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"High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations. "

"The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens. Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible -- with deep social and political implications."

Welcome to the new TED.com En el escenario de TED2013, Sugata Mitra expone su audaz deseo de TED Prize: "Ayúdenme a diseñar la Escuela de la Nube", un laboratorio de aprendizaje en India, donde los niños pueden explorar y aprender unos de otros, utilizando los recursos y tutorización a través de la nube. Escuchen su visión inspiradora de los Entornos de Aprendizaje Auto-Organizados (EAAO) y aprendan más en tedprize.org.

Talks Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

I plan on sharing this with every math teacher I know.

This is so beautiful and gives hope for the future.

A tool for connection

Why character education is the most important part of the curriculum. Inspiring.

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First video Harriet Wakelam showed in her keynote to ednaconf participants in Melbourne