Tag Archives: TED talks
Freedom vs Control – important lessons to be learned
Cyber crime expect Mikko Hypponen delivered a talk at the TEDxBrussels event that has made it this week onto the TED site. If you’re at all interested in conversations surrounding privacy in this digital age, then it’s 10 minutes well … Continue reading
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Teaching design for change – great ideas from Emily Pilloton
Emily Pilloton delivers an inspiring TED talk that is worth the 16 minutes you need to invest to hear her message. People who give of themselves to assist those in communities where there is real need are special. Emily and … Continue reading
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Knowing thyself
Gary Wolf suggests here that in order to operate effectively in the world you have to know yourself well. I think I know myself pretty well, but I’m not sure I want to know all this about myself. At this … Continue reading
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Crowd accelerated innovation – time to step up.
All teachers should watch Chris Anderson (the guy who heads up TED ideas worth spreading) talk about crowd accelerated innovation, and the impact this IS having and WILL HAVE on how people educate themselves through web based mediums like online … Continue reading
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The quiet revolution
Here’s Sir Ken Robinson delivering the TED talk that occurred in February, but has just been released on the TED site. Please watch it, not just once, but two or three times, and internalise the message. Ken asks for a … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
This is the poet, Rives, speculating on the mysterious hour of four in the morning. It’s worth hanging in there for the entire 8 minutes of his performance, just to appreciate the effort that’s gone into sourcing the material for … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
I tried to catch some of the TEDxOntarioEd event last weekend, but got there just as they were going off air. What was playing was this TED Talk, recorded at TEDIndia in December 2009. It’s Alexis Ohanian, who co-founded Reddit, … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
You have to watch this. This is a TED Talk from Jonathon Zittrain, a social theorist who proposes in his talk that the world is not becoming less friendly. In fact, we are seeing the opposite, and this is demonstrated through … Continue reading
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Intrinsic motivation – the new killer app in all of us
For quite some time I’ve been marvelling at the ability of intrinsic motivation to produce great results. I watched my students last year make a concert happen in six weeks when we joined Project Global Cooling and we had a … Continue reading
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World Wide Telescope – Science teachers take note
This is from TED talks and has just been posted. It’s the first view of the World Wide telescope, a product of Microsoft, that is going to be available as a free download at the website worldwidetelescope.org in the Northern Spring … Continue reading
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