TED Talks are amazing! Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) has talks, TEDx conferences, communities, and much more. I find myself visiting the site at least weekly and have a RSS feed set up on my itunes.
Here are some of my favorites. (I may not endorse all of the ideas presented, but will step out and say they promote thinking.)
- In What Adults Can Learn from Kids, "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."
- The Danger of a Single Story discusses how "our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding."
Here's Jeff Utecht's talk on Community Trumps Content.
Here are some recent TED talks I've enjoyed.
- Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education
- Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From
- Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex
- Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to Global Voices
Happy viewing!
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