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Earthshaking Learning Fosters Curiosity | Nesra Yannier | TEDxUniversityofPittsburgh

Growing up as a curious child in Turkey where the education system was based mainly on memorization, made Nesra always think that education should be different - helping children understand the reasons why, rather than memorizing facts. Going through some interesting challenges during her undergraduate school years, made her realize the importance of persistence while having an internal ignition for following your dreams. Experiences she had while starting a club at her university to coach underserved children to enter the Lego Robotics competition, showed her how much impact a spark of education can have on children’s lives. Nesra wanted to scale this experience to many others and thought creating new educational technologies could be a great way to do that. When she came to the US for her masters at Stanford University, she realized that the problem about education that she had been observing was even bigger and more universal than she had thought. According to National Center for STEM elementary education, 1/3 of children lose interest in science by 4th grade, as they’re not taught in a way that nourishes their curiosity. Furthermore, even though there seem to be a lot of technologies out there, most of these technologies are making kids socially isolated from their physical environment. To help solve these global problems, during her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University with advisors Ken Koedinger and Scott Hudson, they created NoRILLA - a new mixed-reality platform bridging the advantages of physical and virtual worlds to improve children's inquiry based STEM learning, fostering their curiosity and 21st century critical thinking skills. Research conducted at Carnegie Mellon University has shown that this system improves children’s learning by 5 times compared to other screen-based technologies while also increasing their enjoyment. During her talk, explains the research behind the system and how innovation in STEM education can foster curiosity for young children while also inspiring their internal ignition. Dr. Nesra Yannier is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and Founder and CEO of NoRILLA: an award-winning patented mixed-reality platform bridging physical and virtual worlds to improve children’s inquiry based STEM learning. Yannier has received her PhD in Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been awarded Mister Rogers Scholarship (Emmy’s College Television Awards in New Media for Children) as well as National Science Foundation grants to take her PhD project forward. She has also received the Innovation Fellowship from the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University to help commercialize her PhD research to benefit society. She has BS degrees in Physics and Computer Engineering, an MS in Computational Sciences and Engineering from Koc University, Istanbul and an MA in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford University. She has experience working at Disney Research, NASA Ames Research Center and start-up companies, designing and building new educational technologies to be used in real world settings. She has also started and led an organization at Koc University to coach children from underserved communities to participate in the FIRST Lego Robotics Competition. She is passionate about creating novel technologies to have a positive impact on children’s lives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx