Every childhood deserves a makerspace | Vipul Redey | TEDxYouth@Colombo

Listen to how maker spaces are revolutionising education and learn how you can do this in your own way.
Vipul leads the academics team at Pearson Schools, India, an organization serving 30,000+ students nationally. He is also one of the 30 educators picked by TEDEd to undergo their Innovative Educator professional development program.
He previously led a team of education designers at Global Discovery Academy (GDA) Schools, a firm that designs, builds and manages affordable schools all over India. His educational affiliations include an MA in Learning, Design & Technology at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@VikasSharma-vt4kl]

Very interesting talk! Glad the first video I saw to understand the concept of makerspaces turned out to be so interesting. The talk was full of realistic examples and interesting perspectives.

[@makersspace5630]

Thank you very much for the talk, it is throwing more enthusiasm at our lab!!

[@jitendrakumarpatel8642]

Great Talk. We do such initiatives in Rural India - North Gujarat.

[@nightwingdelta0429]

This is my uncle!

[@sfvarandas]

Very inspiring! Congratulations!

[@drew2c659]

I would love to see this as a vocational school environment where students from public schools are able to go there. To flip an entire school system and change the pedagogical philosophy of teachers, parents, and even students outright might be a bit too dramatic in today's environment. I think this is great but starting small and waiting for it to catch on would benefit the future generations

[@bthiyagendran]

Compendious speech. Could you share more info of your setting up of makerspace at schools

[@opt23241]

Yay!

[@erikmmccray]

Wow, the educational system whole heartly dismantled all the industrial art programs just about everywhere and now they want to dumb it down call it maker spaces. Hay this is not new but back in the day it was called shop class.

[@TexPR1]

Erik McCray shop classes were and still are great, makers spaces are for inventions. You give the class a problem and they all get a box of stuff that they will try to invent something to solve the problem. It's mostly about letting people use their imaginations and their own ingenuity to solve problems or to create something amazing. Not all things are amazing but it's just the process of the kids go through to think through a situation.

[@somedude4967]

OMG SAME HERE

[@wheatley4306]

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