Comments on: My favorite TED talks http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/07/09/my-favorite-ted-talks/ strategies, tools and processes to empower knowledge workers Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: barry.b http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/07/09/my-favorite-ted-talks/#comment-11647 barry.b Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:03:45 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/07/09/my-favorite-ted-talks/#comment-11647 I've only got one, because (putting my educators hat on) it had a strong resonance for me. sadly it seems to have fallen off the TED listings. it's Dr Sugata Mitra discussing his "Hole in the Wall" project. some core info here: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html a really bad recording of a similar talk of his http://design-notes-deepankar.blogspot.com/2007/11/sugata-mitra-can-kids-teach-themselves.html I’ve only got one, because (putting my educators hat on) it had a strong resonance for me.

sadly it seems to have fallen off the TED listings. it’s Dr Sugata Mitra discussing his “Hole in the Wall” project.

some core info here:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.html

a really bad recording of a similar talk of his http://design-notes-deepankar.blogspot.com/2007/11/sugata-mitra-can-kids-teach-themselves.html

]]> By: shane http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/07/09/my-favorite-ted-talks/#comment-11641 shane Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:20:34 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2008/07/09/my-favorite-ted-talks/#comment-11641 Sir Ken gave an hour long keynote at an international education conference in Brisbane a couple of years ago put on by the Dept I worked for at the time. They brought back a DVD of his speech for all the staff who weren't allowed to go to Brisbane (which is most of those involved). Before that keynote, I didn't believe I could ever be mesmerised, challenged and stimulated by a man who simply stands there in the middle of the stage and talks. How wrong I was. He's the most amazing speaker I have ever seen. It's good to see you're number one TED talk is the same as mine :D He's damn well right, too, and I wish the education systems would actually listen to him rather than engage him, read his reports and then go back to the same old way of doing things. Sir Ken gave an hour long keynote at an international education conference in Brisbane a couple of years ago put on by the Dept I worked for at the time. They brought back a DVD of his speech for all the staff who weren’t allowed to go to Brisbane (which is most of those involved).

Before that keynote, I didn’t believe I could ever be mesmerised, challenged and stimulated by a man who simply stands there in the middle of the stage and talks. How wrong I was. He’s the most amazing speaker I have ever seen. It’s good to see you’re number one TED talk is the same as mine :D

He’s damn well right, too, and I wish the education systems would actually listen to him rather than engage him, read his reports and then go back to the same old way of doing things.

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