Name: 【TEDx】TEDxBratislava - Gever TULLEY - Secrets of engagement-based learning
Uploaded: 2014-06-15T16:36:32.000Z
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The imperative

So imagine you had an opportunity in your life to consider the question of education

Gerund

without looking at all of the restrictions and the complexities

that come with introducing education to a country like yours.

Imagine you lived in a mythical places like California,

where there were no laws about what kind of education you could create.

the best possible place for children to learn.

If you could imagine the most incredible learning experiences day after day.

and if you could imagine starting a school with two questions in your mind -

two powerful questions that would shape how you rethought education

How do people become those kind of people that we admire,

like Ahmed (Coucha)and his TEDxCairo - his little change

that was part of that revolution of Arab spring.

How do people become like Zuzana (Kierulfova) and her passion about such simple thing like mud

that transforms lives and transforms how people think about housing.

And the other question is: Are there possibly experiences that children have

that predispose them to heroic behavior later in life?

Is there something about what happens in childhood that makes you that kind of person?

So I started my summer camp with those two questions.

I made it for me to answer questions. This was in fact my own private laboratory

where I could experiment on other people's children.

And because it was my camp we built stuff.

This is what I do when I have time for my self

and this was a passion I could share with children, in this context.

We built a roller coaster with 20 meters, no 30 meters of track.

We built incredible cars that you power by rowing.

we started to have some fundamental realizations about how children learn.

And one of them, it seems so obvious, but it's almost gone from education - from traditional education.

And I'll tell you now and when you see it you'll remember how obvious this is.

It's true. 30% of our brains is dedicated to processing information from our hands.

Just like those cockroaches we sense the world through these and we make sense of the world through these.

Ideas that we form in our heads we often metaphorically shape with our hands.

We see the same parts of our brain light up.

And in fact, if you pick something up, you probably have something in your hand right now that you can use,

I want you to turn to the person next to you and poke them with it. Go on!

OK. Put that object down and poke them with your finger.

OK. If we had you in one of those giant machines with the magnetic doughnut

and we were looking at the activity in your brain, the exact same parts of the brain would light up

whether I poke you with the thing or I poke you with my finger.

And that's because our brains are wired for tools

to include the end of this thing as part of my body

and it doesn't matter if this is a few centimeters long,

If I poke someone with a two meter stick my body is extended -

the model I have in the my brain of my very own body - is extended to the end of that stick.

You should let your children play with sticks. Itĺs good for the brain.

we ask children to sit in desks and use the exact same tools hour after hour after hour,

never getting a chance to expand their brains with the use of different tools.

We have built some amazing stuff at Tinkering School.

both come up with an idea, build it and test it in the real world

not just their minds but their hearts are involved in that project.

Create a meaningful experience and the learning will follow!

What that means is that if you focus first, before you even think about curriculum,

before you worry about math, reading, writing

if you focus on designing the experience the rest of it you get for free.

if it came from a place where children could build airplanes and fly them?

and I got to speak on the main stage at TED.

I got invited to speak to educators around the world about this little idea.

And s I spoke to them I realized there were parts missing from my idea.

It couldn't be aáschool. I had some good parts and I had some bad parts.

And working with these educators in places literally as far away as Bahrain

and as close to home as San Francisco - my nearest city -

these incredible people shared these ideas and we put together something

And I want you to know I'm not an educator by training. I come from the world of computer technology.

Iáused to manage and innovation group at Adobe,

which was a great job and I left it for this.

how to make perfectly round balls of sand.

And now I'm going to make them out of mud.

But this idea that we started to frame with these educators

And in order to understand it I had to draw it,

because that's how I think and Iĺm gonna draw it for you right now.

So, if the standard traditional pedagogical unit of a traditional school

is that day divided into these forty five minute periods -

a little bit of math, a little bit of science, a little bit of history, a little bit aálunch,

If that's how we think of children's education now

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