TED+Talks

**TED Talks**

As a group, we will be exploring different TED Talks and discussing the significance of each talk. Below, you will find links to the talks we have watched and some of the discussion points we covered following the talk. Please feel free to add to our discussion!

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media type="custom" key="11135272"  "Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity" **__Discussion Questions__**  **1. Do schools kill creativity?**  **2. If so, what can we do about it?**  **3. Robinson says that "nobody has a clue" what the world will look like in five years...so how do we educate students to prepare for the unknown?**  **4. How do we encourage students to take chances and be wrong, when grades have become so important?**  **5. Robinson says we're still using an educational system that was designed for industrialism. Is this model outdated? Or does it still apply?** **6. Robinson hints of education inflation....Is this a good thing? How should it change?** media type="custom" key="11238370" align="center"

David Gallo shows underwater astonishments"

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"Derek Sivers: How to start a movement" media type="youtube" key="ne6tB2KiZuk" height="315" width="560" align="center"

"Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music"

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"Steve Jobs: How to live before you die." **__Discussion Questions__** **1. Was Jobs right to drop out of college to pursue his dream?****2. Would you pursue your dream, even if it meant long periods of unhappiness before the dream was realized?****3. Do you think the idea of dropping out is different now, than in the 1970s, when Jobs dropped out of college?****4. When Jobs says "stay hungry, stay foolish," what do you think he means by staying foolish?****5. If you could pursue any career, with no restrictions--what would you do?**

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"Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand"

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"Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we Happy?"

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"Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work."

media type="custom" key="13765810" align="center" "Susan Cain" The Power of Introverts." media type="custom" key="14804508"

"Damon Horowitz: Philsophy in Prison."