Paul Kim, PhD.Chief Technology Officer & Assistant Dean Stanford University Graduate School of Educationphkim@stanford.edu

The Age of Inquiry

http://SMILE.STANFORD.EDU

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1903

Design in 28 monthsFirst flight in 1969

Half of the world’s jobs – over 2 billion – are at risk of automation in the coming decades. - Pew Research Center

65% of children in elementary school today will have jobs that do not exist today.

Employers Need a Highly Skilled Workforce to Keep Up with the Fast Pace of Change in Business Today.

Current Employees are Lacking 4Cs (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication)

- American Management Association, 2012

No relationship between the amount of money spent in school and the amount of student learning.

No higher cognitive skills of human capital, no higher economic growth.

Eric Hanushek, Stanford University

A child asks about 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.

During that span, a shift occurs in the kind of questions being asked: from simple factual ones (name of object) to questions seeking explanations.

Falling-off-the-cliff phenomenon as students move from elementary school through high school.

Paul Harris, Harvard University

Students become more passive learners as they move up in grade and focus on memorizing.

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Understanding

RememberingForgetting

Our brain finds ways to “reduce our mental workload,” and one way is to accept without question...

John Kounios, Drexel University

Can they compete with Alexa in the future?

SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment)

SMILE ProcessMake

Question

IncorporateMobile media

Share

SolveRate

Reflect

Exchange

Mobility, Social Networking, & Gamification

Collaboration

Competition

Professor

Professor: I’ve never seen these many questions from my students…

Students: Why didn’t we do this from the first semester?

“We need to argue about the correct answer here…”

“We can make these questions little more interesting…”

By 2030 half of all the world’s youth in low and middle income countries – over 800 million young people – will lack the basic high-school level skills needed for work and life. - UN report "The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world"

The average student in the developing world scores on basic literacy and numeracy measures on par with the lowest 5 percent of students in the developed world.

And perhaps what is worse, at the current pace of change, it will take over 100 years for the developing world students to catch up. - Rebecca Winthrop, Brookings Institution

“There is a flaw in my friend’s question and I can fix it…”

“The textbook is missing this question…”

“Let’s make this question harder and make them sweat…”

• Public v.s. Group• Prompter• Synchronous• Asynchronous• Anonymity• OEQ->MCQ• Brainstorming

Real-time Analytics

Adhoc local area mobile learning network – content & application server + router + wifi + storageOne button and runs on a battery

Micro Cloud SMILE

$200 $35

4 times faster4 times more storageQuad-core CPU

Tanzania

Questions in Swahili and English.No textbook. Only the teacher owns textbooks.

Learning English by creating questions with photos. (Bottom)

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SMILE in corporate training and strategic brainstorming meetings

SMILE in global think tank strategic meetings Stanford Technology Leaders

Swiss Start-up lab in San Francisco

2016 United Nations Report mentions SMILE:

"Tools that reduce the time teachers spend on administrative tasks also help free them up to teach – such as the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment platform, which allows teachers to track assessment scores, manage homework, and monitor children’s progress in real time."

As an early stage work, we use IBM Watson’s brain and our proprietary algorithms to look at our student questions.

Need for question evaluationNeed to give advice

NLP is an area needing a lot more research in the deep learning field

Autonomous driving cars, playing chess or Baduk reached remarkable maturity

If maturity is reached in NLP and relevant technologies, possibilities are infinite.

New search engines, Life-long smart advisor,

Lecturers teaching well-defined knowledge become obsolete,

Our system gives statistical analysis on how close each question is to a different type and quality of questions.

Using existing question sets as training data. A few ways to improve the performance of our system:• Use better and more training data (SMILE accumulating questions everyday. You can help!)• Enhance our algorithm layers to make our analysis much deeper learning

AlphaGo training itself with 30,000 games a day.

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

4Cs

Critical ThinkingCreativityCollaborationCommunication

4Es

ExposureEngagementExperimentEmpowerment

3rd grade @CMS EDU

3rd grade @CMS EDU

5th Grade@Stratford School

Torrae & Ivan Owen building a hand for Liam

ASK BIG QUESTIONS!

Questioning is a form of action.

Questions serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

Questioning is to fight against the status quo.

Dick Fosbury

Don’t take things for granted.

Question them.

Beat the odds.

Kelly CartwrightBig Questions

Diversity fuels creativity and curiosity cultivates big questions.

“The number of innovations in education in the next 5 years will exceed the number of all innovations we have seen in the last 500 years combined.”

What is your big question today?

What’s your big question today?After all, life is just a dash.

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