WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.790 Today I thought I would share why and how I started implementing inquiry based 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:08.160 learning in my own teaching practice. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:13.860 When I first became a high school teacher back in the late eighties, at 00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:19.290 the ripe old age of 24 I knew nothing. 00:00:20.070 --> 00:00:23.520 I don't think I was inspirational or particularly memorable. 00:00:24.150 --> 00:00:28.440 I became a teacher because that was the only way I could get an education. 00:00:29.310 --> 00:00:32.370 Back in those days in South Africa, the government gave bursaries 00:00:32.370 --> 00:00:33.810 to those who wanted to teach. 00:00:34.050 --> 00:00:35.160 So that's what I did. 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:40.020 Because I knew that the only way out of a potential life of financial 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:42.840 struggle, would be to get an education. 00:00:43.730 --> 00:00:45.360 I only stay for three years though. 00:00:45.870 --> 00:00:47.130 The pay was pitiful. 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:51.330 And because I was a woman, I earned less than my male counterparts. 00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:56.490 It annoyed me that I worked harder than most, and yet I earned less. 00:00:56.970 --> 00:00:57.720 So I left. 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:04.200 Fast forward 20 years after working in financial services, marketing, 00:01:04.230 --> 00:01:06.060 being a freelance food photographer. 00:01:06.090 --> 00:01:06.480 Yes. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.550 My photographs appeared in magazines. 00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:14.610 I photographed a cookbook for a client and even products for some quiet, 00:01:14.610 --> 00:01:17.520 famous clients and had a family. 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:23.370 And suddenly I find myself with an opportunity to teach kindergarten at 00:01:23.370 --> 00:01:26.820 my children's international school in Dubai, where we were living. 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:30.600 And I loved teaching those kids. 00:01:31.470 --> 00:01:36.390 I remember teaching a class of 24, I think which I had about 00:01:36.420 --> 00:01:38.460 18 different nationalities. 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:41.699 As well as children who couldn't speak a word of English. 00:01:42.300 --> 00:01:47.280 And as a bilingual person myself, I knew that just because a child doesn't 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:52.380 speak a word of English doesn't mean that they have a learning disability. 00:01:53.130 --> 00:01:57.270 I get really worked up when I hear teachers judging kids that are ESL. 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.680 English second language learners, because I know that within six 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.210 months, those kids are speaking. 00:02:03.510 --> 00:02:06.180 There's nothing lacking in them intellectually, just because they 00:02:06.210 --> 00:02:08.700 can't speak English, just yet. 00:02:09.990 --> 00:02:11.910 So now that I've got that out of my system. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:17.810 Now in this fabulous school, , which was called Dubai American Academy, I 00:02:17.810 --> 00:02:22.070 taught alongside the most incredible educators from across the world. 00:02:22.700 --> 00:02:27.980 Each one brought their own unique perspective and together we created. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:29.300 Knows days. 00:02:29.690 --> 00:02:33.350 Uh, kindergarten one program where children learned the basics in 00:02:33.380 --> 00:02:35.330 an integrated hands-on approach. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.680 And in those days, these kids only came to school until 12 o'clock, which was 00:02:39.770 --> 00:02:41.690 absolutely perfect for young children. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.400 I think school hours are way too long for young children now. 00:02:46.430 --> 00:02:49.880 And I also think that the long hours now have nothing to do 00:02:49.880 --> 00:02:51.410 what's actually best for children. 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.160 But rather there are all sorts of other reasons at play there. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:58.070 None of them, which have anything to do with kids. 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.520 I also realized that after becoming a mum. 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.510 My teaching was very much instinctive. 00:03:06.050 --> 00:03:10.010 I was an em and natural inquiry teacher. 00:03:10.550 --> 00:03:13.910 I love exploring and asking questions and I don't easily 00:03:13.910 --> 00:03:15.650 accept things at face value. 00:03:16.250 --> 00:03:19.790 I encouraged my children and my students to do the same. 00:03:20.330 --> 00:03:21.530 That's just how I roll. 00:03:22.580 --> 00:03:26.690 When we decided to immigrate to Australia, I knew that if I wanted 00:03:26.690 --> 00:03:29.810 to continue teaching in early childhood, I would have to retrain. 00:03:30.350 --> 00:03:35.660 So I enrolled as a mature age student at the ripe old age this time of 48. 00:03:36.650 --> 00:03:37.850 Can you imagine? 00:03:38.630 --> 00:03:42.410 In an early childhood diploma program, which was called the residency mode. 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:45.470 It was fantastic program that they don't have anymore. 00:03:45.890 --> 00:03:49.940 But what it did was it meant that you were assigned to two schools each for 00:03:49.940 --> 00:03:51.920 half a year, six months, six months. 00:03:52.430 --> 00:03:56.090 Were you taught alongside your mentor teacher for two days a week, and then 00:03:56.090 --> 00:04:00.380 spend two days working on assignments and one day at uni and lectures and workshops. 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:04.790 Plus, of course, the full time, six weeks prac at the school. 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:09.830 And it was during this year when I discovered who I really was as a teacher. 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:14.780 Having spent the first six months with a maintainer who was hands-on got kids 00:04:14.780 --> 00:04:16.880 involved, worked with manipulatives. 00:04:17.270 --> 00:04:23.270 We went outside to learn concepts hands-on and rotated activities in small groups. 00:04:23.570 --> 00:04:24.650 Kids were happy. 00:04:25.070 --> 00:04:27.920 And it suited my natural inquiry style. 00:04:28.460 --> 00:04:29.480 The second half. 00:04:29.810 --> 00:04:32.270 I spend at a direct instruction school. 00:04:32.810 --> 00:04:36.710 This is where teachers taught from a script, mostly whole class teaching, 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:41.630 very structured and they used behavioral methods that didn't sit right with me. 00:04:42.170 --> 00:04:43.280 Kids were subdued. 00:04:43.930 --> 00:04:47.770 This school was driven by one thing, and that was NAPLAN results. 00:04:48.340 --> 00:04:52.600 And NAPLAN is the national assessment program here in Australia, where students 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:57.010 in years, 3, 5, 7, and nine, are assessed in literacy and numeracy in a series of 00:04:57.010 --> 00:05:02.380 tests, which focus on basic skills now we all know the direct teaching does give 00:05:02.380 --> 00:05:06.760 you better results in the short term, but it does not allow for creativity, 00:05:06.850 --> 00:05:09.190 individuality, or critical thinking. 00:05:09.940 --> 00:05:16.210 And I did, however, learn how to be a really good explicit instruction teacher. 00:05:16.270 --> 00:05:19.570 And I knew what to look for in a type of school. 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:20.860 I wanted to work in. 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:27.080 37 applications and one interview later, I found myself in this 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:28.760 school where I'm still employed. 00:05:29.450 --> 00:05:32.570 Although I am a long service leave this year as those of you 00:05:32.570 --> 00:05:33.950 that have been following me know. 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:38.540 But what was so apparent to me right from the start. 00:05:38.930 --> 00:05:41.390 Just as it had been in Dubai, is that. 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:43.520 All children are the same. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:44.990 They want to play. 00:05:45.410 --> 00:05:49.220 Be with their friends, have fun, and explore on their own. 00:05:49.730 --> 00:05:52.130 And feel safe and supported. 00:05:52.970 --> 00:05:54.740 And so that's what I try to implement. 00:05:54.860 --> 00:05:58.400 And of course it didn't take me long to know that I actually needed more. 00:05:58.760 --> 00:06:01.010 So I went back to my Kath Murdoch books. 00:06:01.400 --> 00:06:06.620 And I also spotted online a six day course with the nature pedagogy queen. 00:06:07.730 --> 00:06:08.630 Claire Warden. 00:06:09.350 --> 00:06:15.440 And taught with what I know to be an authentic, age appropriate inquiry 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:21.230 stance, where children are encouraged to be independent thinkers, questioners, 00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:23.210 and drivers of their own learning. 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:28.040 Because that's how I want to be and , what I would want for my own children. 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:33.830 I don't want my own children sitting like potatoes, and having stuff that 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.220 might not even be relevant to them just shoved down their throats, which 00:06:37.220 --> 00:06:39.110 they will never remember anyway. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:44.450 I see our role as educators as facilitators. 00:06:44.990 --> 00:06:48.770 Yes I still am a big proponent of explicit instruction for 00:06:48.770 --> 00:06:51.590 literacy and numeracy because kids don't know what they don't know. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.790 But alongside that, I believe children need to be given the 00:06:55.790 --> 00:06:58.190 opportunity to explore for themselves. 00:06:58.580 --> 00:06:59.870 To ask questions. 00:07:00.350 --> 00:07:03.200 To look for answers and to produce products that are 00:07:03.200 --> 00:07:04.820 unique and individual to them. 00:07:05.070 --> 00:07:09.450 Not the dreaded 25 identical yellow ducks hanging off a washing line 00:07:09.690 --> 00:07:14.100 we see so often in classrooms, which show no individuality at all. 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:18.660 To be an inquiry educator is a way of thinking. 00:07:20.010 --> 00:07:21.120 It's a mindset. 00:07:21.690 --> 00:07:24.870 And yes, some of us have that mindset naturally built in. 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:29.160 But just because that mindset was schooled and possibly parented out of 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.410 you doesn't mean you cannot get it back. 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.920 It just takes some self-awareness and a little bit of reflection 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.050 and honesty on your part. 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:43.230 And a desire to be different, a desire to change the way you do things, for 00:07:43.230 --> 00:07:45.990 that innate curiosity to return to you. 00:07:46.980 --> 00:07:51.300 I cannot condone education where kids are sitting dead quiet 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.520 following instructions to the letter. 00:07:53.820 --> 00:07:57.150 And having their own personality and uniqueness schooled out of them. 00:07:57.930 --> 00:08:00.660 As educators, we must do better than that. 00:08:01.350 --> 00:08:04.350 We talk about educating the whole child. 00:08:04.710 --> 00:08:06.720 But I think many don't walk the talk. 00:08:07.290 --> 00:08:10.920 Without inquiry based learning, there simply cannot be a whole 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:12.690 child learning experience. 00:08:12.900 --> 00:08:17.100 We're fooling ourselves and parents, if this is what we're advocating, 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:19.170 but it's not happening in classrooms. 00:08:19.890 --> 00:08:23.400 So inquiry starts with your mindset. 00:08:23.850 --> 00:08:26.340 It's about asking yourself some hard questions. 00:08:26.730 --> 00:08:31.170 How can I teach this in a way that resonates with children and their 00:08:31.170 --> 00:08:33.270 natural love of play and learning. 00:08:33.900 --> 00:08:35.520 That was my starting point. 00:08:36.180 --> 00:08:39.030 And the answer was inquiry based learning. 00:08:39.760 --> 00:08:43.240 And inquiry didn't make my job harder, it made it more 00:08:43.270 --> 00:08:45.040 interesting and more enjoyable. 00:08:45.550 --> 00:08:50.530 I still taught my daily systematic, explicit literacy session in the morning, 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:54.610 followed by the group activities, some of which were independent and others directed 00:08:54.610 --> 00:08:59.410 by myself or my education assistant, but those activities were set up 00:08:59.410 --> 00:09:03.250 so the children could explore or answer a question, and work 00:09:03.250 --> 00:09:05.260 collaboratively alongside their peers. 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:07.600 Let me give you a little example. 00:09:07.900 --> 00:09:11.980 So let's say you're teaching children to write a descriptive sentence. 00:09:13.030 --> 00:09:16.270 And you get a child, and this child has written a simple sentence. 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:17.170 What do you do? 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:19.660 Do you correct the sentence for the child? 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.950 Or do you ask that child how he, or she can come up with a 00:09:23.980 --> 00:09:25.960 sentence that is more descriptive? 00:09:26.650 --> 00:09:30.580 If you chose the second option, well, that's what an inquiry teacher would do. 00:09:31.059 --> 00:09:34.359 Perhaps you'll give the child some guidelines as to where in the sentence 00:09:34.359 --> 00:09:38.859 they need to think about adding words or use a more descriptive word, or you'll 00:09:38.859 --> 00:09:43.149 send them to a word wall to look for more descriptive word to use, but you wouldn't 00:09:43.149 --> 00:09:45.069 just correct the sentence for them. 00:09:45.609 --> 00:09:47.979 You want them to do the thinking. 00:09:48.429 --> 00:09:50.349 The students need to do the work. 00:09:50.379 --> 00:09:51.129 Not you. 00:09:52.149 --> 00:09:56.379 Let's take another example in maths or math, as the Americans say. 00:09:57.009 --> 00:10:00.759 Let's say you want students to show all the different ways to make 12. 00:10:01.239 --> 00:10:03.639 Would you give them a worksheet with missing numbers that 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:04.809 they just have to fill in? 00:10:05.379 --> 00:10:07.569 Or would you give them an activity 00:10:07.769 --> 00:10:12.249 where on the mat on a large sheet of paper in small groups and with manipulatives, 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:17.229 they can work together to come up with as many ways as possible to make 12. 00:10:17.739 --> 00:10:19.929 And of course you aren't just going to leave them. 00:10:20.409 --> 00:10:21.399 You're going to check. 00:10:21.789 --> 00:10:24.999 See you need scaffolding who needs a more difficult number. 00:10:25.419 --> 00:10:28.719 And you're going to handle any errors and misconceptions right there. 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:31.839 So that's just one part of inquiry. 00:10:32.139 --> 00:10:34.629 It's that natural questioning we do. 00:10:35.109 --> 00:10:38.079 And before, you know, it, the students start questioning to. 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:40.029 And here's the next part. 00:10:41.439 --> 00:10:45.279 I soon realized that kids don't enjoy having their flow interrupted. 00:10:45.819 --> 00:10:48.729 So I planned two consecutive days a week. 00:10:49.359 --> 00:10:53.769 Where we were going to do what I called investigation time. 00:10:54.579 --> 00:10:58.839 I was still doing explicit teaching modeling, using my talk for writing 00:10:58.839 --> 00:11:03.469 to teach writing, my guided reading, where, if you've listened to some of my 00:11:03.469 --> 00:11:06.919 previous episodes, you would have heard that I always linked to my science or 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.209 humanities and social studies curriculum to my literacy and guided reading, 00:11:11.449 --> 00:11:13.909 because for me, that's the only way to get through the curriculum. 00:11:15.019 --> 00:11:20.569 My learning intentions were always up and displayed for all the children to see. 00:11:21.259 --> 00:11:25.519 When I first started with investigation, what I wanted was to teach investigation 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:27.049 and critical thinking skills. 00:11:27.499 --> 00:11:28.429 To the students. 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.559 So I would use a whole class example of say, we were learning about life cycles. 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.199 I would choose for example, the darkling beetle. 00:11:36.589 --> 00:11:40.519 And by the way, mealworms are the larva of the darkling beetle. 00:11:41.249 --> 00:11:46.769 And I would be teaching report writing in my English sessions so then on 00:11:46.769 --> 00:11:51.629 these investigation days, the children could choose their own animal or plant. 00:11:52.229 --> 00:11:56.009 And then use the skills I was teaching them in the English lessons and at 00:11:56.009 --> 00:11:59.909 the beginning of the investigation session, and applied that to 00:11:59.909 --> 00:12:01.709 their own independent projects. 00:12:02.339 --> 00:12:05.339 Children could also do whatever other projects they wanted to, 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.579 as long as it aligned with one of our learning intentions. 00:12:09.119 --> 00:12:10.469 I'll tell you a quick story. 00:12:11.579 --> 00:12:14.279 I had a new student coming to my class from another school. 00:12:14.849 --> 00:12:17.169 Really bright little spark he's in year seven now. 00:12:17.189 --> 00:12:17.789 Lovely boy. 00:12:18.419 --> 00:12:21.089 He had an interest in the flu virus. 00:12:21.779 --> 00:12:23.519 This was before COVID, by the way. 00:12:23.999 --> 00:12:27.689 He asked if he could do a project on the influenza virus, not the flu 00:12:27.689 --> 00:12:30.479 virus, he said the influenza virus. 00:12:31.229 --> 00:12:33.899 I asked, does it meet one of our learning intentions? 00:12:34.319 --> 00:12:35.909 He said I'll be back. 00:12:36.449 --> 00:12:40.379 A few minutes later, he returned saying, well, yes, it links to our health because 00:12:40.829 --> 00:12:44.939 he was going to show how we could keep ourselves healthy from the flu virus. 00:12:45.299 --> 00:12:46.979 I said, fabulous, go for it. 00:12:47.669 --> 00:12:52.229 Well, this project by a year two kid blew me away. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:57.479 Not only did he ask his questions, find our answers, write up the 00:12:57.479 --> 00:13:02.189 report, but also made the most incredible model of the flu virus. 00:13:03.199 --> 00:13:07.759 Now another thing that I expected children to do was that when they had finished 00:13:07.789 --> 00:13:10.159 their projects, they had to rehearse them. 00:13:10.609 --> 00:13:14.299 And give a presentation where the class could also ask them questions. 00:13:14.989 --> 00:13:17.689 This way of teaching meant the children did not just learn 00:13:17.689 --> 00:13:20.479 about one lifecycle of the frog, 00:13:20.509 --> 00:13:22.789 we didn't just learn that one example. 00:13:23.269 --> 00:13:26.059 They learned about 20 different life cycles. 00:13:26.629 --> 00:13:30.109 Because some kids may have wanted to work in pairs. 00:13:30.949 --> 00:13:36.649 Because, each child did a project that aligned with their own interests and 00:13:36.649 --> 00:13:41.509 they learned about other interesting projects like influenza, all because 00:13:41.719 --> 00:13:44.209 the had the opportunity to explore. 00:13:45.289 --> 00:13:46.519 Now was it chaotic? 00:13:46.729 --> 00:13:47.389 Yes. 00:13:48.199 --> 00:13:51.559 A bit, especially in the beginning when I was still trying to figure out 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.359 how to best operate in this model. 00:13:53.809 --> 00:13:58.699 But as soon as I got organized and had everything at hand, because some children 00:13:58.699 --> 00:14:03.079 wanted to make PowerPoints, others wanted to make models and narrate a movie to go 00:14:03.079 --> 00:14:05.659 with that, others wanted to make booklets. 00:14:06.289 --> 00:14:11.239 I think the best thing I did, was to get really organized, and then relinquish 00:14:11.269 --> 00:14:13.129 control and trust the children. 00:14:14.059 --> 00:14:14.719 And you know what? 00:14:14.719 --> 00:14:18.109 It's a beautiful thing to be in a classroom where children are engaged and 00:14:18.109 --> 00:14:21.439 working and busy and you feel this hum. 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:23.749 It's a beautiful energy. 00:14:24.109 --> 00:14:24.679 Oh, my gosh. 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.799 It's making me want to go back into the classroom right now. 00:14:29.089 --> 00:14:34.339 And I challenge anyone to tell me this is not the best way to teach. 00:14:35.239 --> 00:14:38.569 Because the children weren't just left to their own devices during those. 00:14:39.499 --> 00:14:41.089 Investigation sessions. 00:14:41.689 --> 00:14:46.519 The skills that they needed to apply in those sessions were being taught to 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:51.649 them throughout the week, throughout the English sessions throughout 00:14:51.979 --> 00:14:55.129 other sessions, where we were learning our reading and our writing. 00:14:56.299 --> 00:15:01.459 And these students still performed exceptionally well in assessments. 00:15:01.819 --> 00:15:05.689 They loved coming to school for the most part, they were all engaged. 00:15:06.469 --> 00:15:10.429 And listen was I fabulous at all this in the beginning. 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:11.449 Of course not. 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:12.739 I made mistakes. 00:15:12.829 --> 00:15:14.149 I still make mistakes. 00:15:14.809 --> 00:15:16.549 It's different for every cohort. 00:15:17.089 --> 00:15:21.169 But it's the only way I know of that really gets children 00:15:21.409 --> 00:15:23.029 interested in learning. 00:15:23.849 --> 00:15:26.579 So if you were sick and tired of the old talk and chalk worksheet, 00:15:26.579 --> 00:15:27.899 heavy way of doing things. 00:15:28.529 --> 00:15:32.769 That let's face the doesn't engage modern kids who are now tech savvy, then 00:15:32.789 --> 00:15:35.579 take a deep breath and just have a go. 00:15:36.119 --> 00:15:40.619 Your way doesn't have to be like my way or anyone else's for that 00:15:40.619 --> 00:15:43.079 matter, you will find your own groove. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.509 But for you to just be brave enough to get started, I have a resource for you. 00:15:48.839 --> 00:15:51.209 It's called inquiry 1 0 1. 00:15:51.569 --> 00:15:56.369 And I created it especially for educators who just want to get started with inquiry. 00:15:57.179 --> 00:15:59.519 It's based around the same 00:16:00.079 --> 00:16:03.589 system that I use in my own classroom. 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.359 But it's not free. 00:16:05.539 --> 00:16:09.409 It's 12 Australian dollars, which is really nothing. 00:16:09.709 --> 00:16:13.759 Simply because it's such a valuable resource, and in my experience, 00:16:13.909 --> 00:16:16.459 nothing really good is ever free. 00:16:16.909 --> 00:16:21.139 And you can get it by going to resources dot blooming curious.com 00:16:21.139 --> 00:16:24.529 forward slash inquiry dash 1 0 1. 00:16:25.219 --> 00:16:29.209 And on my site, I do have a whole bunch of other resources that are 00:16:29.209 --> 00:16:33.319 free to help you with planning and organizing your inquiry units 00:16:33.349 --> 00:16:34.159 and your teaching. 00:16:34.579 --> 00:16:37.189 I'll leave a link to all of these in the show notes. 00:16:38.119 --> 00:16:42.589 Listen, I hope that today's episode inspired you to have a go at 00:16:42.589 --> 00:16:46.879 incorporating an inquiry mindset and a strategy into your teaching. 00:16:47.359 --> 00:16:52.609 And I also want to say that if you need guidance or help, then just email 00:16:52.609 --> 00:16:55.479 me at contact@bloomingcurious.com. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.289 I'll leave a note to that in the show notes. 00:16:58.769 --> 00:17:01.709 Thank you for sticking with me today and listening to this podcast. 00:17:01.709 --> 00:17:06.059 I know there are hundreds of others that you can listen to, but you chose this one. 00:17:06.479 --> 00:17:07.979 And that means a lot to me. 00:17:08.369 --> 00:17:11.849 If you found this or any other episode, Of blooming curious, 00:17:11.879 --> 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