it was the tail endof the first world war in a remoteand a rural part of india. my great grandfatherwho was a marginal farmer had just passed away leaving my greatgrandmother a young widow with two sonsand no source of income. to provide for her sons and their futureshe had to move to a town nearby and make somedifficult choices.
she became a domestic servant, but still could only afford to send oneof her sons to school. while the two boyswere close in age, both in grade school, one was seen as beingmore responsible while the other wasa bit of a troublemaker. my great grandmotheropted to send the more responsiblediligent son,
viewed as having more potential, into the workforce. he became a day laborerat a construction site. he would continue in that fieldfor the rest of his life, never given the opportunity to gain new skills and gain higherlevel employment. the other son was sentto the local school, and that boywas my grandfather.
despite being seen asbeing less responsible, he continued through school and eventually becamea police officer. despite entering the workforce nearly a decadeafter his brother, his starting salarywas exponentially higher. it was my grandfather’s education and the eventual career that enabled my fatherto pursue his own education,
which eventually allowed me to follow my own passions. the opportunitymy grandfather was given impacted the trajectories of the generations to come. this personal story reflectsthat often repeated adage. talent is everywhere,but opportunity is not. today’s event is abouteducation and technology.
more specifically, it is about empowering the students of today to create the worldof tomorrow. we live as an amazing timeof technological progress. every aspect of our lives, economies, and societies are being shapedby digital technologies. however, technology’s alsocreating disruption. there is a growing concern
over job growth,economic opportunity, and the world we are buildingfor the next generation. the real question is how cantechnology create more opportunity, not for a few, but for all? addressing that questionis core to our mission to empower every person and every organizationon the planet to achieve more. this is not justa set of words for us, but something wecare deeply about.
our success is measuredby others success. demarketising educational opportunityspeaks directly to our mission. and it’s one of the mostpressing societal challenges. technology can amplifythe work of dedicated peopleand institutions but rarely cansubstitute for it. kentaro toyama, a former researcher at microsoft and the author of the book, geek heresy,
captures it best when he says, "that societal change requires more than just technology." technocrats as term or reference to them have a tendency to extol the virtuesof technology and view it as a remedy to all that ails the system. i’m here todayas a heretic. we are under no illusion
that technology alone is the answerto transforming education. dedicated administrators,great teachers, motivated students, and involved parentsand communities are the oneschanging education. and technology is merely a tool to empower their creativityand their ingenuity. it is this opportunity
that motivates our work in education and everythingyou’ll see today. one of my favorite partsof the job is to be able to see and learn from the studentsall around the world. over the past two years, i’ve had a chance to visit students from 20 plus countries, to see students in jakarta
and tel aviv use the same office tools that my daughters use in seattle. how teachers in tokyoand madrid are using minecraft to teach studentscomputational thinking. how a group of young femalestudents in cairo were inspiredto learn to code, and built an app to assistthe syrian refugees in their own community. i’ve been struck by the commonalitiesamongst the students.
their ingenuity,their thirst for learning. diversity and dreams for future. as i’ve spent timevisiting these classrooms, a few things stickout to me each time. first, technology should help not hinder teacher’swork in the classroom. teachers have constantdemands on their time. they must create curriculum,grade tests, and papers, manage classrooms,
discipline, educate,and inspire. each time i leave a classroomthe job of a teacher makes my job look easyin comparison. technology should make teacher’s lives simpler and spark student’s creativity not distract from it. this is a top priority that we have focused on at microsoft. today you’ll see howwe’re delivering an accessible,
streamlined platform readily availableto all classrooms. so, teachersspend less time focused on technology and more time doingwhat they love doing, inspiring students. secondly, the nature of work is changing drastically. much of work todayhappens in teams, within groups of people workingtogether to solve a problem.
where the sum becomesgreater than the parts. we need to prepare ourstudents for this future. and enable team-based learningexperiences in the classroom amongst groups of students, between students and teachers, between teachers and parents. what you will see todayis how any classroom can promote learningthrough collaboration, hubs for teamwork,
personalized learning tools, and the abilityto co-create. by empowering studentsto learn together, their educationalopportunities get better. third, we must prepareour students for tomorrow. consider the reportfrom the world economic forums and the jobs report. an estimated 65% of the studentsentering school today
will have jobs thatdo not yet exist. teachers know this,and they are hungry to equip their studentsfor this future. they know thatcomputational thinking and problem-solving skillsare key to the future. but they also know that they need to takea much broader view of stem. by bringing stemcurriculum alongside reading, writing, design,
and art, we’ll set thesestudents up for success in the future. throughout today’s presentation, we will show younew technologies designed to addressthese needs. and most importantly,how technology can empower students and teachers to enhance learningoutcomes and create a world of tomorrow.
lastly, demarketisingeducational opportunity must be inclusive of everyone, not just a select few. to me, this is somethingthat’s deeply personal. this includes studentswith disabilities and different learning styles. they must be givenan opportunity to pursue their own dreams. dyslexia is estimatedto impact one in five people.
72% of the classrooms have students with special learning needs. reading is an essential competency and once a student falls far behind it’s difficult to catch up. and it’s not justabout reading. you fall behind inevery other subject area. this is somethingthat we aim to address with the onenote learning tools designed
specifically to help studentswith dyslexia, but it can help students everywhere with their readingand writing skills. it’s been incredible to hearthe feedback from the teachers using this to teach emergingfirst-grade readers or from parents who have exhaustedtheir options seeking help for their dyslexicchildren learning to read. or how a teacher in macedoniaused the learning tools
to teach young students english. we will take a look at how these learning tools and much more as terry myerson joins me today to share more of the news. to close, i want everyoneto imagine the world we’re building for tomorrow. just as my grandfather’s opportunity changed the trajectoryof our family,
this is what inspires me. how can we collectively come together to demarketise the educational opportunityfor every student, both for this generation and the generations to come. thank you all very, very much. – the true purpose of educationis to create possibility. – gone are the days where the teachercan stand up in front of the classroom
and teach to the mythical middle. – when you have learners who might notbe reading at grade level, technology plays a very pivotal rolein the classroom. – a lot of my studentshave struggled for a long, long time. – it was a little hard for me. people laugh wheneveri read sometimes. – i’ll be nervous when i have to read out loud. – well, they knew how to read, and i didn’t. – learning tools not only reads to them
but gives them a better ability to pick up the words on the page. – it highlights the words to know where i am. – when it’s reading, i see spaces between the words. – and it’s easy to focus on.- it helps me figure out big words. – with learning tools they havethe ah-ha moment. the light bulb goes off. they feel empowered. – the first time i actuallycould read that book, i was proud of myself.
– i was very proud of myself. – i want our studentsto experience success, and so if we can accelerate that, if we can bring them up to speed, that’s what i want for them. – when technology and educationcome together, possibility becomes reality. – i want to read every book in here. – those kids just inspire me,
and their smiles remind mewhy we create what we do. the gift of technologyis that it can make life easier, but the power of technology is how it can just awakenthis human potential. and the biggest, raw, untapped, creative potentialresides in our schools. the makers of tomorroware sitting in the classrooms today. this is the nextgeneration of creators who have embraced technologyas their first language.
the generationof problem solvers who naturally learn by creating, collaborating, and communicatingwith people all over the world. the generation of inventorswho create with touch, command with their voice,and conceptualize in 3d. our team just lovescreating a medium that empowers other people to create. that ignites this creative impulseall around the world. that turns creativity
into this forcefor positive change. and our mission with windows is to create this platform that inspires this creativityin each of us. and we’re so gratified that windows 10 has been the global leader for devices chosen for k through12 education. with twice as manywindows devices
shipped in 2016as any alternative. teachers today are choosing windows for the rich creativity inspiring applications like autodesk sketchbook, adobe photoshop, minecraft, and the rich office365 desktop applications which do so much more thanthe mobile apps available on other platforms. teachers also choose windows
for all the thingsthey can plug into windows, including these amazingnew stem lesson plans with legos and arduino boards. tools that enable accessibilityfor every student. virtual reality headsets,interactive whiteboards, and more. but to understandhow we could do more, our teams havetraveled the world. we have talked to teachers on the front line,school principals,
and superintendents, but most importantlythe creators in the classroom. because a complete solutionfor education must scale from classmate to classroom, from school-wide to district-wide, from system-wide to worldwide. the teacherswere consistent. young kids, sometimesthey get distracted and don’t alwaysfollow direction.
they asked for windowsto be more resilient. so literally hundreds of kids interacting with each device during the school year. maintaining the same greatbattery life, fast log in time, and overall performanceon the first day of school as the last. ricardo garmendia from the rentonschool district told us how he managesor supports 850 classrooms
with 11,000 windows devices in his school district. and he was overwhelmedwith the ongoing of setup of new devices each summer. and the managementof the current devices in the classroom all school year. so to give students, teachers,and administrators like ricardo what they need we’re taking a new approach.
simplify to magnify. writers and storytellers cut for pacing and music you just still downto a single hook that can becomethe song of the summer. in sculpture,you chip away all the stone that doesn’t look like david. in software,we code for elegance because simplicity is power.
well, i’m proud today to introduce youto windows 10 s. it is streamlined for simplicity. it is secure. and it runs withsuperior performance. but i personally like to thinkof it as windows 10 s, the soul of today’s windows. we’ve taken everythingthat teachers need, and millions of peoplelove about windows 10
and created a new windows experience that’s ideal for all of our creative endeavors inside and outof the classroom. let me show youwindows 10 s. so, here i am running windows10 s on a surface book. windows 10 s runson the full range of windows 10 hardwarelike this powerful surface book, but also the entry spec devices that we find in classroomsall over the world.
now, the first thingyou’ll notice about windows 10 s is a new defaultdesktop image. just like we’ve streamlined windows 10 to create windows 10 s, the default desktop image on windows 10 s has been streamlinedand still beautiful. now, everythingthat runs on windows 10 s is downloadedfrom the windows store, which means first,
it’s verified for securityand performance. but then when it’s downloadedto the device it runs in this safe container to ensure that the executionof the application doesn’t impact the overall performance of the rest of the system, allowing the performanceof the device to be the same on day one as day 1,000 in useof the device. now, there’s many applicationswithin the windows store,
but it’s pretty excitingto announce today that the office suite, the full desktop applications,word, excel, powerpoint, outlook and morewill be coming soon to the windows store. now i mentioned also that windows have been chosen todayfor the peripherals, the things that teachers or studentsare plugging into windows. well, the full windowsperipheral ecosystem
is available on windows 10 s. we’re seeing incrediblymixed reality headsets being createdby our partners. i’m so excited to theclassroom lesson plans that are being created to go with like acer virtualreality headset here with this surface book. but some of the most exciting stuff that we’re seeingplugged into windows
are these new lessonsfor stem education. and so today what we’re done here is i’ve downloadedfrom the store obot, which is this arduino-based robot. you can see herewhat a student has done is programmed from scratch, visually programmed from scratchthis lesson plan. – hello, humans.i’m obot. who is programming me today?
nice to meet you, terry. i love working with kidsto teach them how to code. i’m already being used in over1,000 schools around the world today. i’ve got to say windows 10 slooks pretty impressive so far. what else have yougot to show us, terry? – so, i mean i think down this showcaseyou’ll see many more. there’s just so many cool things that are being pluggedinto windows 10 or windows 10 s soon to enablethese great stem lesson plans.
now i’ve talked about how we’ve beenlistening to teachers and students to inspire windows 10 s, but we’ve also been doingthe same with microsoft edge. now windows 10 s will run any webbrowser in the windows store, but with microsoft edge, it’s inspired by teachersand students as well. so when recently we announcedthe ability to set aside tabs, what we were really doing at that time was thinking about how a student
doing a research project would collect. here’s the tabs of the researchi’m doing on the solar system. here’s the tabs related to the researchi’m doing on the amazon rainforest. here’s the tabs associatedwith my science research. when we add annotation to edge, we’re thinking about a scenario of a student doing his research, highlighting a section of a web page, circling a section that they really enjoy,
and then sharing it with other teachers or students in the classroom they’re doing theircollaborative work for. so microsoft edge isincreasingly more focused on being delightful for these teachers and students in the classroom. now i mentioned every application that runs on windows 10 s gets downloaded from the store.
so what happens when a student triesto download something, not from the store? here we’ve created this fictitiouswebsite crazy picture editor, and i will try and downloadsomething and run it. when you do, windows 10 spops up this helpful dialog letting you know the applicationyou just tried to run has not been verified for security and safety by microsoft. what it does thoughis offer you applications in the store that do similar things.
so here it’s recommending insteadof crazy picture editor, adobe photoshop. now if a teacher or an administration really wants to run that application from the store at any time they can go to that windows store and switch the device from windows 10 s to windows 10 pro, which would allow themto install that application. now i mentioned maintainingconsistent performance
is so importantin the classroom. the one scenario that’s particularlyimportant in the classroom is the first loginof a student. in classrooms, we see these cartsof 30 or more devices and students are coming inand out of the classroom, and they pick upa random device. and all the time it’ll bethe first time they login. and so we’ve been focusedon that with windows 10 s. so here i have two devices.
a windows 10 pro device loaded up with several applications that are commonly foundin the classroom. we have google chrome installed.adobe reader installed. mcafee anti-virus installed.and that’s it. and over here we havecomparable applications running on windows 10 s. and so maybe a studentlogging into this device for the very first time.
and you’ll see thatthe windows 10 s device is going to log infor the very first time for this studentin less than 15 seconds. this 10 pro devicewill take 30, 40 seconds to log in. more applicationswould have it take even longer to log in. and so what this meansin the classroom is the teacher can startteaching quicker.
doesn’t have to keepthe students focus waiting for a device to log in. so this first loginperformance is fantastic. now if the student has beenon this device before, every login afterthe first one on windows 10 s will be lessthan 5 seconds. so, it’s just great performanceon that first login. now, going back to the scenarioricardo talked about, setting up new devices.
this is a scenario many teachers think about during the summeror school districts are getting new devicesall the time. so what we’ve done is we’vecreated a new application called set up my school pcs. and what happens is a teacheror administrator goes into a wizard. they set up the wifinetwork for their school. say these are gonnago for my math cart.
maybe set up a new desktopimage with the school logo. specify i’m setting up whethera single student device or a shared cart or a lab. specify what applicationsthey want on the device. here we’re recommendingoffice or minecraft, but they’re not there by default. a school chooses what they want. but the end of this process, what gets createdis a usb key.
and then what the teacheror administrator does is they collectall their classroom pcs. this is literally what we seehappen in the classroom. and they’ll take a pcin any state. this particular oneis just out of the box. you plug in the usb key. it’s detected by windows. and in less than 30 seconds i’ll be able to pull this usb keyout of the device
and move on to the next one. this system is configuredcompletely per the spec that i put togetherthrough this wizard. there’s a school in coloradocouple weeks ago decided to move to windows10 from chromebooks, and using the set upmy pc app they set up 600 pcs using 30 usb sticks in one day. so, it’s a pretty incredible process to set up and configure a set of devices
exactly how the teachers would like them to be. now, the last stepin our solution here is intune for education. i mentioned how ricardo’s got11,000 pcs in his school district. so, what we’ve doneis we’ve taken our enterprise systemsmanagement software, and we’ve customizedit for schools. intune now knowsabout carts and classrooms
and knows about teachersversus students. and what an administratorcan now do, you can see this is intunefor education configured for two high schools,contoso and fabrikam. the teachersand students in each. and an administrator during the school yearcan go in and say, oh, in this classroomthe students at this high school, for example, let’s turn off the camerain that classroom.
so all of the attributesin the devices that are in the school district, if they’re connected tothe intune for education, that can now be centrally managedwith all the power of this rich enterprisemanagement software we’ve had for yearsnow customized for schools. so that’s windows 10 s. it’s inspired by studentsand teachers. it runs full,rich applications
that are secureand verified by microsoft. it’s easy to set up and manage. and it will havethe same performance on the first dayof school as the last. it really is the soulof today’s windows. now the world benefitswhen all students all over the planet have access to this latest technology. windows achieves this scalethrough our partners both our oems and software developers globally.
and our goals with windows10 s is to develop the same vibrant partner-centricecosystem we have today. our partners, including acer, asus, dell, fujitsu, hp, samsung, and toshiba offer a rangeof new education … windows 10 pcs for education today starting at only $189. these partnerswill offer these devices
and new, beautiful, premium deviceswith windows 10 s in the coming months. but i’m excitedto announce more. all of these neweducation devices will now come with a freeone-year subscription to minecraft education edition. and we are making windows 10 s free for all schools on
any of their currentwindows pro pcs. and that office 365for education is also free for teachersand students worldwide. and, today, microsoftintune for education becomes broadly availablefor administrators worldwide. so, windows10 s devices, office 365, and minecraft, this is our completesolution for education. and all of it will beavailable this summer,
ready for the new school year. so, on top of windows10 s now we want to show you some incredibleeducation experiences. first, we’ve createda natural way to foster collaboration and encourage creativityin every classroom of every school with microsoft teams and office 365. then we have minecraft.
what continues to amaze meabout minecraft is that this is a video game that has become suchan important learning tool to teach teamwork, logical thinking, and problem-solving. and then we have to takea look at mixed reality, and how it’s just this magicalteaching and learning environment. over the past five yearsi’ve been fortunate enough to experiencebattling aliens,
fixing a japan airlinesjet engine, and even walkingon mars with nasa, but when i see how it isbringing a whole new dimension to teaching and learningit really makes me think how awesome it would beto be a student again. so, let’s startwith microsoft teams. please welcome catherine. – good morning, everybody. as sachi has shared,
we believe thateducation unlocks potential. and that technologycan empower teachers and students to createthe world of tomorrow. with over 100million active users, office 365 empowersindividuals, teams, and organizations to communicateand collaborate every day. and office 365for education builds on this rich foundation
to offer the broadest and deepest toolkit for content creation,personalized learning, and modern classroomcollaboration. so to share some waysthat office 365 is used in today’s classroom, it’s my privilegeto welcome anthony newbold, the principal at bear creek middle school in fairburn, georgia.
good morning. – thank you, catherine. – absolutely.- good morning. 18 years ago i startedmy education career right across the riverin patterson, new jersey. and in that time, i’ve servedas a teacher and an administrator. and over the yearsi’ve watched as education has matured and grownin amazing ways. now, teachers are instrumental
in any classroom with technology. they can engage and improve their students learning experiences. – now, anthony,i’ve had the opportunity to hear how you use office365 at bear creek. can you give some examples?- absolutely. now as you all saw in the video, we use learning tools at bear creek. and it’s impressiveto see how many students
are taking more academic risk now that they’re feelingmore comfortable with reading. students also improvedtheir writing skills by using tools such as editorand researcher in word. and as usual, powerpoint isa pretty popular presentation tool. now we also use onenote class notebook as a digital binderin the classroom. our art teacher, mr. smith, has students capture their artwork,
and now they havea digital portfolio. ms. thompson, one ofour history teachers, you saw her in the video. she encourages her students to share their digital classnotes with their peers. and dr. prewitt, a physical science teacher, encourages her students to review their cornell notesright before any exam.
so we’re seeingsome great results already with office 365, and i can’t wait to seehow some of the technology we’re gonna hear about today is gonna impact student achievement. – that sounds great.i loved hearing the stories of how you use office365 in your classrooms at bear creek. but are you ready for what’s next? – let’s do it.- all right.
so, in march we launchedmicrosoft teams, a chat-based workspace as the newest additionto office 365. and today i’m proud to announcenew classroom experiences as part of microsoft teams. these new featureswill make it the digital hub for teachers and students. teams will help teacherswith their daily activities and will help studentsprepare for the future.
so, let’s take a look. on the left …this is microsoft teams. on the left, you’ll seeall the classes that a teacher is responsible for, and project groups that theyassign to their students. in addition, all of these are set up automatically at the start of a school year including the student roster and always kept up to date.
and teachers can communicate with their studentsand collaborate, but they can also collaboratewith their peers. down below you seethat bear creek middle school staffsection right there. up at the top,you’ll notice the tabs. this provides easy access to information that teachers and students need like files,
the onenote class notebook, assignments, quizzes, and more. and teacherscan customize these tabs for their class or a project group making sure the students have what they needanywhere, anytime. and the magic happensin the conversation. and that’s in the center. this provides a persistent,
rich interaction betweenthe teacher and the studentsso they can learn, they can read, they can interactreal-time in the classroom or at home when they’re studyingfor that last minute test. and what’s greatis if a student misses a few days or joins mid-semester, they have all the recordedconversation and content that they needto have context.
so, anthony, you’ve hadsome opportunity to get a sneak peak on teams. can you talk a bit abouthow you see using it in your classrooms? – absolutely.so there are so many learning resources beyond the four wallsof your typical classroom, but because of cost and time, we can’t always bring theminto the classroom. it’s easy with microsoft teams to connect to more of thoseexternal learning resources.
so, for example,i can introduce a new unit to my world history class by bringing in an anthropologist into the classroomwith a video call. this enables studentsto interact with a professional, and seek the informationthat matters most to them. but the real beauty of this is now students can question and engageeach other versus
just simply reading itout of a textbook or online from an article. engaging students in the classdiscussion is a challenge. now some studentsare gonna be shy. others may be what we calloverly spirited if you will. the studentswill love this tool. so i have a 13-year old daughter, and i watch her text,and i know how she uses emojis. so now the students can bringin emojis, stickers, and gifs.
as a result, we canget more students involved as you see herein the conversation tab. now in this particular tab, i’m happy to see thatall of the students use proper chat etiquette. but if they didn’t, it’s okay. i’ll use that as what we referto as a teachable moment. and i have complete control.i can delete a message. i can mute a studentor the entire class if need be.
and in this conversationyou’ll see polly. now polly is thispretty cool polling bot, so i can create a poll. and now i can facilitatestudent engagement in exciting new ways. teachers can tailortheir class experience and add some interestingapps from microsoft and some of ourfavorite edu apps. and that provides fun, dynamic,
and informative toolsfor teachers and students. now every studenthas choice and voice on how they chooseto engage in the classroom. if you talk to any teacher, they’ll tell you that once they graba students attention the lessons and the content come alive,and ignite deeper learning. now as educatorswe must focus on preparing our studentsfor their future. and to that end collaborationand communication are key.
now on top of learningthe new material, developing and honingthose collaboration skills is something that we can modelin our assignments. as a part of this class, i’ve broken them upinto various groups to work on a project. so, let’s take a lookand see how they’re doing. so i see herethat this particular group has already started on some differentaspects of the project.
they seem to havesome questions here, so let’s go in and takea look at their document to see how they’recoming along. so it appears here that i have a couple of students who are already workingon this right now. you can see it in real time. the students can also seeeach other’s changes in real-time no matter where they are physically.
now even though this particulargroup chose to word for their online assignment, other tools like excel and powerpoint also have those co-authoring capabilities. as i continue to scan throughthis particular document, i see that they’re missing one keycultural aspect of government. now i can go backto the conversation thread and provide feedbackwith an at mention. once i do that, every student
instantly receives notification. and now they have theconfidence and information they need to keep moving forward. but the rich, persistentconversation experience in teams takes classroom collaboration to a whole new level. this group, for instance,is on a video call. everyone knows thatin today’s busy world it’s often challenging to get studentstogether in one place.
although they seem to messageeach other all the time, sometimes that faceto face interaction is absolutely necessary. hey, guys. i love how naturally the students can now work together with microsoft teams. and if you will, i’d like to sharewith you just one more thing today. because we’re also using onenote, students can even review concepts
that were previously taught. so, you see herei posted a map that i used to teach a lesson in class. so if a student is absent, they can just go back, hit play, and the steps that i tookwhile teaching the lesson are instantly revealed to them. it’s metacognition. and that’s some teachertalk for ensuring
that the students understandthe process of getting to the answer. my favorite,my greatest gratification is when students are achievingtheir learning goals and acquiringthose life skills. but what really hits home is how i can redefinewhat a classroom means for my teachersand students. office 365 for education now with microsoft teamsbrings in resources
from around the world providing the studentswith anytime, anywhere access to the skills that i know that they will needto be successful in their future. – so, anthony justshared how microsoft is helping redefine classroom collaboration. these new classroom experiences for teams are available today in private preview
and will launchworldwide this summer. thank you so much,anthony for sharing how you use office365 in your classroom. you’re an amazing principaland an inspiration. – thank you.- thank you. so we just talked about engaging students as part of the moderncollaborative classroom. another way teachers are sparking
their student’s creativity is by learning by doing. and at microsoft, we’ve beenrunning pop-up stem classrooms for the past year with thousands of educatorsaround the world. we’ve built standards aligned stem lesson plans that are targeted tomiddle school students, and are available to download for free.
these stem projects use everyday objectslike paper cups, straws, and string to make sure that learning is affordable and accessible to everyone. for example, this sensorized glove project has students use copper tape, velostat,
and cardboard to makea flex sensor for a quarter. 25 cents. and after completely the sensor, students can control a robotic finger made from a straw. and stream live data into excel that measures the flexion and extension of their finger. how cool is that?
by mastering these skills, students can usetheir imagination and creativity to make somethingof their own driven simply by their passion. like this dragondesigned by students from rosehill middle school. building on our experiencewith the national pta, today we’re excited to announce
that starting this saturday, for the month of may, we’ll bringthese pop-up stem classroom experiences to the microsoftstores across the country. and this summer,we’ll host stem summer camp programsat select microsoft stores. so this was just one exampleof how students can bring their creativityinto the classroom.
and now let’s explore how learning by doing sparks creativity in the virtual world of minecraft. so, please join me in welcomingdeirdre to talk about it. – hello.i know some of you remember the very firstvideo game you finished. mine was super mario brothers. i was 11, but i can still hear that music and feel the controller in my hands.
my best friend and i played every dayafter school for months learning how to defeat each enemy, memorizing the timingand how to solve each puzzle. we basically created a study guidefrom what we were learning so that we could solvethe last level. and what i can see now is thatwe were learning as we played. now i think about this experience when i see studentsand educators using minecraft in schools.
minecraft is already transforminghow people teach and learn. minecraft has over 100million players worldwide. and today, just a few monthsafter launching, schools in over 100 countries are using minecrafteducation edition. teachers have created hundredsof lesson plans to show the potentialfor minecraft in any lesson. in fact, one of the veryfirst lessons shared with us was from a teachernamed simon in the u.k.
he was using minecraftwith his middle school students. he asked them to createa mars habitat in minecraft. the students got startedright away planning what humans would needto survive on mars. and like matt damon’s characterin the martian, solving the problemof how to grow food in a martian landscape and using math to managetheir resources. when i visit classroomslike simon’s,
i see players debating, negotiating, and working together. educators like simon areamazed and encouraged by the levelof student engagement when they use minecraft, and how it opens upcreative exploration across the curriculum. so, how can minecraftmake a difference with computer science education?
i first learned codingwhen i was nine. and later was oneof just two girls in my ap computer science class in high school. 25 years later, the way that we teachcoding has barely changed, and women make upless than 20% of professional software engineers. efforts like code.org’shour of code and the uscs initiativehave made huge strides breaking down the barriers
and showing the power of computingto solve problems. and games are playingan important role too. the minecrafthour of code tutorials on code.org have passed over50 million play sessions with students and educatorsaround the world. so it makes sensethat one of the top requests that my team hears is a growing urgencyfrom educators
and from school leadersto inject technology into their curriculum, specifically computer scienceand coding. so that’s why today i’m proudto announce code builder for minecraft education edition. code builder isa new minecraft extension that lets players build, move around, and create in minecraftby writing code. let me show you how it works. you’re gonna write code todayto search for water on mars.
let’s start with the marsexploration world from simon’s class. we’re gonna enterright into the world, and you can see the habitat they built and their interpretationof a martian landscape. once we go inside minecraft, you can start code builder just by typing slash code. with that, you can connect
to popular learnto code packages like tynker and scratchx from mit, or you can evenadd your own service. today you’re gonna use tynker, which has custom blocks and commandsthat are connected to minecraft. now back in minecraft, you’re gonna see your agentor a sidekick appears to execute the codethat you write. students really love the agent.
it’s a great wayfor them to get started. make that experienceeven more personal. in tynker you dragand drop blocks of code to create a tunnel programthat moves the agent and digs down to discoverwhat’s beneath the surface. in this example,we’re gonna use the agent to dig a tunnel outside so that we’re safefrom the elements on mars. but minecraft players out therecan imagine dozens of uses
for programming the agentlike mining all night or building a lit path to your farmwhile you work on your house. so here the agent’sgone to work running code. digging down and identifyingthe resources that are underground. if you’re more experienced, you can even switch from blocks to javascript and run code without the agentto go even faster. using code builder students
will be able to createsome really cool stuff. and like my own experiencewith super mario brothers, they’ll be learning as they play. let’s hear from someonewho’s seen this firsthand. a high school stem teacher who runsa girl’s coding workshop was recently selected as a pbs digital innovator and has been workingwith her students with code builder and minecraft for the past few months.
please join me in welcomingmelissa wrenchey. – hi, deirdre.- hi, melissa. so, tell us about your experience with minecraft and code builder. – you know what’s cool?i’m working on a project with my language arts teacher. she wanted a better simulation toolthan she had had before. she wanted her studentsto actually get in and build it. so, here you’re lookingat shakespeare’s time,
you’re looking at the globe theater. so most people can look at a simulation, but instead what we’re going to do is have students actually build the globe theater and set the stage for this. so, you have your balconies here. you have the groundlings area. so what we’ll have happen is students are going to actually be building
currently the globe theater itself. you’re also gonna set the stagewith what this place look like. so, there’s gonna be some housesthat are gonna be built for the patrons because those were typically nicer. and then you’re also goingto have the code builder’s going to build the homes for the peoplethat they were called the groundlings. so you’re setting that stage for whatit was like in shakespeare’s time. there’s more examples here. so, for instance,here you’re watching the agent
is actually 3d printing a windmill. you see the finished project here,but here it is checking x, y, and z coordinates for buildingthat automatically. and then finally we’ll goto our last example here. there’s your two agentsthat deirdre talked about earlier. and the two agents are building,in this case, the parthenon. so imagine what youhave here is a column. there’s 70 columns that are needingto be built for the parthenon. so, what you can do here is actuallyhave the agent create one column,
and then use a loop to actuallybuild the rest of the columns. so, it’s perfect exampleof using algorithmic thinking. – thank you so much for showing those examples. does anyone every ask youhow you can use minecraft in your classroom? – i do, i get that a lot. but i would always point themto our minecraft mentors. they do a great job of writingresources that they’ve been using. lesson plans.there’s the website to go to. and things that havebeen successful for them.
they’re really helpfulwith a lot of questions. and the last piece i would point out to you is that computationalthinking piece we talk about. it’s computer science, and this code builder does a great jobof teaching those concepts. – great.thank you so much for being here and showing those examplesfrom your class, melissa. – thanks. – when i lookat those examples,
what these students are creating, and i think about my own experiencedeveloping some pretty great problem solving and study skillsin super mario brothers, and i look at my two daughters today, i feel a real sense of urgency to put these tools in the handsof educators and students. from the 50 millionhour of code sessions, and the examplesfrom simon and melissa, we know it’s engaging.we know it’s working.
and we know it’s reachingboth boys and girls. how cool is it that my daughters could build and flythrough the parthenon or program a virtual 3dprinter in minecraft? and how different from the waycoding’s been taught for more than 25 years? i know that with tools likethis we can inspire the next generationof creators, leaders, and innovators.
starting today, you cangive code builder a try with a free trialof minecraft education edition, and the brand new betaof code builder. both available for schoolsright now at education.minecraft.net. next, i’m going to introduce megan who will talk more aboutthe potential for 3d and mixed realityin education. thank you.
– good morning. my name is megan saunders, and i lead our initiativearound 3d for everyone at microsoft. and i’m so excitedto talk to you today about the magic of 3d, mixed reality,and education. now, as humans, we learnfrom the real world around us. we learn by reading,by experiencing things first hands,
and by doing. it’s part of who we are. but today we not only learnfrom the real world, we also have created new waysto learn with technology. we can see kids createin rich 3d worlds like minecraft. there they can bringtheir ideas to life, and they can creatively explore, and problem solveright in the moment. so, how do we bring the benefitof our real world
and this digital world together? we call this mixed reality. and mixed realitybegins with 3d content. now research tells usthat 3d improves attention span,engagement, motivation, and overall academic performance. and my personal favorite, girls enroll in mathand science classes at a much higher rate
after taking a course in 3d. so today we’re gonna show youa number of demos that highlight someof the benefits of 3d in and out of the classroom. now schools havedifferent access to different resources. so we’re gonna show youa wide range of tools that educators can use. so i’m very excited now
to introduce you to amyfrom our development team who is going to help uson this next set of demos. – megan. let’s get startedin microsoft teams. here students havea new assignment around little-known space facts. and there are a lot of questionsaround when eclipses happen, so i’m gonna use paint 3d and powerpoint to bring the ideaof eclipses to life.
paint 3d is freein windows 10 and is one of the easiest waysto create in 3d. here, teacherscan create classroom boards and stock them full of modelsfor their students to use in their projects. now i’m gonna buildthe solar system. so, the first thingi need is the sun. drop it in. then i’ll go back to the boardand add the earth and the moon.
just scale them down. now, let’s make our suna little more realistic. here in the stickers tabi can add any 2d image from my pc and create a custom stickerjust like a texture. i’ve already addedthis lava sticker, and we’ll go aheadand place it on the sun. stick it on.nice. okay, now we just wantto line everything up. so, we’ll grab the earthand the moon.
move them into position,and because we’re working in 3d, i can move back and forth in space. great. so the moon travelsaround the earth every 29 days. and based on thistapped down view, you’d think that we wouldhave eclipses every month. but as soon as we changeour perspective, you can see that the moon’sorbit is actually tilted. so it’s not causing an eclipse.
now that we’ve used paint 3d to see why we don’thave eclipses every month let’s finish this project in powerpoint and see when they do happen. coming this fall,adding 3d models to your slides in powerpoint will be as easyas adding a 2d image. all you’ll do is goto insert, 3d models. grab the model we justfinished in paint 3d,
and drop it in. now, i’m not an animatorby any means, but powerpoint will actually animatemy 3d objects for me. all i’ll do isduplicate the slide, select the model, rotate it to show the tilt. just about there. and then go to transitionsand apply the morph transition. nice.okay.
i finished the entirepresentation earlier, so let’s go aheadand take a look at it. here we go. because of the moon’sorbital tilt, we don’t have eclipses every month. but let’s fastforward three months. now the moon’s orbit willalign with the sun and the earth to block the sunlight and cause a total solar eclipse.
the next time this is goingto happen is on august 21st when an eclipse will travelacross the united states from the west to the east coast. – that was a great presentation, amy. so we just saw how amy could simplify a complex learning point using 3d with paint 3d and office. let’s extendon that concept. the class is workingon another project
around the curiosity rover, and the teacher has just loadeda model of the curiosity from nasa’s websiteto microsoft teams. – i’ve actually alreadydownloaded the model, and i’ve got it open over here. now, most people think that the curiosity is about the size of a small lawnmower. in this view, i can spin it around, see it from a couple different angles,
but i can’t really get a sense of its size. – now, amy is showing ushow we can see 3d content in our screen, but i’m excited to announce a new featurecoming to windows 10 this fall that allows you to view 3d content through your screen. kind of like a magic window. we call this newfeature view mixed reality. now, this featureis not only available
on what amy is showing today, but it’s gonna be availablein a wide range of experiences. okay.so, amy, i’m 5’11". how big is the curiosity? – let’s find out.you could head towards the back of the stage. – okay.- i’m gonna drop the rover right next to you. – like about here?- perfect. – okay.- okay, here we go. nice.
let’s capture this.yeah. at seven feet tall and nearly 2,000 pounds, it’s pretty unbelievablethat we’ve landed this on mars. – with view mixed reality,we can bring this rover that was over 250 million miles away right into the classroom, giving us this unique perspective to understand the curiosity’s scale
and size in the relationto the world around us. in this case, me. now, here’s the good news. all of this can be doneon any classroom windows 10 pc that just has a simple rgb camera. even a plugged in web cam will work.and it’s free. so we just saw some examples of how we could simplify the complexusing mixed reality, but let’s pivot and see how we canlearn through experience.
now, field trips are a great wayto enable experiential learning. but not all schools can offeras many field trips as they would like. but with windowsmixed reality devices we can bring those field tripsright into the classroom. now, amy’s going to be using oneof these new affordable headsets to take us on a trip into the future far, far away. guess where we’re going?yep. we’re going to explore space. – i’m looking at the solar systemin a way that used to be impossible.
in textbooks, the eight planets are usually shown in a straight line, but in this immersive viewi can actually move around and get a sense for how they’re spread across space. – now, these types of applications can be really richfor self-guided learning. not only can amy exploreour solar system, but she can travel through time. and in this case, into the futurewhere the year is 2492.
now, this will be the next timethat the eight major planets are in closest proximity to one another. the last time this happenedwas about 1,000 years ago. – zooming in i can see how the planets will look when they’re grouped closertogether 500 years from now. what a cool way to learn about space. – it’s this type of immersive education that can enable any student to explore the world
or even the galaxywithout even leaving the classroom. thank you, amy. – thanks, megan.- we are so excited about the opportunity for 3d and mixed reality and learning,and we’re not the only ones. pearson, one of the largesteducation company’s in the world, has just begun to integrate 3d and mixed realityinto their secondary and university level curriculum.
they’re gonna be offeringcourses in commerce, history, health, and stem. so, in the school year 2018, any student can takeany one of these courses on any windowsmixed reality device. yes, it’s good. wow. i heard a wow. it’s great. because this isthe future of learning. so, let’s take a look at thatfuture curriculum with microsoft hololens. – i was tired ofpreparing kids for yesterday.
you’re always preparing kidsfor this world that didn’t really exist anymore, and it wasn’t going to existwhen they graduated. and i wanted to get my kids to the point where they could actuallybuild the future. – we’ve seen a fundamental shiftalready in how a lot of educational resourcesare being delivered. we’ve seen a shiftfrom print books through to ebooks. and i think the next evolution
of that is from booksto mixed reality. – as i started preparingmy lectures and thinking how i’m gonna communicatethis to the students, one thing i wished is i had a 3d chalkboard. – you actually have all thesetools that allow students to generate contentfor other students, which means that you could have students that are subject matterexperts informing the development of experiencesto help teach content
that they’re learning aboutin their other classes. and that’s just amazing. – with the hololens our ideafor an app was if you didn’t have access to all different instruments,you could learn them. i feel like being ableto interact with something is what makes youremember it more. – i’m a visual learner.i’m someone who learns by experiences as opposed to just readingit out of a book.
and so having the hololensput that visual in front of you makes things much easier. – we could use mixed reality for agriculture.- science classes. – geography.- math would be a big one. – it provides a much moreengaging experience for students, and that’s the ultimate goal for a teacheris to engage the students and have them learning. – from 3d in your screento the world is your screen, mixed reality is the future,
and it’s available today. we have a wide rangeof tools for educators that they can use to create curriculum for their students and peers. from paint 3d and office to view mixed reality to those immersive windows mixed reality headsets coming this holiday starting at 299.
with 3d and mixedreality and windows 10, any student can simplify the complex, can creativity learnthrough experience, and can gain new understanding by bridging their digitaland physical worlds. creativity leads to learning. learning leads to innovationand the future. – our aim is to unleashthe creative potential of hundreds of millionsof next generation creators.
whether they paintby colors or numbers, sculpt in 3d or code, design new worlds or buildings, compose symphony’sof music or science, create ideas or possibilities. however, they chooseto create we are building microsoft educationfor each of them. we want windows 10,office 365, minecraft, and mixed reality to bethe place for creators
in the classroom to create,learn, and play. but our commitmentto education goes further. we’ve focused so far today on how we seekto inspire students from kindergarten throughto twelfth grade. but windows 10 swill also be great for higher education students. and when i think aboutthe right device for them only one thingcomes to mind.
the most soulful expressionof windows needs to run on the most soulful expression of a windows device. please welcome panos. – so cool. what a day, right?it’s been crazy. it’s so incredible. this day of learning, it brings us inspiration
when you think aboutteachers and students and how thatall comes together. for me, in planning this event, it pushed me very hard to thinkwhat are those moments? what are those most impactfulmoments in my life? those moments wherei was learning most or where the teachingswere coming to life. and it really pulled me back. it pulled me all the wayback to the teaching
i would get from my dad, which is such an importantpart of my life. now check this out.that’s my dad. hopefully, you look at this picture,and you go, "hey, that’s his dad." right? i look at the picture, and i go lookat my blue leisure suit because it’s pretty hot. and then i wonder why they continuously dressedmy brother and i the same way. that happened for years,and it was awful.
anyway.so, now that i’m done with my therapy. my dad was an engineer. he was a hardware engineer. he was a guythat he wanted to put things togetherwith his hands. he wanted totake them apart. he wanted to learn how they worked.and that was a big deal. when i was growing up,my dad and i shared a room. it was my bedroom, and it was his office.and that was special to me.
that was specialfor many years of my life because his deskwas in my room. and my mom would put meto bed at night, and that was awesome,and i’d pretend i was asleep, and i’d lay there. and maybe 30 minutes or an hour latermy dad would come in. he was relentless.he’d come in every night, and he’d go to work.
and i would creep out of bed, and i would go sit next to him. and he let that happen. i don’t think we ever toldmy mom because i’m like, "hey, dad, do we have a picture?" and he’s like,"no, we never told your mom." those were the moments that you can pull all the wayback to from a learning standpoint. he used to teach me. we would hand build tvs together.and he would teach me.
i was six, seven, eight, nine.it took us a long time, but he would talk about every singledetail and how it mattered. and then if you got it wrong,you had to do it again. and you had to do it again,and then again. but it mattered that youdidn’t miss anything because if you put everythingyou had into this product, then you were gonna get everythingthat you wanted out of it. and he would say it.he’d say it to me. "when we watch this tv you’re gonna love thistv better than any other one."
because i’d ask dad,"why don’t we just buy a tv?" if i only knew what he wasteaching me back then. because right now i’m remindedof that exact same feeling in the work we do in surface and in windows and now across microsoft. this is a culture drivenby passion like real passion. that same passion my dadhad in teaching me how to put a tv together. it’s a culture driven by iteration.
and it’s also a culture driven by learning. and the best thing about making a productevery day with a team is this. i’m surrounded by some of the bestproduct makers on the planet. the best. but they put their heart and soul into every single detail. it doesn’t matterif it’s the tiniest hinge or the creation of an entire category. their heart and soul goes into it.
it doesn’t matter if it’s the bitthat we align to the pixel on the screen. and it turns out the more you lookat it you start to realize it’s not actually all theselittle details and parts that make these devices great. but it’s all the passion that the people making these products put into them that make them great. it’s that same passionwe want you to feel when you’re using our products.
that same energy that resonated with mewhen i watched tv with my dad. and that can be true. it’s actually truefor our entire surface family. if you haven’t picked up a pro, you should.and there’s many of you using them, and i’m super pumpedabout that by the way because i can’t remember the last time that happened. thank goodness. if you haven’t used a book,you should take top off, reverse it, fold it down, take the pen out, and create.
let your energy come into that. push the gpu. if you haven’t seen touchedor felt a studio, you have to. put your hands on it,pull it towards you, immerse yourself into it. hey, sue. you have done an amazing job today. has she been amazing? your work is inspiring,
and you make that studio look absolutely beautiful. i love that.i mean you bring it to life. the way it’s meant to disappear, and you’re creations show up here.it is wonderful. and we are finding that peopleare using surfaces just like that. now each one of these products has pushed the boundaries of innovation. they’re productsthat help you create. they’re productsthat help you think.
they help you love dowhat you love doing most. that’s true. they help you be more productive. but it’s not the product. it’s the product disappearinginto the background, and it’s the mind that getsto go into that product. to create what needsto be created. your musings, your learnings. everything you thinkabout comes together
through this seamless danceof hardware and software. and in essence,every one of these products, they’re made for creators. and we’ve said this.don’t be confused. you may be a creator of a spreadsheet or a symphony or a novel or a drawing, but what about the student? what do they create?can you imagine? they are creatorsof their entrance essays.
the thing that impactsthe next four years of their magical lives. should the technologybe in their way? and today is all aboutstudents, isn’t it? and for surface specifically, this is where we wantedto put our focus. into those next four yearsof a student’s life. when they’re just aboutto get out of high school. when they don’t even knowwhat their major is.
we wanted to bring them a product that they could have so much confidence in they didn’t haveto worry about it. now we know today,we know today many students, many students who use surface pro, and we love that. it’s cool.and a lot of them use book because they do need that dgpu in it, and they push it.
but they’re asking for more. they’re clearly asking for more. and we talked to a lot of them.we love them. there’s some students here,and we love you. – we love you too.- they’re asking for a laptop, right? they’re askingfor a surface laptop. cool. they want a bit of a choice. they want a product that’s gonna continueto empower them and remove every limit.
have you, have youwatched a student lately? have you seen whatthey can accomplish? have you seen what they can do? just watch. their minds, their hands. they move so fast. they come out of school.they come into microsoft. they run circles around me.circles. i’m almost embarrassed sometimes
how fast they’removing compared to me. it is extraordinary. they create fast.they think fast. nothing should stop them. nothing should get in their way. there should be no technologythat stands in front of them. and isn’t thatwhat surface is? isn’t it? the technology that disappearsto the background.
so to give that perfect laptop, to marry the hardwareand software together, the team across windowsand surface and office had to look at everythingfrom the materials to the scienceto the architecture. every bit of our experiencein making products had to come to life, and we had to re-examinethe entire laptop market. and then push those sameboundaries of innovation
you see pushed in the othersurface products into this product. we had to breath intothis product some life that really startedto change this category and continue to move it forward. so, we built a laptop. and it’s beautiful. but it’s beautifulbecause it’s personal. it’s personal because it’s meant to bea reflection of who you are. it brings you that securityand superior performance
that terry talked about. and probably most importantit’s gonna last you. and it’s gonna lastthat student from the day they walk intotheir orientation to the day they walk across the stagefor their graduation. i think this is the oneyou’re gonna want. this is the surface laptop. – i’ve got chills; they’re multiplying. and i’m losing control.
’cause the power you’re supplying. is electrifying.electrifying. you better shape up’cause i need a friend. and my heart is set on you. you better shape up. you better understand. to my heart,i must be true. you’re the one that i want. the one that i want, yeah.you’re the one that i want.
the one i need. oh yes indeed. you’re the one that i want, the one that i want. – cool.it’s simply gorgeous. i’m telling you, this is gorgeous. it’s such a gorgeous product. this product isso meticulously crafted. when i talk about the details
of putting a tvtogether with my dad, this is unrealwhat this does. every single partof this product, every detail thought through. every single detail. when you look at this product,and you put it in your hands, you’re gonna find no referenceto how any of these parts have come togetherin the product. you won’t find a screw.
you won’t find anythingthat leaves a parting line across the device. you see perfect lines. a perfect flow of energy. when you pull it apartand open it seamlessly, you see a tone in tonebalance in the colors. in product making we havea thing called the first read. we talk about it in ourdesign labs all the time. what’s the first readon the product?
how does it feel? it’s meant to be silent to the eyes.that’s critical. when you look at it,does it feel good? does it draw you in?what does it mean? why?how do we get people into their flow? how do we get them moving? it really is a productthat draws you in. it’s one of these productswhere you have to feel it to understand it, and so we’ll do that.can i show you this device?
i want to talk about the waywe made it with you if that’s cool. am i embarrassing you right now?i probably am. i mean you have lovely equipment. i don’t want to hurt it.you don’t have to move. stay right there.stay right there. no, totally cool. you do have to move though,so scoot in a little bit. all right.cool. all right.this is the surface laptop. and this is burgundy.you’re wearing burgundy.
– i am wearing burgundy.- i think we didn’t plan this, did we? that’s pretty cool. i want you to see it.i want you to feel it. i want you to kinda getthe essence of this product. when you think of what we’re trying to do with the laptopand where we want to push things. we want to push thingsa little bit further. we want to move from thingsthat are feeling like machines, and we want to move to somethingthat’s more personal.
something that’s justmore personal to you. keep it for the show.show it to whoever you want. but i think …do you like it? – i, i, i …- if you take a look, we’ve designed the productin four gorgeous colors. burgundy, graphite gold,platinum, and cobalt blue. all beautifully inspiredthrough different elements in nature to bring it to life. and the idea of makingsomething more personal
and bringing it to you was criticalin this product. now, when you hold this product, it feels amazingly thin and light, which is really importantwhen it comes to a laptop like this. it’s 2.76 pounds. it’s under 14-1/2 millimeters. and with one fingeryou can open the screen, which is super cool, but it’s very elegant in the sense
that i just open itsmoothly just like that. and what you get is a 13-1/2 inch diagonal with a 3 by 2 aspect ratio.this is the … when you think about aspect ratioand this diagonal, that’s the productivityof a 14-inch laptop and your standard16 by 9 format. so it’s like a 14-inch laptop, but it feels and acts like a 13-inch size when it’s in your bag.when you close it.
when you close this product,it feels so elegant. it’s important. it’s important that itsounds good when you close it. ’cause when you’re donewith your thought, and you close somethingdon’t you want closure? of course, you do. now when you lookat the products you’re using right now, and there’s a lot of them out there,
you’re gonna find a rubberbumper around the screen. you’re gonna find either a pieceof plastic around the screen. the reason that’s there isbecause when you close these devices, you don’t want to break the glass.i mean that’s pretty smart. but this elegant dance between these two parts come together so seamlessly in this product. and when i say at the first read you won’t findany misplaced parts
and every detailed matter,there’s no rubber bumper. there’s no plastic chin. there’s no hingethat you can see. it’s all part of the device that flows and fadesto the background. the screen itselfis 3.4 million pixels. 3.4 million pixels. it’s that exact screenthat you would expect from surface. that high contrast.
that color calibrated screen.you know what it is. i do it every time.i’m not gonna do it. you know what it is.at the end of the day, this is the thinnest lcd touch module ever createdand put into a laptop. and that’s how you get this form. that’s the laptop. of course, i’m low on time. i gotta keep going.okay.
we could stay all day.that’s an option. i want to show you the surface pen.i’m a huge fan of the pen. we talk about the pen all the time. of course, the pen works on this screen. i want to show you a feature in windows if you haven’t used it in the creator’s update, go give it a shot.take a video. get your pen, put it to the screen,and bring this feature to life. i’m gonna show you the craftsmanship videothat you’ll find in my blog later today.
it’s about two minutes long.this is a 30 second cut of that just to bring it to life. and what you can do with something. so, students if you will, they’re makinga lot of videos these days. even my elementary school girlsright now are doing it. my high school son and daughter,they’re also making videos. either they’re doing book reports,or they’re telling stories, or they’re creating.this is happen. that didn’t happen in my time,but it is happening now.
in the world of video creating for us, the last video you saw we spent a lot of time on every detailand every second of every frame. in this case what i’m gonna show you is how simple communication change with the power of the pen. and then the emotionthat can come in with it. i’m gonna hit play.watch how this will video play. as it’s playing, i’ll put my pento the screen to send the note to a team.
and notice what happens.and we talked about this a lot. the power of the pen. don’t underestimate it. the emotion that comes with writing. the cognitive recall that comes with writing, but in this case, i’m just sending a messageto the team that says, "it is awesome." "the seam here that you cannot see is awesome." "where the fabric and the aluminumcome together is perfect." and i want them to feel that,
so i’m gonna send this backto the team if you will right now. and so i’ll rewind it.i’m gonna play it. i want you to enjoy these 30 seconds,so i’m gonna get out of your way. but then i want you to seehow the ink makes it way back, and that’s such a human formwhere you can collect that emotion because it’s the ink and my soul that ends up on that screenthat you get to feel because i wrote it with the exclamationpoints and with my handwriting. you also can kind of figure that out.
if i was mad, it looks very similar. okay. take a look at this. – we tried to put every good ingredient we learned from the past into surface laptop. like the fabric customizedfor each keyboard. when you open you only see a piece of glass and piece of fabric, and then keyboard. you don’t really seethe mechanical hinge.
that’s the pureness. – there is no compromisein what we do in manufacturing. we’re suddenly bringing metal and plastic keys and fabric together. our manufacturing engineers are drivento invent processes to make sure that ultimatelyyou’re getting this full surface experience. – now you saw when i usethe pen you should see no lag; you should see no latency. and the pen is really coming to life.
the performance on this deviceis absolutely amazing. think about windows 10 sfor just a minute because it’s so important. you get this unbelievablystreamlined performance that lasts, and you get this productthat starts up unbelievably quickly. and let’s just talk aboutthat for just a second. when i opened the screen earlier,you saw me open it with one finger and the screen was just there and turned on. and when i’m closing this screenwith its elegant close
i’m shutting down this computerand putting it into sleep. and then i want this product. and what windows 10 has donewith the engineering team alongside the surface team is every single detailhad to come to life because we cannot have studentswaiting for their products. if you’re a student and you’re in a lecture,you need to capture a note. you have to openyour product and move. we’re used to generationwhen you just hit a button,
and your device is ready for you. the technology you have is there. instant on is critical.it is part of our lives. it should be celebrated, but actually the celebrationof instant on is because you can capture your thought, you can capture the moment,you capture your creation. and so that’s what we broughtto life in this product. that performance that’s comingright now where it’s just there.
and if you’re using windows hello this productwill log you in, and you’re moving.you’re going right in. that’s so important. now, this product comeswith the latest corei5 and corei7 intel processors. it has up to one terabyteif you choose pcie ssd. and that is integrateddirectly onto the motherboard, which in essence lowersthe power consumption
and maximizes the performanceon this device. no one has ever integrateda pcie ssd that way ever before. and it results in this engineeringeffort that gets you to 14 and a half hoursof battery life on this product. 14 and a half. this isn’t about taking your charger and pulling it out of your bag in between classes. this is where we want to change the game.charge your device. leave your charger homeand go to school.
and then go to the library. and then come homeand binge watch netflix. and then cram a little. and then charge it.that’s so important. but just as importantas designing the battery life when a device is on isdesigning the battery life when the device is off.i know that sounds kind of funny, but the truth is some of thatpromise of windows 10 s and surface is just that.
when you close the lid,and you leave for spring break, and you forgotto put the charge on. don’t worry.when you get back if you’re disheveleda little bit, you’re rushing to class.pick it up. open it. and you’ll be rightwhere you left off. that exact same batterywhere you closed the lid will be back when you come from spring breakand ready for you to go.
isn’t that awesome?that’s just cool. now let me put this devicein a little bit of more context, so you get a littlemore of that. in the history of laptopsand designing a laptop, there has always beensomething that had to give. whether it’s the weight.whether it’s the battery life. whether it’s the performance.whether it’s the thinness. whether it’s the key switch,the travel, how it feels under your hands. everything was workingagainst each other.
if you want to push more pixelsonto a screen like this, you probably needmore battery life and a little bitmore performance. if you need more battery life,you likely need a bigger battery. if you need a bigger battery,you likely need a thicker device. if you need a thicker device,it’s likely getting heavier. and then reverse thator put it in any order. these are conflicting goals. this is the first productthat brings that all together.
the team talked aboutmaking the surface laptop and used the word balance. and when we create productswe talk about it. what is the one thingon this product? and it was balance. we needed to bringa perfectly balanced product. a product that had never beenbrought together like this before. and a way to kindof put it in context is let’s just talkabout other laptops
because it frames it. now a lot of studentsuse macbook airs and macbook pros,and we know that. and those are awesome products. i mean they are awesome products. the surface laptop itself is lighter and thinner than any macbook air or macbook proon the market right now. it’s 50% fasterthan the macbook air.
and when you compare the corei7 surface laptop to the corei713.3 inch macbook pro, the surface laptop is faster. and all that comesto this moment. we have more battery lifein this product than any macbook on market today. put all that together,and that’s the surface laptop. we’re really proud of the team.really proud of the team. this is the laptop that startsto reset the category.
i mean it is the most balancedlaptop you will ever find. now how did we do it?it’s worth talking about because the innovationson this product are hard to see. the beauty easyto see and feel. the innovation hard to see because it’s disappeared. we had to push this productto its peak performance while keeping the deviceas thin and light as possible. our thermal design allows
this front edge of the productto stay under 10 millimeters. that was critical, critical. because if we’re gonna bringsomething beautiful to you, keep all that performance in it, we couldn’t start trading offany of the form of this product. we want students to be proudwhen they pull it out of their bag, and they want to feel proudwhen they do that. we integrated vaporchambers right … shaped as heat pipes directlyinto the aluminum backing.
right underneath here. now i have to tell you thisbecause my team back in redmond right now is like pleasejust tell them. tell them.you’re never gonna see this, but i’m still gonna tell you. right under the processor,these pipes run, and basically, it makes the bottom aluminum bucketthree different parts in one. it’s functional.it’s structural. and it brings that cosmeticperfection all at the same time.
that’s not beendone before. it allows us to packeverything we need in here and still give youthe weight and battery life and thickness that you wanted. and then we knewhow much beauty mattered and we weren’t gonnacompromise it. and we talked about this beinga product i want you to be proud of when you pull itout of your bag. we overlaid alcantara fabriconto the top of the keyboard.
this is a productimported from italy. it’s premium.it’s durable. it stands the test of time. but it also allowed usto laser etch after we opticallyaligned each single key on the product to leave no lineson the product at all. and to let no lightleakage come out. so when you arecramming late at night like i did for this presentation,
you get the perfect light. you get the perfect lightwhen you put your hands down. but it also allows us a full one and a half millimeter travelon the keyboard. it is buttery smooth,buttery smooth. when you put your handson this thing and type you feel so good.and why does that matter? because when you’rein the flow … because when we havea student immersed …
because when you are writingthat entrance essay, this technology mustget out of your way. it must.and it has to work seamlessly. and so when you putthis thing on your … your hands on top of thiskeyboard it feels warm. it doesn’t feel cold. it invites you in.it invites you in. now the fabric has justa bit more than just form it has some amazing function.
if you look at this product,you’ll see no speaker grills. you’ll see no speaker holes. and it gives that perfect look when we talk aboutthat first read and how soft. we were able to inventa technology to integrate the speakersunderneath the keyboard, use the fabricto push the sound through, and then push it out the keys. to point it right at youas you’re creating.
it’s incredible. that’s insane, right?i know it’s crazy. and now the sounds comingat you while you’re working. so if you’re editing that video and you want to be immersedand you the sound and the visuals to come together as creators knowwhich are so, so important. this is the productthat brings that to life. now i want to sharewith you a little bit
about microsoft office and surface and windowscoming together. office, my favorite producton the planet. i use it every day, word especially,and i want to show you how the dial integrates into thissurface laptop really quick and give you some functionof the product. let me give youmy set up really quick. i’m using the surfacedocking station. this product hasall the ports you need,
and i’m sure the portsyou’re gonna want. but here we’re connectedwith a surface docking station. so if you’re not a student,let’s just say you’re a professional. you already have a surfaceand a docking station. it works seamlessly together. this is a great productif you’re taking it home or for work. but in the sense of student’s,this is the word document. we know students love word.we know they use it. we know they create …i create in word and read in word.
but watch as i movethe dial with my hand. what you’ll find iswe’re gonna integrate the smoothness of this dial to the product itself,which was an important element. so as i move leftand i move right, you see that integrationof the ui of office. and this is that designthat’s so important between office and surface to get perfect because we wantthese things to flow seamlessly. and when we demoed this onstudio you say that same elegant piece.
i want to show youone more application that brings this product to life. and it’s a very cool app, for sure. before i do that, let’s talk. windows 10 s, office,and surface. these are all productsthat were made for each other. but the key is they wereactually made with each other. every single document you will use on this will be protected and secured.
every single app you useis verified by microsoft, which streamlines you for securityand superior performance. and if you need an appthat’s not in the store, that’s fine. you can just goand download windows pro and use any app you want. now that last application i want to talk aboutis probably the application that brings ittogether for me. now 3d 4 medicalis this company.
amazing companydoing amazing work for students and teachersaround the world. and they launched complete anatomyin our store just this year. and it really is the productthat i get to show you today to highlight all the performancein this device. to show you how the dial,the pen, the touch, the vibrant screenall comes together in just a beautiful,elegant application. and it all designsspecifically for the surface
to come to life. i want to invite my good friend, edel, out here from 3d 4 medical, and she’s gonna show youa little bit more about this product. edel, come on out.have fun. – thank you.- have fun. – hi, i’m edel from 3d 4 medical. when i studied neuroscience, all i had were flat 2d images
in textbooks to studythe anatomy of the human brain. i remember spending ageslooking online hoping to find a better visual resource, but it just didn’t exist. at 3d 4 medicalwe have a vision. and that is to transformmedical learning. i’m real excited to bepart this revolution and to show you how usingcomplete anatomy on the new surface laptop creates a totally new
and immersive experiencefor students. on this screen, you’ll seethe human skeletal model in 3d. and the power of this laptop means that i can easily navigate the model without any lag. the textures and the anatomical accuracy can be displayedin immersive detail no matterhow far i zoom in. i love this productbecause it allows users
to explore over 6,500 structuresright at our fingertips. and as we are visual learners, simply scanning this model means that usersretain more information than they would from a flat 2dimage in a textbook. the surface style allows meto interact with the model. for example, i can chooseto fade surrounding structures. and now i can seewhere this complex bone sits in the middle of the skull.
i can explode this regionand see the relationship between anatomical structures. using the dial, i can fully controlthe movement of these structures. you can’t do thiswith a textbook. now let’s relatethe anatomy to function, which students find verydifficult to visualize. i can turn on the muscles and see what movementthe muscles carry out.
this is the actual modelmoving here in real time. and i can control this bodymovement using the dial. i am making the neckbend here using the dial, and i can view this motion at any angle. this is a whole new levelof exploration, and it’s not justapplicable to anatomists. it’s interesting for meas a sports enthusiast to see how the muscleswork in the body. using this 3d technology,
users can completelyimmerse themselves in learning about the human body. we can go even further and modify the actual 3d structures. using the surface pen, i can cut throughvarious layers and structuressuch as the skin, the fat, muscles, bone, and even the meningescovering the brain.
and now i can identifydifferent parts of the brain and study their related functions. i can also drawdirectly onto the model. now i will always remember that this part of the brain is associated with motor function because i have written itdirectly onto this cortex. and now i havean interactive screen that i have created in seconds.
i can share what i havecreated via the cloud with my study group and friends. 3d 4 medical’s technology together with the new surface laptop replaces the needs for dozensof flat 2d textbooks. transforming medical learningby propelling a century’s old way of studying anatomy into the 21st century. – it’s incredible, right?
the way learning and studentsand teaching has evolved. it’s absolutely amazing. now you can preorder your surfacelaptop literally right now. right now. the corei5 is starting at 999. we’re pretty excited about it. i’m glad you are too. the product is available for you to either pick up
or be delivered on june 15th,so it’s coming pretty quick. go ahead and getyour hands on one. now learning isn’tsomething that has a limit. i believe that.i believe it’s an endless pursuit. we want students of any age. we want you to be committed. we want you to neverever stop learning. you never have to. you don’t have to stop getting betterand you always will if you push.
don’t ever stopbreaking new ground. and in surface,we want to give students all the tools they need to enable themto continue learning. from the surface proto the book to the studio and now to the beautiful surface laptop. at microsoft, we have a mission. and it is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
it is so powerfulto hear sachi say it. it is a missionthat is the motivation for every single product we make. from surface to windows to office to mixed reality to onenote to minecraft to teams. to every other detail,you saw today. and it’s about those details that these passionate product makers
bring to you to allow you to put your passion where you want to push it. it’s about creating products to empower the students of today – every generation hasthe opportunity to inspire those that followin their footsteps. to pass along the wisdom, knowledge, and experience neededto reach new heights.
microsoft is working to createa better learning environment for every student. with modern toolsthat are intuitive. – this is the project.- collaborative. – that’s actually good.- and accessible to all, so every studentis empowered to achieve more. this is the modern classroom. where we go beyond memorizationof facts and figures and a one size fits all education.
where students learnin the way they learn best. on the tools they will usein the future. where teachers create experiencesthat spark creativity. and everyone cancollaborate anytime, anywhere. microsoft education. empoweringthe students of today to create the world of tomorrow.
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