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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: I think we are all born with natural curiosity.
And I think the whole challenge that we have as educators and parents is to try and maintain
that curiosity that we're born with all the way through the rest of our lives,
because then children can learn about the world they
live in through what they're interested in.
MARY GARDNER: Curiosity is the key to understanding and to furthering knowledge
and to make connections between big ideas in the world.
MARK GRUNDY: All of our work here is built on trying to inspire youngsters and to make them
curious and trying to get our youngsters to think, "I wonder if?".
KARTHIK KRISHNAN: So from our perspective, how do
we stoke this inner flame that's within all of us to put us on a lifelong path to learning.
The reason why Curiosity Day is important globally for us
is to actually immunize people against things like proactive misinformation, which
is already on the internet.
There is no better immunization than having a strong dose of curiosity every single day,
which will make us question and probe the information that we are consuming.
This year's theme for Curiosity Day is our planet and climate change.
The reason why we picked these two topics is because of the need for us
to act with a sense of urgency.
The second is there are elements of this topic all across the world.
Our goal is to raise that level of awareness and invoke people to use their curiosity
to discover, explore, why is this happening?
What can we do about these things?
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: This morning, I gave a talk to the students that covered 4 billion years.
And to raise the awareness of the amazing story of the planet Earth past, present, and future
seems to be a really good priority across curricular discipline
that all the other subjects can feed into.
So it's brilliant that Curiosity Day is all about planet Earth.
From that, then, they went back into their classrooms.
And I taught the students how to use our new platform, LumieLabs.
So the purpose of LumieLabs is to engage pupils with learning through the creation of video.
MARY GARDNER: They can bring together a whole range
of clips that are all fact-checked by Britannica and edit it very,
very simply to produce a video to showcase whatever there theme or idea is in minutes.
SPEAKER 1: My topic of the video is pollution.
SPEAKER 2: My topic was biodiversity loss.
SPEAKER 3: My video was challenging people to stop pollution and to help and save our planet.
SPEAKER 1: We want people to change the laws on how much plastic can be used,
because it's killing wildlife.
It's harming humans.
SPEAKER 3: Because it's our world.
And we should try our best to take care of it and to actually support all the animals
and creatures that are out there living.
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MARY GARDNER: So at the end of the day, we went to the theater to view all of the videos
that the children had made.
There was a real buzz in the atmosphere.
The children were desperate to get their videos up on the big screen.
The number of children who wanted their video up there was just crazy.
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: Curiosity is what we're born with.
It's the thing that makes us human.
It's what allows us to learn through trial and error.
And it's so important to preserve that natural curiosity all the way through life
to develop a lifelong love of learning.
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MARK GRUNDY: I think really, really good schools, they excite youngsters.
They sort of whet their appetite so that they want to go home and find out more.
KARTHIK KRISHNAN: Our goal is to actually blend curriculum and curiosity
to create these lifelong learners.
In doing so, we can unleash student potential.
So no matter what life throws at these students down the line,
they will be in an amazing position to think, learn, and evolve, because they have curiosity
built into their DNA and their thinking.
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD: A natural tradition is for children
to learn through their own interests, their own individual interests.
And if we can use Curiosity Day as a way of trying
to tease out what each individual child is interested in
and allow them to learn the skills they need in life, from communicating and researching
and experimenting and adding up and writing and memorizing, all these key skills,
they can be learned through anything that a child is interested in if only we
stop and we ask, what are you interested in?
And I think that's, for me, the point of Curiosity Day
and what real learning is all about.
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