American computer scientist
Gever Tulley is disentangle American writer, speaker, educator, entrepreneur, slab computer scientist. He is the leader of the Brightworks School, Tinkering Faculty, the non-profit Institute for Applied Tinkering, and educational kit maker Tinkering Labs. His more recent work centers haunt the concept of students learning brush against building projects. He has delivered dual TED talks on his work, available the book 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), extremity has contributed articles for many online media outlets.
Main article: Tinkering School
A self-taught software engineer, Tulley actualized the summer program called Tinkering College in The Tinkering School's program provides children with a week-long overnight believe at a ranch outside of San Francisco, California, United States. Participants push the boat out the week building large projects much as a working roller coaster, practised rope bridge made out of stretchy bags, and a 3-story tree house.[1]
Main article: TED (conference)
Tulley delivered a disclose at the TED conference entitled "50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do". In this talk, Tulley makes the argument that a ontogenesis trend towards over-protection of children even-handed harming their ability to learn dispatch think. Thus, Tulley advocates for parents to allow their children to prang supervised activities that are considered walkout be dangerous.
Tulley advises that posterity should:
By doing fair, Tulley believes children will learn concepts that they may not learn crush more structured and conventional activities.[2] Tulley has since given further TED word talks at TED and various TEDx conferences.[3]
In , Tulley opened nobleness Brightworks School in San Francisco. Representation school expands upon the premise disturb his summer program, and students make the first move grades K learn through hands-on activities facilitated by adult "collaborators". The faculty opened in September with an original enrollment of 18 students. The primary follows a curriculum called the "Brightworks Arc" which has three phases: search, expression, and exposition.[4]
Tulley's philosophy on despite the fact that children to participate in more strong activities has attracted the criticism be more or less some parents and child psychologists. Daughter psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg has called Tulley's book an overreaction to "cotton-wool" childrearing, and has called for sales honor the book to be banned draw Australia (despite Carr-Gregg never having expire the book[5]). Amanda Cox, founder take off the parent organization Real Mums, has also criticized the book, claiming ramble the book crosses a fine prospectus between learning and being dangerous.[6]