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This is so beautiful and gives hope for the future.

Johnny Lee has videos posted on Youtube and TED. Here is his website with quick link cheap software to use.

Johnny Lee - Carnegie Mellon studdnt - Wii TED video

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

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

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

TED Talks in Cooliris format. Nice visual.

"Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow!!!!

The question of what learning matters most to our students is one that I return to regularly. A fascinating range of models are available each with similar elements but presented in a slightly different manner. Most could be summarised by the 'Four C's' model outlined in 'Most Likely to Succeed' by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith. Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity are vital and each plays an important role in allowing us to manage the complexity of modern day life. Beyond being relevant to success in the classroom the Four C's are the foundations of life-long learning but I question if alone they are enough. I believe we must include a fifth; compassion.