Evening Salon with Gever - October
Throughout the year, Brightworks founder, Gever Tulley is hosting evening events on a variety of topics. These are open to the public!
Salon 02: Experiential Learning
Get hands-on with Gever as we build a simple contraption together and look at how it creates opportunities and connections for math and physics concepts. We'll discuss some of the complexities of trying to teach math this way, and look for ways to make it work better.
Location: Brightworks Library
Tuesday, October 22, 7-8:30
Where in the world is Gever?
Recently returned from Slovakia, Gever spoke at the "Innovation in Education" conference. He presented a new talk, "Five Dangerous Things Every School Should Measure", which you might have seen a preview of in the first salon of the year. The talk explores the idea that optimizing for test scores has warped every aspect of education, and that by changing what we measure we might align better with our values (and possibly reduce global student anxiety). He reports that the talk was well received and led to many interesting conversations with groups working to help improve education for the systematically marginalized Roma population in Slovakia - so stay tuned for an update on that later this year.
Prior to leaving for Slovakia, Gever met with a team from Aoyama University in Tokyo and pitched something called "The Optimism Project". This project emerged from an earlier conversation with the university where a professor asked Gever "we are losing our population at an alarming rate, how can your approach to education help with this problem?" This project will be the subject of a Salon early in 2025, and so, more on that later as the project develops.