Design your education with Selflearning
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this
is a patent number and this number
belongs to an exoskeleton that
i would say quite special to me but
before i tell you more about it
what is an exoskeleton well it is a suit
that you have to wear on top of your
closest
and it can help assist you in many ways
such as
lifting hearing weight or preventing
body injuries
but for example iron man suit could be
considered as a type of exoskeleton
it can make you fly and make you
stronger
but what exactly is this patent number
well as i mentioned before it is also an
exoskeleton
but only for your spine and that’s the
reason why it is so
unique and intriguing because not a lot
of developments in the past
really focus on the spine portion of the
exoskeleton
and the second reason that made this so
special to me is that
this patent belongs to me hello
everybody
my name is salazar i am a 17 years old
learner
a student a teacher a researcher
an inventor and a programmer
all these things that i say i am it
pretty much came from one thing
it came from me being passionate about
learning i love
learning and finding out new things all
the time but well unfortunately to do
all these things
thai education system can really help me
much
so what did i do self-learning
i developed my own self-learning method
that i want to share with you today
and i will sum all my journeys as an
example as we go along to make things
more compelling
but before we go any further i want to
say something first
i am not here today to brag about my
achievements or the knowledge i have
not at all in fact i still have tons of
things to learn
but i just want to share my story so you
would be inspired to learn something too
anyway back to self-learning i will
break this down into two main stages
fantasy and reality the first one
fantasy
you know to learn something it could be
really hard even if you are passionate
about it
so for me if i got stuck in those
situations or if i can’t really motivate
myself to learn something
i would just fantasize simply imagine
the outcomes or benefit you’ll get from
your journey
or even use protagonists like iron man
to motivate yourself to learn something
so fantasy is really to adjust your
mindset
this is the easiest and hardest stage of
all and what i mean by that is
if you can motivate yourself to learn
something that’s great
things will be much easier for you but
if you can
moving on to the next stage would be so
hard you will end up giving up on it
because self-learning is unlikely
education system
where teachers just usually feed you
with information or knowledge
or just demand you to remember something
without providing the basis of it
i don’t like that at all i don’t really
get to
truly understand the content i just
remember it
but for self-learning i can take my time
to study it
and really understand it so you might be
able to tell that i mentioned this guy a
couple of times by now
iron man and that’s because he inspired
me to do a lot of things i do today
including the exoskeleton i mentioned
before and also
the journey of how i got my patent
number started when i watched and
read his comics it is so cool to be able
to have a suit that could make you fly
or even make you stronger
so use that as an inspiration to push
myself to further learn something about
it
and the next stage is reality and this
can be broken down into three more steps
what how and then first what
basically what is to set your goal
what do you want to learn or what do you
want to achieve in the future
i would suggest you to be imaginative
and creative with it
think of a goal that is so big you might
not even be able to achieve it now with
your current knowledge but
trust me with patient time and
self-learning
you’ll get that someday so
in my journey i set a goal quite a bit
goal actually
i can’t really achieve it now with my
current knowledge also the technology in
the modern world can’t really achieve it
now
but it also helps motivate me to further
push myself to learn something about it
and
maybe in the future i might be able to
achieve it
and that goal is i want to be like the
iron man obviously
next how how can you achieve your goal
what process or tools do you need to
learn it and to be honest
this step isn’t that hard but you’ll
need a lot of time
and patience users can’t read an article
and call it done or just
sit in a lecture and more than that
unprecedented problems will occur no
matter what
and one of the tools that can get you
through all those problems is critical
thinking
from my experiences if i don’t truly
understand it
i won’t really be able to adapt the
knowledge i have to solve all these
problems
and users can adapt your knowledge if
you use only
what you remember from your lecture
anyway in my journey i started doing
some more research about exoskeletons in
general
how they work what they are and more i
talked to experts
read tons and tons of academic papers
with youtube videos to gather as much
information as i possibly could to
develop my own excel skeleton and as i
said
critical thinking is one of the most
essential skills you’ll be needing in
your self-learning
journey one problem can have tons of
solution or one topic can have many ways
to learn
so looking back at the exoskeleton i
studied before
found that many researchers didn’t give
much attention to the spine portion of
the exoskeleton
so i started to wonder why
is it because nothing interesting
happened there or is it just
not worth the time so again i started
doing some more research about it and
also use my critical thinking skill to
figure out
what was happening and i found something
interesting
i found that a lot of exoskeletons users
have the same problem they can move the
upper body freely
and that’s because this fine portion of
the exhaustion is rigid
so i came up with this the x spine and
by the way this thing got me my patent
number
it allows the users to move freely and
whenever they want but also
doesn’t limit the user’s motion when
they use it
and these things i have been working for
on it for a couple of months by now
but this thing requires tons of
knowledge such as 3d printing
robotics and programming
so the last step is then then i think
it’s one of the most important or
the most important step in this
self-learning
why because after you have learned or
have done something in your journey
you should conclude yourself what you
have learned what you have experienced
this way you will get the most out of
your journey
no matter what it effect failures or a
successes
you will learn from it and
remember this you will learn more from
failures
and of course not all not all of my
journeys will be as successes
failures will occur from time to time
at the beginning of my exercise
development i can’t really came up with
this design network as i intended
but each and every design of them taught
me something valuable that i can then
implement and improve my next
development
anyway this is an example of then
i finished off my initial information
gathering process
by publishing a paper about it this way
i get to recap myself
and also to share it with others
and this is another kind of den
so as i told you before 3d printing is
required for my
exoskeleton development but although it
is just
a tiny part of my main journey i can
also use my soft learning method to
educate myself on that part too
and so at the end of that journey i
created a youtube channel
that i called basic 3d to share my
knowledge and experiences about 3d
printing with others
and this is what i would like to call
myself and i’m a sure teacher
all these prices and rewards that you
see here are just
part of what i considered as the benefit
i considered them as just a tiny part of
the benefits i got from my journeys
but what i really considered as the true
benefit
or the main benefits i got from my
journeys is
knowledge i am so proud of myself
that i can teach myself all these things
and self-learning has been really
effective for me but you know what
i can’t go through all this journey by
myself
i always have someone supporting me from
behind
and you can go faster alone but further
together
school yes they can’t really provide me
with the knowledge i want
but what they can provide me is
opportunities
you can you could be as smart as
einstein but without opportunities
you won’t really go that far
anyway let’s recap what we have learned
today
self-learning has two main stages
fantasy and reality
the first one is fantasy this is to
adjust your mindset
and reality can be broken down into
three more steps
what how and then first what
what has to set your goal how it’s
learned
and then as to think what’s next
so after this talk now that you have the
tools to self-learn something
i would like to encourage you to go and
learn what you have always wanted to
learn
and i know that some of you may not be
able to find someone to support you
so please consider me as one of your
supporters
i created a card that some of you may
have that can help guide you to
kickstart your journey
and i would be so happy if just one of
you learned something using the method i
told you about
doesn’t have to be big either just learn
something
so what are you waiting for go and learn
something
thank you