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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.83,0:00:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach chemistry.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.05,0:00:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Explosion)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.41,0:00:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, all right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.57,0:00:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So more than just explosions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.85,0:00:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chemistry is everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.46,0:00:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever found yourself at a restaurant spacing out
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.10,0:00:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just doing this over and over?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.45,0:00:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people nodding yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.65,0:00:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recently, I showed this to my students,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.98,0:00:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just asked them to try and explain why it happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.33,0:00:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The questions and conversations that followed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.95,0:00:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were fascinating.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.60,0:00:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Check out this video that Maddie
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.42,0:00:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my period three class sent me that evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.10,0:00:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Clang) (Laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.57,0:00:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now obviously, as Maddie's chemistry teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.76,0:00:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that she went home and continued to geek out
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.87,0:00:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about this kind of ridiculous demonstration
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.49,0:00:57.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we did in class.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.91,0:01:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what fascinated me more is that Maddie's curiosity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.86,0:01:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,took her to a new level.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.55,0:01:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look inside that beaker,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.68,0:01:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might see a candle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.24,0:01:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maddie's using temperature to extend this phenomenon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.25,0:01:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a new scenario.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.03,0:01:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, questions and curiosity like Maddie's
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.27,0:01:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are magnets that draw us towards our teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.23,0:01:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they transcend all technology
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.18,0:01:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or buzzwords in education.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.32,0:01:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if we place these technologies before student inquiry,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.43,0:01:30.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can be robbing ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.55,0:01:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our greatest tool as teachers: our students' questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.48,0:01:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, flipping a boring lecture from the classroom
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.86,0:01:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the screen of a mobile device
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.64,0:01:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might save instructional time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.48,0:01:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if it is the focus of our students' experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.38,0:01:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the same dehumanizing chatter
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.50,0:01:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just wrapped up in fancy clothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.73,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if instead we have the guts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to confuse our students, perplex them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.87,0:01:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and evoke real questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.15,0:02:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through those questions, we as teachers have information
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.15,0:02:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can use to tailor robust
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.18,0:02:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and informed methods of blended instruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.87,0:02:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, 21st-century lingo jargon mumbo jumbo aside,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.04,0:02:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the truth is, I've been teaching for 13 years now,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.24,0:02:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it took a life-threatening situation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.72,0:02:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to snap me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.66,0:02:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help me realize that student questions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.28,0:02:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the seeds of real learning,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.40,0:02:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not some scripted curriculum
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.52,0:02:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that gave them tidbits of random information.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.81,0:02:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In May of 2010, at 35 years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.28,0:02:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a two-year-old at home and my second child on the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.38,0:02:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.99,0:02:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the base of my thoracic aorta.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.51,0:02:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.56,0:02:52.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my doctor right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.10,0:02:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, when I got this, I was -- press Caps Lock --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.62,0:02:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolutely freaked out, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.09,0:03:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I found surprising moments of comfort
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.31,0:03:05.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the confidence that my surgeon embodied.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.100,0:03:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where did this guy get this confidence, the audacity of it?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.44,0:03:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I asked him, he told me three things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.03,0:03:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said first, his curiosity drove him
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.42,0:03:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask hard questions about the procedure,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.69,0:03:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what worked and what didn't work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.88,0:03:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second, he embraced, and didn't fear,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.97,0:03:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the messy process of trial and error,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.04,0:03:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the inevitable process of trial and error.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.55,0:03:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And third, through intense reflection,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.53,0:03:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gathered the information that he needed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.21,0:03:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to design and revise the procedure,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.11,0:03:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, with a steady hand, he saved my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.63,0:03:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I absorbed a lot from these words of wisdom,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.31,0:03:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and before I went back into the classroom that fall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.29,0:03:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wrote down three rules of my own
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.55,0:03:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I bring to my lesson planning still today.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.33,0:03:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rule number one: Curiosity comes first.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.37,0:03:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Questions can be windows to great instruction,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.47,0:04:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not the other way around.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.16,0:04:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rule number two: Embrace the mess.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.79,0:04:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all teachers. We know learning is ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.46,0:04:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just because the scientific method is allocated
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.33,0:04:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to page five of section 1.2 of chapter one
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.78,0:04:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the one that we all skip, okay,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.24,0:04:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trial and error can still be an informal part
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.44,0:04:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what we do every single day
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.36,0:04:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Sacred Heart Cathedral in room 206.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.69,0:04:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And rule number three: Practice reflection.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.71,0:04:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we do is important. It deserves our care,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.06,0:04:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it also deserves our revision.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.29,0:04:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we be the surgeons of our classrooms?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.07,0:04:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if what we are doing one day will save lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.06,0:04:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our students our worth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.61,0:04:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each case is different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.05,0:04:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Explosion)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.14,0:04:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Sorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.09,0:04:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The chemistry teacher in me just needed to get that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.100,0:04:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of my system before we move on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.83,0:04:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are my daughters.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.62,0:04:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the right we have little Emmalou -- Southern family.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.29,0:05:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, on the left, Riley.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.07,0:05:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Riley's going to be a big girl in a couple weeks here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.73,0:05:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's going to be four years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.42,0:05:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anyone who knows a four-year-old
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.67,0:05:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows that they love to ask, "Why?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.87,0:05:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. Why.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.36,0:05:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could teach this kid anything
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.67,0:05:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she is curious about everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.52,0:05:20.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all were at that age.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.100,0:05:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the challenge is really for Riley's future teachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.47,0:05:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ones she has yet to meet.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.30,0:05:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will they grow this curiosity?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.79,0:05:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, I would argue that Riley is a metaphor for all kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.27,0:05:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think dropping out of school comes in many different forms --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.66,0:05:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the senior who's checked out before the year's even begun
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.99,0:05:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or that empty desk in the back of an urban middle school's classroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.01,0:05:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if we as educators leave behind
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.68,0:05:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this simple role as disseminators of content
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.26,0:05:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and embrace a new paradigm
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.60,0:05:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as cultivators of curiosity and inquiry,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.64,0:05:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we just might bring a little bit more meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.87,0:06:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their school day, and spark their imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.58,0:06:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.17,0:06:09.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)