TEDxManhattanBeach - Paulo Blikstein - One Fabrication Lab per School: the FabLab@School project
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Paulo Blikstein http://paulo.blikstein.com is Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Education http://tltl.stanford.edu. Blikstein's research focus on how new technologies can deeply transform the learning of science, engineering, and mathematics. He creates and researches cutting-edge technologies for use in inner-city schools, su... Read more
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Paulo Blikstein - One Fabrication Lab per School: the FabLab@School project
November 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Paulo Blikstein http://paulo.blikstein.com is Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Education http://tltl.stanford.edu. Blikstein's research focus on how new technologies can deeply transform the learning of science, engineering, and mathematics. He creates and researches cutting-e...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Barry Ptolemy - Transcendent Man
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Transcendent Man: a documentary about inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil To understand the future of education - indeed the future of anything - we must understand the role that technology will play in our future. Barry's film Transcendent Man explores the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, who ...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Thomas Suarez - iPhone Application Developer... and 6th Grader
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. "My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me," he says, "and Steve ...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Hall Davidson - The Teacher with a Thousand Brains
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: The Teacher with a Thousand Brains We're used to the idea of grinding up organic matter to make paper, printing on that paper using ink, and binding books to deliver coded information in two dimensions. With the dawn of new technologies like tablets, we're inevitably moving "from tre...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - David Dwyer - Hybrid High: 24/7 School To Improve Graduation Rates
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Hybrid High -- 24/7 school to improve graduation rates Over 7000 kids drop out of high school every day in America. It's a tragedy with profound consequences for the lives of these young people and for the nation, in economic and health terms and in pure loss of human potential. The ...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Mark Slavkin - Holding Schools Accountable for the Creativity of their Students
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Holding Schools Accountable for the Creativity of their Students The real value of arts education is to transmit the key ideas of human civilization from one generation to the next. Without the arts, we would not understand our own history. However, the arts remain marginalized in ou...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Mira Costa High School Acapella
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Coterie and Muscle groups In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxManhattanBeach, where x = independently organized TED even...
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