ASK and be creative: Maria-Cristina Ciocci at TEDxUHowest
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2013-06-18

Who Is Maria-Cristina Ciocci?

Maria-Cristina Ciocci is a very enthusiastic PhD in mathematics with four young children and with fiery passion for technology. She is working as a postdoctoral assistant and researcher at Howest within the bachelor and master of industrial engineering. In her spare time she founded Ingegno (www.ingegno.be) to enthrall children with science and technology already from young age. Everything under the motto: "You can do more than you think. Together experimenting, thinking, fantasizing is FUN! ... Dare to discover the creative thinker and problem solver in yourself..."

In her academic career, she came in contact with various branches of pure and applied mathematics, and she crowned her research successfully with different A1 publications. In recent years she has become more and more interested in educational technology and robotics and the use of toys in the teaching of science subjects.

She was born in 1973 in Civitavecchia (Italy) and took her Master in Mathematics in 1997 at the Universita' degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Rome, Italy), after she graduated as PhD in Mathematichs in 2003 at the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium). She is been a researcher and lecturer at the University of Surrey (UK), Imperial College London (UK), Katholieke Hogeschool Sint Lieven, Campus Waas (Belgium), and from 2008 to present at the Hogeschool West Vlaanderen.
 
What is this talk all about?

ASK And Be Creative

Creative thinking is critical for problem solving and creativity is something you can learn!

Maths and science contributes to creative thinking and if we combine them in robotics activities they unlock the children unlimited potentials.Children are not empty vessels waiting to be filled with knowledge but they are driven by curiosity an imagination and are most capable of taking responsibility for their own learning.
 
Let's work on our Attitude to trigger their curiosity by engaging, exciting, enthralling, and experiencing to stimulate development of Skills and Knowledge.

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