New Era of Education

What to teach children who "know everything"? After finishing studies at school or University, we think we know everything or almost everything about the world around us or the studied subjects. But what if not?

Doubt is right! Not knowing something is not a shame! These are the clear rules, which used Anatoly Gin, expert consultant on theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ), founder and a scientific director of International Association "Education for a New Era", to begin his seminar on "Creative thinking. What and how to teach the most talented".

Anatoly Aleksandrovich specializes on the methods development for education of the future: methods of development of creative thinking, learning to solve non-standard (open, inventive, research) tasks. According to Anatoly, non-standard tasks are the best way to develop children or students. The speaker applies his theories, using unusual puzzles to teach his own children. Students  of Summer school tried to solve some examples of similar tasks:

"The first escalator was introduced in England. But in the beginning people were afraid to step on it. Give your suggestions about what should have been done, so that people decided to move?"

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"Once Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson got lost in the woods. It was already getting dark when they came across a pipe! The pipe was clearly from the city and, judging by the sound and smell it was a sewage pipe.

- Holmes, - said Watson happily, - if we go along the pipe, we can come out of  the woods and get into the city. But, in what direction to go? Maybe we break the pipe and determine where does the flow go from?

 -It's elementary, my dear Watson! It is better to leave the pipe intact, - said Sherlock, and lit up his smoke pipe...

Invent a way to determine which way the city is !"

The seminar participants started enthusiastically thinking out solutions to the proposed problems and suggested a variety of options. But as it turned out, the speaker had not planned to hear correct answers from them. The purpose of the workshop is to teach the representatives of universities to approach the learning process unconventionally.

"You can teach traditionally, but at some point you will find that you are not interesting and students are leaving to study in other countries. It is necessary to change, change the way of thinking, as well as teachers’ one," - concluded Anatoly Gin.