Rethinking Thinking Skills in India’s Schools: A Systemic Exploration
- Saturday, 20 June 20266:30 – 7:30 pm IST
- OnlineEnglish
About this talk
Digital and future skills are now a common goal across education, yet deep reasoning, problem solving and computational thinking remain elusive for many students. This session explores why.
Rather than focusing only on students, teachers or curriculum, it examines the wider system that shapes how thinking develops in schools, and what it will take to move from activity-based learning to genuine thinking. Drawing on field experience and implementation realities, it looks at how curriculum, assessment, teacher beliefs, pedagogy, incentives and ecosystem structures together shape students’ ability to think, reason and solve problems.
What you’ll learn
- Understand why thinking skills remain difficult to develop at scale despite growing investment and initiatives
- Identify the system-level levers that can create deeper and more sustained student thinking
Who it’s for
Educators, researchers
Before you join
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Speaker
Shoaib Dar
Founder & CEO, Pi Jam Foundation
Shoaib Dar is an engineer turned educator and the Founder & CEO of Pi Jam Foundation, a non-profit that cultivates learning ecosystems where problem-solving, creativity and future skills flourish, through accessible, affordable and contextually relevant technology-learning experiences for children, educators and government systems across India. Inspired by teaching in a government school, where he saw the digital and educational inequities caused by limited access to technology, he set out to bridge this gap for students from low-income communities. He was named one of India’s “Top 10 Modern Engineers” by The Better India, featured twice in the Hindustan Times “30 Under 30” (2017 and 2018), and honoured as a Distinguished Alumnus for Social Development by Vellore Institute of Technology. His work has received the NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum Award in Education Innovation (2018) and the Better India PC for Change Award. He is an Acumen Fellow (2022), has contributed to NCERT’s AI textbook, and has delivered keynotes at the ACM COMPUTE conference, Bett UK and elsewhere.
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