TEDxObserver - Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid - The stories and songs of the Townships
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Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid Musician, teacher, mentor Rosemary arrived in Soweto nearly 20 years ago after she heard about a group of children who were struggling to learn music. She arrived to help fundraise and to teach. Now, as Founder of Buskaid and director of the Buskaid Soweto String Project - she has spent nearly 20 years teaching music... Read more
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- -: TEDxObserver - Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid - The stories and songs of the Townships
March 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid Musician, teacher, mentor Rosemary arrived in Soweto nearly 20 years ago after she heard about a group of children who were struggling to learn music. She arrived to help fundraise and to teach. Now, as Founder of Buskaid and director of the Buskaid Soweto String Proj...
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- -: TEDxPioneerValley - Barry O'Connell - Unschooled Learning
February 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Barry O'Connell, James E. Ostendarp Professor of English, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, examines "Unschooled Learning". "We learn in school, or, at least we are expected to. But I wonder about the places and the people outside formal schools. Learning in unschooled settings and from th...
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- -: TEDxDF - Antonio Rada García - Telegenio: Llega a ser quien eres
January 9, 2012 (over 12 years ago)A través de reflexiones acerca de la educación, los niños superdotados y la inteligencia, Antonio Rada nos hará tomar nota de la necesidad que tienen los niños y jóvenes superdotados de una educación especial. Con esta ponencia seremos conscientes de lo importante que es llegar a ser quienes som...
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- -: TEDxABQ - Hakim Bellamy - The Pedagogy of Poetry (The Lesson Part 4)
December 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Hakim Bellamy is a two-time Poetry Slam National Champion, and has been named "Best Poet" by both the Local iQ (Smart List 2010 & 2011) and the Alibi (Best of Burque 2010 & 2011). As an educator and performer, he is interested not only in the poetry lessons he teaches his students, but the lesson...
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- -: TEDxBrno - Oldřich Botlík - Ještě že děti neučí mluvit škola!
December 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Oldrich Botlik (* 1951, Zlin) graduated from the Charles University in Prague with a PhD in Mathematics and has been earning his living as an educational consultant for the past twenty years. He participated in implementing a new system of financing primary and secondary education and the ExTra g...
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- -: The Newest 'Grey's Anatomy' Hunk, Jesse Williams
October 9, 2010 (over 13 years ago)There's McDreamy and McSteamy, and now there's a new hunk on "Grey's Anatomy"! Jesse Williams stopped by to chat with Ellen. He shared a hilarious story about getting lost in an apartment complex...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Margo McAuliffe - Educating Women and Girls in Kenya
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Founder of Girls School in Kenya. Margo McAuliffe is a retired high school math teacher who at the age of 69 followed a life-time dream to go to Africa. Margo ended up teaching math to girls in Kenya. Landing in Naivasha, she established Kenya Help (www.kenyahelp.us) a non-profit dedicated to h...
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- -: TEDxSanJoseCA - Salman Khan - Providing a Free World Class Education Through Video
April 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Salman Khan (Sal) Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org)-- a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 ...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Erin Gruwell - The Freedom Writers
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of The Freedom Writers Foundation. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Ca, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed "unteachable." As teenagers living in a racially divide...
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- -: TEDxUSC - Elisabeth Stock - Can You Change a Child's Education?
June 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)CEO and Co-founder of Computers for Youth (CFY) Elisabeth Stock is using digital learning to make at-home education a reality for low-income students in hopes of narrowing the achievement gap. CFY launched myhomelearning.com, a resource that identifies hundreds of free online learning opportuniti...
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