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The future of education has to be the future of engagement,
of children wanting to go further and further, to enable them to take their path in life.
I believe there is much to be done in order to achieve this future,
but I also believe this is nearer to being achieved today than ever before.
So, when we looked at education and decided on Youtube as a platform, we had four major prerequisites:
the delivery of free, high-quality, mature and organized content.
An increasing number of people are putting their content on Youtube, aren´t they?
This made us think how it could be a two-sided platform,
in other words, one which both provides high-quality content,
helping people to browse in a world of such great supply,
and creating a site where these people, both teachers and non-teachers,
can produce and provide content for the whole of Brazil.
We have been meeting since August
to enable this team of administrators, together with the foundation and YouTube,
to define a basis for the assessment and analysis of these videos.
The only decisive factor in relation to whether or not a video was going to be placed on the platform
was the question of content.
You don´t need to go that far in order to learn.
If you want you can learn at home,
because the information is nearby, all you have to do is go and get it.
I believe the more different types of language you bring into the classroom,
the greater the motivation of the students,
leading them to search for and create their own knowledge.
The main idea is to take full advantage of the diversity of information unique to the Internet.
So you have different types of classes, using tablets, whiteboards and animations.
I learned it is essential for each person to have a different vision,
to take his own path, to take his own course in order to learn more.
And I think this is where technology provides us with something of immense value,
even when thinking about it at school, right?
So it´s great when a teacher can use another teacher's video
because he thinks the content of the same is just what his student needs.
You see, it´s started.
I imagined viewers of my channel at the start would be people interested in mathematics,
but I didn´t realize this would end up transforming a series of lives in the long run.
Without a shadow of doubt, my success as a teacher is due to my enthusiasm for my own knowledge.
So, I want everyone to like mathematics as much as I do.
How am I going to face the camera without feeling stupid?
I produce content, edit, record, alone in a room, all day long.
Get ready, the theorem being demonstrated is really interesting.
The Pythagorean Theorum is now playing in the background.
Breaking barriers in relation to the school classroom
means breaking barriers in the neighborhood, in the city,
and this involves the digital issue too.
You give people a future,
because when you teach you are showing that a person can be more than what is expected of him.
We want to see far more teachers producing content,
democratizing access to the knowledge they possess, impacting more students outside their classrooms.
I believe this is the role and mission of the platform for the coming year.