Thanks for the comment Jackie. If you really want to be a teacher go for it. You will meet other amazing educators and your students will always be a source of inspiration. I love my job and I always enjoy going to work. The same could not be said for many professions. Good luck.
You are the best teacher. I am not one of your student, but your youtube channel teached me so much. When i mean so much i kean so much. You're the best teacher.
I am not good at English and in past, you were the only one there who teaches the concept by moving things and animating them in a cool way. Now I am a Professional Game Developer who is good in physics and math. Thanks to your passion of teaching :)
Probably the best TED talk on gamification I've watched. He shows a quality example of his gamification in a new science course Biohazard 5, admits his failures, and has passion.
Mr. Andersen was my bio teacher and he was easily one of my favorite teachers I have ever had. He's truly an inspirational person, and I think everybody should support this man on his endeavors to change how education in america works. Congrats from Sean W Mr. A!
I watched Mr. Anderson’s videos to reinforce my biology education in my first 2 years of college. Years later I’m in still in school, but now its for a post-bacc in secondary ed. Imaging my delight at being assigned to watch some Bozeman Science videos but this time the videos are for educators. I have a wonderful “full circle” relationship with Bozeman Science. First to get my bachelors degree in biology, now to get my degree as a science teacher.
I clapped for you, in my living room, by myself, after that speech. Way to go! That was such a great message and I love the way you tied in the Alice in Wonderland metaphor back into the conclusion. Your podcasts on youtube have helped me so much this semester with my Biology 101 class. Thank you for being you. The world needs more passionate, intelligent, and creative people in it. Well done sir.
Paul was amazing. I am so thankful he agreed to participate in the first TEDx even in Montana. He has great ideas for education and will inevitably go far because of it.
You inspire me so much. I really want to be a teacher, and a lot of times the often jaded (and tenured) teachers at my school are bad examples who dissuade me from the career. But then I come across people like you, teachers who are engaging and passionate, and I remember why I'm interested in it in the first place. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! (thumb up so maybe someday he'll see?)
This was absolutely fascinating - as a 16 year old student I would give a lot to be taught like this, I'll use what I've learnt to progress my own learning, thank you.
I once wrote an assignment on gamification in the classroom after reading an article on the psychology of gaming and why its addictive and how can we use that in a classroom setting. Needless to say I failed that assignment, yet here we are with people in the real world showing how it can work. I will definitely be putting more time into this approach to prepare myself, my students, and hopefully my school, to develop a 'school game'..
Paul, I admire your ability to reinvent your class during the summer. That's a really unique idea you got there: to make your class a video game. Thanks for sharing!
I like how he actually cares about his students. I have teachers that don't care how well their students do and think that when an entire class isn't doing well they blame the students. I love Mr. Anderson
Really his method of teaching is very informative and at same time not boring. He revolutionize the art of teaching.. Salute to Mr. Andersen i hope we become like you. Cheers
I have learned more from you than most of my bio teachers combined...you are truly amazing! I wish more teachers had the same passion for teaching and love for their students..thank you!
I'm a school Teacher & you are one of my Inspiration (you know after Einstein).....I love the way you teach big complicated topics in simple short videos.
Your podcasts are amazing sir. I have learnt so much from your videos. I wish i could be there in your actual classroom for learning different methods to teach science.
Completely agree with your ideas on teaching and learning, and I thought that you made your presentation both thought provoking and entertaining. Thanks for sending the link.
I loved your talk , you really inspired me ! I find your videos really useful you do not only help students in your classroom , you are helping students worldwide.. respect from Kuwait
thank you so much, you are making such a huge impact on education, and being a high school student myself, I can't tell you enough how grateful I am! I hope you can reach farther in your dream on changing education, and maybe some of my dreams will come true too.
i don't se how having a flat out ranking system in your class could lead to anything good, but as an individual, this is how I've always wanted school to be like.
I think that we need to shift the focus towards teaching 'failing' as a positive thing because its how we learn. Succeeding 'all' of the time is not how we learn.. rather its how we feel when we have 'learnt'.
Excellent video, wonderful instructor, great video game idea, thanks for point out the failures, however I think the successes are more important. I seriously doubt if the kids logged in to look for failure, they likely logged to see how well they did relative to the whole. I do something similar with my students however I use Armis to teach scientific thinking (logical, critical). Each student MUST earn 100%. The drink in the bottle is success not failure.
Thanks for the information. You have inspired me to create a "game like" unit that I called "Tectonics 7" and ran on moodle for my students. It was a great first step for me but has you point out it needs a summer session of improving for the next version. Fun stuff.
my teacher regularly assigns us to watch his videos. he is AMAZING. everything is so clear in his videos...but I'm talking about his Bio courses though, haha...
I wish that when I get kids I hope they get a teacher like you! I'm reading biologi now and I'm watching your vids and there great even if there in the wrong language ;)
I have a kid brother (10) and he loves computer games where he can level up, but he doesn't like school or studying much. So I decided to reward him with eXperience Points for various tasks that involve learning and reading and ever since he is pretty much begging me to give him tasks. We collect his XP in an XLS file. He is lvl8 now :)
"Who would want to be in a class at the Vulcan Science Academy?" My very introverted son, that's who. When he saw that movie at about age 11 spoke right up in the theater and said, "I want to go to school there, Mom!" It's not for every kid but as a self-starter, excellent reader, and dedicated gamer, he would have driven off like a rocket in Mr. Anderson's class. Like all good Vulcans, though, he is still trying to learn a big lesson from this video: failure is part of the process---it's okay.
Really good, I always thought about it, our kis have to learn how to play and apply their knowledge. Yes we need to redesign our video games platforms to a platform of learning, this ideia is excellent, if you can not change your school system to do that, do not worry I think you can do it alone and apply it to your needs, this is what I do with me and it works.
Good words... 😁. I use to be English language teacher.... So I have bad and better days... It is little depressive but I try to do my best... But the problem is Chinese attitude toward failure 😉.. I struggle with it 😂
I think this was a good presentation and am very happy for the successes of Mr Andersen, however I would like to ask educators to not get too excited about this "gamification" of the classrooms. I believe that this is a good idea for some students, who don't do well in traditional classes but maybe there are some students who actually prefer to learn from the books and not by using their IPads or laptops? I mean there are just some kids who don't need to be additionally stimulated in this way.
Very well done. I use that technique in my college courses and find, as you have, the difficulty students have with reading. I find that they struggle with sentence interpretation. I have them work in groups where each group simulates an independent game company. In my evaluations students will say that I do not teach. They are correct, I just create an environment to help them learn.
simply we are all different and we cant all learn the same exact way. you can give everyone a book and say, read to page whatever by this day ok fine i got my objective. But then where is the learning? I get assignments like this everyday. Point A to point B. The only thing on your mind is i just want to get it done as soon as possible because i want to play! And this is a problem because we disregard homework as a burden. We need it to be something that is engaging to us.
This sounds awesome to me, BUT it does not tell me "how " to do this. I teach middle school math and I would LOVE to use gaming to teach my curriculum. I am willing to spend the time this summer creating if I just knew where to start and how to go about it. Is there a way I can actually see what you have done and how it works?
Missy McCoskey You should look up Megan Box and her course that she has on Schoology. She gamified her class, and she has a demo of her course for everyone to see. There is a video on here with her explaining what she did.
It's been a while since this TedTalk was posted, but I would be interested to know how game design in the classroom has progressed. I am all for it, but I hear that tons of (unpaid) work was done in the summer to prepare the class for this kind of learning. I also hear that the class is very much a progression centered class like science and math tend to be. I wonder how this approach can be used n an ELA class or history class. It is very possible that many teachers do not have the tech knowledge needed to produce a website etc. like this for their classes. So, I do wonder how we can make something like this happen in our classrooms in an equitable manner. Finally, since we live in America, I can imagine that there might be people with certain political leanings that may object to creating classrooms where the "basics" of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic are not obvious to the random parent. Sitting in rows and silently listening to learn through osmosis is often what parents want to see. I wonder if you have dealt with any of these issues and perhaps, have you had any luck solving them?
Thanks for the comment Jackie. If you really want to be a teacher go for it. You will meet other amazing educators and your students will always be a source of inspiration. I love my job and I always enjoy going to work. The same could not be said for many professions. Good luck.
You are the best teacher. I am not one of your student, but your youtube channel teached me so much. When i mean so much i kean so much. You're the best teacher.
I am not good at English and in past, you were the only one there who teaches the concept by moving things and animating them in a cool way. Now I am a Professional Game Developer who is good in physics and math. Thanks to your passion of teaching :)
Probably the best TED talk on gamification I've watched. He shows a quality example of his gamification in a new science course Biohazard 5, admits his failures, and has passion.
Mr. Andersen was my bio teacher and he was easily one of my favorite teachers I have ever had. He's truly an inspirational person, and I think everybody should support this man on his endeavors to change how education in america works. Congrats from Sean W Mr. A!
It's great to hear a TEDster say: "check out this idea...here's how it failed"
It's a pretty open-ended challenge to us all.
Great Talk.
I watched Mr. Anderson’s videos to reinforce my biology education in my first 2 years of college. Years later I’m in still in school, but now its for a post-bacc in secondary ed. Imaging my delight at being assigned to watch some Bozeman Science videos but this time the videos are for educators. I have a wonderful “full circle” relationship with Bozeman Science. First to get my bachelors degree in biology, now to get my degree as a science teacher.
I clapped for you, in my living room, by myself, after that speech. Way to go! That was such a great message and I love the way you tied in the Alice in Wonderland metaphor back into the conclusion. Your podcasts on youtube have helped me so much this semester with my Biology 101 class. Thank you for being you. The world needs more passionate, intelligent, and creative people in it. Well done sir.
It's always inspiring to see passionate teachers like you who work hard to make change. Thank you Mr.Andersen
Paul was amazing. I am so thankful he agreed to participate in the first TEDx even in Montana. He has great ideas for education and will inevitably go far because of it.
You inspire me so much. I really want to be a teacher, and a lot of times the often jaded (and tenured) teachers at my school are bad examples who dissuade me from the career. But then I come across people like you, teachers who are engaging and passionate, and I remember why I'm interested in it in the first place. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
(thumb up so maybe someday he'll see?)
Self reflection is such a strong character trait of a great teacher. I hope schools change to making kids curious
This was absolutely fascinating - as a 16 year old student I would give a lot to be taught like this, I'll use what I've learnt to progress my own learning, thank you.
I once wrote an assignment on gamification in the classroom after reading an article on the psychology of gaming and why its addictive and how can we use that in a classroom setting. Needless to say I failed that assignment, yet here we are with people in the real world showing how it can work. I will definitely be putting more time into this approach to prepare myself, my students, and hopefully my school, to develop a 'school game'..
Paul, I admire your ability to reinvent your class during the summer. That's a really unique idea you got there: to make your class a video game. Thanks for sharing!
BOOZEMAN BIOLOGY!
YEAH!
I like how he actually cares about his students. I have teachers that don't care how well their students do and think that when an entire class isn't doing well they blame the students. I love Mr. Anderson
this guy is my favourite teacher.....he makes the most complicated things so easy for us..legend he is
Paul anderson you are the best teacher. I acutally never had any teacher that is close as good as you.
Really his method of teaching is very informative and at same time not boring. He revolutionize the art of teaching.. Salute to Mr. Andersen i hope we become like you. Cheers
Lots of love from India .Your videos are helpful for many people here who can't afford expensive coaching .
"... and I hope that's helpful."
I have learned more from you than most of my bio teachers combined...you are truly amazing! I wish more teachers had the same passion for teaching and love for their students..thank you!
I stood and applauded after watching your vid. I agree. I watch your Biology vids and love your energy and the way you present the material.
YOU ROCK!
Wow. You are so inspiring, Paul. Thanks for sharing what you do with others.
Paul Anderson, you are so BA!
Sincerely, another biology teacher.
I'm a school Teacher & you are one of my Inspiration (you know after Einstein).....I love the way you teach big complicated topics in simple short videos.
i love my primary school bio teacher. he made our names into riddles and had us guess. the most interesting teacher i've ever met!
Simply amazing! I would take biology over again just to be in his class.
Mr andersen you are literally the best !!! i learn so much from your videos !
And I hope that was helpful.
Yes, yes it was. :) Thank you, Mr. Anderson!
Your podcasts are amazing sir. I have learnt so much from your videos. I wish i could be there in your actual classroom for learning different methods to teach science.
Completely agree with your ideas on teaching and learning, and I thought that you made your presentation both thought provoking and entertaining. Thanks for sending the link.
I loved your talk , you really inspired me ! I find your videos really useful you do not only help students in your classroom , you are helping students worldwide.. respect from Kuwait
Great dynamic way of teaching. Its a learning revolution. Thank you.
boi my science teachers have been using this guy for the last 4 years
I will be making my second attempt at Classroom Game Design this school year and this video is educational and inspirational. Thank you!
thank you so much, you are making such a huge impact on education, and being a high school student myself, I can't tell you enough how grateful I am! I hope you can reach farther in your dream on changing education, and maybe some of my dreams will come true too.
very inspirational person.....there is a lot to learn from you....you are the best...!
He and Sal should team up...
I've seen Pauls online work - It's excellent, Its among the best i've ever seen. I will be adding a link to his great education in our site.
Go Paul, go go go! :)
This man helped me pass AP Bio.
hey! Wow!! Paul Andersen loved your approach towards teaching. Great inspiration sir!!
Thank you for the talk.
Great inspiration in making the instruction more interesting and interactive.
i don't se how having a flat out ranking system in your class could lead to anything good, but as an individual, this is how I've always wanted school to be like.
I think that we need to shift the focus towards teaching 'failing' as a positive thing because its how we learn. Succeeding 'all' of the time is not how we learn.. rather its how we feel when we have 'learnt'.
This video should be shown at all the teacher trainings.
It's not the teachers in training who need this. It's the teachers who have stopped learning.
Paul. You are amazing. I am a high school biology teacher. I want to know how to build a video game like this for my students.
Excellent video, wonderful instructor, great video game idea, thanks for point out the failures, however I think the successes are more important. I seriously doubt if the kids logged in to look for failure, they likely logged to see how well they did relative to the whole.
I do something similar with my students however I use Armis to teach scientific thinking (logical, critical). Each student MUST earn 100%.
The drink in the bottle is success not failure.
Thanks Paul how lucky they are, I wish have a good teacher for my children.
thanks for internet to have access to this.
I am a video game design student and this is simply amazing!
This is such a great idea, what a dedicated guy.
Paul, you're the great! Perhaps one day I could teach like this!
Thank you!
I want that program SO much right now...
Thanks for the information. You have inspired me to create a "game like" unit that I called "Tectonics 7" and ran on moodle for my students. It was a great first step for me but has you point out it needs a summer session of improving for the next version. Fun stuff.
my teacher regularly assigns us to watch his videos. he is AMAZING. everything is so clear in his videos...but I'm talking about his Bio courses though, haha...
"Teachers are great thieves."
I am stealing this.
I wish that when I get kids I hope they get a teacher like you! I'm reading biologi now and I'm watching your vids and there great even if there in the wrong language ;)
hope we'll have more mr anderson teaching 🙌
I want a teacher like you , who teaches me in a dynamic way....
I have a kid brother (10) and he loves computer games where he can level up, but he doesn't like school or studying much. So I decided to reward him with eXperience Points for various tasks that involve learning and reading and ever since he is pretty much begging me to give him tasks. We collect his XP in an XLS file. He is lvl8 now :)
Mr Anderson you are the best
This type of learning is much more fun!
Mr.Anderson!!! You're the best :)
Great work Paul, please go ahead and teach some Computer Science,would love it watch you break it down.
"Who would want to be in a class at the Vulcan Science Academy?" My very introverted son, that's who. When he saw that movie at about age 11 spoke right up in the theater and said, "I want to go to school there, Mom!" It's not for every kid but as a self-starter, excellent reader, and dedicated gamer, he would have driven off like a rocket in Mr. Anderson's class. Like all good Vulcans, though, he is still trying to learn a big lesson from this video: failure is part of the process---it's okay.
Great Ted talk - maybe now they will unlock some of the computers at school to allow me to get some games going too.
Please update us on how the modification you make for next year's class work out.
Mr. Anderson, welcome back...
Excelente presentación. Gracias
Isn't this the guy from the bozeman science yt channel?
Yes
LittleBigPlanet 2 has taught me more about Physics than my Physics teacher has.
yes indeed your lessons are fun
You are such an amazing teacher :) I wish I had you :D
He is so amazing.
Really good, I always thought about it, our kis have to learn how to play and apply their knowledge. Yes we need to redesign our video games platforms to a platform of learning, this ideia is excellent, if you can not change your school system to do that, do not worry I think you can do it alone and apply it to your needs, this is what I do with me and it works.
IIIIII need this type of Professor
Nice presentaition, Paul.
Mr Anderson was the coolest... He's also the master of simon says... Like really the guy is Simon...
This is so great!
you are a good teacher, every teacher in the future should be like you!
PS. Mr. Anderson is Neo, right? :)
Success is gained by most through failure.
Good words... 😁. I use to be English language teacher.... So I have bad and better days... It is little depressive but I try to do my best... But the problem is Chinese attitude toward failure 😉.. I struggle with it 😂
How do I create a system (video game style) like that for my classroom?
Proud of you!
I feel almost mad with myself for finding this dude only a couple days before. My learning processes would be so much more interesting.
I think this was a good presentation and am very happy for the successes of Mr Andersen, however I would like to ask educators to not get too excited about this "gamification" of the classrooms. I believe that this is a good idea for some students, who don't do well in traditional classes but maybe there are some students who actually prefer to learn from the books and not by using their IPads or laptops?
I mean there are just some kids who don't need to be additionally stimulated in this way.
He came to my class...
Very well done. I use that technique in my college courses and find, as you have, the difficulty students have with reading. I find that they struggle with sentence interpretation. I have them work in groups where each group simulates an independent game company. In my evaluations students will say that I do not teach. They are correct, I just create an environment to help them learn.
I think I talked about trying to set up something like this during our last visit. Och.
Hi Dude, good to hear from you! How is the family?
simply lovely
As a student it sounds really cool but i really am not sure how much that will help me.
totally agree with him
simply we are all different and we cant all learn the same exact way. you can give everyone a book and say, read to page whatever by this day ok fine i got my objective. But then where is the learning? I get assignments like this everyday. Point A to point B. The only thing on your mind is i just want to get it done as soon as possible because i want to play! And this is a problem because we disregard homework as a burden. We need it to be something that is engaging to us.
This sounds awesome to me, BUT it does not tell me "how " to do this. I teach middle school math and I would LOVE to use gaming to teach my curriculum. I am willing to spend the time this summer creating if I just knew where to start and how to go about it. Is there a way I can actually see what you have done and how it works?
Missy McCoskey You should look up Megan Box and her course that she has on Schoology. She gamified her class, and she has a demo of her course for everyone to see. There is a video on here with her explaining what she did.
I tried to find Megan Box and I am not seeing her on here or schoology...any help locating it?
Missy McCoskey oops, my apologies... Her name is Elizabeth Box, not Megan. Just google, "Elizabeth Box, Schoology Gamificiation"
great teacher and human!
How do you keep students low in the rankings from being discouraged?
It's been a while since this TedTalk was posted, but I would be interested to know how game design in the classroom has progressed. I am all for it, but I hear that tons of (unpaid) work was done in the summer to prepare the class for this kind of learning. I also hear that the class is very much a progression centered class like science and math tend to be. I wonder how this approach can be used n an ELA class or history class. It is very possible that many teachers do not have the tech knowledge needed to produce a website etc. like this for their classes. So, I do wonder how we can make something like this happen in our classrooms in an equitable manner. Finally, since we live in America, I can imagine that there might be people with certain political leanings that may object to creating classrooms where the "basics" of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic are not obvious to the random parent. Sitting in rows and silently listening to learn through osmosis is often what parents want to see. I wonder if you have dealt with any of these issues and perhaps, have you had any luck solving them?
Well said!
I wish school could change for the better
nice thoughts
all the very best
I love Mr. Anderson!hahahha my bio teacher is just...TAT