Innovation through Monotony
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so let’s start my story
from where i started and what was the
motivation behind this
so this is where my school is situated
so this is an island of 42 villages and
this is known as
mojave i live 42 villages
and in this quarter village there’s a
village named
that is my home village and
i was a rural guy starting in this
school
middle school after class fifth and only
because of education
uh what my father did is he was in
seattle so we got transferred from this
village to gopal only because of
education
we migrated when i did my schooling
during my schooling years i was very
much
interested in innovation technology
making something so this is me
when i was in class 6 and i got awarded
for all of the city planning
[Laughter]
and when i got migrated from this
the main problem with me was i was very
bad at
communication i was very bad at english
so i didn’t get admission in a very good
school
at hope it took me two years only to
grab
an interview to get into a
very good english reading school
then
like when i went when i was in 10
and you are very good at math and
science so what your father do is
you try for this three letter word i i
t so
and this is where the problem lies
when we compare the acceptance
ratio of iit with mid iit is
india’s best technical institute and
when we compare with mit
world’s best technical institute the
success rate
of getting into iii is only one percent
and success rate
of getting into mit is eight percent
and this idea is not in top 100 qs
ranking
so from here i got a knowledge
that something is very wrong with our
education system in india
we are pushing our students into that
race and after that
what he is getting is not the best in
the world
so when i was in engineering i
unfortunately unfortunately didn’t get
iit but i got the
best state government college in madison
that is uc berlin
and i started experimenting my stock so
this is me welding
i got various awards but the important
thing was
i was into programming i was into
electronics
i was into rocket designing i was
interceding designing i was inventing
all that stuff and you guessed what was
my
branch you couldn’t guess it it’s civil
engineering
okay so that’s the best part and i got
a bag in my structural engineering paper
so structural engineering is skill
structure engineering paper
and my faculty told me i know you’ve got
a backless in this in the subject
we’re not studying it after two months
what happened is
i did one project i was awarded by tata
and i got this award and i told so this
is
what i did this is a real-life project
that i did and i was
successful in that so will you judge me
with this market or with a certificate
then what happened is when i was in
engineering i thought
why not solve this problem everyone is
talking about we don’t have a very good
education system
50 years the education system is the
same but
why not we are trying to make it happen
why not
try to change it let’s rule our nation
so the biggest problem was
who is the first one to start this kind
of thing
we indians have one problem the biggest
problem is
we all want to dive into the sea but who
is the first one to dive into the sea
and see
whether there are sharks or not
and once that one guy said okay it’s a
thumbs up no sharks here then
we all can like so i was the first guy
that i’ll start this kind of school
and then you’ll
so this is the basic essence of
education
we have to tell our teachers we have to
tell our students
just tinker around and this is the
environment that i am creating
now if i ask what is this
nice confirm it’s m it’s about the
environment that
i’m giving you so this is my formula
environment and experiment will give you
an experience
so this is how my experiential learning
is the road learning process that you
are doing in your schools and colleges
so this is the tab based learning that i
have implemented so
what we have done is we have provided
students with tablets
and they have their own content in this
tablet and they can access it
so if you’ll ask yourself what you did
for this pre-nursery students
they can’t be taught what is innovation
they can’t be taught about what is
science technology
so what i told them have just changed
the is
by which you are learning okay
so if the main problem if you have a kid
and a three-year-old or a five-year-old
kid the
biggest problem with them is they are
very bad handwriting
and we don’t have any solution for that
so what i did is
i i gave my students a little and a
thread they told
just put them in this riddle so there
are
n number of permutation and combination
you can use these two fingers you can
use these three fingers these four
fingers
any combination and combination but the
easiest way
how you can put this thread in the
middle is by using only these two
fingers
so this is an experiment in my school
this experiment
students i used to give them 10 minutes
every day
they do this experiment and then i don’t
make them understand what is what is
special
this is the way i however hold pencil
after this kind of experiment
the easier you can know
then this is experiential learning
learning outside the four roles of
classroom if the problem is outside the
four
walls of classroom then you have to move
to the problem
not to just sit idle inside the
classroom and walk so this is what we do
then to develop the skilled technology
we have a number of uh
laboratories first is portfolio lab
okay so this is one of the best lab
where students
come down they dismantle
all the equipments that we have in our 8
9
10 subjects for example many of you
must be knowing how water works they can
also ride on
a paragraph and they can get 10 out of
10 marks in their boards
but how can a few really know how a
motto works
and how actually the binding is inside
unless an antenna
in our students i don’t think that we
can fix the
education problem so this is the lab in
texas
then there is a zone so this is actually
electronics laboratory that
uh implemented for my students where
they can come and they can
tinker around with the electronics
equipment third one is a design
innovation lab
so in this design innovation lab what i
did is
i gave them 3d meters cnc machines
and they can take her around and they
can make any stuff
if they have anything in their mind they
can design things and then they can
count down to this
then we have so this lab is very
interesting because
climate change is the hottest topic on
earth now
and everyone is like talking about
climate change
and we have to do something for the
climate and we have a lot of tv rates
and we have a lot of competition
spending competitions all that stuff
but when it comes to the action we don’t
do anything
not even our schools so what i did is
this kind of initiative we have
implemented in
our own school so this is a lab where
they can actually see how
recycling can be done and we are in zero
waste
so we don’t have anything to throw out
then this is a robotics lab like any
other robotics lab we have the same lab
this is a hydro lab
so you can see students rural students
working on rural problems okay
students they’re working in the cottage
river
so they are actually designing something
that can be used to
scavenge the plastic out from the
outdoors then this is the project
prototyping so you can actually see
students working on prototypes
they are actually working on real life
problems to make that happen
then my students this is the recent
activity they did
and in this they are making furnitures
out of old tyres
and these furnitures are further used in
their own learning spaces these are the
learning spaces that we have created
and these are fully made by our students
then
this is a 3d printing facility this is
the project prototyping thing
then they have a lot of prototyping
related to
like hydrophonics surface farming
aquaponics and all that
then said you are a criminal guy and you
started a school
it’s not that easy that you’re telling
so how this all happened
it happened because of these three
things the first thing is the font
second was the
partnership thing and the third one is
the idea behind
okay so for fun what i do the great help
was
if you do anything good for the people
if you have the right
intention and you have to make a
positive impact on the society
then people will come up they will they
may take time
but even they will come up so my college
elements
came
school here in odessa and with a
capacity of 10
students then
then about partnership
when i was a kid i was rejected by
various organizations
including the ied so now iit is one of
my partners
working towards this present
then these are the students from iit
delhi who came down to my
village and they are now working on
how can we make this sustainable how can
design be complete curriculum
and all that this is you can see
students from other colleges
like jesus christ and other government
colleges coming down to the base
and working on how this curriculum
can be patented and this curriculum can
be spread across other government
schools
this is the design thinking this is it
so the thing is what next so you did it
in a single village what is what do you
do for the whole country
can it be replicated so the answer is
yes the thing is
what we are doing is very simple if we
have the solution
of changing and making the education
system
a better thing then why not go for it
we at the policy making thing
we all have on that one thing that yes
our education system is not good
this need to be changed this need to be
revolutionized but
when and how there are three kinds of
people
i say there are three kinds of people
the first is
people who are immortal
these are only 20 of people and
there are second type of people who will
tend to work
on the direction with the direction of
the event they will flow over the
direction of the world
and if there are less than 20 percent
those are movable
will drive the thing so if these 20
people who can drive the thing will come
and join hands and make a positive
revolution
then this less 80 percent will also join
and then we can think about
revolutionaries with things
so it’s our revolution education system
it’s about each and every one of us if
each and every one of us
will make this thing happen that yes we
have to do and we’ll do
then i think we’ll do it thank you thank
you so much
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