“Is a broken down car parked?” (Ian Gilbert, TEDxDubai 10.10.09)

Gilbert’s Idea Worth Sharing

Thunks are about independent thinking and getting student’s to think for themselves.

Teaching is about developing your own thinking. Student brains have to be opened enough to solve problems. What are we doing to teach kids to think?

3 Parts to independent thinking: Technology, Education, Neuroscience.

Some neuroscience facts…It takes 20-30 years for the brain to mature. You can’t be older than your brain.  There is a 2-3 year old spread in the brain of children.

There is a difference between thinking and knowing.

Call to Action

Education shift to focus on technology (example: tutorvista.com), education (thinking, thunks), and neuroscience

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Kevin Simpson, KDSL 
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Official TEDxDubai Blogger/Tweeter

Today we will be interviewing people throughout the TEDxDubai audience to learn more about them and their ideas worth spreading! To start, I've pasted a bit about myself and ideas worth spreading below...

Name: Anna Batchelder

Title: Founder & CEO

Organization: Bon Education (www.boneducation.com)

Hometown: Burke, VA (near Washington DC)

Why are you attending TEDxDubai?

• To be inspired by the amazing people in Dubai that do things everyday to make the word a better place.
• To share those ideas via @tedxdubai

What is your idea worth spreading?

Open Education Resources (OERs)! According to Wikipedia, OERs are “educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” Imagine a world where students, teachers and anyone that wanted to learn and exchange ideas could do so freely and easily!

Thanks to the Internet, they can! Take a ...