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  There comes a point in every engineer's career path to ask themselves some hard and heavy hitting questions like:

Which Canadian newspaper maintains a database of the mining industry education?

Why? Well, it's because we find ourselves wanting to get better at what we do. Simply put.

You want to know what I think? Here it goes:

well our world has always been in a race

between technology and education usually

these two go hand in hand but there are

some points in history where technology

race is so far ahead that education can

barely keep the pace let me give you a

quick historic example in the 15th

century technology raised the head as a

great piece of technology was invented

the printing press allowing to print

books much cheaper than ever before well

unfortunately only a small fraction of

the entire population knew how to read

ultimately leading to massive social

conflicts and inequality until at some

point in time the whole educational

system was revolutionized in order to

keep up as the first universities and

schools were born well this happened a

couple of times in history whenever

technology raced ahead it first leads to

social pain and inequality until at some

point in time the whole educational

system gets turned upside down in order

to keep up now let's jump back into 2019

do we have a similar race between

technology and education today I think

yes we do we've invented in you and the

powerful technology called

digitalization every day we can now see

how smartphones how the internet how

artificial intelligence changes our jobs

as well as changes our our private lives

a recent study by McKinsey predicts that

in the next 10 years up to one-third of

all work activities could be completely

replaced because of automation today the

algorithms built by just a few techies

in Silicon Valley decide how we

communicate with each other they decide

how we buy things they can even be used

to manipulate entire elections as we've

seen FC as we've seen in the US but the

vast majority of us here today has no

idea of how this technology actually

works right what I'm wondering is how

should we as citizens be able to make

wise political citizens

political decisions if we do not

understand what's possible and what's

not so like in the historic examples

we've just seen there's now an

increasing gap between those those who

designed the change and those who are

left behind because they lack the skills

or the means to adapt once again

technology races ahead and education

falls behind I personally worked as a

data scientist

I studied information systems and

artificial intelligence at the

University and muenster at Harvard I

then went on to lead a team of 15

engineers in an analytic startup every

day I stood up and did my very best to

help technology raise a head until at

some point in time I realized that

actually the much bigger challenge and

the much bigger opportunity for our

society resides at the other part of

that race a helping digital education

helping supporting people to catch up so

this year I quit my job to work full

time on digital education I think let's

take a look at the second part of our

race here education well there we see

that our education institutions are now

facing conditions that have dramatically

changed in recent years right we move

from an old world with a situation where

great learning content is rare to a new

world where much of the knowledge is a

commodity and often free to use either

as a YouTube material a block pause or

some other type of material we also move

from an old world with very stable

career paths to a new world where well

much of the knowledge that we learn in

higher education is not relevant

ten years later anymore I'm 26 now my

own generation will probably retire in

2060 but I can't even predict what

skills will be relevant for myself well

five years from now well and how did our

educational institutions change in the

face of these dramatic shifts not a lot

right we see

live in a world where we put hundreds of

people in the same huge lecture halls

designed for one-size-fits-all teaching

philosophy right and even more we see

this this old world and lifelong

learning we still have many companies

where employees just spent maybe maybe

two or maybe three days a year with

training right this would be like if I

would go to the doctor and ask and what

should I do to stay fit and healthy for

the rest of my life and he says well

David I advise you just run a marathon

very early in your life and you will fly

fit and healthy for the rest of your

life

doesn't sound like a great advice does

it so I'm afraid we are about to lose

that race between technology and

educationists the way we teach has not

evolved with the dramatic shift that is

required these days and I don't think we

can tolerate that and I think we need a

new generation that takes this issue

into their own hands well so two years

ago my friend Myers and I decided to

start on the green field to build an

education into experience from the from

the ground up we developed this idea of

what we call a learning accelerator

learning accelerator is based based on

it on a very simple but radical idea

using state-of-the-art technology put

all available efforts into the

individual learner and the learning

environment to bring this idea to life

we found it a nonprofit organization

right here in Minster actually just a

few minutes away from the stage we call

it Tech Labs Tech Labs teaches coding

skills in the fields of web development

data science artificial intelligence

it's a 16-week program completely for

free open for everyone and designed so

that you can complete it parallel to

your studies or to your regular job for

example Tech Labs is built on three

fundamental principles that define our

idea of a learning accelerate and our

idea of digital education in the 21st

century the first one is the effective

combination of online and offline

learning

every student at techlabs gets access to

our own online learning platform with

videos assignments articles most of this

content is not produced by us but

sourced and curated from the grade and

often three resources of the web so if

you're a morning person you can do your

e-learning lessons in the morning if

you're a night owl you do it a night if

you struggle with a certain concept you

can always go back and revisit this

lecture because the computer doesn't get

tired to explain it to you three or four

times in a row on the other side we use

the offline meetings for interaction for

our students for inviting speakers for

hackathons and for social events well

the second principle is called

personalization let me ask you here in

the audience who of you uses Amazon and

orders at Amazon that's impressive right

and I think I think a large part a

significant part of this success is

based on the fact that Amazon learns our

behavior of a time right that it learns

what product we might like or buy next

but what I'm wondering is why does our

society spend billions on improving and

researching these personalization

algorithms at services like like Amazon

or Spotify but close to nothing for

providing these personalized digital

learning opportunities in education

isn't it strange we've completely failed

to use these personalization

technologies to use them in education we

still live in a world where some of us

think it's actually code called

personalization if the instructor learns

a student's name I mean that's there's a

great star but when it comes to

education people are radically different

aren't they everybody needs a specific

place a specific path a specific

learning goal and destination so tech

loves every student gets a unique

personalized learning path based on

prior knowledge and even with the basic

version on our platform that we use

right now the results are absolutely

stunning and you can just imagine the

wonderful things that would happen if

universities and and schools would

deploy this at a larger scale now

third principle is called Community

Learning tech skills isn't easy and if

you struggle with a certain concept and

this always happens at some point in

time when an encoding it's often not the

instructor but the fellow learners and

the peers that help you to stay

motivated to keep on track I think we

readily underestimate today the value of

these actual learning communities and

our education institutions today so by

killing this traditional one size fits

all lecture and I think people have a

flexible elearning lecture at home we

actually free up the valuable offline

time for deep interaction with our

students so we use technology to make

the classroom more social I think this

is one of the kind of very paradox

things these days right that actually

using tech transforms a very unsocial

experience people listening in a lecture

hall just being quiet listening into a

social environment that embraces

curiosity diversity and just value in

learning new things so how does all of

this look like in practice in your first

week you usually start with just meeting

your fellow learners and your learning

community then a few days later you

might actually start with your own

elearning track that has been generally

personalized and and generated just for

you and if you are a beginner for

example this might actually be one of

your first lessons teaching you how to

write a small program to let a cat say

hello world but soon you will be able to

team up with other learners in the

community to work on your own small

first coding project and this will be

usually a slightly more useful thing

than the cat we've just seen for example

one of our teams just just use the new

coding skills to predict bike traffic

flows and minister to optimize the

entire infrastructure the whole thing a

tech that is run by a team of volunteers

who often spent more than 10 hours a

week with improving and designing our

program we teamed up with experienced

mentors who guide our students with

psychologists who have

with personalization and we even teamed

up with professors who now use the tech

let's program to free up their valuable

offline time for deeper interaction with

the students and to work on exciting

projects and this all kind of worked

after just one and a half years we have

created 300 more tickets we have open

two more locations and Copenhagen

Barcelona aiming to create 10 more in

Germany next year

aiming ultimately to create 1,000

techies by 2020 and 90% of all tech

loves participants had no coding

experience at all

before joining our 16 week program this

for example is gin gin started friend of

Gin Gin Gin started the tech labs

program last semester a few months later

web with no coding Sprint's oh by the

way a few months later she participated

in Germany's largest hackathon finishing

third and this on the left is Tamara

also from Minster here after completing

the tech nuts program she went on to

Harvard Medical School to apply her

coding skills there for research a

couple of weeks ago she wrote me a

message saying how think when she was

the Tecates has provided her decoding

experiences that she used then for

medical research at Harvard well for me

though the biggest reward is actually

seeing these people being surprised by

their own learning progress I think for

many of us here this heaven glass as a

child maybe when we learned how to ride

a bike or so but I think we we found a

way to recreate that feeling many times

it's worth to fight for it I think this

is just the beginning why we start with

learning accelerators for for coding

skills right now I think this new model

of Education is equally well as soon as

T to teach all sorts of other skills it

suited for teaching kids to before

lifelong learning and it suited to

educate the workforce of entire

companies with a focus on

personalization while leveraging the

free and powerful resources of the web

so what can we do today

to make this come true I think what

simple

to understand is that we are all part of

this education systems as teachers of

course but also as parents as students

as colleagues at work we are all

responsible to help education to catch

up with technology and there's so many

ways for you to make a change if you are

a parent or a student hold your

institutions your teachers at school

your managers that work hold them

accountable for providing these

effective and personalized learning

opportunities it's there it's possible

and if you are working in education ask

yourself how can personalization blended

learning community how can it transform

my own classroom into a learning

accelerator I promise it's actually not

that hard in the end this new type of

education isn't just about teaching just

a few more technical skills it's about

teaching people to take charge of their

lives and to participate in meeting one

of the greatest challenges facing

humanity today the wise management of

the power that we have gained through

digital technology thank you very much