionals  because it's all their jobs to make the world a better place  so so what happens in the this is this is the big question right what happens when all of those technologies those clouds those i o t devices those whole and things  that when they become better which they were and they will happen soon are you going to have in every class every kid is going to wear the vise that lets you know when they don't understand what they're talking about the let you know when they're anxious and they need help so that you don't have to just meet the true answer is we have no idea nobody knows anybody who tells you they know their life we're going to find out soon but we know at this point we can't predict it but one important thing final thought i want to leave you with is i hear a lot of people feeling a little anxious about what's going to happen next are we going to buy machines going to take over or they're going to rule you know rule over the humans and i think we need to look at it a little differently and when it comes to education the hard question becomes what do you teach kids because if there's a they are in there is all those victimology used to go there to do the things that we normally use as people do if you don't need to  documents as a lawyer what do you need to do as a lawyer right and when we think about that and as you think about through today well encourage you to remember is that think there are things that machines won't do not in the forseeable future things like physicality enjoin touch things like empathy like curiosity or judgment those are things that are inherently not somewhere where we can see machines do very soon so we're pretty safe there so when you think about education for the future the question becomes how do you teach kids to take those traits that are always going to be human and use them to extend what they can do and to create better for other humans and as a without i want to afternoon my name is to show lan and i am microsoft's solutions professional forward in new england area so i cover all the states in new england except for connecticut and new york and my role i talk through microsoft education solutions to keep the kid twelve student school district audience lining up whatever the student pirates he's our for that particular strike and talk through how microsoft technologies can help them meet their needs exceed their goals so in my discussion with school superintendents and others i highlight the things on the slide for example so the left microsoft educator community so we at microsoft as you can tell we are strongly invested in education however we realize that we need to built out that will take about five years but any teacher any principal to go through and a model you will stop a stunt things like stem steam cloud computing collaboration persistence all of those soft skills and hard skills as well relating to mastering stem and steam curriculum along with that work we have the educator expert so when we have educators who engage in the community because every time you take one of those courses you earn points and you get a bad and we at right microsoft we recognize you and we're like well we see that you have or undies badges and you have done these things in your classroom and your kids actually achieving really well from your records of results that's inside of the community would you like to become a key to export and share these with others around the country and around the world so teachers and principals and school district personnel have that opportunity where we have educated experts as models of using microsoft technologies to meet the needs of students last but not least showcase schools so a lot of our educator experts impressed their colleagues at their school so much that it bled throughout the school and before you know it the principal got involved and was like we should just become a microsoft showcase school to showcase the good work we are doing relating to our student population needs some piracies to be specific so currently we have about six hundred twenty one showcase cools last microsoft imagine academy so in my role at microsoft i get a lot of feedback about what about the kids that's not going to go to college they're going to go straight into the workforce are they going to learn those skills how can you help with that so we have microsoft we have to imagine academy we have skills can we had students can get things like their microsoft office certification so they can become masters of excel asters of word masters and microsoft applications that help them in the workforce as well and we have built that entire curriculum out and linked to to microsoft certifications and that's all we imagine academy one thing that i would like to share is before coming over to microsoft i spent about twenty five years in school districts throughout texas alabama massachusetts dubai and india in addition i did work with about seven spanish speaking countries in all of their high schools going completely paper last relating to biology chemistry physics and helped so my microsoft completely aligns to my talents and passions and i am excited about the world of tomorrow that my colleague described and i feel really privileged that i have a job where i'm able to help form that world where they sing to my education background have a good evening thanks will want to follow more with what microsoft's offering in this i think your first visit to burlington so it's a chance for you to get to know our community and vice versa so with that to keep things moving what i'd like to do now is invite him tomorrow up to join us and is the that's my daughter a long time ago so anyway hi everybody i'm actually an associate dean and i am a full professor and it's really my pleasure to be here today because we helped get the original funding for b t v ignite based on our thinking about education at so mike yeah a kick in the soft i'm also really pleased because there's a lot of friends in this audience that we've either worked with or i've worked for and who are deeply engaged in technology and pushing it forward or education and helping our from on students who are students in general and i'm really happy because some people might know i'm kind of famous in vermont for starting champlain game program which is one of the top ten in the nation over five hundred in years ago i went on a cruise with microsoft education for free there was about thirty of us from all over the united states in you know it's interesting we were up there like this on the boat giving presentations so i'm really you know it's kind of a nice group to be with so anyway what i do now is that i direct the emergent media center and it's really this is our definition for ourselves fearless learning community designing dynamic process is an tools to create meaningful solutions and we have three parts to us we have the center of the studio some of you have worked with us in the past where we actually employ students to create digital media we partner with business non profits and government agencies and then we have our maker lab that sync with the generator open together and it's for our entire college community and it's a physical prototype taping lab with a host of tools and you might say well why are they together well i think i ot really kind of explains the whole thing and i look at we combined in that space and then lastly we have graduate programs that are really about everybody likes to talk about design thinking we're designers but we're also into clever ation production methods and definitely an invitation so when i look at these three together they seem like to separate entities but it's code physical hardware and human creativity and talent that we're bringing together and when i look back to when i went to school which was typewriter days and i was an art student i really want to direct experience i think i heard that before and interaction and personal creativity in the last thing at that time even though my dad was an engineer that appealed to me was co and i just thought of these monkeys machines that turn turn to the punch cards at the time and spit out zeros and ones and it was boring to me at the time however despite my limited viewpoint at the time code hardware and creativity have did some amazing things back then like could a man on the moon but there was still seemingly out of reach for someone like me in one thousand year old woman sorry it just was but a lot of chinese have things have changed since that day and code in hardware have enabled a lot and i love this quote by a game designer friend of mine clint hocking he says it's code do we can do anything and i think that's really true is seen by your talk here first code itself has been more accessible to everybody secondly it's tumbled in price and shrunk to become the size of some diseases that we carry and wear and thirdly we can all create amazing things whether it's digital photographs or printed three d sculptures or conversations or more active bodies or we can work collaboratively as in the case of today's nasa scientists who are using virtual reality to direct the mars rover and what has changed in will continue is how code hardware in human creativity creates experiences experiences that are causing individual and cultural change that crosses into all of our human endeavors from politics to the humanities i want you to take a minute and peek into the near future i'm not going to big the big the big chart but just three key points or four key points technology is going to become increasingly intuitive to use imagine there's going to be no cords no more keyboards no more boxes and putting us inside of realities that we could not imagine and it will seamlessly pervade our lives who weren't even know were participating in technology just as today cell phones do for us no one thinks twice about having a cell phone i hear all the time but questions still remain about how these pervasive technologies will impact us as invid is individuals in a societies it's already transformed commerce and communication how many of us for instance buy online message instead of call now carry both i don't know why you guys these are the questions that were treated trying to answer is both educators and technologists plain as an educator i'm proud that in twelve years of the e m c we've educated over six hundred students working at the studio and there is an economics and her our success as evidence by the fact that ninety eight percent of our students continue all the way through playing that's really high for college education and i'm also because ninety five ninety six percent of these students are employed in their career field within six months of graduation both locally like a dealer and internationally and because together we take a deep hands on dive into learning it's really our key thing about ever changing technologies starting with our earliest forays into serious games bemis occasion social media mobile apps virtual world building in alternative controllers to more recently since a three d printing video marketing internet of things for bad acts large screen and directives augmented reality in virtual reality approaching each with intent reflectivity and playfulness i did create the game theory projects such as break away that we did with the un it's our longest running program and it's you know this is the me too moment but we started this twelve years ago to address violence against women and girls around the globe and was successfully launched in palestine and also in el salvador where we had a really positive result and its impact with the youth your your youth the eight to sixteen year olds and then make a change which is now being tested it's a game to educate college students to prevent sexual assaults and rape on college campuses these are issues of our times and then partnering with you via the medical researcher peter being a man of ford foundation grant again for children with cystic fibrosis that was proven to increase both their motivation for completing their breathing exercises but also it increasing their long passages which we did not expect but was hope development to teach folks about how to create sustainable communities around the world and then picks a cloud it's really sculpture for exploring big data and emotion through tweets griffin in flight if you've  flown through the t v you will you have an opportunity to play it there and lastly our work in the arm with the folks back in the back here aaron and sam we've done quite a few of your projects one with you can actually smell the experience as you go through a narrative but also with inhibits and burlington's launched this week and in texas at digital now this week of e r surgical stimulate simulator for educating surgeons it is our client likes to say a flight simulator for surgeons and what's a little different than what you saw you actually can cut the bone and get your metrics in get the tension back with our insightful students on these projects i come back to what i learned in regards to the question that as educators and technologist we need to address how will future technology impact us our culture and our society what i predict is that more and more technology will be offering virtual experiences we will record in our brain is actually ality some will be disturbing such as early morning tweets and bulling posts but some will enrich our lives is the recent news that scientists return the sense of touch to a man with a prosthetic arm and some will unite communities offering empathy and knowledge like breakaway has done in the prevention of gender violence secondly as designers of the exit period says we must be aware of the potentials the worst and the best in as a society we must recognize and support the need for a new type of literacy a human digital literacy so all generations can thoughtfully interpret build in make choices regarding these experiences i've come to recognize that technology is a perfect tool that amplifies attitudes in actions of mishearing again technology amplifies attitudes and actions towards that end is designers educators and citizens we must find a way to hold up a model of our highest values because it's exactly those values that technology will amplify broadcast  but you but i get so excited when i see those kind of opportunities and things happening you know i've been in town for a number of months now and time and again folks point me back to what has been doing what the emergent media center has been doing and you know there's technology for technology sake but useful so many interesting ways of playing technology to other problems temp our women to reimagining different things and i hope folks can take back some ideas into our classrooms across the state and across the country so with that thank you and let me invite a couple of our colleagues from the university of vermont and i'm going to ask them to come up together first i'd like john downs the director for the terrence institute for initiative education so this is something certainly that they think about on a daily basis and also karen killeen who is associate dean for innovation and technology and associate professor for educational leadership and policy studies since i murdered one title i'm trying to get them a slightly more accurate as we go along so with that gentleman nice to be here we're going to we just had a little clip bits and i'm going to do a little more macro perspective and john's going to talk a little more micro perspective and i'm going to use more storytelling than technical detail to try to implore you  and i learned about it after learning about an innovator named wendy kopp coming out of princeton who designed something like a domestic peace corps for teachers they recruited recent college graduates to go into school systems around the country that were hard to staff schools the school systems they had difficulty bringing in teachers and they had severe teacher shortages and i thought that was kind of innovative and i joined i joined and i went to a place called shreveport louisiana northwest louisiana which is a fairly tough city even today back then it was i think on the top ten list for most violent cities in the country and a difficult place i was assigned to teach special education two times murder two times out of prison but the middle school i taught in hollywood middle school was nothing like hollywood california at all the school system itself the sort of the school building itself was had very high metal walls some corrugated metal walls and there was razor wire at the top of the walls and the razor wire faced out in it faced out which was to keep burglars for coming in there was copper imagine fairly good lapping at houses and what we call shock on houses very thin houses that were worn down there weren't many cars around and there were routinely gaps it looked like to troy does gaps between the buildings and in between the buildings were high grass or untended lawns and you would often see packs of dogs that were curled up sleeping waiting for the sun to come up to wake up in mist between houses it was just wild it was very very unusual experience for me because i grew up in a far more pledged place in upstate new york in ithaca new york this is what my kids saw every day i started teaching louisiana history with sixteen year old textbooks and these were the types of in conditions i experience that kozel has written about in american education quite eloquently my point of sharing that little story is that us can do those conditions still exist in american schools there are remarkably robust problems that you have the capacity to try in a million or eight i'm not going to geek out and tell you about technology to think win over the hearts and minds of children i think that's your in your wheel house but i will implore you to please direct your talents where they're needed the most ok so here's what we do know the best way to improve education in the united states to lift our international prominence to raise our achievement to close achievement gaps is to improve teaching full stop yes children  well on test scores and they develop well and they have better medical outcomes if their parents are of high s e s that is true but under the control of schools under the control of principals teachers of the most important and consequential variable that contributes to the advancement of children so your tack should be focused on teachers in my opinion the production the development the improvement of the training of teachers and where they're teaching will make a consequential different to the children's lives if you can do that if you can steer this advanced tack this opportunity through high bandwidth network systems if you can figure out a way to connect high quality teaching and teachers to that technology particularly where it's needed the most you're going to contribute to amazing solution in the united states and are arguably in other places in the world as well so under the control of teachers our principals our teachers if you can work on that one issue that's great and the second thing you've heard me ruminate on this just a little bit is high quality teachers are actually not evenly distributed in the united states it's quite segregated in the us did you know that eighty five percent of teachers teach within forty five miles of where they graduated from high school eighty five percent within forty five miles of where they went to high school and you can think back in high school you probably had a teacher that graduated from that high school and you were like no the whole dog's been there a long time right ok that's actually quite systematic across the united states it's an even pattern teaching is a very localized profession it's a little more localized than other types of professions street level bureaucrats like nurses and social workers and cops teachers tend to tend to teach where they're from and they tend to be as interested in teaching excuse me in places where they grew up and where they're raised which means we've got a quality a capital human capital swirl right and it's a difficult labor market to break but technology could help could your technology help i think it can right we've talked about the internet of things a little bit here already but the internet of things is not evenly distributed as a type of infrastructure as a type of technology just as human capital like teaching is not evenly distributed as well so can you break this labor market pattern teachers do enjoy challenges teachers tend to have slight preferences for teaching in places that are less well let me say this there's a segment of the teaching population that is attracted towards herd conditions and difficult teaching circumstances and there are those that tend to shy away from it and gravitate towards less variability in their teaching jobs that's ok too technology can help teachers do that sorting process better where they can match their preferences to teach in certain ways with children that want to be learned want to learn that way and that type of dynamic can be improved through improved technology so  mentioned that the finest american teachers on average are not in schools where the greatest concentration of children living in poverty are ok these types of educational deserts are highly associated with poverty in the united states  tech can improve that and type to ameliorate that the type of advanced curriculum and curriculum innovation hardware software that we've seen here access to books and materials are not evenly distributed so the challenge to you is can you can you can you make them more distributed right inexpensively to the places where they're needed the most we talked a lot about virtual reality here which is an amazing opportunity augmented reality to bring different world experiences where transportation and travel won't let the individuals out and i challenge you to work on that so i think the biggest messages will leave you with is that the best way to improve education in the united states is to focus on teachers is to focus on creating high quality teachers and making sure they're teaching where they're needed the most  it's john downs i'm the director of the terrence institute which is a professional development institute we work with thirty five different middle schools all over the mont we've been doing it for ten years steadily increasing in scale so we've touched on probably fifty five schools now and we plan to keep going our focus is professional development so the remarks we just heard resonate for us you know how can we prepare teachers for the kinds of schools we aspire to the three pieces we try to put together are this high quality professional development a twenty first century vision so how can we exploited knology in particular how do we exploit technology to advance the the best practices we can come up with for our focus which is young adolescents so how do you leverage the technology the best practices with young adolescents and the professional development to transform whole schools so we we've all come from the folks i work with have all come from training particular teachers or small groups of teachers and we're trying to tackle the issue of moving the whole school forward so that's the context of what we do and i wanted to start off with a story of my own it's actually  fictional scenario that i read a number of years ago and i think it will help thinking kind of with my design thinking had on this is the empathy portion of the of the exercise as he does every morning steve early age fourteen eats breakfast in front of the t c the telecommunications computer while he watches a news program in one window his personal communication service relays a video message in another window from his friend nelson we met at a summer science camp nelson's vid message is about a train derailment on a river upstream from the campground where the school's group where the school groups stayed nelson explains the train caused a hazardous fuel spill and now endangers the entire ecosystem up and down the river i'm afraid it will poison the water and hurt the animals also concerned steve constructs a scout agent to search for news clips about the accident sor them chronologically and store them on the school server as he finishes his breakfast stephen his parents watch the video that the agent retrieved and i'll stop there and just explain that the rest of the scenario explores how the next couple of weeks unfolds for nelson and steve and their student partners as they try to take real world practical action to minimize the effects of this spill in the course of doing that they are using project design and management software that they can access on their in the in the scenario referred to as p d s and they are able to communicate with students who they're collaborating with closer to the site as as those students act as kind of data gather and observers while the more remote group are accessing  university professors and experts and modeling software the modeling software has a student friendly component to it that's fully integrated in what is fully professional modeling software and the teachers all are engaging with each other at a distance and with teaching experts at a distance so that they can help lay the groundwork in and support the students while they're doing this work the verbiage was a little strange because this was written in one thousand nine hundred eighty and in some respects we're still trying to do the same thing we're still trying to advance what we might call project based learning in many of our schools and we're still trying to figure out how to leverage technology to do so so this is particularly interesting i think because there are patterns that we're seeing in this it's not the that sort of scenario would not be unfamiliar to the schools we're working with so they are invested in student directed project based learning using technology in the course of exploring that they're finding that it's requiring a completely  a completely rethinking of how time and space are used in education where it happens when it happens there broaching this idea of ubiquitous learning anytime anywhere made possible with technology but also made possible by just thinking outside the box where can the learning happen and why would we constrain it to when when teachers are immediately immediately and physically available  schools if there's an interesting trend right now in vermont and many other places in the country of personalized learning we have a policy context right now that in some ways permits and maybe even encourage is this sort of learning opportunity and we're in a situation to take advantage of that so in the course of of working with our schools we're trying to work through compliance with the policy elements but more importantly how to interpret those into a richer meaningful experience for students policy very rarely gets us there so there it needs to be interpreted it gets back to why teacher education is up being so that i can mention a few technologies that relate to some of this work that are already underway that may be familiar to you and if they're not it's worth it's worth looking into because there's been substantial work done and they may be starting points that includes ubiquitous internet access of course you know but it's remarkable how many kids don't actually have ubiquitous access to the right either because they don't have devices that they own themselves or their schools don't have the devices or permit the devices in the case of kids who may have perfectly powerful and held devices but they're nonetheless not available in the course of inquiry during the school day there are open educational resources which is an interesting avenue for compiling in the cloud higher quality learning resources whether they're less than designs or materials and  be whole packages that an educator can access and through kind of a social media filtering process can confidently just steal completely and that can save tremendous time simulation tools i think the ones that we've heard about here are important i think is particularly an interesting game if occasion augmented reality people are dabbling but there are yet to penetrate classrooms in a significant way  outside the specialized school kind of situation so if i was to leave you with a problem statement it would be that we need apps that better serve the confluence of student engagement project learning self direction and social learning and if you think of some of the ai stuff that there were a number of references to how it could engage groups of people but that's often overlooked and is a lot of advanced technology and integration in schools often under cells the critical role of social learning for cognition for engagement for meaning for wanting to come to school every day how can we develop project management tools for self directed learning in real world context so not to just manage what they need to do to get done what the teacher wants somebody get done but to get done complex things no one has in to support it yet immersed immersive virtual collaboration accessible across ethnicities cultures and languages so in vermont in particular i think it's it's difficult to give students the real authentic collaborative experiences outside their specific cultural linguistic and ethnic domain connections between schools homes and the rest of the community will enable students to relate what is happening in the world outside to what is happening in school it will allow teachers to coordinate formal education and informal learning and will allow the community to really integrate education into its daily life thanks you know and i think the two conversations just now were so important because it's very easy to think about you know the star trak jetsons aspect of bringing technology into a classroom but in fact as as teachers no one has as we know one step away their world is hugely challenging and access to resources and access to the things that they need to be the kind of teacher that they want to be and to be as effective and so when we did this challenge is the idea the reverse pitch some people said what we really we should demand that it's going to be an i o t solution or should be we should demand that it's going to be a v r solution and what we settled on is let's make it broad let's just call delivering education so that we can do things that our student facing and maybe a little jessamy but we can also do things that are are doing the heavy lifting of education helping support our teachers you know and telepresence can be letting a student see something really wonderful but it may also be just something to teachers collaborate or co teach or build a different skill set by having a chance to experience something that they wouldn't have so these are the the reason we left is so broad is that you can come up with ideas and you can create new ways of thinking about this and that's what's exciting to us so thank you guys that was really compelling let me just move forward a little bit and i'd like to invite  also teach math and i've started a mobile app design class it's primarily based around javascript i'm passionate about innovative approaches to education and i'm really happy to be here to talk to you today i have some kind of specific things i'm looking for so the first native the learning experience would be much better for the students if they regularly had access to professionals who are very fluent with these topics i guess because coming to the class now and some of those guest speakers i'm right now but i would like to have the students have more hands on help with the creation and development of their programs i imagine that you folks could create some sort of virtual workspace where a group of professional programmers could have access to the screens that the students are working on if a student needs help they could initiate a chat room or something where they could talk to their helper helper would be able to see and possibly control the student screen and the two of them could work together on solving the problem the professionals wouldn't all need to be in the same location we just need to find a group of people who are willing to be logged in and accessible for the duration of the class there is always a concern about security when working with high school students i would need to have complete access to everything that went on between the students and the helpers i imagine that i would like a recording of everything that went on so i could keep an eye on everything that happened in the class the curriculum i'm using is based on the on line code h s but form and if you've heard of that or not but it was developed by a pair of recent stanford graduates it's being marketed rather heavily by the organization co dot org you may have heard of the hour of code that's put on each year it's become big millions of students around the year do that that's the most visible activity that co dot org sponsors but they've also put together a generic high school curriculum that's going to be trying for the first time next year i think the combination of the code h s curriculum platform which is available worldwide and an online learning space with professional coders could make a powerful and scalable educational platform they could easily extend beyond this one class as excite school in my opinion one of the reasons that coding isn't taught very often in high schools is that most teachers aren't all that comfortable with coding many of us took some sort of coding class in college i think i took pascal in one thousand nine hundred three but everything changes so fast it isn't really feasible for teachers in high school to stay on top of current developments if we could virtually bring experts into the classroom along with having a package curriculum like code h s i think more high schools could teach coding not just here in vermont but anywhere i'd also like to give a plug for the green up app that was recently released by code for b t v this is rather timely as you probably know or some of those if you are local no code for b t v is a civic hacking group in our area they picked up a project that was originally started by students in my app development class with help from john need it galen healthcare solutions we worked out last summer and it was finished by other folks in the community the eff is available on google play and the apple store right now which is pretty exciting there was an article in this morning's paper if you want to learn more about it if you're going to participate in green update to morrow that's yearly the first saturday in may here i recommend you download it to help coordinate your team and your trash pick up plans what i'm trying to emphasize here besides that the app is cool and you should use it is that essex i schooled as a coding program that's already well established and integrated into the community and your efforts would be put immediately to use if you came up with something that worked for us my second idea relates to the stem academy in essex ice cool so i'm the leader of that we have one hundred twenty students out of the thirteen hundred students that we have in essex ice school students are very interested in this program and it's an above and beyond experience that gives motivated students the opportunity to learn more about stem careers if they're considering it's sort of a personalized development personalized learning opportunity but it's not so much a curriculum it's more giving students a chance to interact with professionals in the community so it's personalized in the way that older high school kids get to see where their career might might lead them the main components of the academy are a lecture series we have people come in about every two or three weeks one semester internship class for people  get to spend forty hours out in the community with a professional that shares a common interest of theirs and also a capstone project i would like our students to be able to virtually participate in caps on projects that are not necessarily located in the state of vermont you v m has been very helpful with providing for this program but there are other institutions out of state that are doing cool things that i would like my students to be able to be involved in i was very inspired by the four k microscope experience the chattanooga stem students were able to have with the scientists u s c the high school students were able to control the microscope from remotely from their school in tennessee and see what the california scientists were seeing i would like to think of other ways and students could be involved with remote research or any other cool remote experience the hollow and stuff that you guys showed with the surgery the the medical advisory is the largest strand in my group i have forty five students high school that are very interested to work in the medical profession in some way so if we could virtually be involved with even just the curriculum in holland's that would be great or whatever is being taught to medical students at case western or anywhere else so those kinds of virtual medical experiences to virtually put students in those spaces would be would be great or maybe students could be in a place where they control robots maybe they could virtually be somewhere of the robots moving around and they can from anywhere that allows a student to virtually experience something bigger than they could experience just here and in from i have programs in place in my school with that allow that would allow me to implement any solutions you can develop for us one of the big things in the high school is where do you find time to do all these cool programs but we already have time carved out of the students day for the students who signed up for that class of twenty two students for next year and there's also time carved out of the day for the mentoring projects the internships the lect anything that happens could easily be started if if someone in this room can develop something and we also have internet to ask high school so if any of your solutions require a fast internet we could make that happen thank you for your attention and i look forward to making creative things that's great and you know i love every time i drive over to her shop because they're just getting on with it the students are just sleeves rolled up and doing incredible things and really impressive and in vermont you know we have a commitment to to the young people growing up here if we want burlington to thrive in vermont to thrive that we have to help people be prepared for the twenty first century economy and it's shifting and the pace disruptions accelerating and we can turn that disruption to our advantage or that disruption will happen to us and it will be to our disadvantage and so it's great to know that so many so many students are able to take advantage of that it's great to have a partner who is ready to say we're going up let's let's go use as a thank you liane and the last speaker and one who will help explain what's going on a bit across the nation on this topic and also a little bit more about what actually is a high bandwidth gigabit app i'd like to invite up ascot turbo who's traveled here to join us he's the national technical lead for us ignite and he's been going around to the various reversed pitches trying to make sure that we all have have the right idea of how to take this force of scott please and i should have the do this before hamburgers or anyway and if this goes on to the system things  so actually i want to turn it toward the focus towards you will because this this meeting is about what you are going to create in the community that creates transformative experiences for the students in them and what we've heard consistently through all the presenters here is education is really about experience and it's about collaboration it's about something we haven't been able to achieve before with the current generation of reference space technologies that's really what we've had so this year my personal story to start with it's this when i first got involved the internet the same way that people who eventually got addicted first got a got involved cocaine no one who eventually became a cocaine addict tells you that their first experience with cocaine was ok this are right it's kind of cool they never say that they said was great it was awesome i've never experienced anything like that before that was my first experience with the internet and i'm talking about as old school internet as you can get  three i'm young enough i've gone through college and come from poverty by the way and had to join the army to get into college but i finally got there i was hungry for education i sat down in the terminal in one thousand nine hundred three night typed mosaic which most of you won't know what it is but was a first generation web browser web browser popped up i'd never seen one before it said cern across the top of the page i was born with two great advantages one i am obsessed with science and technology i've always wanted to learn and t i was big enough that i came from a poor neighborhood no one could really pick on me for it so i it was intitled to my interest so i got there cern pops up oh my god what's so i spent the entire day in the computer lab i was hooked from day one now we're talking about the solutions you are going to develop let's move forward to today what's the experience like for an for a learner in today's world isn't just reading a cern paper what if they loaded a virtual reality environment that allowed them to walk the halls of cern to go down to the the particle accelerator to make their own experiment in virtual reality to get the results of it and to play with it all day as much as they want to what happens to that learner when they can not just do it in a virtual environment but they can bring in a physicist from cern who could talk to them in real time money got that totally wrong or i've never seen this before this is this is actually pretty cool let's let's talk about this further what is the experience of that learner in that environment over what i did before if that had been available to me it would have taken dynamite to get me out of that building i never would have left i probably still be there today so to talk about the block of it first second my name is scott term on the national technology leader for us ignite it was founded by the national science foundation to promote the the growth of advanced gigabit networks nation nationally by dennis applications and services that run them that let them be transformed into the communities in ways we have not seen before we have a cohort of twenty five cities and i just added to this map before i popped up so i hope i got it pretty right and spelt correctly twenty five communities nationally and in australia all dedicated to building out their local advance network and providing transformative applications in any one of six key national priority areas but we're going to talk about education  networks are a hard concept sometimes to get across with it's i saw a lot easier than people give it credit for it's about speed it's about getting more information with no limits so as much information as the world has to offer you whether that be four k video uncompress audio highs high quality scans from university archives there's no barrier it can get to the learner as easily and quickly as possible and the other is real time so that interacting with someone on line is almost the same as interacting with them in real life that it's not just an asynchronous conversation i would actually put forth the a small theory that a lot of our bitter divide in this country that we're unfortunate experiencing right now is coming from this  communication i can say something detached from where you are in real time and it doesn't really matter something sees me i can say something really terrible and post it and you could say something terrible back and post it and we've all ran off to the shadows before we've come back and seen how that really affected people but if interactions were instead real time if you can see why i really overshot the mark or heard this person's feeling or if you can experience everybody here thinks i'm a real jerk what other if anyone here is a gamer i really encourage it check out a game called that dragon cancer it was made by two parents shoot experienced a loss of a very young infant to cancer and they process their experience by creating a game called that dragon cancer it gets across in an artistic way the sense of grief that these people experience i don't think any other way could have done so that that ability to create these experiences really at the forefront of dance gigabit networks the last bit is really it's about secure communications that are that are that isolate the experience for the users in a way that makes them safe to encounter each other in an environment that might be public safety education networks it might be health education networks it might be a network of learners that need to just really dynamically reconfigure their the local network to stream in high high quality content and then give the rest of that band with back to the university a later date it's that flexibility and that security that has not been achieved before so some examples of things that we see happening nationally or we heard mentioned earlier the four k microscope that's a great project that's a great product what it does is it takes advance scientific instrumentation that's located in one area of the state makes it available to all schools in the state and that students in the classroom can can use these high so high capacity microscopes as if they were there in the room with them so it gives them access to stem education through instrumentation that then they were to have before and that c extended not just a telescope not just a microscope but telescopes to gas chromatograph to any any type of scientific instrumentation but i don't want to leave out humanity's you could have look through the entire vatican collection it within a half hour every page of an individual old medieval manuscript down to the level of being able to see what the fibers on the parchment have what has happened to them over time if you are a historian or if you are a some sort of humanities major i'll get to real time interactions in a second because there's more clickable there but high speed also applies to things so what the what the microscope can do is can take four k m injury of these microscopic slides that are being mounted in real time and let students can conduct experiments right there they can see to the level of individual cell organisms on the on the scan and they can actually conduct science in the classroom and they get the experience of being at a high end university at their high learning space with it with the students and with the instructor and lets them walk through that be our space as if they were there and slow enough to do that as well so real time interactions is something i was talking about it's another in addition to just through put being able to get more information down the pipe than you been able to before it's about having no lag even the even skype anyone skype to hang hang out or some like that there's they have to hang out bingo you've probably seen before it's own no you go or you've talked over somebody oh i'm having a problem with my connection there these bingo cards that you can sort of circle on these experiences that takes out entirely way to the point that you can actually perform music together with people at different locations and we've had several instances that between burlington and she had new game burlington a few other locations but you can access master musicians in new york or in boston or in albuquerque you can be the master musician and talk to students and any one of these locations it opens up the possibilities for music dramatic performances dance lectures when we talk about humanities if you had to have a lecture about the current political climate in the united states boy god bless you that's a really that's  do but you could do with people across the country in these virtual environments in ways you couldn't do it and in on line form because again it's easier to hit post and run off to the shadows this to look somebody in the eye even virtually and say this is important to me i really really want you to hear me and they say that back to you and you can hear it and see the looks on their faces a special to you what's important to them that's transformative and that is these are the kinds of tools we're talking about putting in the hands of students that you are going to create and that what this really takes is i think it was and i thought so what this really takes is it means that innovators in burlington don't want to have to leave burlington to have world class experiences they no longer have to go to the new yorks because they're the only places these things can happen they can stay right here in burlington and they can go to mars they don't have to wonder what it's like they can tell their friends just what it's like these are the experiences that you are being challenged to create and that once once user created those are shared with that twenty five list of twenty five cities that we've seen we have markets ready to adopt this if you create a great application that has high impact we have markets ready to come to talk to you there's a little money being offered as part of this let's not forget that that's always helpful money sure makes makes things a lot easier sometimes but there's markets ready to look at this to adopt it in the future if you criticize just a product and there are ears across the country ready to hear about successful models success is compelling success is undeniable people cannot look away from that so if you are successful even on this scale we have the ability to amplify that so everyone in the country can see or hear and with partners like microsoft we can scale this nationally almost without difficulty or at least an unprecedented level of ease than we've ever had before so thank you very much i'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of this reverse pitch and i'm really excited to join you all in burlington and you can see some of the great things that are going on and you know for me i talked about breaking down geographic barriers and we want to do that with the city and we want to do that across the state but every one of those cities has an entire organization of a developer community of users of people trying to lead their their invitation who are willing and ready to work with us i have peers and each one of those twenty five cities i meet all the time and scott and i and scott's colleagues can work together to open the door now i know because i've been in the chair a thousand times this is a great chance to sneak out at his word the speakers adani that friday at odds netflix's coming up but i really really really encourage you to take a minute to move to the room upstairs one one floor away one elevator right with any luck i don't know of people's arrived but with a look at supposed to be here by now so we'll see but in particular the real value is that we have folks who have come all the way across the can put your hand up who are connected to our developer community and our local technical experts who are also here to help so i would normally take you a day but i'm going to insist that you take at least a couple minutes to move