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 - Tom Vander Ark - Innovations In Education
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Innovations in education In cities such as Delhi and Nairobi around the world children have a passionate desire to learn, but little opportunity. Here at home, we face problems a well: a third of kids don't finish high school, and another third graduate unprepared for college or emp...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Carla Atwood Hartman - Come Add Your Voice to an Eames Card!
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Come Add Your Voice to an Eames Card! Charles and Ray Eames were a husband and wife team of brilliant designers and thinkers. The iconic Eames chairs were made from wood, plastic, wire and leather combined with wood. The Eameses also designed fourteen significant exhibitions, the mos...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Scott Witthoft & Scott Doorley - Cultivating innovative behavior using design
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Cultivating innovative behavior using design What do you think about when you think about a table? A surface with four legs, or an object that can function in many ways? It can be a liberating experience to think about objects in terms of how they function. A table can be tiny, barel...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Yaw Adutwum - Accountability and Expectations: Changing Student's Performance
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Accountability and expectations: changing students' performance In South Los Angeles a tragic 29% of all students fail to complete high school. Those who graduate often find they don't have the skills to work, to enter a top university, or to succeed in community colleges. Yaw Adut...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - Jackie Merrill - Not a Talk, But a Spellbinding Story
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Not a talk, but a spellbinding story "In the far-off land of long ago, Truth walked naked upon the earth, and all the people averted their eyes...." When a storyteller invites children to turn on their imagination-stations, they listen, enraptured. Storybinders is a nonprofit organiz...
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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 - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang - Embodied Brains, Social Minds
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Embodied brains, social minds: How admiration inspires purposeful learning The science of neurobiology is changing our understanding about social emotions, showing us how inspiration is intertwined with our biological survival as a species. People feel deeply moved when they hear ins...
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- -: TEDxManhattanBeach - John Bennett - Why Math Instruction Is Unnecessary
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: Why math instruction is unnecessary John is a teacher of math and a homeschooling parent who offers a radical-sounding proposal: that we cease to require math instruction in middle and high school. He came to this point of view over a number of years, as he attempted (and failed) to ...
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- -: TEDxManhattaBeach - Scott Witthoft and Scott Doorley - lorem ipsum
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Talk title: lorem ipsum Engineer, designer, and artist Scott Witthoft is a member of the faculty of d.school, Stanford University's hub for innovators. He's an alumnus of the Graduate Joint Program in Design at Stanford, the Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Texas at Austi...
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