How do we educate children and develop talent to help them thrive in the future as also address the problems of the future? Why are special enrichment programs required for academically gifted students? Details about the GenWise team and GenWise programs

1. TalentED
Nurturing talent to be
future-wise

2. Who We Are
Ramjee- IIT
Madras;
Entrepreneur;
Technologist;
Tinkerer; Writer
Rajesh- IIT Madras,
Caltech, IIM L;
Consulting; HR
Head- Accenture
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Jayasree- IIT Madras;
Math Expert;
PhD Student-
HBCSE
Vishnu- IIT Madras;
Educationist;
Consulting; Leadership Coach
Utpal- PhD, Stony
Brook; Bell Labs;
Motorola; Indian
Statistical Inst.
Radha- PhD, IIT Bombay;
Environment work- US, UAE,
India, Teacher (Rishi Valley)
Pankhuri – Duke
Talent Identification
Program, Johns
Hopkins Center for
Talented Youth

3. Highly
Qualified
Disciplinary
Expertise
Experience with
Gifted Learners
Equipping the brightest
minds to solve the
biggest problems

4. Our Thesis
World in Crisis Uncertain Future of Work
• Will our children be able to adapt?
• Will they be equipped to reach their potential and thrive?
• Will they be able to think in new ways to create a new world?
• Will the brightest minds be equipped to solve the biggest issues?
Questions
for Us
• Contemporary and Relevant Curriculum
• Specialized Learning Opportunities for Gifted
Students
• Enabling self-driven lifelong learning
Reshaping
Learning &
Learners
A sensitive, self-driven Versatilist

5. “
If we teach today's
students as we
taught yesterday's, we rob
them of tomorrow
-John Dewey
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6. Agenda
• The future of work and education
• Why enrichment programs for gifted?
• The enrichment model
• Next steps

7. 65% of children entering
school today will work in new
job types and functions that
don’t exist today
“The Future of Jobs”, Jan 2016, World
Economic Forum
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8. They will have to cope
with the future as well as
create it….
• Already- Rising geopolitical volatility, Crowdsourcing-
P2P platforms, Climate change- transition to greener
economy..
• Happening Now- Internet of Things, Advanced
Manufacturing & 3D printing, Longevity and Ageing
societies, Women’s Rising Aspirations & Economic
Power..
• Coming Soon- Advanced Robotics & Autonomous
Transport, AI & Machine Learning, Advanced Materials,
Biotechnology and Genomics..
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9. Climate Change- The time
is past when humankind
thought it could selfishly
draw on exhaustible
resources- Francoise Holland
AI- Society transforming 10 times faster and at 300
times the scale- roughly 3000 times the impact of
the Industrial Revolution- McKinsey Global Institute
Aging Population-
The aging and
declining
population will
have far reaching
impacts. The
structure of family
and society will
inevitably change.-
Toshihiko Fukui

10. The future of skilling and education
Content and Technical Skills
Premium for certified tertiary
education
Education followed by work
Narrow specialist
Complex Problem Solving &
Social Skills
Actual content of learning
Lifelong learning- early work &
apprenticeship
Specialist with wider awareness
& understanding
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11. Prukalpa Sankar
Co-Founder
Social Cops
Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineer
From NTU, Singapore
Forbes 30 under 30
Data-driven solutions for
social change; Wide
recognition from
governments, funder
community
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12. 12
Prukalpa Sankar…
the journey
College Years
School Years
Idea for Social
Cops
Making Social Cops
Happen
-Hyderabad; hardcoded html
website for Harry Potter fans at
age 10
-Initiative; Creativity
-Engineering & Entrepreneurship at
NTU; Internship at Exxon Mobil;
Organizing events; Jagriti Yatra- 12
cities; 15 days
-Organization skills; Knowledge of
entrepreneurship; Leadership
-Enable communities to solve
problems on their own; Lack of
actionable data;
-’Seeing’ Problems; Complex
Problem Solving
- Business Plan Competitions-
initial funding; Hiring the best
passion; Data visualization
expertise
-Risk-taking; Belief in self;
Networking; Storytelling;
Creating Culture
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13. Katelyn Gleason
Founder- Eligible
Acting Major from
Stony Brook University
Forbes 30 under 30
Founder of Health Claims
technology start-up, funded
by Y Combinator
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14. 14
Katelyn Gleason…
the journey
Sales for Health Tech
Company
Acting
Idea for Eligible
Making Eligible
Happen
-Shakespeare Actor in NYC
-Persuasion; Persistence
through rejection
-Sales at Dr. Chrono
-Interest in business
Innovation; Knowledge of
healthcare domain
-Inefficiencies in Insurance
checks at Dr. Chrono
-’Seeing’ Problems; Complex
Problem Solving
-Developing and pitching the
solution to investors
-Risk-taking; Belief in self;
Self-learning technology
(MOOCs, Stack Overflow);
Storytelling
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15. The Future belongs to the Versatilist
The Great Tit (Parus major)
-high chance of long-term survival, even with drastic changes in its environment.
-behaviourally versatile, lay eggs at the optimal moment based on the conditions around them
-evolve rapidly, keeping pace with environmental changes on a collective level
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16. The Future belongs to the Versatilist..
“If we spend our whole life in a silo of a single discipline,
we will not gain the imaginative skills to connect the dots
where the next invention will come from.”- Andreas
Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD
“We are drowning in information, while starving for
wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers,
people able to put together the right information at the
right time, think critically about it, and make important
choices wisely.”- EO Wilson, Leading Scientist
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17. Agenda
• The future of work and education
• Why enrichment programs for gifted?
• The enrichment model
• Next steps

18. Katelyn Gleason
looks back..
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What do you wish
someone had
told you when you were 15?
That I was a nerd. All throughout college
and high school I was a straight A student
in
all honors and "gifted and talented"
classes. But all my best best friends were
the jocks and cool kids and they were
never in any of my classes. I think I always
knew I was different in that I excelled in
learning and they excelled in sports. But
instead of embracing that, I spent an awful
lot of time trying to cover it up.

19. Joseph Bates
looks back at 60
Whyenrichmentprogramsforgifted? Joseph Bates,
President,
Singular Computing;
PhD from Cornell
at the age of 17
One of the first gifted students to be accelerated
I was shy and the social pressures of high school
wouldn't have made it a good fit for me, but at
college, with the other science and math nerds, I fit
right in, even though I was much younger. I could
grow up on the social side at my own rate and also
on the intellectual side, because the faster pace
kept me interested in the content.

20. Whyenrichmentprogramsforgifted?
Comment from the
parent of a gifted child in
the US
“You could be the most gifted
pianist in the world, but if no
one sits you in front of a piano .
. .This is the state of gifted
education in our state.
Everyone assumes these kids
carry around their own
pianos!.”

21. The Gifted Child-
Difficulties and Risks
Whyenrichmentprogramsforgifted?
• Lack appropriate challenge-
may lead to lack of motivation
and even underachievement
• Little opportunity to learn from
failure- may lead to ‘fixed mindset’/
Perfectionism
• Struggle with fitting in socially
• Impatience- lack of persistence
• Issues with attention and organization

22. The Gifted Child-
Opportunities….
Whyenrichmentprogramsforgifted?
• Extraordinary economies are
created by extraordinary minds
(Makel et. al., 2016)
• More than ever, the strength of
countries and their competitiveness
depends on exceptional human
capital (Friedman, 2007; National
Science Board, 2010).

23. “
Talent
is an accident of genes,
and a responsibility
-Alan Rickman
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24. Agenda
• The future of work and education
• Why enrichment programs for gifted?
• The enrichment model
• Next steps

25. Contemporary Integrated Curriculum
Expert Mentors
Gainexposureto
diversedisciplines
Engagethroughchallenge
Developrigour
Identify&pursue
interests
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26. GenWise ProgramsTheenrichmentmodel
• Round-the-Year Program (start June 2018)
-120 hours through the year; 60% Core; 40% Elective
• GenWise BiteSize (start Oct 2017)
-12 hours over a weekend

27. Science &
Scientific
Enquiry
Mathematical &
Computational
Thinking
The Planetary Web-
Nature, Society and the
Individual
Technology,
Design and
Making
Tools for
Thinking and
Communication
Contemporary
Integrated
Curriculum-
5 Tracks
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28. The Journey of Our Budding Versatilist- Example
• Interactions with scientists and successful tech CEOs
• Project on megaliths- visits near Bangalore
BiteSize/ Other
Programs
• Core across 5 tracks- mathematical thinking across disciplines;
justice, fairness and identity; psychology & neuroscience etc.
• Elective 1- Science of Everyday Thinking
• Elective 2- Digital Storytelling
Round the
Year Level 2
• Project on growing vegetables
• Interactions with social science reearchers
• Core across 5 tracks- using experiments to answer questions;
puzzles & mathematics; evaluating good & bad arguments;
learning from engineering failures; design thinking etc.
• Elective- Design of Robotic Mechanisms
Round the
Year Level 1
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BiteSize/ Other
Programs

29. Agenda
• The future of work and education
• Why enrichment programs for gifted?
• The enrichment model
• Next steps

30. Next Steps
• Fill in Interest Form (Flyer has session details)
• Students of Grades 7, 8 and 9 can register for one or both GenWise
BiteSize Programs at Inventure
-Oct 28-29, 2017 (Details in Flyer)
-Nov 25-26, 2017 (Details in Flyer)
-Other dates on our website
• Attend Parent Session on Day 2 of Bite-Size program
• Be in touch with us for registrations for Round-the-Year Programs
GenWise BiteSize Cost- INR 4990 per program inclusive of GST

31. GenWise Bite-Size Schedule
• Timings on both days- 8:30 AM- 4:30 PM
• Day 1
- Reach with Child by 8:30 AM; Session will start by 8:45 AM
- Reach by 4:30 PM to pick up child
• Day 2
- Reach with Child by 8:20 AM; Session will start by 8:30 AM
- Reach by 3 PM to attend parent session
- Pick up child and leave by 4:30 PM

32. Contact Details
gifted@GenWise.in
+91 99043 79367
https://GenWise.in
https://www.facebook.com/GenWise.in/
https://twitter.com/GenWise_

33. More Details

34. #1- Science and Scientific EnquiryTheenrichmentmodel
• Appreciate what scientific thinking is and recognize the possibility
of transferring this way of thinking to other disciplines.
• Example Session- Pleasure of finding things out in Science
We may read about something, learn a definition or an
equation and imagine that we know the thing, but nothing is so
simple that it yields its mysteries to us so easily! The brightest
scientists achieve this with curiosity, coupled with relentless
exploration. We take a deep dive into something as
commonplace as water, specifically its property of surface
tension, to demonstrate this "bliss" of finding things out!

35. #2-Mathematical and Computational ThinkingTheenrichmentmodel
• Appreciate the nature of mathematical and computational
thinking and its relevance to problem-solving for society.
• Example Session- Audioactive Chemistry
Students don the hats of
mathematicians, exploring sequences,
finding patterns, proving theorems and
making connections - including the
physical sciences (we won't tell you
where the Chemistry comes in, yet!) –
essentially ‘doing’ and ‘creating’
mathematics!

36. #3-The Planetary Web: Nature, Society
and the Individual
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• Develop an awareness of interconnectedness of things across
space and time, major problems faced in society and approaches
to solving them
• Example Session- From Farm to Home- The Hidden Connections
Understand the interconnections of the complex web that
feeds and nourishes us. Trace the journey of milk from farm to
home, in the Indian context. Get a glimpse of how to
understand complex systems, what questions to pose, how to
unearth interconnections, nuances, etc. Learn aspects of
Critical Thinking that can be applied across similar domains -
water scarcity, energy challenges, global warming, etc.

37. #4-Technology, Design and MakingTheenrichmentmodel
• Experience the joy of building things, develop some hands-on
skills and learn engineering and design thinking skills to solve
problems
• Example Session- Extreme Balancing
Move beyond bookish understanding, and delve deeper into
the art and science of balancing! Kindle the inventor in you -
balancing creativity and daring, with solid planning, thought
and reflection.

38. #5-Tools for Thinking and CommunicationTheenrichmentmodel
• Understand how thinking works and learn to use different tools to
think better and communicate your ideas
• Example Session- Ecosystem Detective
A disaster befalls an ecosystem- students investigate the
causes in a virtual environment, learning about different
organisms, biological and chemical processes,
interpreting data tables and graphs. Most importantly
they learn how to inquire into problems, thinking for
themselves and exploring how things are connected with
each other. They learn to think about causes and effects
in a more sophisticated manner and learn about different
patterns of causality that operate around us.

39. Theenrichmentmodel Round the Year
Program
• Grade 7-9 Students
• Core and Elective Courses across
5 tracks
-80 hours (approx.)- Core
-40 hours (approx.)- Elective
• 120 hours (20 calendar days)
• 2 days in a month x 7 months + 6
days during vacation time
• Engagement with students and
parents in an online community

40. Theenrichmentmodel Round the Year
Program….
• Level 1 & Level 2 (each is 1 year).
Level 2 admission only on
completion of Level 1.
• Optional add-on sessions e.g.
learning from nature, organizational visits,
brain museum, community service

41. Sample
Electives• Global Politics & Foreign Policy
• Neuroscience- Unravelling the
Brain & Behaviour
• Essence of Engineering
• Cryptography
• Digital Storytelling
• Robotics and Internet of Things
• New Thinking for a New World
• Creative Writing
• Work like a Scientist
• Chemistry of Cooking
• Science of Everyday Thinking
• Bringing Change: Psychology of Influence
• Evolution of Scientific Thought
• Architectural Design: Ways of Seeing & Making
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42. Theenrichmentmodel Round the Year
Program….
• Registrations will open Dec 2017
mid
• Price in the range of INR 40-
45,000 per year

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