are. What have you done? How have you done it? What are the perspectives that you're going to be bringing into the classroom and community? How do these things inform what you want to do next?Some key takeaways here. There's no minimums, no formulas, no equations.
now. And by the way, I saw an interview with Isaac Azimoff in 1988. He was the great science fiction writer who wrote classroom it's going too fast for half the kids too slow for the other half of the kids and if you could just pursue
Um and, you know, so that's a real change. And then at the same time that we've seen, you know, books leaving the classroom , we've definitely seen um you know, tablets and and Chromebooksand and laptops, um you know, entering the classroom much more. Um one statistic that was really, you know,
the people of Texas by making these decisions of what's um permissible, what's appropriate in a classroom . I think that's a very good question and I do think that the board has a point that they areaccountable to the people of Texas who actually fund the university. That is appropriate. Uh
we can democratize the best teacher through a hologram or through search for through YouTube or through Google Classroom or through G Suite. We can democratize and through chromebook and everything that we have cloud everything that we have even within cool in partnershipwith others. I don't think we can do this alone. Google, on its own, can't do it. Facebook on its own or
believe in it. They believe in equality in the abstract. classroom with white kids. We've never shown in a single place that they get the same resource isas white kids do.
And if you don't believe that this is true, when I speak to elementary school audiences and I ask those kids how many people in that classroom have made a secret code or cipher at some point in their lives, every hand goes up because it's also a really universal impulsethat children feel to communicate without adults being able to listen in.
will not talk in class I will not talk in class I will not talk in class I not talk in and so literally the whole classroom was filled with my signature so fixed mindset is okay I can't stoptalking I can't do this also they labeled me as having a reading disability so now Not only was I not
like to be growing old you know with your memory slipping away or to be a dyslexic child and struggling in the classroom or what's it like to have your house repossessed and nowhere to gowell empathy the art of stepping into the shoes of another person and looking
it's a terrible room for teaching you know you got all these sort of heads back there you know do an arc around the classroom they do tables I mean everything's done in in Project form not for the high school high school teacherssay I teach biology I teach calculus you know I teach American history leave me
quantified the the results in a sense the world peace game and and John like so many teachers is just be in his classroom there hasn't been really any attention paid and which is kind of astounding in some ways because we'resitting there in a university town with an ed school and yet there's been very little attention paid to this unbelievable master teacher who's been
students who are traditionally not self-motivated or those requiring a different learning style than a standard video provides?" So, traditionally not self-motivated. Actually, the gaming is classroom . Hopefully I'll take -- and anyone should feel free to leave, I'll hang out here and answer a few more questions over the next, I think we're out of time, but, I'll do another
no idea what's going on around here right the other four kids ADHD right so they didn't even know I was in the classroom right so for two terms teaching these kids it's chaos right there's a it's a disaster and there was a there was amoment where I had all 10 kids reading at the same time I mean it's only about 10 minutes long but it was a moment but
applied uh quite rigorously in like the practice of law for example uh in the classroom in medicine. So that would be the kind of thethe agenda so to speak. Before I do this though, I do want to say one other thing is this approach to leadership is not
simple terms are wiring up their classrooms right they are in fact um putting these technologies into classrooms so the kids can use them but in classroom after classroom they turn them off so the harvard law school equivalentof this is 10 years ago we wired up a really good big classroom we put ethernet jacks at every every
classrooms and other groups that we don't see as often represented in these situations?
Classrooms use great techniques of you play a musical instrument, you sing the clean-up song.
classrooms and we have some amazingly
classrooms and and I would set them straight and invariably my reward was to get Fs
classrooms right next to it and they've still got you know charts hanging on strings and using wooden sticks to point at it no laser pointers and you can see
our classroom and community.
the classroom . And I thought, OK, I'll bring in the vacuum cleaner and show them that.
Google classroom which has allowed most of our schools to function. So what we
My classroom 's going to be fine.
Their classroom as a positive organization.
their classroom . I would like to help them with that if they need help with that. So, that's my that's my goal.
Because classroom size can average 70 kids are more.
The classroom loved it.
students who are traditionally not self-motivated or those requiring a different learning style than a standard video provides?" So, traditionally not self-motivated. Actually, the gaming is the classroom , but they are just maybe a more mature, someone who's seen more of the world, but they're at the same level mathematically right now but they can learn it together.
believe in it. They believe in equality in the abstract. the classrooms that white kids sit in period to this day, heavily black and brown schools get $28 billion less
The classrooms don't have a lot of windows.
Many classrooms are becoming digital classrooms .
And classrooms need to have that.
Our classrooms are under-funded.
Into classrooms , into inner city schools to play in an even closer setting than this-- children, high school students, who perhaps never had the opportunity to hear
those classrooms at CalArts.
Observe classrooms . And listen for who is asking what kinds of questions.
He's reviewing stuff from 30 -- " You don't want that around. So you want the lecture to be intimate, but you want the actual classroom experience to be social. So what we're doing in classrooms now is taking that to the next level. Los Altos, right here, they came to us, they came to us actually about four months ago. Shantanu and myself, we had a meeting with their school board and said, "If you just had carte blanche in a classroom , how would you run the classroom ?" And we said, "Well, we would let every student work at
Imagine any classroom that you've ever been in, right? 20 students all learning the same thing.
Computers in the classroom .
in my classroom . And I recognized that I could get kids to cheer for each other, to work together, to be a team.
One piece from a classroom discussion, a moment of disagreement that forces you to rethink your assumptions.
I would go from classroom to classroom , collecting leftover pieces of chalk that the teachers had discarded.
decision. It's up to the board to make that decision. But it's not up to the board to control what individual professors say in the classroom . They have to trust the professors. We are the experts. I know what it is appropriate to say in my class and no student has complained about the content, right? I do not advocate for any
to the classroom . Yeah.
and being in a classroom , I think going back to the culinary school wasn't exactly top of mind.
demonstrates itself in the classroom , for example, but also in the workplace and in other social settings.
You go from classroom to classroom , from classroom to gym to the cafeteria, all of these places.
in the classroom , so working with Trevon and Kruschef and bringing those two partners together to make magic happen within the classroom learning space.
of the classroom to start leading a lot of our programming.