One of my favorite TED talks shows what people can achieve given something to be curious about. It doesn’t take a lot. And it certainly doesn’t take many layers of bureaucracy either. Imagine what’s possible when learners are provided with a little more than a hole in the wall.
From the speaker’s TED page:
“Sugata Mitra’s “Hole [...]
“The world will not be saved by the Internet.” Dean Kamen, technologist
Let us pray my brothers and sisters
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“It will be saved by the human spirit.” (Sherwin Nuland, segwaying off Dean Kamen’s comment at TED)
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The machine itself makes no demands and holds out [...]
I posted earlier about the amazing, cerebral, informative and moving work of Chris Jordan. Fortunately, he gave a talk about his work and it’s on TED. I found it to powerful enough that I decided to transcribe the last part of his talk where he explains what motivates him.
Partial Transcript:
The reason [...]
“I’m here to enlist you in helping to reshape the story about how humans and other critters get things done.” Howard Rheingold at TED Talks
(All quotes below are from video.)
Old story: “Biology is war in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating, destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your [...]
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