All right. I have the top of the hour. So let's begin. Let me welcome you. Let me welcome everybody to the Future Trends Forum I'm delighted to see you all here today. My name is Brian Alexander. I'm the forum's creator I'm the host on your chief cat herder and your guide to the next hour of conversation about XR and what that means for higher education We have a topic that is of great great interest, especially for a future's point of view We all know about virtual reality. We all know that augmented reality And we're all very curious about how these can play out in terms of higher education in terms of teaching and learning And with us we have two guests who are for my money the world's best gurus on how we learn about this and how we apply to higher education To begin with I'd like to welcome my good friend Maya Gorgeva and bring her on stage Hello, Maya It's nice to be here and see everybody and I you know just curious about XR. I hope I Think they are I think everybody is and you're just the person to help us learn it. How are you doing? How is everything and are you in New York? Yes, I'm in New York City. Um, you know, I spend most of my time these days But it's it's been a good summer and looking forward to reopening our XR lab at the Parsons School of Design and the new school This fall back for our students and yes, we are working through, you know New protocols and new ways to do that. But nonetheless, we are very excited to welcome back our students faculty and you know our friends even from the city Fantastic, fantastic You know the drill I asked people what to introduce themselves by describing what they're gonna be doing from the next year And you just started answering that describing how you're gonna have to reopen your lab for face-to-face work Tell us a bit more about that and also tell us what else you can be working on for 2021 and 2022. Oh I can't wait to you know to meet the students and we meet them in virtual world and as you know We've been waiting meeting there and experimenting and it has been like an amazing ear between collaborating and exploring these places these new spaces but at the same time we're excited to also welcome them on site and Be enough for the students to be able to like firsthand touch experience play the things that we have in our XR lab. So That is one I my I have also Sort of like a my personal challenge this fall is in addition to everything I do I will be teaching Fundational course and immersive storytelling at the person's school of design. This is a course This is offered to all of our students So in it we have students that come from design backgrounds and very visual and media backgrounds but we also have You know our makers so to speak but we also have our thinkers because we also have students that come from anthropology and Come from code in liberal arts or design and journalism in our liberal arts college and Lang and then also You know, it's so much fun because we get students from our Performance college and we get our actors and people who actually play music and it brings it brings it brings It's full circle. It is something that I've been Actually co-teaching for the last few years and you know kind of bringing students in a different variety But I get to do it myself this fall. So as anybody who is faced with With a number of students and ta's I'm working hard on making this happen Well, that sounds terrific And your enthusiasm is infectious. I can only imagine how excited your students will be I friends I if you're new to the forum I have a couple of quick questions from Maya, but then the whole idea is for you all To take the floor for you all to ask her your questions And you can tell already that she's an expert in this And you can also tell that we're going to have a lot to talk about One thing I would like to ask Is I mentioned before we're familiar with augmented reality or ar and we're pretty familiar with vr But what for you? What does xr mean? What does stand for and how should we think about? Yes, xr extended reality and it's been an interesting word when we first appeared a few years back And you know as we yeah There's been research and work being doing in virtual and augmented reality and then xr And I think what's happening is that as all of us was starting to play and really experiment with vr ar 360 video We kind of get into a place where you know, you're thinking about Well, this you know, how what are you making what you're doing? How are you? You know, kind of how you're focusing you're teaching your research You know your performance And so that xr word became It really the umbrella firm and was really driven by the idea that things are changing constantly And so as things are changing the vr headsets today, they actually can give you a sense of you know augmented reality They have this pass through that you can actually see through your vr headset You know in experience they have a number of sensors similar to what Mixed reality or augmented reality headsets have and so this idea that as things continue to evolve as headsets as the technology You know becomes You know creates new opportunities and affordances. So is our language And xr stands for this umbrella firm that really captures that Sort of that we are on a continuum and so is the technologies and the things we can make with it So really an umbrella term You know that that works and I know because About four years ago when I titled the x reality center at the new school I span a tour of of trying to say what's xr So, um, it's interesting, you know the the world the world now is used both Very heavily in industry but as well as an education It's just really Incompassing the work that's taking place in these domains a r vr 360 video m r and so and so on A fine umbrella term. Thank you. That's really really clear Uh trends, uh, this is the time to shift over to a few different things But one I want to point out to you is The occasion of us hosting, uh, Maya and her colleague has to do with the release of a very powerful and important new report From I learned this is a report on the state of xr And if you look on the bottom left of your screen, you should see a kind of mustard colored box If you press that button up a pop of link to that full report And this is a report that is very very powerful very important and covers a lot of ground It used a kind of delphi method report to approach to work with a whole bunch of experts literally around the world And maya is one of the lead authors on this report So just really very quickly before we can dive into the everyone else's questions I just wonder maya if you just say a word or two about the report and What's surprised you about it and what we should find in it? Yes, so this has been in our report that you know It's been like a year and a half in the making as many efforts, you know Touched and marked by the you know the the the time we spend in you know, like basically social distancing in the pandemic But it is as as brian said is a delphi method. So it started with um summoning a panel of about um From a hundred and more expert panel, which the iorn network was you know, the immersive learning network and research network um Was um, you know really? championed and and supported um the entire effort of producing the state of exile report and so you know with them You know bringing up a panel expert And having discussing and we've done kind of discussing in a digital workspace Asynchronously and bringing a number of topics um to you know, to you know, it's that that whole movement virtual augmented mixed reality Movement and its impact on education and the future of work And then we were able to like pull these These panel members and that took us um, you know An analyze some a lot of the activity that was taking place In the workspace, which actually we you know, which kind of get us to about 34 different topics And then with the help of the really of the Pauling and the survey method. We actually ended up with um really 17 Main sort of areas uh topics of interest. Um, this was also guided on the three research questions You know the you know, and they they kind of vary on a high level these research questions focus on the promises of immersive learning On the challenges and on the catalyst and for that, you know that that kicked off our our authors As you know, brian process and I was very very fortunate to work with you With emory craig with johnson rickster and mark lee from ireland. So You know working on these um and kind of really writing sort of these the chat the chapters on each of these research questions um Yeah, so I think this is in each research questions. We highlighted Um The first one, um, of course being mine had seven categories, but all all to the challenges in the catalyst challenges written by you brian and catalyst by emory craig had six key areas where we found Either we need to work more or we we felt uh catalyst for innovation Well, thank you. Thank you. I think friends you can see what a what a buzzing and powerful report. This is Please grab a copy And while we have a chance to do so right now, I'd actually like to Take advantage of the opportunity to beam up one of the important people who made all this work This is a A leader in the field This is the head of the immersive learning project and the chief organizer of the report Jonathan Richter and we'll see we can get him now. Hello, Jonathan Hey brian. Hey, maya. Hello everyone. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. Where are you today? Where have we found? Uh, I'm in my office in missoula montana. Yeah, oh great. Oh great So this is one of one of the powerful things again about uh about about the uh technologies that we're able to easily have People from montana new york and virginia together at once John, how what did what did you see know the report in the world so far? What kind of feedback and what kind of surprises have you found from it? Well, it's getting it's getting a pretty good reviews. Um so far, which we're very thankful for A number of different teacher educators Have told us that they're preparing for use of it in the fall in their curricula And we're we're getting a number of people that are interested in joining The next expert panel as we have a full intention to to do this again and again Um So yeah, we've gotten uh, um several thousand uh downloads since our early release uh in the middle of may And uh, they they keep they keep rolling through every every day. Nice. That's a lot of reading That's a lot of people. Um, I would love to uh, I'd love to hear more about this I know you're in a hurry john. You've got to run, but I wanted to thank you for organizing the report And I'll keep you on stage as long as I can or I'll keep you involved But you know, well, um, you know, one of the things that we're that my and I've been really talking about lately is The potential for us to do sort of persistent environmental scanning And and really engage the network other futurists like yourself To to really, you know, kind of keep that search light The eye of saran on on the horizon So because this this space of xr of immersive learning is just constantly emerging and it really requires, um You know, I think a number of eyes Looking and translating the different uh possible uses and these new technologies to figure out just how Well, we might be able to utilize these across across the globe If anybody here wants to participate in this eye of saran project going forward What's what's the best way for them to find you? Is it uh from the immersive learning site? Uh, yeah, go to the immersive l r n dot org website Or you can get ahold of maya or myself Um at our respective names at immersive l r n dot org Very good. Very good. Um, well, I know you have to go Sorry, I should actually gently urge you off the edge of the balcony here And give you a chance to run But we'll we'll pick on you as long as you can be and thank you again for all of this and for anybody Yeah, my wife's waiting to head we're headed to a um red ants pants It's a country alt country music festival in the middle of nowhere montana So we're we're all set up and ready to go But I really wanted to say hey to everybody and and thank you for tuning in and thank you Maya and brian for all your incredible work. Well hit the road and enjoy and thank you again for all of this And I'll just put a link to this for everybody else. Uh, if you if you haven't seen this here is the Here's a link to the website if you'd like to join The next report if you'd like to get a sense of how it works, please Please feel free to Uh, and now we have time for questions from everybody and already we've got a question just right here ready to go And this comes from uh, andrew peterson at ferris state who asks does xr replace a classroom time Interesting question andrew all right so um So this is an interesting question and we we actually um live in an interesting time right we We had this pandemic where which we very actively a lot of us were experimented and indeed We went to these virtual worlds as a place where we can meet we can collaborate. We can create and make That said Usually when I approach it I look for the opportunities Right, there's as much time you can spend in a VR headset today Most of the time when I'm in my lab whether it's research or I work With with anybody on my team including students I kind of keep it to 20 minutes max So, um, really it's it's a just a you know, unofficial rule. I'd like people to take a break Um, it is still you know the headsets and headsets. I'm proving but it still has impact You know, it's kind of your eyes may get strained. We have all different sensitivities, etc Sitting with a headset. So, um um, and So this is just an official rule. I do but what it's really good at is actually finding an opportunity For example in the stem in the sciences, right? We have just a very interesting way to Observe science phenomena to be actually very close up and personal to science phenomena It's very interesting also to do research on a number of science phenomenons in virtual reality And so those tend to be you know experiences Um, we call them experiences because they're not movies like because you you are part of them, right? And that's why I really I really that for me is very important sort of Difference between anything you do on the screen um, and so those could be You know those could run you to different um science phenomena and you know can Ways to interact with them. It could be akin to what we oftentimes think about a simulation It could take on a more narrative form So all of these but sometimes these these are very good In a way we can address a particular opportunity with vr And then bring this whether it's in a discussion forum like this one or bring this to the classroom and the questions get exponentially better because um, we actually It's very you know, I can explain to you virtual reality today But it's the moment when you put on the headset and the moment actually after you take the headsets When the aha moment appear And um, you know, I just feel like I've been fortunate one of the things of getting thousands and peoples and students And that's when like you actually realize the potential of this But I do still see the opportunity in finding a key area whether it's in the medical science or you know social like social sciences or even sort of uh narrative, um, you know Education to to basically take us to places we can go go and then come back And and think and then at some point in the future, this will be very much a our meeting space It will you know, we are very much headed to this Learning and we already see it even in workforce in you know, some opportunities where you know Work for straining is now starting to take place in xr so, um, that's that's my kind of answer that That we have a really interesting opportunities, but today it's probably in indeed The the power is in making very key and targeted. Um, you know take advantage of these key and targeted learning opportunities Very targeted very focused on a particular issue and limited in time And uh, andrew what a great question to ask that really really pinned it down. Thank you Maya, what a great answer that shows how deep this is And and the future aspect we're going to circle back to I promise We have a few more questions and by the way overall, uh, we had some chat about people having a hard time trying to get to the website It looks at the website just reloaded and you should be able to get it right now So if you're still having issues, just reload the page and you should be able to get to it right now We have a question from John Fitzgibbon at boston college He narrows this down to a precise point. He asks what do you see as the role of augmented reality in higher ed? Yes, all right. Well, um, so this there is still, um, You know this perception and it really is a perception that virtual reality is about belongs to to the game You know the gamers the simulations maybe Some of these areas and also there is um, and I face it every day questions about well, what impact does it have on us? What impact does it have on for example younger children? um, and so augmented reality in this case You know is is something that um, I think teachers. I think parents. I think all of us gravitate towards it because it it it really is You know with augmented reality you put on glasses So you still very much in your physical world And you're just bringing that extra digital layer Again, you know you you can you know similarly take some of the advantages of bringing You know interesting digital assets Immersiveness narrative to to that space It also like with um, you know apps very importantly offers opportunity for students Even younger students to create and that's very powerful for students to be able to be engage and create augmented reality experiences. So certainly I see a range of possibilities and really with it it does have a little bit of ease in terms of Just purely of I think on the on the level of um, you know house perception how we perceive things and that that is I think why I think in particularly in with younger children. It is a much more adopted medium So I think that's um, that's sort of the short answer it offers. I think immense It you know opportunities and I do think that we will be I think the future is much more mixed The future will be something where perhaps, um, you know the headset or the the glassware or whatever we How we we have would be actually able to switch between you know, how much you see from the physical world And sort of that digital layer is kind of how close to you and immersive And so you might be very much, you know immersed in a fully virtual world in in some moments and in some moments Like in some of that light and the physical world come in Um, I I think that it's we probably will live much more Not so distinct as we live in today AR VR, but much much much more in that sort of mixed, um, you know reality plays Have continued them Yeah John that was a great question. Thank you And uh, Maya just really really lays this open for just how many ways this could work We have more questions coming in and one is from a colleague of mine at Georgetown Let me just bring her question up because this is a good one and I might ask her a question to follow Oh, look, uh, Beth asks, can you recommend AR development tools that are relatively easy to learn and use for faculty and students That don't have programming experience Yes, okay so, um, I mean there's been a couple of tools quite heavily adopted in education blipper and zapper and A steady, you know a steady amount of work in both k-12 and high education Um has taken place, you know more recently We and they both have educational sort of component to them They also have a visual interface meaning that they don't they They could you could enter more coding environments, but you can't be stay into kind of more in the environment that are Very much a visual interface Um adobe aero has come on, you know Kind of in the last year still, uh, you know in kind of beta a bit buggy But um, not sure adobe is kind of like with their suite of twos that it's coming along Um, it's a also a place, of course, like, you know, it's still that means access to a number of different adobe tools um, there's been With some of the, you know, sort of if you are more on the On the, you know, sort of with the younger generation. We also have, you know, and You know younger students. We've also used this jigsaw like sort of Workshop sort of app has been transforming in the number of different ways Um, and so these are these are really some some of the products that I think a number of teachers Have have gone and have some good experience Trying things out, but I would have to say, you know, going into any of those tools you have to understand how how, you know, how they're changing constantly and really Embrace that embrace that with it And being able to kind of bring the students along but really Things are changing. Like for example, last year we started in september with us a ways adobe aero Was working in through the semester. They released several different versions Um, and so that that's kind of the thing how things are happening Well, that's a that's a big landscape and a fluid landscape. That's involving very quickly Beth helps run the wonderful gelatin center for new media at georgetown Which is a terrific, terrific resource for everyone in that community. So I just want to give a shout out for that We also have the wonderful barrington veins from mage lardin who does great work with vr and 360 video So I just want to shout out to them as to barrington as well We have a couple questions and responses in the chat my One is uh, john Fitzgibbon says that all the composer is the way to go Yes, it is definitely it's a good two Here's my my pause on that. Um, and and you know, same thing with adobe aero actually brings me down Is that it's a it's an apple only two And we walk into classrooms that obviously students come with different devices But uh, yes, um, I do um, I you know, we you know, I think it should be explored and You know where students, um, you know where the project sort of is much more open And because access and accessibility is important, you know, some students can definitely Leverage it I had to make sometimes decisions in terms of how many times I teach ar in an effort to open it to everybody in the classroom And that's that brings us to some of the things we outline in the report like access and you know Interoperability and a number of these key areas, but um, yes, so we have to be mindful That's a real issue the silos are there and the I wrote about that in the report myself John good question or good observation to to mention. We have more questions. They're just coming in all over the place Um, and brent, I didn't know you're in Armenia. Fantastic. Great to hear from you. Please Uh, let the let the kids sleep. Uh, brent asked a question, uh, which is he says I've been claiming that this is the breakout year for vr headsets Since 2019 What do you think there will when do you think there will be real mainstream acceptance and usage? I think that I I do believe we are on a journey with this, right? Um, and I do think that this wild steer has opened the space for a number of people from both academia and industry um, but I really think about this as as a moment of When A lot more people will be able to create in this domain Um, and I think because it's just looking to and I really do that as you know, I'm very When I come to to technology. I really um, really kind of feel like in it would excel We need to look into older and other technology if anything I discourage that As as you know, Brian, but you know, just look into what happened With video once actually everybody had a camera Um in in their pocket or in you know Affordability to even even before it became you know on all of our iPhones But you know something that a whole lot of people can were able to afford and then share Into various other social platforms. I think this is when I think there is this moment of um A real breakthrough and I think in excel.  There's just not a big ecosystem. There's not a you know, big Sort of movement behind them, but I do believe that we're very close in two to three years and and them becoming fairly affordable lots of different Um, you know application being written, you know made available and as as that like adoption to to actually make it make using every day life And I think that's that's sort of that's the moment where I feel like we'll be there Right and quick question. Good question. Um, and Maya, thank you for that very balanced Experienced answer I hope so. I hope so. We have more questions piling up though I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to ask we have one coming from uh, franny gata at the university of oregon Uh, who asks can you reflect a bit on xr as scholarship and present this scholarly record? Oh, thank you. Thank you franny for this question. So There are a couple of different ways to approach that One is and I'm going to kind of very quickly, you know, provide an experience like for example at the new school Uh, we have obviously Uh, you know parts of school of design and as such we have donated a number of artifacts Which is our sort of study collection for students like you can go to which a museum quality So you can go to a museum, but everything is kind of away from you But when it's a study collection, you can go and touch and see how they're made And so we have now a very big study collection of artifacts donated from museum quality alumni designers, etc And so in some respect and so we one of my first Experiences was actually to create a virtual reality library and we just did a prototype of that just you know We have thousands of those But idea that you know, then something that you know is sitting Somewhere in a catalog and then once you digitize it is available to students alumni potentially others across the world And then so this is a very this is one of the ways You know when you think about preservation and it is introducing a really a lot of questions, right? Because some of these are these are tangible like artifacts. They're made of fabric. They're made of you know, materiality to them And but also we're making them today Um, which is sort of the you know, one thing is how you you know You have the opportunity to preserve things that you've never been able to But on the other hand you also are thinking about well How do we actually make sure that this is going to run in 20? I don't know 25 even And so you're thinking about like, you know, how do you catalog all of these assets? How do you ensure that actually? If they're digitized today, they'll continue to serve in the future So this is one area but the other area in terms of scholarship And uh, you know making like a lot of things are taking I just gave you an example in what's happening at the new school in Parsons, but I know calling was the country a similarly, you know having you know experiences in STEM and sciences and medical education across, you know journalism Media studies, and so we we actually everybody's kind of keeping them on some, you know, it's it's There's not been a good actually way to share at the moment and keep and I'm very concerned about that because I have been involved in kind of like actually some Early on in my work through my work and experiences of bringing back videos from the 50s and 70s and this is a challenge today You know like 60 70 years later. It's a huge challenge to bring those this early move You know just not even early, but you know almost like mid-century movies to to to be a part of the cultural and and you know, sort of Research and and educational. So I think it's a big question in that part, you know, how how we Preserve that and there's no easy answer because we are so early You know things like more like research that is written research. It's still Text is we know what to do with text We just you know the the areas we work with the kind of hats ads and an experience It's it changes constantly Well, thank you for that searching realistic and bracing answer and and Franny Thank you for a really really important question Good luck, and we love to hear your thoughts as the director of digital scholarship services We have a couple more questions on the production side of xR And I want to bring these together. This is one from Devin Scarrett from southern New Hampshire And Devin asks what progress has been made in creating xR design and publishing tools to make it easy for non Political educators Opportunity youth to make xR experiences. So that kind of builds on our our AR discussion a few minutes ago right so Thank you Devin Very good question and one that I also feel very very much due to me As I mentioned like, you know students as creators is one of my key areas like some of the things I work day every day at the new school so I think I think we are Actually having access to some of the AR experience some of the AR applications are coming in 360 video is very approachable the 360 cameras today have gone down in price like And we get 8 8k quality out of them, which None of us how many of us are actually looking at 8k and you know these these things are these Cameras that are less than 500 hours can do that. So it's very empowering the tools You know exist for 360 edit a number of tools exist for 360 editing. Of course, we need to actually Be very much thinking about you know, how we introduce this to students and To that point of how we introduce These tools design principles There's a body that is starting to emerge in terms of sharing this boat in terms of Curriculum and more practical approaches and You know how we do that the tools themselves, you know something like Unity has you know, which is you know, oftentimes when you say unity people think Very, you know advanced coding It indeed it is an industry standard. So it's a very very deep software. It's a very and it takes time It takes time even for students that have invested already and have you know a background in media to To become comfortable with it. That's the truth like I you know, I introduce this daily to different groups so Obviously, but then they have created some plugins that are very easy for younger generation To create like a very quick simulations and games. And so I think it's a it's which is very empowering to see so Yes, there is definitely an industry standard tools that are very high and not as accessible and that's We see that in medical we see that in architecture, for example And some of these these areas, but on the other hand, we see tools that You know like mobile application We see things that you can run 360 editing tools that are becoming available You know that you can add you don't need a a big pc or a vr ready pc as we used to say You know unity and real both free for education But you need the right team to introduce it to students and I definitely think that that's something that is still We in high education don't I don't have the teams ready I talk to educators from across the country and and teams in in my in in similar positions And I often think this has become like somebody's third or fourth job To introduce xa and I think the institutions and the places where there's a very much a an effort in bringing those along and there's a team behind them Doing much better in understanding the landscape understand the opportunities with different tools introducing them to both students and faculty it is Very different approach in terms of both curriculum development and content development And those are all like a seminar or a workshop of its own Well, it sounds like I mean, there's there's a lot going in there And one of them is that a lot of this is team based You need to have multiple, you know, you need to have a squad Working on this. Is that is that what we should be thinking about that? It's a it's a collaborative team-based project to build stuff in xr in education Oh, absolutely. And I think that one of the things This is not a curriculum designer in a in a faculty. I think that's that's often I think some of the Where things slow down and I'm often asked what are the pitfalls? That's why you know, why is you know, why is there is not as much progress? It is a lack of teams. It is a lack of expertise. It is a lack of knowledge that We don't have readily in house. It's not just an education. It's frankly in many industries But we need to build those because you need you need people that will be, you know, producers and We'll be thinking about the narratives and we'll think about the user interface and the user interaction and the user experience and and and and at some we do have some instructional designers who have spent time in it But we have a lot of instructional designers that come from a much much more area of in a pedagogical sort of learning area That takes a whole new kind of Reset once you go to in person A lot of a lot of a lot of us in academia You know for two decades who have been working with video and we're very very good with video And one of the things is right this works in video should work in via No, actually you need these other people to come on the table to other developers You know user interaction you are like all these a narrative, you know All of the above to be at the table With the faculty and really being able to to kind of like be very much collaborative effort Thank you. That's uh, that's that's a really important takeaway from this And I think some of the participants here are actually playing that kind of role I see people from the university of michigan, for example, uh, who I think played that kind of role of Of creating stuff creating via a concept for higher education as part of a team In the chat, we had a couple of really good observations Brent followed up by recommending notes on blindness VR application gives one experience of what it's like to be blind And frannie followed up by saying since this is early in creating xr This is a great time to be thinking about preservation. Absolutely. Absolutely And bobby adds that she loves the idea of a VR library The new york times VR has a great piece of experience of being in a serif refugee camp And you can think of one as adhd. It's also great. Um, that's really really good Friends, we're we're coming to the last 10 minutes of the program I'll make sure everyone gets a chance to share their thoughts and ask their questions And they're just coming thinking fast right now And we've got one on from victor viegas Also to organ state who has a policy question There are some ways to make xr a da compliant And if you're not from the u.s. That's the americans of disabilities This is a question about accessibility So Right. So the good part is that we having more groups thinking about that Um, first I there are things, you know, just there are communities um from different communities that are coming from You know again a community is particularly able gamers You know, it's very ability projects that have looked into enabling Um Different other technology and now looking into xr. So there are also several You know several other groups looking into Creating a portfolio of design principles and then can be Implemented by developers or educate, you know, like, you know people Who are building xr experiences now? This is starting to come along and in the last year We've seen more of this which is the good news The not so good news is that we're still addressing those One thing at a time, right and we are looking for opportunities. For example, there's been One of the early things that you know, I saw people were able to do is that it's a most of our experiences I experienced best standing although you could be in the chair But there wasn't a particular there wasn't very well many of them were not taught up taught about in terms of What if um the participant, um, you know, the is Is in a wheelchair So this became one of the early things that um, you know, people can do in terms of adjusting the height and being able to do that And you know today we have some solutions and when we started this was this was like, all right I'm in a wheelchair and and everything is running like two feet above me um, so so there's been um, there's been some things that I'd explore by microsoft and You know google and facebook by different addressing some of it But we don't we'd really and I I want to be honest because I want more people to work in that We don't have um like solution for all different sort of uh needs that you know We see students coming into us. So what has been happening is defaulting is to Using narratives describing things um, if if your disability is however There's there's a wonderful opportunity which I saw firsthand like about two years ago. There was a student in my class with speech Um, particularly speech difficulties While this was very difficult for him to participate in a traditional classroom setting when we actually transitioned in a virtual world It was a whole nother place Right because we had other different ways to communicate there um, and He stood up um one of the moments that you know, you have these moments when you introduce something right? He stood up after the session and in just push himself through it to express that Even though I could you know, and it was a very touching moment So that we don't have a solution. We don't have an answer for everything But really we have a lot of opportunities to explore and more people should should enter that and work on that I Agreed agreed and I think this it's a great question asked. I'm really glad that you raised this Because this is going to be an issue that's going to play out all kinds of ways including justice social justice As well as the practical legalities of us um We are at the at the part of the session where we tend to focus more in the future And we try and push things that way and I'd like to invite questions about the future of xr Especially if you're thinking about say the far future of like 2023 um, but to begin with while I'm waiting for questions. I want to ask you one which is You mentioned that we might be heading towards a kind of xr future Um, and I've talked with you and I've made about this before in the past Is it that we may see some form of xr as a kind of default computational paradigm for us going forward So we set aside the laptops and desktops and instead spend more time with headsets and spectacles But where does what does this take us? in a few years I think it will be a few more years I don't think it's it's coming as fast. I think it it will be starting to to get more I think it's access will be getting more access to to these devices I do think a r will be very very powerful in that way But I think there will be room for fully immersive experiences And I you know even today like I think the best part of doing vr is when you create vr in vr And I know there is that's that's something Um, I think it's going to happen and we and we're going to play and live and work Um and collaborate and share in these virtual worlds absolutely Now how exactly That plays out. I think will be very different. I do and I think you know beyond the access point, which I think will Sadly plague us for some time Because this all runs on a you know really in a in a good, you know machines and a good high Quality bandwidth and these things are challenged. There's a whole you know not the digital divide can you know introduce Can be introduced in triple and multiple ways with this technology and we really have to think about that But I do think that as as a platform who be able to to to think and and simulate in prototype You know questions And find solutions in ways that we're not able to do on the desktop and much more powerful and with that power Um, yes, um, I would be using the the very you know often quoted Spider-man, but with that power comes a huge responsibility and it's true like, um, I think that's um, that's where we had it I do believe that this will be a these platforms will Exist will continue to evolve will mature And I do think that we won't be making choices to spend time with them. How we make those choices Is up to us. It's a real early. I think that one of the things people often think VR is being around But we're very very early and in you know, when you think about from sort of The breakout of of a technology So this may be one that just has a much longer development curve But we will exist there. We'll inhabit avatars. Our avatars will be an extension of ourselves We will meet virtual beings and they'll have profound impact on us They will know us better than our friends know us because they will know everything about us our digital footprint Will be, you know driven by algorithms. I don't want to even open the ethical questions And you know emory should be here for that and um, you know Like a lot of work in the last that I've been doing in the last Rear ear has been around the ethical questions So, uh, yes, I think the The point and being here and having this conversation is great because we need more people to be thinking about it to be raising questions about it to be Working at it and understanding That this will have a profound impact on humanity And this and all the other things this does it's not in a vacuum. So yes AI Um everything that else that's happening in the world like like a pandemic and other things. Um, we're all playing to that That's a bracing vision Uh and a bold vision and one of the many reasons I wanted to make sure that you come here to the forum again um, let me let me bring that a bit closer to earth in a particular way um which is What does the future trends forum look like in xr? You know say two years from now three years from now. How is it different? And I I'm not just asking that to be uh self-interested Of course I am but we have we had questions and comments along the way or people have asked about this Uh xr as a way of hosting classes and as well as holding meetings I'm curious. I mean, do we do we get to replace me with a very carefully curated algorithm? Uh a virtual being or do we have do we have multiple uh avatars that sit around a virtual environment that is different from what we're experiencing now How does how does the vision? So I will always say that I would rather meet you in person any day Preferably over lunch or some meal because it's always fun to share stories So I that will that will be my preferred. You know methods or like for some time But I do want to share something on that that you know, we as as I work with students and and people on my team Uh and very early on, uh, we have been experimenting quite a lot but makes reality So immediately I think month as we get home one of the things I was doing is making sure that all Hatsets get into somewhere get into students because I didn't want them to sit in in the lab And so my team, you know got a fair amount of of things that we can experiment and I remember um, just being like two weeks in and it felt like These three first three weeks felt longer than any, you know, we felt that You know, this was this was a very different You know way we live in but I remember being about, you know, really early on like probably in the first month after we Was sent home So to speak and I um had um You know, we kind of me and my very, you know cause, you know, somebody from my team we work together and collaborate and We use sort of the magic leap and we have a way to share like there's several spatial and other experiences and He beams right into my living room In an avatar form But I remember sort of the moment that we actually kind of were together again in the same space You know sharing, you know our space and me saying no, no, no, no, you can't go there. That's that's my living room That's that's my study like come this way. This is where the the area is And in the same time like, you know, we're seeing each other in our respective spaces It was really a moment of joy and I remember tomas and I just like not, you know, spending more and more time Just because that was the only the connection of being embodied In your living, you know, somebody who, you know, you know, well and you talk and you work together and to be being right in your living room It's it's very powerful many times more powerful than zoom And and so the future, you know, the future transform Will be me you and you know others being able to share the same space and just it's it's It's incredibly, I think emotional It you know, it's a it's a very, you know, it's a very big sort of pool and it's it's very exciting and it becomes much more It becomes very very real Well, it becomes very real in part thanks to the work of you, myla and everybody else working with you I'm afraid we're out of time. It's it's the end of the hour And I'm I'm just caught up with this vision of appearing in everybody's living rooms And all of you joining me here in my study. I think that would be fantastic Now Maya the the best way to keep up with you. I think is to follow the digital bodies net website And to follow you on twitter, right? Yes. I mean in linkedin. I do I do um Yeah, I do um kind of like Try to stay up to date. Uh, at least um in being able to share uh You know where I may you may meet me and and certainly always interested to hear your stories and what you're working on in your institutions with your colleagues and Really an opportunity to collaborate. I would say I am in New York City and with love love visitors But you know the times are a little bit different that hopefully in some near future You'll get to come and visit us at the person's school of design at the new school as we can Well, thank you so much Maya. You've been a fantastic guest. Thank you for a very practical visionary look in the XR Everybody else. Please keep an eye on on Maya and her colleague Emory and our friend Jonathan victor for all of their work in this Um, thank you so much, but don't go away yet. Don't go away yet because we have to talk about what's happening next on the future trends forum Uh, so and again, let me thank everybody for it really really good questions on this So looking ahead we have sessions on digital reading Improving equity for black students the educated underclass academic mergers open access and scholarly publication and rethinking teaching So just go to forum that future of education that us to learn more about that If you want to keep talking about these questions Like what does it mean to structure an academic team to build something in higher red with xr? Just use the hashtag Especially on twitter and you can tweet at me at bryan alexander Now if you want to go back into the past and look at some of our other sessions on xr Just go to tinyworld.com slash f tf archive and alongside those sessions You can find sessions in everything including accessibility and scholarly publication Now, thank you all for a great conversation. We're going to upload this shortly to uh, youtube So you'll be able to access it later on Thank you all for contributing your stories your thoughts from multiple continents and nations I hope all of you take care and stay safe this summer as you work on preparing for the fall And above all, please keep talking about us keep to please keep talking with us. We want to have this conversation going We'll see you online. Take care Bye. Bye


Time now for the Vrables Trader. Here we are and the halfback pass. Derek Henry, who's now 8 of 10 for 40 yards and 5 touchdowns passing in his career. What's that rating? Has he got a rating on that? It's pretty high. It's pretty darn high. 158.3. No, it's not 158. It's not. It's not. It's not quite that high because his yards per attempt hurt him. But he does throw it well. Yes. Make Titans fans love to see the king throw the ball and the setup on this play was fascinating. Well, you know, it starts here with, you know, trying to be better in the red zone. And certainly when, when Derek's running the football, some of these plays can start to work off each other and build off each other. So, you know, three tight ends, one of them being an XL lineman. So, John Ojukoya comes in and reports is eligible.  They start to cheat the post safety, you know, away. Those are options over there. One on one. But just really a base run here for us. This is going to be a gap scheme power and you're going to see everybody blocking back, blocking down, protecting the gap inside. Peter pulling around, Ryan in a pistol with Derek. Why in the pistol? Just to give us a little bit more time. Okay.   It's the guy back here who really, you know, I think just was being patient, but I didn't think that he was going to stand there flatfooted. You could see the puller and Derek gets this guy to bite, gets the corner to bite. And then now we're just able to run away from the post safety, obviously there. And the biggest thing is you want to make a platform for Derek. You want to give him an opportunity to sell the run like we've done here, but also build a somewhat of a pocket and make him protected to still have to throw the football, you know, to a guy that's a moving target.  Here now, I thought just a great job of Chig of running away from this thing. Derek giving him a good ball. And like you said, that's the longest half-second in the game right there.  Look at that. That's a thing of beauty. It is a thing of beauty, but I love that. The pistol part was, I wanted to ask you about why don't you run it out of the pistol and a jukku with a block here, man, he takes his guy, that guy gets after it. He did. He played about 16 plays for us and helped us in a run game, you know, and we'll get better. You know, that's his first action. That's his first game action as a Tennessee Titan, whether that's preseason or regular season. Excited for guys like that.


what's going on, how are you guys today? I'm going to show you two very approachable and healthy drink recipes that you, your family, and your kids will love. And there's a couple of reasons I chose lemonade and cream soda. You know, you'll see a lot of fruit juices, veggie stuff, a lot of things added that have potential chemical concerns and just things that are inherently in the food that cause issues when consumed in large amounts over a consistent basis. With cream soda, as well as lemonade, you're not really adding anything negative that can harm the body. You can drink this stuff every day and still be healthy. So let me show you guys the ingredients we need. Now both of these are incredibly simple. For the lemonade, you just need lemon juice and sugar. For the cream soda, you just need vanilla and sugar. You guys can see I already juiced the lemons and everything here is organic. So we're removing some of the negative agrochemical concerns that herbicides, pesticides, fungicides use to grow the food. What you could do is instead of sugar, use honey and make everything completely raw. The downside is you'll have to blend it up and you'll probably oxidize it a little bit in the blender anyway. So it is a little bit of a trade-off and we're using a glass bottle to mineral water as the base. This is carbonated. You know, for cream soda, we need carbonation and for lemonade, carbonation is nice. So what we're going to do is pour the water out of these bottles, make simple syrups and then put the syrup back in these bottles, throw that in the fridge and we'll have a nice, easy way to drink our soda and lemonade. All right, so both of these are gonna be the same. We want one cup of sugar in each pot. We're gonna take one cup of carbonated water. So this is a one-to-one simple syrup. I did let these pans get a little too hot. So we could just turn these off. All right, so for the cream soda, we want to add two tablespoons of vanilla extract to one. That's really all we have to do, just make two one-to-one ratio simple syrups. So already juice these lemons, you're gonna need about three quarters of a cup of fresh lemon juice. So just pour the syrup right back in the bottle. Just be careful because sometimes like the sugar reacts with the carbonation. Then I'll pour in the fresh lemon juice and I like doing this because you keep the lemon juice raw instead of heating it. And that's the lemonade. Pop this in the fridge. You could shake it up. And for our cream soda, I'm gonna pour a little water out so it doesn't overflow. So each of these bottles are roughly four cups. If you're trying to figure out the ratio and how much water you need to use to make these. So it's very simple.  So let's try the lemonade. Oh, that is so good. Fresh lemon juice, organic sugar. Man, that's tasty.  Cream soda also very good. Yeah, I like both of these a lot. Very, very tasty. If you do use honey, it's probably gonna taste a little bit like honey. It's not gonna be as classic. So that's the main reason I use sugar. These genuinely taste like lemonade and cream soda. Just a better, more complex, more flavorful version. So definitely try making these, especially if your kids are normally drinking stuff like this and maybe they don't like the water kefir. And of course the water kefir is so much healthier than this and you can incorporate some of these flavorings into water kefir. But this is quick, it's easy, it's simple and it's incredibly, incredibly approachable. Everyone's gonna love it. So thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please drop a like on the video. Leave a comment down below. Subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week. And be sure to check that notification bell so YouTube doesn't notify you of my videos. Therefore, you can go to frank-define.com to support me through all of my businesses. And most of the recipes I do, guys, I want you to understand. It's about enjoyment, it's about taste. It's not really about making the healthiest food possible because yeah, this is sugar and some vitamin C and this is really just sugar but you're feeding your gut bacteria, you're giving your body caloric energy. There's a plus and negative to everything.


Secretary of Education William Bennett ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States. It is my honor to welcome you to Prince George's County and Suitland High School the home of the Rams. You see we have some school spirit here today. Mr. President everybody everybody knows that you like to hear a good story. A story that has a good moral. A story of success. The people at this table have a good story to tell you Mr. President and we're delighted everyone here is delighted that you came to hear it. Let me just very briefly introduce each of the people at the table and then we will hear from them in order. First Dr. John Murphy Superintendent of Prince George's County Schools. Mr. Ray Laplacca, President of Prince George County's Business and Advisory Council. A teacher favorite. Mr. Joe Herston, Principal of Suitland High School. Our teacher. A student favorite. Ms. Camille McCann, Teacher. The person about whom this is all about representing fellow students here at Suitland. President of the senior class Robin Hicks. Superintendent Murphy. Mr. President thank you for coming. Sure. I have the great honor and privilege ladies and gentlemen, students, teachers, all to introduce to you my boss, man deeply committed to the education of America's children, the leader of the free world, President of the United States Ronald Wilson Reagan. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. I think I'm the reason why the program was delayed a little this morning. I was late and the principal has told me I got to stay after school but it's it's an honor to be here with you to celebrate all that you've done to make this school so outstanding. It so happens that visiting a school reminds me of something I heard just the other day. Seems a certain little boy had reached school age and his mother worked very hard to make him enthusiastic about the idea. Bought him new clothes, told him about the other children he would meet, got him so excited about the project that he eagerly went off on the first day. Came home with excellent reports of what school was like. Well next morning his mother went into the bedroom and said he had to get up and he said what for? She said you've got to go to school. He said what again? It is a pleasure to be at this wonderful school, this school that makes people want to come back. It wasn't so long ago of course that Suitland High School had its problems, bad problems, low academic performance, vandalism, poor attendance by both students and teachers alike. Yet today you've turned Suitland around to make it a school noted for its strong sense of purpose and pride, harmony, and yes academic achievement. I wonder would you take a moment to join me in applauding your own remarkable accomplishment? Well now we've heard Principal Herston and others tell us how this transformation has taken place. Before taking your questions I'd like to discuss with you how we might work this same transformation in schools all across America. The first point to make is that money alone isn't the answer. From 1963 to 1980 for example the amount our nation spent on education in real terms more than doubled. Yet during precisely that same period college board scores fell by almost 90 points. Considered to the state of New Hampshire. New Hampshire spends less on education per student than almost every state in the Union. Yet for a number of years now New Hampshire students have had the nation's highest SAT scores. Now please don't misunderstand me funding is important, very important. In fact the amount our country will devote to education this year at all levels of government, local state, and federal will total over 300 billion dollars. But money is only money unless it represents genuine commitment, a willingness to work harder improving American education to become involved then money by itself is all but meaningless. You know I've thought more than once that back when we were throwing money at education well we were sort of like the parent who will buy his child expensive toys and clothes who will give his child just about anything except his own time and commitment. But perhaps the greatest difficulty facing our educators today is this.  In a word there are too few rewards. We need to change that. We need to reward excellence in education as we reward excellence in other fields. We need in other words to introduce education to some free market principles things like incentives and accountability. An example of incentives is programs now under consideration in some areas programs that reward teachers and administrations for improved student performance. As for an example of accountability well you needn't look any further than Superintendent Murphy's applied anxiety room. Posted in his office are the test scores showing the performance of all the schools in Prince George's County. John Murphy holds principles accountable for results. This is the kind of tough sound management we need in our schools. Educational excellence also means getting parents involved. It means taking innovative steps to attract and reward good teachers based on their performance. And it means alternate certification opening up the teaching profession to allow more qualified men and women to enter the field. Excellence means community involvement and your advisory council for business and industry as we've heard is a fine example of this. And of course educational excellence depends on choice. I've long argued that parents should have more choice in determining the schools that their children will attend. I've long argued that more choice would lead to better education. So I've advocated tuition tax credits and education vouchers. One form of choice magnet schools is one of the things Prince George's County is most noted for and is one of the great success stories of the education reform movement. The success of Suitland's own magnet programs, the Visual and Performing Arts Center and University High School is a testament to their worth. In helping to foster magnet schools, we helped foster improved education. In 1987, a four million dollar Department of Education grant was made to Prince George's County for magnet school programs, such as the kind that you have here at Suitland High School. It's been a good investment. I'm to think of it. I wish all federal dollars got that kind of return. And since I'd like to see magnet schools program expanded, I'm going to ask the Congress to increase the size of the current program next year by over 50% from 72 million dollars to 115 million dollars. With these additional funds, we can help more schools do what you've done so well in Prince George's County. I've talked for a while about how we can make our own schools better, but I haven't yet told you why I believe this is so important. What it comes down to is this. It is here in Suitland High and schools like it around the country that our future is being shaped. Recently, the headlines have been full of a term called superconductivity. This paper struggled to keep up with the seemingly daily breakthroughs in the lab. Only a year ago, superconductivity was considered a scientific backwater phenomenon with little practical purpose. Now scientists are saying it may change our lives. It shows all the dreams we have had can come true. The sky is the limit, said one theorist. We're moving from an age of things to an age of thoughts of mind over matter. It is the mind of man, free to invent, free to experiment, free to dream that will shape the economy and the world of the future. Permit me to offer enclosing one final message and it's a message from my heart. If you heard my radio talk last Saturday, then you'll know about a new report on drug use by America's students, including high school students like you. We've had so much bad news about drugs lately, but if you want some good news, just listen. According to the report released by our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Otis Bowen, last year, for the first time since these surveys began, a substantially smaller number of high school students, one-third smaller, acknowledged current use of cocaine than acknowledged it the year before. And cocaine is no longer fashionable. Far from it, 97% of the students surveyed disapproved of regular cocaine use, while 87% disapproved of even trying it. The use of marijuana and amphetamines is also down. What it all means is this, America's young people are getting the message. Drugs are ugly. Drugs are nothing to brag about. Drugs kill. And this is so important as you look to the future. You see in the 21st century, staying employed will mean more than just knowing something. It'll mean being able to keep on learning. It'll mean having character and discipline and being proud of yourselves. There won't be opportunities in years to come for those who handicapped themselves with drug use now. My young friends, you've done so much already turning this school around, learning to learn, learning to look to the future with confidence. I can't tell you how proud I am of you. Keep it up. Keep on saying yes to life. And when it comes to drugs, take a tip from a friend of mine who just happens to be named Nancy Reagan. Just say no. Thank you. God bless you. Mr. President, I understand you have a few minutes remaining. We have some students out in the audience that would like to answer you a few questions. Mr. President, my name is Felicia Funderberg and I'm president of Sutin and Student Government Association. One of the most important questions facing high school seniors today is what college they plan to attend and what career goals they plan to pursue. When you are a high school senior, what career goals that you want to pursue and how did you plan for it? And what advice can you give young people today as they embark on their careers? You've asked a question and I know you're expecting an answer of saying something about having decided to do something or other. No, I'm delighted to answer this and encourage you.  I graduated from college with a degree in economics and sociology and still had not been able to pin down exactly what I wanted to do. Now at that time I must say the demand was just maybe to get a job of any kind because I graduated at the very depth of the Great Depression, 1932. And so you thought anything might be. But it wasn't until it wasn't until I went back to my summer job to get a little money to go job hunting after I'd graduated. My summer job was life-guarding at a river beach in my hometown. And there were people who came out from the city and corporate heads and so forth with their families every summer and I'd taught their children to swim and so forth. And there weren't as many by 1932 with the result of what had happened in the crash. But one was there and he told me that if I could tell him what I wanted to do. He had contacts with a number of businesses and areas. He would do what he could to get me a job. But he said you've got to come back and tell me. And I went home and I thought and I finally realized that in spite of my degree in economics and sociology I wanted the theatrical world. Now there in the middle of Illinois I didn't have the nerve to say I wanted to be an actor. But radio was pretty new and I said I wanted to be a sports announcer in radio. Well he told me then he said well I don't have any contacts. There's nothing I can do to help you there. But he said maybe that's better. Let me give you some advice. He gave me the best advice I've ever had. He said now that you've determined that what you want to do. He said you start out knocking on doors telling people then at those doors what you want to do. Businesses. And some place along the line even in this depression you'll find someone in a radio station who knows that his business is going to depend on bringing younger people into the business to carry on.  And he says don't get discouraged if you go to a lot and knock on a lot of doors. Remember a salesman sometimes has to make 250 calls before he makes a sale. It turned out to be the greatest advice I was ever given. And sure enough one day in a station and it never bought Iowa. Turned down because they had just hired an announcer the day before and where was I why didn't I know that they were looking for one. On the way out after a number of turned downs I said to myself aloud how do you get to be a radio announcer if you can't even get a job in the station. Oh I've left out one thing he had told me don't ask to be a radio or a sports announcer. He said just ask for anything because you believe in the future of radio. Anything inside the station and then take your chances on there from getting to what you want. Well I got to the elevator and fortunately the program director that I'd been interviewed by was arthritic because I heard the thump of his canes coming down the floor before the elevator arrived and he was yelling to me to stop and wait. And I did and he asked me what was that you said about sports and I told him that's what my ambition was and he said what do you know about football. I said it played at eight years and he said could you tell me about a game and make me see it. I said I think so.  He said when the red light goes on you start broadcasting an imaginary football game. He said I'll be in another room listening. And I remembered a game we'd played the year before my senior year we won in the last 20 seconds of the game with a long touchdown run and so forth. I could remember enough of the names so that I wouldn't have to fish for names and broadcasting it. So I started us out in the fourth quarter with the long blue shadow settling over the field and back in our own 35 yard line. Here's the play. But Cole has the ball going wide out to the right cuts back in over so forth and so on. He walked back into the studio and he said be her Saturday. You're broadcasting the Iowa Minnesota football game. And that's how I started my career as a sports announcer. I know I've taken a long time here but I know that this is a problem at your age that you're thinking so hard. So many of you what do I want to do and don't let it bother you that you haven't made that decision yet. You change your mind many times before it comes the right moment. But then when it comes just knock on the door of whatever you've chosen to do and ask until you find somebody that'll let you in. All right. I didn't mean to make a second speech but you touched a nerve. Good morning Mr. President. My name is Victoria Bell and I'm a member of the graduating class of 1988. Those of us who are of age have registered to vote. Could you please give us some advice on what a young person's role should be in politics today. Your role should be in what is it I didn't. What a young person's role should be in politics today. In politics. Well it was the last thing I thought I would ever end up in. I had completely different thoughts for most of my life. But I think what you should recognize is this. There is a little figure that says something. The 18 to 24 year old group of young people. Happens to be the lowest bracket with regard to voting. The smallest percentage of that bracket votes. We have a society that is unique in the world. It is based on the fact that we the people are the government. Our constitution differs from all but one other constitution in the world. Our constitution doesn't the government telling the people what their privileges are. Our constitution is we the people telling the government what it can do. Now government of that kind can only work if people participate. So whether you're interested in never becoming involved in politics yourself. Participate by that most fundamental thing of voting. But also when you make up your mind the thing that you believe in and whether it's party or what philosophy. Then participate volunteer in campaigns to be of help to really participate in what the government or who is going to be in the government. And then if from that experience you find that you want to actually engage in the issues of the day and having a say about them. Then you look around and pick where is the nearest and most available way or level of government and office that you can begin by seeking public office. And then when you get that public office make up your mind. I have told a cabinet as a governor of California and a cabinet as the president of the United States in discussing all the issues and what we're going to do about something. Don't anyone tell me what the best political way is. I don't want to hear what is right or wrong politically. I want to hear what is right or wrong morally about the issue and what we should do and make that be your goal as a participant in government. Good morning Mr. President. My name is Larry Braff and I'm a student with the visual and performing arts program. My question to you today is based on what you learned of our school today what educational programs and policies will your administration be advocating? What educational programs? What educational programs and policies will your administration be advocating? Well I probably should turn that question over to the secretary of education who's experienced in it but I would just take a chance myself if he wants to add anything to this. I think that the first thing we at the federal level must recognize is that our great system of education is managed by and run by the people at the local and state level and the federal government should be of help where it can but it should not involve itself in trying to dictate to the schools of America. Do you want to add to that? I couldn't say it better myself. Maybe I would just underline what you said in your remarks Mr. President. I think you will see emphasis from us on the points that we heard from this table. Accountability, choice, high expectations to help the kind of local effort we see here be duplicated all around the country. We have a great diversity in that in our education across this great land and more than education in the land itself and that is valuable to us. Good morning Mr. President. My name is Adrell Cabanus and I'm 11th grader here at Sulin. What could future leaders do to ensure the prevention of nuclear war? Wait a minute. I have a little trouble with. What could future leaders do to ensure the prevention of nuclear war? Seeing a war? What can we all do with regard to preventing a war that you're talking about? Well, having seen four of them in my lifetime, I'm hoping and praying that we can't avoid one. But I do know this. We have to be practical. We have to be realistic. We have to be totally in favor of peace ourselves and doing all that we can to maintain peace. My first words in my meeting with Gorbachev in Geneva, Switzerland, when he and I met in a room, just the two of us and well with interpreters, I said to him that we were in a unique situation, the two of us from these two great powers, that we could perhaps bring on a war or we could bring on peace for the world. And I said, I think what we have to recognize is we mistrust each other and we are both heavily armed. And I said, we don't mistrust each other because we're armed. We're armed because we mistrust each other. And so our goal, even though we're going to talk about trying to reduce weapons and lower the military threat, that our main goal must be to eliminate the mistrust that has caused us to build those armaments. And I think that this country, we have an order now to maintain peace. The great seal of the United States with the eagle and its head turned in one claw has arrows and in the other claw has the olive branch designating peace. The older seal, the one on my desk in the Oval Office because it's an old, old desk, the eagle is looking at the claw with the hat with the arrows on the ceiling because the building is newer. On that seal, the eagle is looking at the claw with the olive branch. Harry Truman after World War II decided that our seal should be changed and that our eagle, our bird, should be looking at peace, not war. But at the same time, right now, I'm trying to convince the Congress, we have made great strides and this first treaty that has ever been signed of the actual elimination of arms has come about because we revealed to the world that we were going to deal from strength, that they could have their choice, engage in an arms race with us or join us in eliminating the causes of armament. And so we're pursuing that and it has been successful so far because after several years of turn down, we have signed the first treaty that ever eliminated a total system of nuclear weapons. And that's can take to correct the many trade imbalances that we have for countries. We're taking those steps as much as we can. But let me point something out. I happen to be one who believes that the imbalance in trade is not the terrible thing that it has been portrayed. Granted that we would like to export more. But for 100 years, while this country of ours was becoming the great economic power that it is, for all those 100 years, we had an imbalance of trade as we have now. We're the greatest exporter in the world. Now, I could caution you too, sometimes our statisticians don't use all the figures they should. For example, by the number of dollars of exports that we have does not include services, just things that are made to sell. I think there might be a little difference if we realized how much money comes in from abroad to insurance companies that sell insurance abroad, services of that kind, and it would balance up a little better. But if we're going to be the greatest exporter, we must recognize the right of other countries to export too, and therefore we're an importer. And I've always, this comes, I guess, from that degree in economics I got, I've always believed that the people in America who feel free to buy a foreign product, import foreign goods of some kind or another, that's their right to do that. And those people at the same time that they're sending money abroad, they're replacing that money with a product that has an actual money worth. And it's not that the government is involved in that. Where the government is involved is we have people in our Congress today who want protectionism, high tariffs that will keep people from being able to sell goods in our country without realizing that they can retaliate and then have high tariffs against us selling abroad. And back in that Great Depression that I mentioned earlier, 1932, two great mistakes were made in this country and by this country. One, we introduced a thing called the Smoot Hawley Tariff, which made it virtually impossible for anyone to sell anything in America. And that simply spread the Great Depression around the world. And the only thing that ended the Great Depression was World War II. And that was one lesson. The second lesson was the Congress of the United States also then increased the income taxes tremendously from one bracket of a one and a half percent to nine percent from another something like around 20 percent to 63 percent. And immediately the total amount of revenue that the government was getting was reduced even though the rates were higher. And so what we're fighting for is free and fair trade around the world. And we've made great progress with some of our trading partners who did have restraints and restrictions. But that opened free trade. And as I continue to insist, low tax rates here on ourselves in our own country to increase the incentive of people to earn more, we have reduced the taxes in our administration. And the total amount of revenue the government is getting from that tax has increased mightily. About a thousand years ago, a man named Eben Caldoon said in the beginning of the empire, the rates were low when the revenue was high. At the end of the empire, the rates were high and the revenue was low. So we're going to stick with what we're trying to do. And we can use all the help that you'll give us. Good morning, Mr. President. I am Len Walder, a freshman in the University High School. My question to you is this, what do you feel was your major accomplishment as president? And what would you most like to be remembered for as president of the United States? Well, I'd just like to be remembered. But, well, I would be I'd be satisfied if they just would say I did my best. But, and now wait a minute here, you got me so off base here on the first part of that question. What, oh, what accomplishment? It's rather difficult to pick things out of all the things that we try to turn around and change. The economy was in a shambles when we came here. We were in a great recession. Interest rates were sky high and inflation was in double digits. We turned all of that around. And for 61 months, we have had an expansion, an economic expansion, which is the longest period in the history of our nation for an economic expansion. But with all of that, I think I'd rather be remembered for the fact that not too many years ago, there was a great pessimism in our country and people were very critical and people didn't seem to be very proud of the flag anymore. And today, what I get in the mail and what I hear from people when I get out of Washington is that once again, they're proud to be Americans. And if I had anything to do with that, that's what I would be most proud of that once again. Just one line to finish now, and I appreciate very much and apologize for the length of my answers. But this thing about America, I got a letter from a man the other day. I'll share it with you.  You can go to live in Japan, but you cannot become Japanese or Germany or France and named all the others. But he said anyone from any corner of the world can come to America and become an American. With a token of our appreciation for your visit to Prince George's County, it's our annual poster and it says great things are happening at Prince George's County. And we're quite proud and we hope you'll remember things that we're doing here in our schools. And I think that this will look just great in the coming Reagan Presidential Library. Super. Mr. President, we have a we have another gift that we'd like to present to you. And this is a gift from the heart. As you know, Prince George's County and Suitland High School in Suitland, we have a performing arts component in our high school. And several of our stars would like to come out and give you a message today from the students at Suitland, from students in Prince George's County and from young people all across America.


Alright, today's video is going to be about how to teach your dog to go to his bed or crate, same thing, same process used to do both things, exactly the same with just a minor little difference for the crate than the bed because of the walls. But my whole career, 20 years of dog training, the bed or place command is one of the most popular commands that owners always want to teach their dogs. But in the 20 years I've been doing this, I have never seen once anybody teach their dogs how to do this properly, never. I have tried to go back 20 years and it hasn't been one time that it's been done correctly. So I'm going to go through the steps here with you of how the process is supposed to be done but by popular request so many people asking me to do a video, an instructional DVD on how to do the place command or bed command properly. This is a little preview into what the DVD is going to be about. But I just wanted to show people the proper steps to this because I have had a lot of people asking me at least to talk about the process of it. So first thing, first step to it is you never go to the bed or to the crate and ask your dog to get on it while you're at the object. Everybody does it. So they'll stand in front of the crate or the bed and go crate and point inside it or at the bed and point to the bed and go bed. It doesn't work that way. Now that's fine if you want to step there and ask the only way your dog will know it is if you go to it and beg them and have to be on top of it to go to your thing. But that's not the real way to do this or teach this because now you're begging and you're hoping that when you go there that they actually go to it and don't run away from you. So what do most people experience when they're trying to get their dog into a crate and he doesn't feel like going in the crate right now? They go to the crate and go crate and the dog stands back there and goes, is there a treat involved in this? Because then maybe I'll consider it. So the dog smells, nothing there or nothing was thrown in yet. The dog is possibly out. That's everybody I've seen in my career. Hundreds of thousands of clients that I've had in my career, right? They all go through the same thing. Dog doesn't want to do it.  So the moment they go crate, they go to get them, the dog runs and takes off and now you got to chase them through the house to get them into his crate. So the proper way is step number one. Even on the first day of training, I'm teaching my puppies or dogs to from distance on the command run to it when they get there, do not come back off it the moment I send you to it, right? So the moment I go place or bed, that means it's an implied behavior that they have to run to the object that they know that I'm talking about, whether it's the bed or the crate. The moment they get there, they have to just post on it. Whether they're downing, standing, whatever it is, but they cannot take another step back off it once they're there. They're stuck on it until they are given another command, such as a release word, which is generally what I use, come, right, but they cannot even think about coming back off it the moment I have sent them there. Now saying that there is no stay command attached to the bed. You cannot go bed, stay, right? Why? Because let's say that you, which most people, a lot of people do this, and it is another mistake, they'll send the dog to the bed, they'll tell them to down, stay. But now he, if he's really doing a stay, they cannot move out of that down position even to get up and turn around to get comfortable and lay back down. That means they broke the stay command to get up, get comfortable, turn around and lay down. They broke the stay. So now that affects the people stay command in life because they're able to do it on the bed command.   If you intend them to be there for a while, they can only stand on those front legs for so long they're going to give out and the dog is going to lay down. Then they broke the stay command. So that can become a real mess. So it's again, the step is teaching the dog from distance, when told to run and go to it, not we stand at the object and go crate bed, right? That's not the way to do it. That's begging. That's not a dog who knows how to perform the command. The next thing to that is for me, for fluency, I change positions so that the dog will know how to do it if I'm not just standing someplace facing and pointing, right? Most people do things in one context. So for a dog to really know something here, for example, to show you, I'm going to show you here with the little German shepherd puppy and then the go retriever that I'm facing the wall and I put myself facing the wall so she doesn't have my front. She going to see her coming up and I just ask for the command for her to go to the place and I want to make sure that she understands what the word means when I'm not facing her or pointing. What is her fluency? Right? And you see she runs right to her bed the moment I say the place command without facing or looking at it or pointing at it. That's a puppy who knows the fluency of what place means. Also getting down, changing my position. So you're going to see here I go through a sequence of things with this puppy with facing the wall, having her do it, bending down, sitting down, check place. And this is making sure that no matter what position I'm in that the dog or puppy understands the language. When I say the command it's fluent. It's not what was that? What do you say? What? So you can see immediate responses once I say the word they bolt to the bed and they do what they have to do.  But these things have to be worked on for the dog to understand the difference in the context. If you only always do it standing up in face and that's the only way they're going to be able to ever know how to do it. So for me I know how people work. I've been dealing with the public and going to people's homes for 20 years. They would love to sit down and be able to have their dog you know to go to a better place that the dog knows it that well right that they don't even have to get up and be inconvenienced to have their dog or puppy go makes people very happy that a dog really knows things that well right so also not necessary but here I always test the limits I just want to make sure I have maximum fluency of things you'll see we send tux here and I've done it with the Golden's and all the other dogs too but tux we have on video doing this sending him to his crate from the street and just testing his fluency before he was going to his new home so you know I'm always making sure that if we can do it from short distance I want to see it from long distance I want to make sure this guy really has his stuff but that's me that's how I do dog training I'm always looking for pushings further to make them more realistic more fluent easier dog and owner right so I'm always pushing those limits and making things a little more challenging but then more convenient in life that the dog really knows their stuff right so that's just how I go about everything so and then also here you're going to see we have Charlie who there's two things in life he loves one is the other goal or tree I'm going to show you that's with him lady and the other thing he loves is a tennis ball so his two favorite things in life are lady and the tennis ball so once Charlie no knew his bed command of course what am I going to do I've tested him with other things smaller but it's always about going for the biggest thing that that dog can't take right they're their biggest weaknesses so I know that lady and the ball are his biggest weaknesses so here you're going to see I put Charlie on the bed and I start messing around with lady and the tennis ball throwing it across his bed he has to hold the bed and not come off it to go chase the ball and he also loves to chase lady all over the place and run with her in and play fight so his two favorite things going to be running across his bed right while he's got to stay on that bed when he was told place and not come off good boy Charlie golly good girl very good good girl this is challenging testing the fluency and making sure that no matter what in life those are his two favorite things if he won't come off for those things then I know his bed command is solid and I'll be more details of this and about all these things I was showing there in really great detail on the DVD on the instructional but just to give if you were to try this at home you have to be able to teach these things in these steps it cannot be walking a dog to a bed on a leash and always walking them to the object to create the bed because that's just the beginner steps of teaching those things that does not mean they know it that does not mean they'll always do it right that is the baby step of how to teach the creator of the bed it is not the finishing touch so but most people teach that and think this the final step when really they just began the command right and that's why I've had that encounter of when people try to show me how good the dog is with their bed command it never goes well right for 20 years it's never gone well I've never seen it done well ever so that's why I decided to come out with the instructional video because so many people have been asking me to to show how to do that properly so hope you enjoyed till next time 90 dog whisper


What is going on guys welcome back to channel critical over here. So let me talk about Halloween ends in this video here today Halloween ends has officially wrapped production as of today I guess this is according to Christopher Nelson who was one of the head makeup designers involved with this trilogy from David Gordon Green He put out this tweet or this Instagram post earlier today where he expressed all his gratitude for the film and the time that they spent on set And just as you see here on your screen is a little postcard that they gave out to the cast and crew Ryan Turek who also worked on the who I know many of you probably might be a lot more familiar with Ryan Turek He put this out to on his official Instagram Dave McCrae also tweeted this house, which is what got me Looking into some of the sources before I went out and made this video but production actually has wrapped and We are on the final stages to the what might be the last Halloween movie we'll be getting for Many years, I would hope when I say many years. I mean like at least five There's no denying that the shape will be back Michael Myers will be back David Gordon Green's iteration of this will not be the last thing Michael Myers is just woven into the fabric of Hollywood He's a he's clearly a a thing that draws in a lot of money still so I have no doubts in my mind that we'll see Michael Myers again after October of 2022 It won't be it might not be next year. I don't I'm pretty confident won't be next year If it is it is but if it is of course going to be exploring a different timeline But he's not going to be gone forever So I don't think there's any reason to just become overly concerned with that or really get too Sad about it. Even though this kind of does still make me a little bit sad because I love Michael Myers I love the halloween franchise and I do appreciate the content that we get but I prefer quality over quantity And if this is going to be the the last iteration for David Gordon Green Then I would like to have a lengthy break in between this movie and whatever comes next That doesn't mean that if we don't have that then we will be starting to get crap movies But you know, I just think that a good five year absence of Michael Myers would be What I ideally would want to have after we get what hopefully will be an incredible movie later this year And that was one of the things that they made a comment about in the in that instagram post that being Christopher Nelson Saying that he thinks these movies are going to shock a lot of people Or a lot of people will find this to be incredible or something like that And just to jump into another topic We need to talk about who might be Michael Myers first victim and I'm going to tie this into the fact that Michael Myers may have been Continuing to kill after the events of halloween 2018 and halloween kills. So There was an image that was going around On online and I I found this on reddit on the halloween movies reddit where it was sharing the Billboard of a missing individual named Megan Baxter before I jump into that I do want to touch briefly on the thought of Michael Myers continuing to kill in local areas or different locations after halloween 2018 and halloween kills so Why this might be a thing is because that missing billboard does say october 30th of 2021 I believe and we know we're having a four-year time jump So if that missing billboard is related to Michael Myers, of course, it's safe to assume he has something to do with that missing individual And the fact of why she's missing is related to him But the fact that it's occurring on october 30th 2021 and we know we're supposed to be having a four-year time jump which tells us that most of this movie will most likely take place in 2022 it's interesting that someone was missing on october 30th of 2021 That individual of course being Megan Baxter Megan Baxter I'm assuming would be some girl who was going home from a halloween party that year She could be in a different town close to haddonfield They could start exploring that narrative saying that he's been going to other towns and and targeting people there But no one's been ever No one's been able to catch him because he hasn't been just going out there just doing it like that he's kind of just been This individual that pops up It has been just taking people out in different towns Every other halloween in different locations But still close to haddonfield and unfortunately october 30th, 2021 It was Megan Baxter's opportunity She could be a woman who was just going home from a halloween party the shape got her michael myers got her She went missing body never recovered etc Don't know what he's doing with the bodies if that's the case, but we'll find out I guess I did try to call if you see this clearly I don't know how clear this image will actually come out But there's a number on the billboard as you see here Like a fool I tried to call it And see what would happen It's a standard number that I think they use for most movies when they do this type of stuff The number won't give you anything so But I that's who I think Megan Baxter will be I think she'll be the first victim we can explore in halloween ends And this might be a flashback that we get where we see her walking home I am going to predict from a halloween party And then the shape just gets her this could be a actually thorough in depth of very suspenseful and fast-paced And very tense chase sequence that they could do to start off the movie And then jump forward after the title card comes up saying a year later And we're in 2022 and then of course by assumption Going off of where the 2018 movie was in in the halloween kills movie We'll know that this is our four-year time jump in full effect once we jump a year later after Megan Baxter's attack From the shape How that will relate to what happens in how to feel with with jamie lee kurtis's character of lores trod I do not know. I know that andy matta check also recently posted Something about her final days on set So it was only a matter of time before we got an announcement like that today Telling us that filming had wrapped now. No, of course. We have a lengthy post production process for them to go through This was also mentioned in ryan terrex posted he put out about the production rapping And then we'll be sitting down in theaters in october to see how this trilogy ends on halloween Not halloween, but on october 14th of this year later this year I I at this point think I'll see it on The 10th or the 11th just my guess either the 10th or the 11th or the 12th And then I'll have my review up here Spoiler-free as much as best as I can but Yep, filming has wrapped halloween ends is almost completely done and ready to be released We should of course start to get different things released different behind the scenes images different official steals get more announcements involved in the cast because I am very impressed by how little we know about the cast and how Secretive this has been and they've done a very good job at keeping a lot of stuff under lock and key Granted I have them hearing that there's somebody out there who's been leaking stuff And getting it correct Um, I haven't tracked that down to verify anything. So I don't know what leaks may or may not be out there or what may or may not be true but Hopefully everything goes according to planning. We get an incredible last movie for this interation of michael myers later this october Let me know what y'all think about all this down in the comment section below how excited are you about filming rapping What do you want to see next because of this if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on postification in this video in the description links in my social media accounts My facebook twitter and instagram you can message me there, of course To let me know if there's any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


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