ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gever Tulley - Tinkerer
The founder of the Tinkering School, Gever Tulley likes to build things with kids.

Why you should listen

Gever Tulley writes the best Twitters: Just landed my paraglider in an empty field behind Santa 8arbara. ... Making amazing tshirts with a laser cutter at the maker faire in austin. ... Washing fruit, putting sheets on bunkbeds, and grinding up aluminum foil in a cheap blender ... Updating the school blog, trying to figure out how many cubic feet of air are in a 5 gallon cylinder at 200 PSI. ... Trying to figure out if the tinker kids are going to be able to get molten iron from magnetite sand ...

A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.

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Gever Tulley: Life lessons through tinkering

Gever Tulley: Životne lekcije kroz majstorisanje

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Gever Tulley koristi zanimljive slike i snimke kako bi prikazao važne lekcije koje djeca nauče u Školi majstorisanja. Kada im date alat, materijale i upute, mašta ovih mališana podivlja, a kreativno rješavanje problema preuzima dominantnu ulogu u izradi jedinstvenih čamaca, mostova, pa čak i rolerkostera!
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This is the exacttačno momentmomenat
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that I startedzapočet creatingstvaranje something calledpozvana TinkeringPetljanja SchoolŠkola.
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sam počeo raditi na kreiranju
takozvane Škole majstorisanja.
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TinkeringPetljanja SchoolŠkola is a placemesto where kidsdeca can pickpick up sticksštapići
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Škola majstorisanja je mjesto gdje
djeca mogu skupljati štapove,
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and hammersčekići and other dangerousopasno objectsobjekata,
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čekiće i ostale opasne predmete,
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and be trustedpouzdan.
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a da im se vjeruje.
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TrustedVjerovao not to hurtboli themselvessami,
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Da im se vjeruje da neće ozlijediti sebe,
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and trustedpouzdan not to hurtboli othersdrugi.
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a ni druge.
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TinkeringPetljanja SchoolŠkola doesn't followpratiti a setset curriculumkurikulum,
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Škola majstorisanja ne prati
utvrđeni nastavni plan i program,
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and there are no teststestovi.
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i nema nikakvih testova.
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We're not tryingpokušavajući to teachnaučiti anybodybilo koga any specificspecifično thing.
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Ne pokušavamo naučiti nikoga
nečemu specifičnom.
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When the kidsdeca arrivestići
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Kada djeca stignu,
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they're confrontedsuočeni with lots of stuffstvari:
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suočavaju se sa mnogim stvarima:
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wooddrvo and nailsNokti and ropekonopac and wheelstočkovi,
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drvetom, ekserima, užetom i točkovima,
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and lots of toolsalati, realstvarno toolsalati.
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te sa mnogo alata, pravog alata.
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It's a six-dayšest dana immersivepotop experienceiskustvo for the kidsdeca.
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Za djecu je to šestodnevno
prožimajuće iskustvo.
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And withinunutar that contextkontekst, we can offerponuda the kidsdeca time --
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U tom kontekstu, možemo
ponuditi djeci vrijeme,
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something that seemsizgleda in shortkratko supplysnabdevanje
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nešto čega, izgleda, nedostaje
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in theirnjihova over-scheduledpreplanirana livesživi.
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u njihovom pretrpanom rasporedu.
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Our goalcilj is to ensureosigurati that they leaveodlazi
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Cilj nam je da pri odlasku
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with a better sensesmisao of how to make things
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imaju bolji osjećaj kako napraviti stvari
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than when they arrivedstigao,
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nego što su imali pri dolasku,
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and the deepduboko internalinterni realizationshvatanje
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i da duboko u sebi shvate
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that you can figurefigura things out by foolingpretvaranje around.
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da rješenja mogu pronaći dok se zezaju.
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Nothing ever turnsokreće se out as plannedplanirano ... ever.
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Nikad ništa ne ispadne
kako je planirano... nikad.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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And the kidsdeca soonuskoro learnuči
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Djeca ubrzo nauče
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that all projectsprojekata go awrynakrivo --
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da svi projekti krenu naopako
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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and becomepostati at easelako with the ideaideja that everysvaki stepkorak
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i počinju prihvatati da svaki korak
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in a projectprojekat is a stepkorak closerbliže
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u radu na projektu predstavlja korak bliže
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to sweetslatko successuspeh,
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slatkom uspjehu,
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or gleefulglebonosnog calamityCalamity.
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ili veseloj katastrofi.
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We startpočnite from doodlesškrabotine and sketchesskice.
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Počinjemo od škrabotina i skica.
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And sometimesponekad we make realstvarno plansplanove.
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Nekad znamo napraviti prave planove.
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And sometimesponekad we just startpočnite buildingzgrade.
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A nekad jednostavno počnemo sa izradom.
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BuildingZgradi is at the heartsrce of the experienceiskustvo:
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Izrada predmeta je važan dio iskustva:
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handsruke on, deeplyduboko immerseduronjen
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angažujete se, potpuno se zaokupite
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and fullypotpuno committedposvećeno to the problemproblem at handruka.
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i predate problemu koji treba riješiti.
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RobinRobin and I, actingglumi as collaboratorssuradnici,
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Robin i ja, radeći kao saradnici,
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keep the landscapepejzaž of the projectsprojekata
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stalno težimo da
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tiltednagnuta towardsprema completionzavršetak.
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dovršimo planirane projekte.
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SuccessUspjeh is in the doing,
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Uspjeh leži u radu,
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and failuresneuspjeha are celebratedproslavljen and analyzedanalizirano.
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a neuspjesi se slave i analiziraju.
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ProblemsProblema becomepostati puzzlesZagonetke
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Problemi postaju zagonetke
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and obstaclesprepreke disappearnestati.
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i prepreke nestaju.
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When facedsuočena with particularlynaročito difficultteško
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Kada se suočimo sa naročito teškim
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setbacksnazadovanja or complexitieskompleksnosti,
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preprekama ili kompleksnim stvarima,
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a really interestingzanimljivo behaviorponašanje emergespojavljuje se: decorationdekoracija.
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dolazi do jako zanimljivog
postupka: dekoracije.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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DecorationUkras of the unfinishednedovršen projectprojekat
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Dekoracija nedovršenog projekta
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is a kindkind of conceptualkonceptualno incubationinkubacije.
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je neka vrsta konceptualne inkubacije.
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From these interludespohote come deepduboko insightsuvide
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Iz ovih kratkih perioda
rađaju se duboka saznanja
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and amazingNeverovatno newnovo approachespristupa to solvingrešavanje problema the problemsproblemi
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i nevjerovatni novi pristupi
rješavanju problema
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that had them frustratedfrustriran just momentsmomente before.
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koji su ih mučili nedugo prije toga.
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All materialsmaterijali are availabledostupan for use.
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Svi materijali su dostupni za upotrebu.
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Even those mundanesvakodnevno, hatefulmržnje, plasticplastika grocerynamirnica bagstorbe
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Čak one obične, odvratne, plastične kese
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can becomepostati a bridgemost
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mogu postati most,
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strongerjači than anyonebilo ko imaginedzamišljen.
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jači nego što je iko zamislio.
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And the things that they buildizgraditi
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Stvari koje oni izrađuju
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amazeZadivljuješ even themselvessami.
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začude i njih same.
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VideoVideo: ThreeTri, two, one, go!
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Video: Tri, dva, jedan, kreni!
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GeverGever TulleyTulley: A rollercoastertoboganu builtizgrađen by seven-year-oldssedmogodišnjaka.
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Gever Tulley: Rolerkoster koji
su napravili sedmogodišnjaci.
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VideoVideo: YayBravo!
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Video: Jupi!
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GTGt: Thank you. It's been a great pleasurezadovoljstvo.
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GT: Hvala vam.
Bilo mi je veliko zadovoljstvo.
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Translated by Ajdin Spahić
Reviewed by Ivana Korom

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gever Tulley - Tinkerer
The founder of the Tinkering School, Gever Tulley likes to build things with kids.

Why you should listen

Gever Tulley writes the best Twitters: Just landed my paraglider in an empty field behind Santa 8arbara. ... Making amazing tshirts with a laser cutter at the maker faire in austin. ... Washing fruit, putting sheets on bunkbeds, and grinding up aluminum foil in a cheap blender ... Updating the school blog, trying to figure out how many cubic feet of air are in a 5 gallon cylinder at 200 PSI. ... Trying to figure out if the tinker kids are going to be able to get molten iron from magnetite sand ...

A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.

More profile about the speaker
Gever Tulley | Speaker | TED.com