How the digital revolution is changing learning | Steve Fiehl | TEDxAix

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Co-founder of a pioneering company, Steve Fiehl disrupts education via the digital toolbox.
Steve Fiehl is the co-founder of Crossknowledge. After graduating from HEC Paris, he started his career in Asia then came back to France to become the Director of magazine and web content at the Lagardère Group.

Since 2000, the year Crossknowledge was created, Steve Fiehl has been managing the entire technological and educational innovation division. He simultaneously runs the network of experts, authors and professors in Management and Leadership, all gathered in the Crossknowledge Faculty. Passionate about the impact new technology is making on learning, he frequently takes part in the international discussion on the future of learning.
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[@nathan_abela]

Great speech all round, but the last sentence, 100pc spot on!! In todays world it is not up to our government or society to determine how we are taught, what we learn, and how we go about that; it is up to ourselves. And that is the age of digitization. Apart of becoming a number for the purpose of technological advancements is also quantifying and qualifying what number we are; so again, its up to our ownselves to educate ourselves in whatsoever manner we deem appropriate. The ways of the past are now redundant, and whoever cant see that is fading away.

[@dianemassingill8885]

Well said need to share with my fellow teachers and administrators!

[@letutordefrance1195]

Good for you....You expose yourself, and you have great insights. Don't listen noise....Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@sandville2396]

Great talk, merci!

[@siena8377]

Amazing!

[@DrAAAli]

....now deliver this presentation, in French. ...with subtitles.

[@pelagiabaltatzi8288]

hahahahah

[@bridiemaloney3288]

Great points!! Very real! What was the name of the online school? Not MOOC, the next one you mentioned?

[@jstjrclips7703]

Bridie Maloney : Khan Academy, Cross Knowledge, Stack Overflow

[@user-ni8xu6ji5b]

잘 보고 갑니다

[@the_nikster1]

i love his voice...triggers my ASMR hardcore :)

[@pear3614]

4:00

[@dsacgt]

Ironic that he talks of teaching/lecturing in a disparaging manner when TED talks are precisely in a lecture format. Lectures are not always passive. Good lectures are engaging, exciting, emotive, dynamic, asking students real and rhetorical questions to reinforce learning and recall, pausing to see if students understand or not, writing on whiteboards, using body language and props for analogies. Knowing how to search alone will hardly replace organised learning. We've spent the last 300 years distilling knowledge into categories and how to best disseminate that info, and that does not silo info, the more knowledge categories someone learns the more they can move across disciplines. Students need mental maps and content to know what to search for. You can't just start from vasa recta and fill up your mind via google searches alone. And Professors rarely teach in a manner that is higher-than-thou. They want to excite their students so that they can help them tackle the unknowns.

[@Kira-cn2cd]

I agree that lectures can be great, although in practice not all of them are. From my experience, I've had very few really good teachers or lecturers. But, I think there's an important difference. If you do a ted talk once in a lifetime of course you make it as engaging, emotional and exciting as possible. On the contrast, professors and teachers simply don't have the time and energy to prepare their classes and lectures in this manner. I think that's the big advantage of creating video-based lectures. You can put all your efforts in there, make supplementary visuals, cut your recordings etc. Once you upload your work it has a wide range of accessibility, plus everyone can watch, pause or rewatch in their own speed. I studied this way since high school and all throughout my studies, it worked our pretty well. KZbin has a great choice of educational videos on almost any topic and they are pretty easy to find, too. Still, I think classes or lectures are important and should rather focus on the interactive part, which is not so easily feasible online. Like discussions with the professor or fellow students, working together on a problem or project. For me, this is what the time in the classroom should be used for more often. :)