1 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:04,640 I'm going to 2 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,160 share with you quite an emotional and personal journey. 3 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,360 And it's the reason why I do what I do 4 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,880 every day and why I do it so passionately. 5 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,080 I'm going to tell you the wonderful thing about Tiggers. 6 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,920 And it's not just that they are bouncy, bouncy, bouncy 7 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,400 or fun, fun, fun. 8 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,960 So when people ask me what I do for a living, 9 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:32,920 I tell them and I, I say those words, there. 10 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,360 And I feel a bit awkward. 11 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,960 I feel like an imposter. 12 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,160 And there are three standard responses, 13 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,240 to those who ask 14 00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,920 when I tell them there's either silence and tumbleweed. 15 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,360 And then they swiftly move on to the latest 16 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,760 happenings on Love Island. 17 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,640 Or I get the. 18 00:44:58,640 --> 00:44:59,600 And the one that makes me 19 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,360 smile is the ooh, well, that's a fancy title. 20 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,760 What do you do? I've never heard of one of them before. 21 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,320 So essentially what I do is I 22 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,800 teach and lead a team of people who 23 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,800 teach people, staff, across this huge organization 24 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,360 how to use technology for teaching and learning and working. 25 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:21,600 And why? 26 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:26,440 Well, that's because we want to teach our 25,000 learners 27 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:31,560 how to survive in this digital world, and we want to give them every opportunity 28 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,600 to succeed. 29 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,920 So whilst preparing for this 30 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,000 presentation, 31 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,600 I calculated that I'd spent 42 years of my life in education. 32 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,480 first, through school then college, then university, 33 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:53,240 and then I went out into work and the stars aligned 34 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:56,960 and the universe did its thing, and I found myself back in education, 35 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,440 but this time in a working capacity. 36 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,520 So up to this point right now, 37 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,680 that equates to 84% of my life. 38 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,840 Now, for me, 39 00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,840 a career in education seemed inconceivable. 40 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,200 You see as a child, 41 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,160 my dream job was not to be an astronaut or a nurse. 42 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,040 It was to ski for my country a big dreaam. 43 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,120 Yeah, especially as I'd only been on the slopes for seven days with my grandma 44 00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,440 when she took me to the Pyrenees when I was seven years old. 45 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,520 So, yes, I'm an ambitious dreamer, 46 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:42,760 yet in my wildest of dreams, never did teaching feature 47 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,560 that just wasn't for people like me. 48 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,200 Yes, that is me. 49 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,560 At school, I wasn't the high performer. 50 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,760 In fact, I wasn't even a good performer. 51 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,120 I was a C grade at best. 52 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,000 Comments such as easily distracted chatterbox 53 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,840 must try harder followed me throughout school life. 54 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,040 There was one occasion where the teacher distilled 55 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:12,760 his thoughts of me into one sentence that has haunted my parents to this day. 56 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,600 It was 1977. 57 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,840 I was nine years old 58 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,320 and my mom attended parents evening for that 15 minute slot that you got. 59 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,600 And a Mr. 60 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,200 Silson, my form teacher at that time, said Mrs. 61 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,080 Jackson. 62 00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,800 Don't raise your expectations of Deborah too high. 63 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,720 She's never really going to make much of herself. 64 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,960 Obviously, he'd not seem me ski. 65 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,040 I was easily distracted a the chatterbox 66 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,160 because I couldn't learn the way that they wanted me to learn. 67 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,280 I didn't fit into that. 68 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,560 And to me, reading is 69 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,280 just like that conveyor belt on 70 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,520 the generation game, words pass me by. 71 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,040 But when I'm asked to recall them, 72 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,720 I struggle, I get brain fog. 73 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:11,160 Even though I can read the words and I know what the words 74 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,560 mean, I just can't make the words stick up there. 75 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:19,200 I read lines of text over and over again, and I'm actually no wiser at the end 76 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,360 of it. Guess which one's me? 77 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,120 I wasn't a troublemaker, in fact, quite the opposite, 78 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,440 I had an impressive record of attendance and punctuality. 79 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,280 I was never given detention, I handed in work on time 80 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,160 I went to after school clubs, drama or sports. 81 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,760 I tried hard to be the good student and to achieve better grades, 82 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,720 and my reports usually read something like this. 83 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,080 Deborah is a popular member of the group. 84 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,000 She's kind to others and always there to offer a helping hand. 85 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,200 And then there would be the lines of criticism, 86 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,680 constructive criticism, obviously. 87 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,200 Now I don't know about you, but in a sea of compliments, I always dwell 88 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,320 on the one negative or the few negatives, and 89 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,520 especially back in those days. 90 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,120 It's fair to say that my parents were disappointed. 91 00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:12,960 Their response was to ground me 92 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:14,640 after school. 93 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,440 My mom and dad have been high performers 94 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,520 passing the, you know, the relevant plus and going to grammar school, and 95 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,200 I don't think they could understand why I wasn't bright or why 96 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,040 I didn't get high grades. 97 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,560 They made me do extra homework. 98 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,720 I was even sent for private tuition. 99 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,800 And the thing is the private tuition and the extra support 100 00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,040 didn't make any difference. 101 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:44,080 In fact, my grades deteriorated and the pressure really grew. 102 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:49,000 And as I got older, I got more and more frustrated, inferior, demoralized 103 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,040 and lost all hope of getting a job. 104 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,840 Needless to say, there were lots of arguments, 105 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,920 and it was a pretty rubbish time in my life, not happy. 106 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,440 And I the left school with an embarrassing set of grades. 107 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:10,640 Now this isn't a plea for you to feel sorry for me. 108 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,280 Quite the opposite. 109 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,480 Among those really, really rubbish grades, 110 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,200 there were three beacons of hope. 111 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:24,040 I proved that I wasn't as stupid as I felt or as Mr. 112 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,120 Silson had made me feel or implied. 113 00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,400 I achieved A grades in Art, 114 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,240 Physical education and field biology. 115 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:38,640 In those lessons, I always felt confident like it was OK to take risks. 116 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,440 I felt valued and like I was more than just another person in the room. 117 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,480 Those teachers were different from the others, 118 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,720 and I was a different kind of student in their class. 119 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,760 Mrs. Millington, we all have a favorite teacher. 120 00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:54,320 I had three, but Mrs. 121 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,240 Millington kind of topped it all. 122 00:50:56,240 --> 00:50:58,360 She was my field biology teacher. 123 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,360 She took us on field trips to Sunnhurst woods. 124 00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,680 Not that you'd know where that is, but it's back over at home 125 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,640 in the minibus and we'd be dressed in cagoules 126 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,400 and in our wellies with maybe a pack up lunch. 127 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,320 And on one occasion we arrived and she handed us maps and she said, 128 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,360 Right, I want you to look for these, and she showed us 129 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,160 a book, showed us this book and pointed out puff balls. 130 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,360 This is the great, the giant puff ball, she said. 131 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:26,920 And then 132 00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,600 she kind of described where we'd find them. 133 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,720 And she held a Mars bar high up and she said, 134 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,560 first one to find a stink bomb wins this. 135 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,080 I loved her lessons. 136 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,240 Her passion for nature was palpable. 137 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:44,200 It was contagious and I wanted to learn and know everything 138 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,240 that she knew about nature. 139 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,400 After lessons, I'd draw 140 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,360 organisms and leaves and fungi just to impress her, 141 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,280 and she'd say over my work and delight in what I had drawn. 142 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,800 And as a result, she brought out a different kind of intelligence 143 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,520 that had never been recognized before that. 144 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,240 In my final exam, 145 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:11,360 I did achieve an A grid, and it was the highest 146 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,680 mark in the A group, it was 97%. 147 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,680 Mrs. Millington found a way 148 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,080 to help me absorb knowledge. 149 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,320 She even made up creative stories about the characters, 150 00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:26,600 they weren't really characters, 151 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:31,000 but glucose, sunlight, oxygen, all the things about photosynthesis. 152 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,240 She told it in a really creative way. 153 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:38,080 So her lessons were dynamic and memorable experiences. 154 00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,680 So much so I can remember it 40 years down the line. 155 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,000 Teachers can 156 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,160 make or break an individual with their actions. 157 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,960 Mrs. Millington helped me believe again. 158 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,400 OK, so let's skip forward 30 years, 159 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,840 and this is where Tigger comes to the party. 160 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,120 It's a cloudy morning mid-September 161 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,520 and I'm programme leader, programme leader of the BA 162 00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,360 graphic design course. 163 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:16,720 Meet, the class of 2006, It's early days on the course, you're know, 164 00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:19,040 when you just getting to know them and they're getting to know you. 165 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,320 I'd interviewed each and every one of them 166 00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:26,120 and every year I used to take on what I called a wild card. 167 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,200 And this was a student who 168 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,880 perhaps didn't have the requirements to get on the course. 169 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,320 But I think because of my background 170 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,040 and where I'd been, I wanted to give somebody else a chance. 171 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,560 So I did. I always took a wild card on. 172 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:43,320 But this year I took a few more than was usually acceptable. 173 00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,480 And that's because my team and I believed 174 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,360 that these individuals had something exceptional. 175 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,520 They had something that sparked and made what was beyond a D and E grade. 176 00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,320 We saw spark and light and a determination. 177 00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,960 And I was looking forward to teaching them 178 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:04,160 and learning what made them tick and how to get the best out of them. 179 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,040 Like Mrs. Millington, had got out of me. 180 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,480 Little did I know how many of 181 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,160 the hundred acre wood characters would be in that group. 182 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,120 We all know a Tigger, have a look around, think about your families, 183 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:19,720 think about who you work with. 184 00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:21,800 Yeah, you're all looking at each other right now and grinning. 185 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,880 We all know a Tiiger, Tiggers can be fun yet disruptive. 186 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,480 A social magnet, often the class clown. 187 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:31,480 I know. 188 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,280 And they certainly attract our attention. 189 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,520 And how about piglet? 190 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:42,040 Piglets, he's a bit of a nervous one is'nt he, extreme worrier 191 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:46,640 and this causes him great anxiety just in general situations. 192 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,800 And Owl. 193 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,120 Owl is considered to be the most intelligent of the characters, 194 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,400 despite being dyslexic. 195 00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,720 He often gets his words, his spellings wrong, letters mixed up, 196 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,760 jumbled up, even front to back. 197 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:09,000 In 2001, 198 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,400 the Canadian Medical Association did a study on the hundred acre 199 00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:17,040 wood characters, and they looked at the surroundings, 200 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,960 the friendships, the way that they behaved, 201 00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:25,000 and it resulted in a tongue in cheek paper produced to remind people 202 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,880 that anyone can have disorders, challenges and many of which are hidden. 203 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,840 And the results are, so to cut a long story short. 204 00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,440 That year, my students had their initial assessment. 205 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,720 And they weren't the only ones I had it to. 206 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:44,040 And the results. 207 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,280 Turns out I am Tigger and Owl. 208 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:50,520 And to be honest, right now, 209 00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,000 I think this is a little bit of piglet in there. 210 00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,880 So that was the day my life changed for the better. 211 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,040 I had a newfound understanding of myself. 212 00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,200 I learned that I could employ tools, digital tools 213 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,600 to help me overcome the challenges that I faced. 214 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,240 And most importantly, I learned that I wasn't as stupid as Mr. 215 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:15,520 Sillson had made me feel. 216 00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,560 I began to recognize that I just did things differently. 217 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,280 And best of all, I wasn't on my own. 218 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:25,280 I was in the company of some incredibly gifted and inspirational people 219 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,600 whose disability had become their superpower. 220 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:35,960 In 2006, I had the highest number of students 221 00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:41,200 with learning disabilities like dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger's. 222 00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,720 Again, breaking records before the course had started. 223 00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,240 Not only that, most of us 224 00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:52,560 kind of in general life experience challenges such as family 225 00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:57,480 commitments, travel issues, financial conflicts, all of that. 226 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,520 But together we found ways 227 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,520 of overcoming those boundaries by using technology. 228 00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:07,080 The digital tools that we used empowered everyone 229 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,080 to participate in their own way. 230 00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,040 And it was incredibly liberating. 231 00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,560 Tumblr, Moodle, Flipboard, Pinterest, Twitter 232 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,880 are some of the tools that brought my subject to life. 233 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,520 We were collaborating with industry experts. 234 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,600 We were teaming up with students at other colleges. 235 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,240 We were winning awards left, right and center. 236 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,400 The students genuinely were leading their own learning, 237 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,240 and it was the most exciting time in my career. 238 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:42,280 Those 239 00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:46,400 learners were part of my journey towards using technology to where I am now. 240 00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,080 Not only did we overcome barriers, 241 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,280 overcome barriers and all 242 00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:56,400 our expectation. 243 00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,600 They help me to help them, to help me, to help them. 244 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,880 Graduation was emotional that year. 245 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:09,280 25% of those students gained a first class degree 246 00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:13,360 and the majority got the remainder got two ones. 247 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,000 Now, that's pretty good. 248 00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,360 Not only that, 249 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,320 I believe that I've become a Mrs. 250 00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:22,600 Millington to all my group. 251 00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,320 I believe I'd become the teacher that inspired me. 252 00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,120 We won more awards 253 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,440 than in the history of the course, 254 00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,440 including three yellow pencils, which is quite a big deal, 255 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,080 and those graduates were recruited 256 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:41,920 by leading design agencies in the UK. 257 00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:47,360 Our disabilities and challenges meant that we thought differently, 258 00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,200 that we saw the world from a different perspective, 259 00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,000 and I'm lucky enough to be in a position to promote and drive 260 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,920 the use of technology to remove or reduce barriers for others. 261 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:00,760 Last year, 262 00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,880 at this college, 18% of our learners disclosed 263 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,720 a learning disability or long term illness impairment. 264 00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:14,880 Now, based on the average class size, which is about 24, 265 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:19,520 that means about four of our learners have got a difficulty, 266 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,080 a challenge to consuming content. 267 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:24,480 So let's just test something. 268 00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,640 If you've had a headache or you've got a headache right now wave at me. 269 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:29,560 No yep? 270 00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,480 One person, two people, keep your hands up, OK? 271 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,200 If you've ever sliced your finger, cut it, you know that kind of 272 00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,000 when you think, Oh, I've just cut my finger 273 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,200 and then you start typing and it hurts, but if you bang a digit 274 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,720 or a hand, ever stick your hand up. 275 00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:49,200 Keep your hands up, and if you are distracted by work 276 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,640 or something personal in your life right now, that's kind of distracting. 277 00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,960 It's bothering you. Hand up. 278 00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,120 Well, I don't need any more hands up because I think 279 00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,400 some people, have got two hands. 280 00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,120 But it is all of you. 281 01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:05,480 At some point we all suffer or struggle wit,. 282 01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:08,360 challenges. 283 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:12,800 So as you can see, disabilities and difficulties aren't always visible 284 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:16,440 or have a label, headaches, cut fingers general life 285 01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,760 distractions can be debilitating, some are permanent. 286 01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,280 Some are not so permanent. 287 01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,400 It isn't a choice, though, is it? 288 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:29,040 We all have, we all have a choice to do something about it, something different. 289 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,800 Just one small thing that we can do can help somebody so much. 290 01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:37,280 And as you can see behind me, he might be getting some words wrong. 291 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,040 But if you're deaf or if you speak another language, you're getting a better gist 292 01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,840 of this presentation just by this artificial intelligence behind me. 293 01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:50,280 So I've lost my track. 294 01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,480 Sorry, PowerPoint is using artificial intelligence 295 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,960 to create subtitles for you whilst I'm speaking. 296 01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,240 This presentation can be translated 297 01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:03,080 via this in 60 different languages. 298 01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,160 You can even take it away and listen to me on the way home. 299 01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:11,840 In any language, I know you're going to. 300 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:17,600 So every device has an accessibility features like this, every single one. 301 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:21,560 It's law, there's so many free tools out there 302 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,480 that we can make each other's lives easier. 303 01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,840 Whatever the disability or difficulty. 304 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:30,840 So as Richard said, 305 01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,320 TED talks are about sharing ideas. 306 01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,320 This young man 307 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,600 has an amazing ability 308 01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:45,080 to create, to use Rubik's Cubes to create giant portraits. 309 01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:48,800 Is this a disability or a superpower? 310 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,600 We all need to take steps to empower each other. 311 01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:57,520 Accessibility is not hard to achieve, nor is it expensive. 312 01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,040 It just requires a little bit of thinking. 313 01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:05,240 Let's celebrate the wonderful thing about Tiigers, 314 01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:09,920 owls, piglets, Emily',s Jacobs, Deborah's Thank you.