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The audience takes the stage: TED U session 1 at TEDGlobal 2013. The TEDGlobal 2013 attendees who dared to give talks at TED University.
Photo: Bret Hartman By Samantha Kelly TED University kicks off the TEDGlobal 2013 conference with purpose — as a reminder that the people who attend TEDGlobal are not just here to watch, but rather, they’re here to share ideas. At TED U, audience members brave the stage and give their own TED Talks that run the emotional gamut of emotional, funny, moving, innovative. Below, a recap of the talks from TED University Session 1 at TEDGlobal 2013, held the afternoon of Monday, June 10. Sheryl Connelly gave tips on better listening. After missing out on Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk in 2008 to take a business call, Sheryl Connelly has developed a set of essential tips to navigating any conference: Give it your all; challenge yourself; and take note(s). Peter Doolittle, executive director of CIDER Virginia Tech, teaches us about our working memory and its limitations. Solafa Batterjee told the story of her father. Meet five New York high school students with fascinating stories.
No television special exploring ideas on improving education in the United States would be complete without hearing from students themselves.
And so it was essential that students be able to tell their own stories during our first television special, TED Talks Education, which premiered on PBS last night. To that end, we invited Market Road Films, the production company of two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker Tony Gerber and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/MacArthur Genius Award-recipient Lynn Nottage, to create short documentaries about high schoolers in New York City with incredible stories. Several of these docs appeared in last night’s show, but several went unsurfaced … until now. Watch all five below. Shahruz Ghaemi is lucky enough to attend one of the most competitive schools in the nation — but he feels that some of his best learning happens outside the classroom. Two years ago, Melissa Perez didn’t have graduation on the brain at all. Playlist: 6 education ideas from unlikely places. Geoffrey Canada rocked the audience at TED Talks Education with his passionate talk.
Photo: Ryan Lash Geoffrey Canada gives a very interesting analogy in today’s TED Talk: He compares the current education system in the United States to the era when banks were only open between the hours of 10am and 3pm. Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough! “Now, who can bank between 10 and 3?” What do “bankers’ hours” have to with education? To hear his passionate plea for educators to start looking at data and to think more about the customers — students — in order to curb the United States’ abysmal dropout rate, watch this powerful talk. And here are more fascinating TED Talks that suggest ideas for education from other seemingly unrelated fields. 7 Wonderful TED Talks on Learning from Failure. To err is human and acknowledging one's mistakes is the first step towards learning not to do them again.
The best thing about making mistakes is the learning that comes out of them. Mistakes are indicative of an ongoing healthy process of learning. We all make mistakes and sometimes we even commit errors ( errors are considered to be much more severe than mistakes ) but we definitely differ in the way we look at our mistakes. People with " growth mind-set " tend to accept mistakes as natural happenings that enrich our life experiences. Similarly teachers with a growth mindset look at mistakes as precursors of learning, the engine of education . David Bohr ( Danish physicist ) once defined an expert as " a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field". Talking about mistakes and failure, today's post features 8 of the best TED Talks on some great personalities and how how they have learned from their own failures.
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