Education is useless | Rohith K N - Founder & CEO, Future Ready Kids

About Speaker:

Rohith (Linkedin: http://bit.ly/INOV8) is an inventor & innovator with over 20 years of experience. Having worked in creating cutting edge technologies across telecom and internet, with Infosys-Bell labs, and later as director of Innovation in OnMobile global limited, a global leader in telecom services, he anticipated a rapid change in the world the tech would usher in.

As a concerned father of two, with a stint as CEO of ThinkVidya, then a leading portal connecting students & teachers, he started http://futureReadykids.com, to enable kids to tackle the ever-changing future. Here using “Behavioural Engineering”, kids are habituated into “doing by self-learning” using principles of constructivism, bricolage, collaboration, & transfer of learning. Students through SmartProjects self-learn day to day activities connected to syllabus. Similarly, high school students get bite sized hands on experiences of current and future careers all connected to syllabus (video: http://futureReadykids.com/video) . Participants of these programs have also taken on real-life problems, invented solutions, used design thinking to create products, patented then and are selling them on Amazon.in (here) .

He also runs Peer-Mentor (http://peer-mentor.com), a program for professionals, where he incubates start-ups based on the same principles used by kids. These start-ups span across sustainable agriculture, medical devices, Automotive, and transportation. Asides, in higher education, RV collage of Engineering has signed up as one of the first collages. Students know that the same principles are used in real world i.e., in peer-mentor. They also see other kids solving real life problems. This, along with the habituation of “doing by self-learning” empowers kids.