so many depictions of Muay Thai in this restaurant because that's how they try to make you feel when you eat it, blows to the dome, to the dome. In our opinion, Lao Isan food is the most underrated Asian cuisine period. And although Isan is a region in Northeast Thailand, it borders Laos and therefore considered essentially the same cuisine. So today we are comparing three different price points of Lao food, low, middle, and high. We're going from a neighborhood spot to a restaurant chain and then ending at a spot with a New York Times rated chef. Let's go. First up on our low, middle, high, and loud food crawl here in Manhattan on one of our favorite streets of all time, Grand Street is Lan Larb coming in at the low price point sector. Now, this spot is classified as a Thai restaurant, but more specifically, it's a Northeastern Isan Thai spot. From what I heard, the food in Northeastern Thailand and the food in Laos Andrew is 80% similar. Coming in at the $1 sign, our first spot, Lan Larb. I wanna eat as many Isan Northeastern Lao dishes as I can.  All right, guys, I gotta come clean. It's not exactly as cheap as it would be in Queens. Yes, we get it. When we say low price, we just mean for Manhattan. Isan Lao sausage. Man, I just think what makes it special is definitely eating it with the fresh ginger and garlic. There's that amount of spice that after kick that just comes in is like, oh, that wasn't enough spice for you. Bang! Some people like to cook everything in and some people like to give it to you on the side to eat along with it fresh. But I feel like the herbs that are usually in it are more green herbs, but here I'm talking about garlic and ginger. I think this stuff has to be raw. A lot of other ones will have more herbs, but this one is not short of flavor, I'm telling you. The Isan sausage was only $8, totally worth it. We are moving on to two Lao favorites, Andrew. These are national dishes. Yes, larb is a national dish. This one right here is duck larb. This is som tam, better known as a papaya salad. And of course, Andrew, we got the Lao sticky rice. Let's get it out, man. Oh, it's real hot. Hot in my hand. Duck larb. Larb is essentially a minced meat salad. Southeast Asian salads are not like sweet greens, bro. They're super citrusy, often very spicy, but at the same time, very refreshing. Andrew, did you know that Lao people invented the papaya salad of the som tam? Okay, so the chef back there was warning John behind the camera while he was filming about the spiciness of this. Fermented crab flavor is strong. Yo, I'm going in too. Oh, you just need to chase. If it ever gets too hot, just throw in a clump of sticky rice.  This som tam, I need a... Isan shrimp salad. I'm really feeling the sauce. That to me is a little bit sweeter, more accessible, you know, fish sauce. I feel like I could take this juice here and put it on anything. Ubal noodle soup from Isan. Man, this is a very rich pork broth. Andrew, this tastes like a little bit like something dad would make. I have got to say, Andrew, I believe we found a sleeper dish that we've never had before. Was one of the most satisfying pork-based noodle soups I've had in a long time. It wasn't too salty, it wasn't too fatty, it was very porky, has that nice thick, like kind of bone flavor. Isan udon is a five out of five. Loud chicken soup. Ooh. It's a little pungent and spicy, similar to like a Korean, almost kimchi jjigae. From my research, Andrew, which I do extensive, I spend a lot of time on core. Taekwondo, Andrew, was a group of people that lived in Yunnan, but all the way up to really like Sichuan. When the Han came down from the north, they sort of ended up moving way down lower. If you really look at it a few thousand years ago, a lot of different groups that have since dispersed actually originate on what is currently in 2020 Chinese territory. There was a couple of deep cut dishes, Andrew, that I do not expect to see at the spots that cater to a wider audience. I know Mr. Mongol Mussels over here does have a soft spot in this heart for Southeast Asia. So good. Gotta get everything out of man. Gotta get everything. Marb. I've never had larb before. That's refreshing. Onto our next spot, Sam-Tom Durr in the East Village, which is our mid-tier northeastern Lao spot. Let's go. The difference because I know there are many similarities between Isan and Lao food, right? But is there a slight differences? Yes.  So a little bit less of the punch in that Thai food actually. Andrew, we're at Sam-Tom Burr in Red Hook and we're at the mid-tier. Obviously you expect to see different things at different tiers, low, mid, high. I mean, I could tell by the detail, obviously there's a lot of ingredients. I think the presentation, they spent a little bit more time on, but, and I didn't realize, but actually that's a chain from Thailand that is known for serving Isan food in Bangkok and they have locations all over the world down. Andrew, first, I think I'm gonna start off with the Mu Ping, okay? So he told me to put the grilled pork on first. I'm gonna do it the wrong way. Then I'm gonna stab my fork and then I'm gonna have the whole bowl and I'm just gonna dip it. I don't know if this is the right way either, but. Man, that was so good. I like how the pork was really thin, David. That did remind me. I think I might have to have another piece.  So, you know, Thai food, it gives you all different flavors. At the end, you kind of have this creamy, sweet kick. This is the Isan salted egg papaya salad. A little bit more of a fusion dish. I like that a lot because that salted egg yolk got mashed up and it kind of adds to like this creaminess that this has. It came at you from more different directions and I would say that almost tastes more like an entree than an appetizer. Som tam dur's raw crab papaya salad. I'm just chewing through the crab shell. So what ends up categorizing som tam dur as a mid-tier spot is because everything is about the same price, but everything's like top of style and the sizing is much smaller so therefore you would have to order more dishes to get the same amount of food. There's definitely less crab meat, but there's a sweet smokiness that came through. Man, that has a lot of kick though. So if you're looking for like a real interesting flavor, I would definitely say get the raw crab papaya salad here. Isan bamboo salad. You talking about herby, I think it's difficult. The only reason it's difficult to describe guys is because there's a lot of herbs that I've never had before. You know, that is super herbaceous. That the main difference between Isan food and Lao food is that Isan food is even a little bit more pungent, has a little bit more spicy kick. This is sun-dried beef right here, Andrew. Let's look at this. Very similar to a Lao dish. Like we said, there's a lot of crossover in that region. Actually some people from Isan, Andrew, consider themselves to be lowland Lao.   Here we have the grilled sticky rice. You just gotta eat the grilled sticky rice. Uh-huh. Get the beef. Under the grilled sticky rice right here. That's really good. This kind of reminds me of the time we did the episode with Benson in Taitown. And me and him, we're eating the grilled banana rice. Mmm. You know, it's very authentic. Those like, we're sweating and we're outside eating Thai food. Feels like I'm back in Thailand, bro. Next up, Andrew, we've got the duck larb. I wanted to get all the larb so we can compare, but this is the one thing we missed out on at Land Larb. I'm really excited to try this with the sticky rice. You know what's great about this duck larb? They still give you pieces of crispy pork on the side too. It's kind of your classic northeastern Isan Lao, you know, chilies and herbs, to be honest. Andrew, you know what I love about Isan food? They had six different types of carbs and each type of carb was supposed to go with a specific meat. Andrew, we have arrived at our soup section at Sam Tham Durr. Isan pork soup, we had this at Land Larb. Wow, lots of lemongrass, lots of basil, lots of spice. More like a tom yum than the previous pork soup easily. Here's that chicken soup. Some more of a saltiness, less in savoriness. It's not as thick as the pork bone soup at Land Larb, but it's actually really enjoyable, man. I love the ingredients here and I'm loving the vegetables. I like this one better than the spicy chicken soup at Land Larb, but I still think that pork bone soup at Land Larb is one of the best things I've eaten in a long time. We gotta see if the catfish takes cake because it doesn't hit as hard in one direction as Land Larb, but let me tell you, the complexity of flavor is super high here. In every spoonful, I swear to God, there's at least seven to eight different things. This is a lemon. This is a sugar cane lemongrass drink, and I think I needed this at about a 10 out of 10 lemon. Isan pad thai. The noodles have about two to 300% the amount of flavor. They have in a normal Bangkok style, which is not supposed to be orange. This is orange, but it's not because of ketchup or peanut butter, it's orange because of the chilies. There is so much egg woven into those noodles. Every bite, you're getting a lot of flavor. Isan is actually land mass wise, the largest region in Thailand, and a lot of people consider it like the true Thailand because it's not as international, I guess, as Bangkok, but either way, guys, Isan flavors kick you so hard and maybe that's why they have so many depictions of Muay Thai in this restaurant because that's how they try to make you feel when you eat it. It blows to the dome, to the dome, straight on top. John's time. Mongol mussels. Man, he's stretching, look at him. Liver guy. This is single-handedly the thing I'm most excited for. Hold on. It's just nothing like it, man. You can't get this, you can't try this on a daily basis, but that's why you gotta grow with a liver if you can. Every level of anything has its own merit. Oftentimes, you get what you pay for. I gotta say they did a great job here at Sam Tham Durr. I can co-sign it. All right, if you guys are excited about this video and you're ready to see the different levels of Isan and Lao food, keep watching, hit the like button, click subscribe, and turn on your notifications. And we are looking at our spread here at Keo. This is probably the most expensive Lao restaurant in America. You know, if you type in Laotian in Yelp, there's only a few restaurants that open up where the only description is Laotian. It's not Laotai. The thing that I wanna start off with, Andrew, are the Lao Viet dishes. So basically, if you know about where Laos is, it borders Vietnam to the right, it borders Thailand to the south. So it's really like a hybrid. Henceforth, why there is a Lao Viet banh mi, and there is a Lao Pho. Lao Pho, Pete. Wow, heavy bone broth. A few things I noticed immediately to make it different. It's more medicinal and it's more sour and it's got more of those mountainous herbs. I love fried onions, man. I love fried shallots.  This is a Lao banh mi, crispy pork belly. Vientiane, obviously, also colonized by the French, so that's where they got the baguette. That pork belly is incredible. You guys, look at that. We have crispy pork belly. We have, again, the Julian carrots, daikon, cilantro. I like the baguette here. It's very, very light. The crispy pork, which is probably the most, you know, Lao component, was incredible. Lao egg roll. There's definitely more citrus and more sour notes. Man, it almost tastes like mountainous via food or something, it's like pretty interesting. And why does it look like this is a Seth Rogen movie right here? Pineapple, the Lao Express.  This is one of the main dishes that they're actually known for here at Kio. So sweet, but sweet with heat. I've never had anything like that. Wow, it's super crispy on the outside. It has a spicy kick on the inside. I mean, it's essentially like rice and sausage, but in a way different form. We got two very, very traditional Lao dishes. Here we have the beef jerky and then we have the eggplant and bang, bang sauce. Sticky rice, papaya salad and grilled meats. The sticky rice, the khao niao. And the Lao jerky was a five out of five. If you guys know the history of a lot of the Taikadai people, Lao being one of the major groups of Taikadai, they came from what is now modern day China and they sort of moved to a different geography, but to this day, you can find some ethnic minority groups in China that maintain speaking the Lao or Thai language. I'll tell you this, the main component that is held true at all three spots of Isan Lao spots is my face at some point feels like it's melting off. Yeah, it's an amount of Thai food in my life. I've been to some pretty expensive Thai restaurants. I think Lao does sticky rice the best when it's just the rice itself and the dip and the eggplant and the chilies. I mean- Well, you never thought that just rice with some sauces could be an entree. That's like a dish on its own, man, and it's vegetarian. All right, now we have arrived to our dinner menu here at Keel. Earlier we had the lunch menu. It's a different menu here. That's how nice restaurants do it. Badak rib. Awoma. Badak, badak, badak, badak, badak, badak ribs. I thought I was full. Has this funky umami flavor from the badak, but it's kind of sweet, very salty at the same time. I've never had this flavor on a pork rib before. I'll tell you this, guys. This is my hot take on badak. There's something about it that when you smell it on your hands, it's like bad, but when you eat it, you just have to keep eating it. You know what has the same elements at your time out is durian. Durian's very, very stinky, but when you eat it, you don't really get the stink as much. Chicken lop. Tamakoon. So here, in one hand, I had the soup that it came with, lemongrass and cherry tomatoes, and then here I got the lout. That almost reminds me more of like mom food. Oh! Yo, I gotta say, their lout classics here, like the tamakoon between the jerky and the sticky rice, all five out of five. And I thought that larb was actually gonna hit me from way more angles, kind of crept up on me from the underground. As far as like best larb, David, which one are you taking? Oh man, I think for me, I'm gonna go with samtang durian. All right, for me, my favorite larb was the one at Land Larb. Overall, I really recommend everybody come to Kio and definitely try the more traditional dishes, in my opinion, yeah. Which spot do you think was the overall best value? Experience, quality, flavor, tradition. All right, if you're not loud, you gotta go to lower mid.  Maybe my favorite dish that I had at all three spots was maybe the sticky rice and the jerky here at Kio. I'm gonna roll with samtang durian. Okay. Samtang durian was pretty damn good, man. I think everything... No, because they had a little bit more of the trendy stuff that was hopping in Thailand in 2020. No, no, and trust me, I get both Kio and Land Larb. Dude, if you're into loud food, specifically loud food, you have to come to Kio. So you might see, all right, how about this?  But if you wanna see the foam rolls or see me, hop and be at Land Larb. If that makes any sense. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching the video. And I know that you saw us try Nissan and loud food in the same video. And kind of we used it interchangeably, yeah. I don't wanna say they're exactly the same, but obviously those two regions are... There's a lot of history. The brothers. It shows that they're brothers and they're very close together. So obviously there's a lot of crossover, but I will say loud food. I've had it a few times and it's definitely a little bit different. So if you guys get the chance, I say check out all those spots, especially if you're in New York, support local businesses. Everybody at each respective restaurant is working their butts off. All right, guys, in the comments down below, you let us know what your favorite Laos or Eson dish is that you might have had. And also let us know what other cuisine you'd like us to do this have a video with. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching. If you liked that video, give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and turn on your notifications. Until next time, we out. Peace. Oh man, am I excited? Yo, that's way more flavor than I thought there was gonna be inside of that. It tastes more like meaty than like Vietnamese pho. Sticky rice because You just saw us do it? With the dark chili, I don't know if I'm trying to die though. I feel like I'm back in Southeast Asia.


Hey guys the same day the students actually and I thought I'd make a very quick video around Bitcoin cash Which as we can see has gone up seven thousand two hundred percent Since it was created.  I should hold my litecoin in a cold wallet or for the internet just for added security Where I use bitrex basically just to play around with some of the other smaller tokens and you know I wanted to see get a little bit of ethereum Of tiny tiny amount, but what I did is I can actually show you here my deposit history I decided to move quite a substantial amount of Bitcoin Okay, I don't know if 0.42 is a lot for you if that's just tiny, but for me It's quite a bit so we moved it in quite recently and then the whole idea of why I moved out of my litecoin Into Bitcoin Was that I wanted to take advantage of the Bitcoin? Hard fork and what happened with the Bitcoin hard fork is that Bitcoin split into two so you still got your normal Bitcoin and Bitcoin basically created a little baby called Bitcoin cash Which is going to have the entire same transaction history and the idea was that anybody who was holding Bitcoin would get the same amount of Bitcoin cash you can see I've got zero point four five Bitcoin and they've given me zero point four five Bitcoin cash What was interesting about this and why I had to use bitrex Was because the the local exchange, which I use which is Luno I like Luno in the sense that I used a little bit of the depth thing to see if it's a buy or sell Not the best indicator, but it is a slight indicator the green chunk is bigger It means there's more people wanting to buy than the red chunk. So that's potential Move for the price to increase but like I said, it's not perfect because not everybody has put in their orders There is a lot of money that you know, they wait to see the price changes and then they only implement their orders So this isn't the perfect way to You know see the market, but it is it is a nice indicator to get just a little bit of the feeling like we saw last week When Bitcoin was crashing a bit this red area was much bigger than the green area So bitcoins in a bit of a healthy state. I'll say that very very loosely like I said, this isn't that that Valuable information like it does leave a lot out, but it does give you a small indication But why I had to move the bitcoins out of this exchange? Because Luno as well as all the other explore a lot of the other exchanges Weren't going to give you Bitcoin cash. They weren't going to give you the baby They say that if you had any bitcoins with them They weren't going to give you the Bitcoin cash And the reason for that is they didn't think it had any value or there were some political reasons But essentially they now control a bunch of Bitcoin cash Which is substantial when I mean if you come here to Bitcoin cash, we can see that it's You know the Bitcoin value it's it's worth actually a fair amount I think that's that works out at that like around we're here. Can we go to the Bitcoin cash? Market and we can see yeah, I check it is it is 20 22% 22% that you just this value just got created overnight That's why I don't want to call it a dividend because the dividends is like the sharing of profits But it's kind of like a dividend there's kind of like Bitcoin paid out a dividend from if you look at it purely from a Financial cash flow point of view but this is quite interesting is that Bitcoin cash has been created and It's managed to take 22% of the value of Bitcoin and hold it and Bitcoin's price has not decreased This is this is the big tricky thing. I mean if we go to the chart of how bitcoins been doing Let's go say the last three days We can see the prices increased whereas If it if it was say a rights issue or a share split Which is one way of seeing it then bitcoins value should have decreased as they would have been transferred to Bitcoin cash But seeing that it's split and it retained its value and you just getting this extra value on the side it very much resembles that of a dividend but what's concerning to me is that all of these exchanges Have now got 20% or 22% more Bitcoin that they're not sharing with their users Now they did send out an email saying that they weren't going to do this They did warn us and that is why I took my money out of Luno and I put it rather into Bitrex and Well, I mean if we go back to to my wallet, I didn't really have that much in my Luno account I think yeah, so that that's what I moved from Luno Which was a tiny tiny amount and then I was like well Let's take advantage of this Bitcoin cash I moved some of my Litecoin here, but essentially if I had left that in the Luno account I would have lost my Bitcoin baby and Oh gosh, it's increasing as we chatting as we chatting right now. There's this price is increasing Ever so more how high is it gonna go? I don't know I don't know if it could crash tomorrow and the baby, you know babies have a low life expectancy for those of you who know exterior or science so the baby could could go away but But at the moment the baby's growing the baby's growing It might turn into a little bit of a toddler and who knows it might even challenge Bitcoin Oh, that's right. I should not say that Bitcoin cash. It's weird when I was looking at on the internet a lot of people hate it It's like the unloved baby Everybody hates this thing. There was a lot of reddit people say oh, I'm gonna sell it as soon as I get it but it turns out that the prices is increasing and It's quite an exciting time But I just thought it was yeah I just wanted to share you share or catch you guys up with what's happened around this Bitcoin hard fork And what the result has been is that we've now have we now have two bitcoins We now have two bitcoins bitcoins got a little child and it's doing pretty well. It's quite healthy I know you guys have been asking me to check out ripple and a few other currencies I will be doing my research and hopefully pushing out some videos around that as well But I thought I'd just give you a quick little update on on bitcoins, baby Anyway, thanks guys so much for watching and as always if you've got any questions Feel free to include them in the comment section below. Cheers


OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Welcome to grab and go lessons for digital learning presented by OTAN subject matter experts, more affectionately known as OTAN SMEs. We have our whole team presenting today. My name is Susan Coulter and I have worked 33 years in adult education. My focus today is on ASC subjects or in other words, high school equivalency and high school diploma. And yes, Ania. And my name is Xenia Delgado and I am the specialist. Also subject matter expert for OTAN. Yes, I'm Alicia. I am the adults with disabilities. And Susan. Hi, my name is Susan Garrett and I'm ESL and I've started teaching in 1978. So I don't even know how many years that is, but it was always adult education for me. Debbie. Hi, everyone. I'm Debbie Jensen and I've worked in AB a whole lot. And that's what my focus is here today. Christy. Hi, everyone. My name is Christy Reyes. I'm an ESL faculty member. I work in a non-credit program in San Diego County. 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And coming back up is teaching with technology. Teaching with technology is an online database of lessons, of lesson plans, which you will learn more about today. And last is professional development, which you already know about. But did you know that you can have OTAN come to your school and do a training for free? You just need 10 people. And that is OTAN in a nutshell. I'm going to turn it over to Debbie Jensen for a brief history on the teaching of technology database. Hi. I'm excited to share with you the history of what we're going to be looking at today. Teaching with technology started with you. Teachers would want to share how they use technology in their lessons. There were lots and lots and lots of resources. But of course, at some point, we had a really hard time searching them and using filters. And so around 2010, we decided that we were going to organize them using the TPAC model. And TPAC stands for technological pedagogical content and knowledge. And that's how we did it for years. Then in around 2018, we were looking and realizing that we needed to address accessibility at the website and with each of our entries. And so because we were going to have to redo everything anyway, we thought, well, what else can we do? What else can we add that's going to make this even better? So we added lesson plans. We added the triple E framework. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more. We added licensing, creative commons, and the new updated standards so that the materials that you get to use reflect the latest and the best. Our agenda today. Well, first, we're going to have a little get to know you activity. But then we're going to go into triple E framework, which is engage, enhance, and extend. Then we'll go on and talk just briefly about Wipia lesson planning. And then we're going to go in detail the site so you know all the parts that you are looking for on these lesson plans. And then we're all going to share some examples from our program areas. And then we want to give you time to explore and share. The goal is that when you leave today that you will have some lesson plans in hand that you can use tomorrow in your classroom. So here at OTAN, we have adopted a framework called triple E. Could you type in the chat? Yes or no. If you have ever heard of triple E and we definitely don't expect you to have heard of it. But go ahead and find your chat and type yes or no if you have ever heard of triple E. Okay. So you're going to learn something new today. That's wonderful. A few of you have. There have been a lot of different frameworks for technology integration over the years. But what we have found is a lot of them focused on the technology or the teacher. And so this is what we really love about triple E is because it focuses on technology in the hands of students. And it also focuses on learning objectives or outcomes first before technology. So it's called triple E because each of the E stands for a certain aspect of the framework. First is engagement. So anytime we put a phone or any sort of technology in students' hands, we know that they're engaged. But this goes beyond that in that they are not passive users of the technology. And there's more of a focus on quality over quantity. So again, focusing on the learning goals. And another part of this is co-use. And what that means is that students are not using a software program in isolation, that they are working with their classmates or interacting through the technology with their classmates and the teacher. The second E is enhancement. So there are probably a lot of great tools that you use already that you've been using for years that do not include technology. So this added value part of the enhancement, it means that the technology does something better than a traditional tool could do. Also in enhancement, the technology adds special scaffolds and supports for students. And that's a piece of equity to make sure you're reaching all students at their levels. And the third point for enhancement is that through the technology we can differentiate the instruction and personalize for our students. The third E of the triple E framework is extension. So that means that we are giving students authentic experiences with technology, with the hands-on things they do in our classes that will transfer over into their everyday life experiences. So we're connecting the learning 24-7 so they're not just using a tool in our class and they'll never use those digital skills again, but they're expanding out into their lives. And finally with extension, students are building their soft skills. So I'm sure you can imagine with technology they're building problem-solving and troubleshooting and negotiating skills, especially as they are working with their classmates in the co-use part. So that's a little overview of triple E. So now we're going to look at lesson planning. And I want to just say that all the lessons that we have for you grab and go include the triple E framework along with a lesson plan. So does anybody know what WIPIA means? Have you heard of WIPIA? Type in the chat pod yes or no. If you've heard of it. Okay, great. Yes, some people have and some people have not. So WIPIA is a model of lesson planning. And the first W is called warmup. So Debbie, if you hit the key. So when you do a warmup in your classroom, I know you know warmup. What kinds of things do you do with a warmup? Any ideas of things that you do with a warmup? Picture prompt, great. Writing the calendar, great. Discussion questions, great. Sometimes it's a review of maybe what you did yesterday just to warm them up. So that's one of the ideas that I have here. So I put down ice breakers, image, discussions and previous reviews. So you got them all, it's great. Okay. So the second one is called I and that is introduction. And this is a lot of people don't know, well, what am I going to say in the introduction? Originally when I went to school way back in the 70s, they told me that you're supposed to tell the students the objective. But if I just say the objective in a low level ESL classroom, I'm not going to say the objective. I'm not going to say the objective. I'm not going to say the objective. Nobody understands me. So go ahead and hit introduction. And what we want to do here is get the students excited. Let them understand why they're learning this. Why is it so important for them? So now we have gotten, we have two P's. And the first P is presentation. And the second P is practice. And the reason why I put these like this is because, in a lesson, we're going to do a presentation and more than one practice.  And I like to do five minute short mini presentations. And then maybe a 10 minute practice and keep doing that until the students get through what I want them to learn. And you'll see that in our lesson plans that we're going to share with you, quite often there's more than one presentation and more than one practice. And then we have the evaluation. And then we have some ideas of how you do evaluation. In the chat pod, if you don't mind. Rubrik, good. Quiz, good. Any other ideas? We can go ahead, Debian. I statements and reflection, great, Marcia. And we're going to talk about that in a minute. Yeah. So an evaluation can be an informal assessment. It can be the students reflecting. It can be the students writing down what they learned. It can be a written assessment such as a quiz. It can be a oral assessment, which Cecilia mentioned about listening to them. So that can be an evaluation. So the last one was not the, actually the last one, but is the last one in the WIPIA application model is application. And this is a 24 seven, just like Christie said with extension, application requires a student to be able to do something with what they've learned. So if you hit on application Debbie, we'll see apply the activity to their own lives. So this is, okay, the last one is not in the model, but we've added it because we think it's really important. And this is reflection. That's why the R is in parentheses. So reflection is not just your students reflecting, but also you reflecting on the lesson and how you, you did and how, how you can either make it better or make it. Maybe it's perfect, but, you know, just reflecting on your lesson and your students also reflecting. So just a little bit of reflection. So, you know, just reflecting on your lesson and your students also reflecting. So just so you know, this whole framework is on the next slide. And when you get the PowerPoint, you'll have all the information about the WIPIA model. It doesn't include the R, but you'll know it's there. Thank you. Okay. We wanted to give you an idea of what one of the resources would look like. So this is it. We're going to look at con and con goes with all the programs. Everyone can use it. And so first we start with a little brief description. Then there's a details page. And on the details page, it's where the links are. Also tells you what tech you might need to use. Now the quick links that are at the top of this page, top lesson plan standards and documents. That's going to be a very fast way to not have to scan through the entire thing, but to hit the item that you're interested in doing. We can then go to preparation, what you need to do before the lesson, teacher tips, things that we've tried and want you to know, more ways that you can use it. The program areas, the levels. And then we start the lesson plan and you'll, we're going through the same things that you just heard from Susan where we have the warmup, the introduction, presentation, the practices, application, and notice that to the side on the right that we have the boxes where we've told you what part of the triple E that this particular activity does address. Then we have documents. Some of our resources have documents that you can download and actually use with your class. We do our standards then and the tags. This one has a lot, but then finally the creative commons license or any other licensing that we want to be able to cover with you. So you know what you can do with them. Now we're going to look at some samples for each of the programs. So this one is Christy, I think. Oh, it's me. So yeah, ESL. So we have four different lesson plans that we're just going to, I'm just going to share it. I'm not going to take you there yet because we're going to do that later, but I'll go through what kinds they are. We have lesson plans from literacy all the way up through advanced ESL. These were written by Christy and myself mostly. And some other people have joined us since we've been teaching our courses. So the first one's going to be, it's going to be about a personal logo logo. That's more intermediate advanced and then spelling your name, which is more literacy level, then fantastic places in the golden state, which is more intermediate level. And then the pre beginning story bank. So if you want to go to the next slide. So Christy, this is yours. Yes. So this is a project I started doing with my advanced ESL students quite a few years ago. I'm going to keep refining it. Most recently adding some AI tools to it. When I asked my students to reflect at the end of a term about their favorite assignments, they always say that this is one of their favorites. I usually do it early in a term. And I think it could be leveled down to intermediate ESL students and certainly ABE and ASC students could tackle this without problems. So for this project, students learn about logo types and design of logos through some listening and reading activities. Then they use a site called logos.net to research the history and origin as well as the design choices of a logo for a company product sports team, rock group, nonprofit organization. And that site is very expansive with logos for just about any logo you can think of. So they prepare a very short presentation for their classmates about what they learned.  They think about symbolism for hobbies, interests, and goals. And so they do some, you know, planning ahead of time. And then they use a technology tool such as the logo creator in Canva, which is free. I've added an AI logo creator called Luka, which is also free. They can use an AI image generator such as Crayon Playground or Dali. Or they arrange images and shapes on a Google or PowerPoint slide and export that as a JPEG as an image file. So then I get their logos and then that is the basis of a paragraph they write to introduce themselves to me in the class, describing the personal logos they created, which later they have their script in their written form and they get feedback on that paragraph. And that later becomes the basis of an oral presentation with the visual aid being their logos. So it's rather a robust lesson, but it could be simplified and brought down to just creating logos and making presentations. So thank you. So the next one is a literacy level activity and it was made by Cindy with Slavsky and it's about spelling your name. It teaches the students how to spell their name and write their first name, last name and street. It uses Google forms and Google slides to do this. And students will post on a jam board. It's very simple, but all the slides are there. And also there's a learning chocolate, which is another website that if you don't know is very nice for beginning level ESL. It is also in there because they have a lot of alphabetical activities in there. So all of those are linked for you and there's a Google slide deck that you can download and you can starting your school year this year. This is a great time to actually teach this lesson. So I hope you look it up in the database. Another lesson plan that is on the teaching with technology database is a lesson called Fantastic Places in the Golden State. Of course, I see at least one of you is from out of state, so you would want to redo this for wherever you're teaching from. But in this lesson for intermediate and above ESL students as well as ABE or ASC students, what students do is discuss their favorite places and they learn more about famous or interesting places in California. We live in such an amazing place. There's desert. There's ocean. All the biospheres and you know, I find with many of my students, they don't venture much out of their neighborhoods. So this is instead of me telling them, look where you can go. It won't cost you much to explore their learning and teaching each other. So they work on listening and note taking to learn about and present about I'm sorry about the grammar, which is present and past passive forms. Then they select a place in California to gather information about. So as they're doing some research online, they then write a short script and present to the class what they found applying the grammar that they have been working on. It is located. It was founded. It is known for. Again, this is one of my students favorite assignments as well. And the next one is the pre beginning story bank. I don't know if you're familiar with this, but it is a collection of original stories from Minnesota literacy. And it includes interactive sentence builders, phonics, word family, vocabulary and typing practice activities for the lower level student. In here we in the lesson that we have developed for the tech teaching with technology. You have all the flashcards you need. You have the story with Microsoft immersive library. And you have all the activities, phonics activities, links to all the Google slides. So you can do all the particular activities. Now this is just one story in the story bank. One of my goals is to get many more stories put together into the teaching with technology database. But I think if you see how the one story is done, then you can use other stories there as well. I'm glad that I teach beginning ESL because there's a lot less talking that I have to do here. Okay, let's look at the ABE samples. All tech considered from NPR, CNN 10 and applied digital skills. There's a lot that are wonderful experiences that you can find, but these are the three that I just wanted to highlight today. NPR is all tech considered. The reason I like it is it's up to date. And so many times our students come in telling us that it's not factually true. And so it's really nice to have a source of information that we can depend on. Every one of the stories has a listening option so that it will be read to them. And you can add it to a playlist. Playlists are nice because then the students can go back and listen again. Then to other ones, lessons that maybe were earlier in the quarter or the semester. And if your internet is wonky, you can download it. The second one is CNN 10 and I had great time with the students with this one. It's a 10 minute video of the things that are happening, but also other things like maybe panda bears. And so it's fun. The students get to listen. There can be discussions that are generated. They have to talk about things with each other. You can assign summarizing of one of the stories and the transcripts are available. Plus CNN will offer you some discussion questions and quiz questions that you can include if you like. The last one that I wanted to include was Google's applied digital skills. Our students come in with a whole lot of different levels of digital skills. Some of them could cut and paste. Some of them don't know how to move from one to another or how to download or how to do a presentation. So Google knew this and so they created videos for all the skills. And then the thing that's really cool is they organized them so that the skills are organized by projects. There's over a hundred of them. Things like resume writing, budgeting, presenting about a topic, even online safety. And these things are all packaged so that there's the videos, there's the questions, and all of that is there already created for you. Let's turn it over now to Susan with high school equivalency. Yes. I've picked two. GCF Learn Tree and four tests, 2014 GED practice tests. This first one GCF Learn Tree. What I like about it is their directions are very clear. There are images, there are video presentations. Debbie, can you go to the next? There we go. This is just the math section, but there's pre-algebra topics, images and interactive tutorials. It's almost like having a math textbook. And this one, I really like. It's the GED test. There are 30 questions in each section. And they can decide which one, your students can decide which section they want to test on. And what I like about it is if they miss the question and they get it wrong, it'll give an explanation of what they did wrong, which is really cool. And then at the very end, there is a second practice test. So after they study, then they can come back and take a second practice test. This is for high school diploma. I really like future me. It's about goal setting and documentation. And then there's also 21 things for students, which is a digital literacy and citizenship. Future me, students get an email account. We talk about smart goals and how to create a smart goal. And they make their goals. And you can decide whether it's for next month or the end of the quarter, the end of the semester, the end of the year. And they write to their future self. And then they get it back at the end of the quarter or semester, and they get to take a look. It's kind of an incentive to keep them moving forward. And this is 21 things for students. I think I talked about this before, but anyway, they use videos, key vocabulary, tutorials, checklists, quizzes, certificates, and even badging to motivate students. And this is on navigation, image capture, browsers, online safety. And what's really important is email and email etiquette. Jesse? You're on. Thank you. I'll be going over some CT samples. And I actually like 21 things for students also. For our career technical, the email etiquette is so important. But I'll be going over some of the things that are important for students. Learn 360, creating a job cover letter and quizzes. So let's get started. So for Learn 360, that is really an invaluable resource for CTE. It has over 200,000 media resources that are really from distinguished producers such as A&E, HBO, CNN, and many other. They have to do with workforce and they're accessible off of any internet enabled device at any time from anywhere. So they're really easy for you to use in your classroom, to download, to embed, to provide links to your students. It's really user friendly. This interface is really engaging students. Really like to use it and it really ensures teachers and students can really develop different videos, interactive activities. Some of the lessons also provide printable, audio content. So there's a lot of different resources that you can take from this website and I specifically like it for career technical use. Our next one is creating a cover letter. So there's some left for TWT that is workforce related. So creating a cover letter is probably one of my favorite ones. It goes through the writing process. It goes over, you know, there's videos embedded and there's also where students are able to pair share with each other and the goal, you know, for creating a lesson plan, creating a resume or going through a job interview for all of that sequence is really preparing our students for workforce, having them have a cover letter to apply for a job or resume that's ready to go for them to be able to present that during an interview. The last one that I'll be discussing today is quizzes. So quizzes, it's an online platform that allows teachers to create and share quizzes with students. It's designated to really make learning fun and engaging through, you know, different types of games. Teachers can create their custom that is already some that are made. I think one of my favorite things to use this for in the medical is, you know, matching abbreviations or, you know, matching brand and generic medications. So in health careers I've used it a lot. Students are able to participate individually or as part of the group, you can embed links, you know, on different LMS formats and really it's more gamified so you're able to use it in different games. So they're learning while it's fun. There's leaderboards so it's a really enjoyable experience and a great tool to really reinforce checking for understanding right that that formative piece of information that we need from our class before we move forward. Now let's turn it over to adults with disabilities. Alicia. Yes, thank you. Yes, I have picked two website reading skills for today in Khan Academy. I know we've already discussed Khan Academy but let's go with the reading skills for today. On this particular one you'll see the website and then it gives you a sliding menu. This particular one I chose the reading one. I like this one because it has provides a reading level for everybody. I like that it has a pre and a post question. It also provides you supplemental documentation. It'll give you the story already written and then there's different auditory levels. So different listening levels, slow, medium and normal. It's a this particular one is very simple. The next one I'll show you. So this one here's the writing. Now my students would not be able to write. May not. Most of them probably won't. So I'm going to show you how you can adapt it for all. There's the option one and option B and one of them is you can summarize the story by writing if you would like. Another option I offer would be to draw or words that they heard. You could have time to share with each other or share with all other students. The next option B would be creative. This question was what kinds of clothes do you wear in the spring? Again, this lesson was on spring. So you might say what are some things you could do in spring? What happens in the springtime? Again, making it available for all learners. You don't necessarily have to write, but they can show you something that would be one that you can offer for all levels of learning. And to the next one. Thank you. And here's Khan Academy. Again, I'm focusing on adults with disabilities. As Debbie had mentioned, there is the website, all the menus. I just put that in there, which already went over that so well. So here's the next one. I chose this particular one. There are as many have already talked about one of them that I really like about Khan Academy is that he is very welcoming, the speaker, he's very great. And this particular Internet safety, he talks about the account safety, the passwords. His videos are less than five minutes. And there are adults in the videos, which I really like. He has like maybe I think I watched one who was, he has a lot of CEOs in the videos. And he's very easy to understand. He's very calm when you watch any of his videos. I really particularly like this particular one. So those are some how you could use for all learners. Hey, thank you. Susan, let's turn it back to you to talk about finding activities. Yes, don't go there yet. All right. I do want to show you how to get there first. We're going to go to the main OTAN website. And there are some tabs up the top. One of them is resources. And going down the list probably about actually probably near the bottom is teaching with technology. That is what you're going to be looking for. And we can search by program area. CCR standards or keyword. So let's go on Debbie. And this is the program areas. ABE, ESL, ASE, high school, that was equivalency and this is high school diploma, CTE and adults with disabilities.  The reading, writing, speaking and listening language and mathematics. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen because I want to take you I want to take you to the actual website so you can see how to get in there. And I want to share my screen. This is the OTAN website. It is at OTAN.us and remember we talked about resources. Whoops, that's not what I wanted. Here we go. And teaching with technology. So I've selected the resources tab and down about the six one down is teaching with technology. And there's a lot more there now. We have the program areas. They're also here on this one page. We have the CCR categories. And if you want to learn more about the teaching with technology database, you could go here. There is triple E framework which is the lesson planning with Pia. So if you want to learn a little bit more about those, you can do that. I'm going to go to ESL and we found that it is a little slow as it is searching because there are a lot of lesson plans. A little slower than usual. Okay, here we go. If you just search for ESL you can also select what level if you notice coming down here you've got on the left hand side there is a navigation panel and you can select beginning literacy beginning low beginning high intermediate low intermediate high advanced or all levels it's up to you and we have been changing things over to create these lesson plans and add triple E to them but we haven't gotten to all of them yet. We are working hard and so we are all trying to get as many as we can. If you notice here ESL has 344 results that's a lot and some of them go across different programs and what you see on this page is five entries so it tells a little bit about it what program areas the levels and here's the one I was talking about earlier it's also on ESL this is a video and civil rights leader and I'm going to get down here random acts of kindness up worthy video and accessibility features for all our learners that sounds exciting but when you get down to the very bottom look at how many pages there are and each page has five resources on it the other thing is you could go I'm sorry don't mean to scroll like that but I want to go I can put in a search and you'll get fewer if you go for a particular search I want something on fractions and let's see what it comes up with I don't know if you have fractions in ESL though but we'll see but you can put in a keyword whatever you're looking for so don't feel like you have to go through all 344 to find what you're looking for I probably was not a good thing to put in oh we have algebra to go and do we have anything else? Khan Academy but anyway I think you get the idea so I'm going to turn it back over to oh I didn't do the let me do one more I'm going to do let's go home no I won't here it's always the breadcrumb trail here is CCR categories and I want something on I guess reading and here I can choose 51 resources on CCR anchor one so if you're going for a particular standard you can select from here what we want you to do is go to otan.us okay and I want you to select the resources tab kind of went through and showed you how to do that and then select teaching with technology we want you to explore your area of interest and select at least one activity in your program area to share so we're setting you loose


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Now, if children are very unhappy at school, I think we need to examine the teachers. Because it's a natural human trait, it's a natural human trait that when you get to know something that you did not know, it brings much joy to you. Is it so? Yes? Learning is a natural human trait that when you learn something that you did not know, it should make you joyful. If learning is making people miserable, then we have not understood what learning is.  That's why you're sending them to school. It's an unfortunate way to handle education. That's not education. You want them enslaved, so the teachers are doing the job for you. You want them enslaved to what you call as economic well-being, so the teachers are just doing the job for you. You are not sending your children to school because you want to… you want them to develop a thirst for knowing irrespective of whether it's going to make money or not make money, isn't it? So you better change your attitudes about education. We are coming up with a school where the whole… whole focus of education is not going to be about suppressive information, but about kindling the thirst for knowledge. If the thirst for knowledge is kindled in the child, you can't stop him from learning. You cannot stop him from learning. He's going to learn anyway. But instead of kindling that, you're suppressing it, beating it down with your idea of what is education because your idea of education is social status and money. It's a wrong way to approach education altogether.  With the kind of compulsions that you have built within yourself, you're trying to put the same compulsions upon the children, which is not necessary. I find the concept of your inner engineering as a way of life for children is very difficult because when they have to meet children from different walks of life, a different social milieu, and how does this inner engineering, which I would try to give my children at home, how would that withstand the competition, the pressure, the… the kind of lifestyle that other children have? How do… how do my children go into this? See the pressure, the pressure is only because you're putting two absolutely unique beings in comparison. What's your name? Meenakshi. Is that one more person exactly like you on this planet? Huh? No, fortunately so, isn't it? I'm joking. There's only one like you. There's only one like anybody here, isn't it? So each being is an absolutely unique being. That is so for your child also. But now you're trying to put all of them into the same compartment and compare them about something that they can learn ABC or 123 or something and make them feel better or worse about it. So it's you who brought that competition and comparison because for most parents it is not about education, it is about first rank.  They're not interested in learning, they're not interested in education, they're not interested in career, they're not interested in anything. Their whole effort in their life is how to sit on top of the pile, isn't it so? Everybody wants to sit on top of the pile, everybody cannot sit on top of the pile. Only few will sit on top of the pile, others will naturally end up at the bottom and get suppressed. Isn't it so? Whatever activity, if our focus is just to sit on top of the pile, naturally many others will get suffocated under the pile. This is bound to happen, there is no other way. So that orientation of education has to go. No, no, I cannot do anything, the schools are like that. No, schools are just catering to your attitudes. If your attitudes change, the schools will change. They want to run the business the way it works, isn't it?   In the course of your activity, the child is getting ruined but it doesn't matter. Your child is unhappy, it doesn't matter. You want him to be first rank. This is a sickness which has to go. True human genius will not flower if this kind of education happens. True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression only when you're joyful and peaceful and quiet within yourself. When you're trying to race with somebody, you're only thinking of doing one step ahead of him, that's all. You're not thinking of what is your ultimate potential to do. We're just ruining a whole generation of people with the kind of schooling we're doing. Preet Guru, you mentioned the school. What is your vision in using education to produce an ideal human being? How do you balance an international standard of education along with spiritual values? So the school that we're talking about right now, there is going to be no spirituality, no spirituality at all. We don't want to bring spirituality into a child's life. We will teach them some simple forms of yoga for mental and physical health, that's different. But no spirituality will be brought to them as a part of education, never. Because spirituality should not be brought about like that. Maybe after they finish their education, if they want to go through a stint of three months or six months of spiritual training, they can, that's by choice, that anybody can go through. But the children who, because the premise is also we will move it out, only one or two years it'll be in the ashram, after that we will move it out close by. Already we're making necessary arrangements for that. So the school will not try to teach any spirituality. At the same time, we just want to cultivate a certain openness in the human being. See somebody becomes, turns successfully spiritual because he has developed a certain openness about life. He has no conclusions about anything. He's willing to look at everything. This is something we will cultivate in the child. That the child learns to look at every aspect of life with absolute openness, without prejudice, without any religious, cultural or any kind of inclination, with absolute openness to every aspect of life. If that happens, whether you talk spirituality to him or you don't, he will anyway turn spiritual. Spirituality will be a natural part of his life, not something that he pursues, going to an ashram or someplace. It'll be just a natural part of his life, because he has developed an openness to every aspect of life. And actually education was supposed to be that right from the beginning. The very purpose of educating people is to broaden their horizons, isn't it? But you tell me, as people are getting educated, are they broadening their horizons or are they becoming very narrow? See, just let's say 50 years ago, in India there still are such families, but everywhere in the world, people lived in large families. In India 300, 400 people lived in one house, huge families.  They knew how to adjust with each other and go on because 400 people living in one place is a challenge. That's what the ashram is. Now we're back into that old system of being one large family and this is even more challenging because there are different types of people from different cultures, different languages, different attitudes, different likes and dislikes. But living together without friction needs enormous maturity and a very broad way of looking at life, otherwise you cannot. But just see now, as modern education came, slowly we can't even live with our own parents anymore. We just thought husband, wife, children, this is family. But now in the last 15-20 years, even that is going away. Family means just you. Your husband has to live in a separate house, you in a separate house. Together you won't last ten days. Children have to be there separately. Somewhere else they must be. In one place even two-three people cannot live together, isn't it? This is what education has done to you. It has not broadened your horizons. It's somewhere made you so narrow on individualistic. You're no more inclusive, you're becoming very exclusive, isn't it? The inclusion is totally gone. The whole idea of educating a person is that he is just living in a narrow sphere of life. You educate him, make him know about the whole world and broaden his whole perspective of life. Education means inclusion, isn't it?  See, most people have gotten themselves into a situation they can't live with anybody anymore, isn't it? So that is not just individual. It is a you know it's the phenomena of the world, it's a generational phenomena because of there is kind of education that's being imparted. So we want to impart an education which is highly inclusive that as you grow you include the whole world as yourself and live and that's spirituality. So spirituality will not be thought. Education itself is spirituality because education is about broadening your horizons, not about talking about God or some nonsense.  So the longing to know, the longing to learn has to be brushed up within the child, not just feeding with enormous amount of information and ask expecting him to pass, pass, pass. This will not be like that. This will be a very different type of structure. At the same time by the time they are sixteen, seventeen, we will prepare them for any university in the world, they will be ready to go. They will be ready enough to get into any kind of university according to their individual capabilities of course. But apart from that, they are fundamentally learning to live better. They are learning to handle themselves better and live better with themselves and with people around them, which is very important factor. And people are successful in their life not because they have degrees, not because they have university certificates, it's because they are capable, isn't it? So this school will be more capability oriented, not qualification oriented. We are seeing how to enhance the capability of the child in whatever area his natural talent is rather than trying to just make him qualified with a certain, you know, certificate attached to him. Sathguru, whatever you said about the school and the education just now, it's modern and contemporary. But what about the ancient schools, the Gurukuls of the past where they're not successful in producing good human beings? The ancient Gurukuls were definitely like this. The ancient Gurukul was hundred percent the way I'm talking. The very purpose and the basic function of the guru was to destroy all the things that you have assumed as true. But now the education also involves equipping the person to earn his living and make his living in the world. So we have those twin challenges.   If your father is something else, you became that. You didn't have to be equipped to make a living in some other way in ancient times. So the guru was only educating them towards the realization, so the job was more, I would say more simple because it was unidimensional. But now it's not like that. Both the things need to happen. We have to equip the child to live in the modern world and still not mess him up with the nonsense that's happening in the name of modernity. So it's a much bigger challenge today than what it was then. And at that time, once the parents gave the children to the guru, they left him there in complete his authority. Now the parents are very nosy, you know. They won't leave the children full. They want to constantly meddle with that. They want to put in their own stuff into it. All those issues are there. So it's much more complex today than it was in the gurukul. In the gurukul, the guru had to just teach them how to exist, how to live, how to be with somebody else, how to be with himself. This is all. He was not trying to equip him to a modern university. So those days only a few children who had a very academic bent of mind or a very scholastic bent of mind, such children was trained in scholarly matters. All the other children naturally went to their father's profession, whatever it was. Now it is not so. Even if the father is a cobbler, he wants his son to become a professor. That's the situation in the world today, isn't it? But you're saying there'll be no spirituality in the school, isn't that a shortcoming? I'm saying no spirituality as a teaching, as a method. But at the same time, if a child grows without assuming anything, if he grows up without any nonsense, he's naturally spiritual. Because if he lives without the influence of other people upon him, if he lives by his own natural intelligence, turning spiritual is a very natural process. Only because most of the people are not living by their natural intelligence, they are living by imposed education upon them. Spirituality is a far away thing in people's lives. Otherwise if people live by their natural intelligence, turning spiritual will be a very normal process for most of the people except as very small percentage who won't go that way for various other reasons. So when I say no spirituality, we are not going to sit there and talk to them about how to attain enlightenment, what to do, this, this, this, no. But at the same time, the education process itself is such where there is no messing with the child, no influence, no religion, no imposition of any kind of ideas or beliefs where child has to figure out things for himself. If you are allowed to figure out things for yourself, there is no other way but to turn inward, to know things about life. Only if you listen to your Bible or Gita or what this person said or what that person said, then you don't have to turn inward to know. It's already written there. If you don't read any of that stuff, when you start thinking about life, when you start looking at life, the only place to look is naturally inward, isn't it? Where else will you look? One day it happened. A lady who was a big professor in the university bought herself a home appliance, a little complex home appliance. She took it home, she read the instructions and tried to put it together, all those pieces that came in the package. She just tried very hard, she couldn't put it together. She left all those parts in a heap and went to work. When she came back in the evenings to her surprise, the appliance was properly assembled and already used. She called the maid and asked, who fixed this? She said, I did. She couldn't believe it. How did you do this? Then the maid said, when you don't know how to read and write, you have to use your brains. We want to teach the children how to use their brains, not just to read and write. Read and write is important, but using your brains is more important, isn't it? Just see, lots of educated people who are very successful in their careers and things like that, with their own lives just see what a mess they are. Obviously they're not using their brains when it comes to their life, isn't it so? The very way they are, it is very obvious they are not using their brains when it comes to their own life.  It's not that they don't have it.  Education should stimulate your intelligence, not take it off.   That's a huge disservice to humanity, isn't it? It's a huge disservice to humanity if you're just destroying the child's intelligence because the future of the world is just in their brains, isn't it so? Whether we are going to produce beautiful things on the planet or very destructive bombs on the planet or something else more destructive than that simply depends on how well coordinated this person's emotions, intelligence and all these things, how well coordinated a human being is. That is how he's going to use his intelligence and that is what he's going to produce in the world, isn't it? See, the most intelligent people in the world have contributed to all the violence on the planet, otherwise violence wouldn't be happening in the scale in which it is happening. See, people have always been essentially violent, a certain segment of the people. Whether he was a caveman or later on bronze age, iron age, whatever you take, they've always been violent. Initially when he was a caveman, he killed with stone, that's stone age. Iron age means he killed with iron, bronze age means he killed with bronze, nuclear age means he kills nuclear, okay? They've always been essentially violent. But the scale of violence that can happen today has happened because the best brains in the world have cooperated with this, isn't it? Yes?  If the intelligent in the world had not cooperated, the violent man would kill one or two with a stick or stone or something.  So, intelligence twisted out against our own well-being is no intelligence. Right now human intelligence has become like this, it's not a blessing, it's a curse. Intelligence is the biggest blessing that a human being has. But right now it has become a curse upon humanity, simply because the human being is not coming out as a well-coordinated being. He's dislocated the human being within himself. This intelligence is dangerous. If you were like a donkey, you would only kick nothing more, isn't it? The maximum violence you would cause is kick with both your legs, nothing more. But now human intelligence has become so dangerous. What should have been a blessing has become such a big curse and education is definitely playing a huge role in that. Whatever we wish to do with the youth, one thing that the older generation should understand is what you're referring to as youth is that segment of humanity which is more alive than you. What I see is if the world was guided by the young, the world would be a better place to live. It is just that because youth means it is that segment of humanity which is in a high energy state because they're in a certain level of high energy compared to the other part of the humanity. It is just that every little thing that they do is little exaggerated.  If something constructive has to happen in the world, it has to be youth. If something destructive has to happen in the world, it has to be youth, isn't it? Because they're much more alive than anybody on the planet. Since of always treating youth as some kind of a disease that needs to be handled, we must understand youth is much more alive than the other parts of humanity. It's better to be guided by the youth than trying to fix them to do what somebody else thinks is right. It is just that because they're in a certain state of listless energy, if there is no inspiration, if there is no proper guidance, it very easily turns negative. But otherwise, definitely they're closer to life than anybody. Actually it would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children because they're closer to life than anybody else. See, after all, everything that you wish to do on the planet is just for human well-being, isn't it so? Yes? Human well-being means human happiness.  Yes, they're more… they're capable of more happiness than you in twenty-four hours time. So, when that is the thing, tell me who should be a consultant for life, you or your child? Huh? Definitely the children, isn't it? Because they're closer to life. You are carried away in your thoughts and emotions. They are much more closer to life. If only the world learned from children rather than trying to teach the children, this would be a very beautiful place. So, youth is not a disease. Usually, the world generation is always trying to handle youth as if it's some kind of a disease that needs to be fixed, that needs treatment. It doesn't need any treatment. It is people who have gone away from life who need treatment. Those who are close to life don't need treatment. They have to just live. One big lapse that is happening today in the world is our educational systems have become hundred percent informative. There is no inspiration. Without inspiration, no human being raises beyond the limitations in which he lives. It's only when he's inspired that a human being aspires to go beyond the limitations in which we are existing right now. And today, education has become totally bereft of inspiration. A teacher is not somebody that is worth looking up to, unfortunately. Because when it's all information, you can as well get information from an audio or a video or internet or wherever. You don't really have to listen to a teacher. The teacher is not the best means of transmission when it comes to pure information. A book is better. Internet is even better. Only if the teacher's role is to inspire people to learn, to create a thirst for knowledge and things like that, only then a teacher's role has something to give. If he's just trying to transmit information, the other means of transmission are better than a human being because human being can always misinterpret, isn't it? Making the whole education system purely informational has caused an enormous damage and that time of life when you're youthful, when you're capable of many things, that span of life unfortunately goes waste simply because the necessary inspiration is not there. So creating inspiration means generally, most leaders in the world have always inspired people only by creating an external enemy. If you create an external enemy, you can have everybody on the street action, isn't it? But when you point out to people that the real enemy is within you, your limitations are your biggest enemies, isn't it? Whatever your limitations, your fear, your anxiety, your anger, your hatred, whatever the limitations from which one suffers, when you say the limit, when the enemy is within you and to inspire, it needs much more commitment and dedication. Unfortunately, dedication and commitment have become such scarce material on the planet. Everybody's thinking of doing one big mela one day and getting the youth inspired into wonderful states, such things won't happen. It needs a daily committed, dedicated work. It's a lifelong thing. It's not that today you do something, everything is fixed. There is no such possibility. Unless we are willing to, it's like nurturing a plant, it's like nurturing a tree. If you want it to bear fruit, you have to nurture it every day, every day you have to water it, every day you have to take care of it. If this dedication is shown by the adults, the grown-ups, you will see youth will do miraculous things. Only because such dedication is missing in the general population, youth seem to be disoriented. They don't know what to do, they'll do their own things. Short-term things, because everybody's working on short-term goals, youth also work on short-term goals. See, after all, every human being, just every human being in the world is concerned about human well-being, isn't it? No, there is a criminal, no there is a thief, no there is somebody else. They're also concerned about human well-being. It is just that his idea of human well-being is just this human being. Yes, a criminal also is concerned about human well-being, but his idea of humanity is just himself.  Somebody else's idea of humanity is he and his country. Somebody else's includes the whole world. Everybody is concerned about human well-being in different proportions. So one big thing that needs to happen with the youth and with everybody is that their identification with humanity is not limited to just themselves, that it includes a larger society in the larger world around them, which is missing in education. The modern education is constantly training people only to think about themselves and nothing else but themselves. All the science that you see in the world, the attitude, there's nothing wrong with the science itself, but the attitude, the way in which the science is conducted is like everything here is here only to be exploited for our well-being, isn't it so? Now we destroy wantonly and then we talk about protecting the environment, then doing something else. All patch up jobs because the whole process of science is only about how to use everything for your comfort, for your benefit. So initially you use the planet then the trees and plants, then the animals, then of course the human beings also. You use everybody to your comfort and well-being. That attitude has been deeply set with the process of modern education. So as we're investing our time, resources and energies in transmitting informative knowledge, we have to invest a certain amount of time, energy and resources to inspire people, the inspirational dimension of the education which has not been done at all. See for example, 50 years ago this country during the freedom struggle, it was an inspired population.  In 50 years time we did not do any work about inspiring people and suddenly we are such a disgruntled and disoriented population. To get Indians to think as Indians is a huge problem, isn't it? Because the necessary inspiration has been missing. No work has been done, no organized work has been done. Happens hardly small groups of people doing this and that has happened. No organized work has been done. I must tell you this. A few years ago when I happened to be in United States I just saw, you know in a magazine I saw old poster which was printed in 1930s. At a time when people were immigrating from various countries into United States, people from various cultures and languages and different kinds of complexions are coming to integrate all of them into one nation. To what extent the authorities took efforts means. I saw this particular poster and then I came to know so many other things that the government did. This poster was about, this is for the Italian wives because a large number of Italians were moving into United States. To make an Italian housewife into an American housewife, how she should keep her kitchen, how she should tie her apron, how she should serve the breakfast as an American wife. For every Italian immigrant that came in they are supposed to fix this poster in their kitchen so that she knows how to integrate herself as an American housewife and inspiring her how she's American now, not Italian. I'm just taking this example because the authorities took that kind of care to inspire people to feel like one nation. Even how you serve the breakfast, the government is teaching people how to serve the breakfast in your house not in the restaurant, to your own family to make you a part of one nation. We need to do something about inspiring people in an organized way. Happily, individuals doing this and that is fine but a very organized effort to inspire people without creating an external enemy. Making people understand the biggest enemy for a human being is always within himself and this inspiration is what is needed. Every forum that stands up thinking about the well-being of the youth or thinking about harnessing that enormous energy which we refer to as youth must always think of integrating in terms of inspiring people to do things which are beyond limitations. See, when we're not inspired we'll tend to function only within the limitations in which we are placed. Only when we're inspired we go beyond and do things that normally human beings wouldn't do. Only then that society surges ahead and does something worthwhile. Unfortunately, that happens only when strife happens. In normal peaceful situations people should be inspired. It's very important. When there is a war people want to go and die, that's not the point and everything is well to be highly inspired to keep and to create the situations that we want in the country and in the world is what's needed and it's not one day's work. It's a lifelong work.