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This is a TED talk about placing computers in countries where children to not have access to teachers. In doing this, the children become their own teachers by pure interest in the computer, and in the end, they learn just as much, if not more, than children who have access to adult teachers.

resource of short talks by cool people

Sanjukta Basu is a Ted Follower who has inspired woman to become from the social world and has expressed her life online and be against her Indian Culture.

this video is about video game graphics is improving and also the virtual world that gamers has. and also they what gamers learn through games are being relate to the real world.

Daivd talks about how games has evolved over time and how it can better our life.

This TED video is about how games develop over time and the graphic of the game improves as technology improves.It also explains how games is taking over and how you want to be in the virtual world more than the real world.

This Ted Video discusses itune, and downloading. David Pogue makes his points while playing a piano.

In this TED video, it's about how engaging in video games helps reward our brains and how that helps us in the real world. Like in business, our education, the government, and engagement.

this video is about how game designer attract gamers into playing games and also 7 things from games that help you in real life.

The article talks about ways that gaming can help the brain.

This is a critique on (wo)mankind's addiction to risk and the effects it has on the world. Pretty amazing... (i don't really know how i should tag this video)

In the video clip from TED talks Ali Carr-Chellman, an associate professor of education discusses how we can use something that is popular with boys to engage them in learning; because in schools today curriculum are set towards girls achieving more than boys.

In this video Ali Carr-Chellman talks about how boys aren't succeeding in their education and how gaming isn't the cause for this problem.

In the video, Ken Robinson says Schools kill Creativity, the speaker, Ken Robinson, talks about how not only the United States, but education systems all around the world, hinder children's creativity because that won't get them anywhere in life. He brings up this notion of creativity in schools being the most important thing, and programs like music, dance, and theatre are on the bottom of the totem pole where Math and English are perceived as the core subjects in schools. He challenges that notion. Why are Math and English at the top? The point of this video is to make people re-think creativity in school and the fact that education will not have a future if we keep dismissing the use of creativity in schools.

Really good!

Jane McGonigal is talking about how we can connect real life to games.

in this video, Jane McGonigal describes that gaming is used everyday and online gaming is becoming more and more important. She also says how online gamers spend about 8 billion hours weekly just playing online games. Also how she is trying to change it from just having fun but to solve real life problems.

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

This exhibition included over 20 artists of various ages and races, but all looking at black masculinity from a very particular point of view. What was significant about this exhibition is the way in which it engaged me in my role as a curator, as a catalyst, for this dialogue. One of the things that happened very distinctly in the course of this exhibition is I was confronted with idea of how powerful images can be and people's understanding of themselves and each other.

Robert Gupta talks about music playing a healing role in everyday lives, and what the connection can teach others. He ends with an awesome violin performance. Must See!

This video is about how social media affects the amount of time and relationship that technology is being involved in between people.

This video is about how internet such as, cell phones, text messages, and emails are used everyday; whether it's at work, school, long distances and etc.

This video talks about how people worry that all the texting, e- mailing and Facebook are spoiling human intimacy but Stefana Broabent the narrator explains how they help more in keeping in contact with family and friends

chris anderson talk about how people are learning through stuff that are post on the internet. an example he gave at the beginning is a young child learn how to do these tricks from watching other doing it on youtube.

The new decade of game...

In this talk, Tom shows 7 ways how games can help us when we use it in education. If only our mind can be addicting to education as in games, then that's a reward to our brain.

"We are makers of our own world and how much technology is involved in our world." Others are more creative in our making, some artistically and some simplistically.