AN OVERVIEW

This video, is one from a collection of videos by Born to Learn, a 21st Century Learning Initiative

Curiosity is all about face to face human experiences, and discovering un-structured, serendipitous learning opportunities within a community in a school or college. It was built out of a rethink on our education system and the structures around it. It is a hosted web app, branded on your institution and constantly updated by Teemac.

Education today has its roots in the Industrialization era, when most of the structure as we see it today came into place - classrooms, rigid learning paths, the dominance of the teacher-teaches-many model and the measuring of progress based on memory instead of critical thinking. The state of our world today poses new needs and challenges to our education systems and fortunately, the technology is in place to facilitate a solution. We need to liberate learning from the structures around it so that critical, independent thinking and self awareness has a chance. Moreover, students and communities need to have these deep experiences together, in close collaboration, for the discovery of empathy and the limitations of perspective.

Curiosity implemented in a school or college will help the students there to do many things, both inside and outside the classroom - from using Curiosity to improve focus, manage time better and subscribe to many more opportunities, to having a bigger picture of everything that's happening at your institution. From posing questions to the entire community whenever curiosity strikes to organizing and participating in activities that interest them. From meeting and engaging with people they would never have otherwise engaged with, to learning new skills and teaching old ones to others. From reading up and researching beyond the recommended course-ware to seeking help to do things that they find difficult to do on their own. To helping others with their own quests, considering new ideas from around the world everyday, thinking deeply, discovering empathy and questioning everything.

Explore on!

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