Description
Brief Description
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 broader system that shapes how thinking develops in schools and what it will take to move from activity-based learning to genuine thinking. Drawing from field experience and implementation realities, we’ll examine how curriculum, assessment, teacher beliefs, pedagogy, incentives, and ecosystem structures collectively shape students’ ability to think, reason, and solve problems.
Date and Time: Saturday, June 20, at 06:30 pm IST.
Pre- Requisite(s): None
Target Audience: Educators, Researchers
Key Objective(s)
- Understand why thinking skills remain difficult to develop at scale despite growing investments and initiatives.
- Identify the key system-level levers that can create deeper and more sustained student thinking.
Instructor:
Shoaib Dar
CEO, Pi Jam Foundation
Brief Bio / About the instructor:
Shoaib Dar is an engineer turned educator and the Founder & CEO of Pi Jam Foundation, a non-profit committed to cultivating learning ecosystems where problem-solving, creativity, and future skills flourish, enabled by accessible, affordable, and contextually relevant technology-learning experiences for children, educators, and government systems across India. Inspired by his experience teaching in a government school, where he saw firsthand the deep digital and educational inequities caused by limited access to technology, Shoaib set out to bridge this gap for students from low-income communities.
Shoaib has been recognized as one of India’s “Top 10 Modern Engineers” by The Better India, has been featured twice in the Hindustan Times “30 Under 30” (2017 and 2018), and has been honored as a Distinguished Alumnus for Social Development by Vellore Institute of Technology. His work has also earned 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 development, and has delivered keynotes at platforms such as the ACM Compute Conference, Bett UK, etc.
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