TED + PBS = TED Talks Education Tune in tomorrow night, May 7, to your local PBS station (full disclosure, they make my YouTube show but I would be posting this anyway) to see their educational collaboration with TED. They are bringing some revolutionary educators to the stage to talk about how we can change the future of learning for the better. Duhhhhhh the answer = Tumblr Great minds coming together to do great things for education! More info here.
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TED + PBS = TED Talks Education

Tune in tomorrow night, May 7, to your local PBS station (full disclosure, they make my YouTube show but I would be posting this anyway) to see their educational collaboration with TED. They are bringing some revolutionary educators to the stage to talk about how we can change the future of learning for the better.

Duhhhhhh the answer = Tumblr

Great minds coming together to do great things for education! More info here.

via explore-blog:

The human eye is one of the most powerful machines on the planet: It’s like a 5000-megapixel camera that can run in bright light, near-darkness, and even underwater.

And yet our eyes an imperfect: What a camera sees that our eyes don’t. Complement with 100 ideas that changed photography. 

Our eye is (and isn’t) like a camera, but our brain is certainly more than a roll of film. I mean, what mere roll of film could create a picture like the brush of Claude Monet, who near the end of his life could see into the ultraviolet?

explore-blog:

Is light a particle or a wave? An animated explanation. 

Both? Neither? A little bit of this, a little bit of that? Light has a less-than-illuminated history that seems to get more complicated and interesting with time. Very cool look at what we do and don’t know about light’s behavior.

Also useful as a way to make fun of the ancient Greeks, because little light horsemen? Really? You Greeks are hilarious.

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Melissa Marshall brings a message to all scientists (from non-scientists): We’re fascinated by what you’re doing. So tell us about it — in a way we can understand. In just 4 minutes, she shares powerful tips on presenting complex scientific ideas to a general audience.

Science is awesome. We know this.

Fellow scientists, we should do a better job of conveying that fact. I mean, science comes to the door, bags packed, full of the previously stated awesome, ready for you to take them to the big dance. So spring for the steak dinner and have some fun with it!

Embracing the Remix

Kirby Ferguson rips open the curtain that covers creation and shows us how much of the process is about combining, borrowing, and downright stealing. But he also suggests that this is nothing to fear. Rather, it’s just the way we create.

Students of all subjects would be well served to take this lesson to heart. We rarely synthesize more than the sum of our influences, whether in knowledge or art. From Bob Dylan’s borrowed songs to the incremental progress of research built upon the discoveries of those before us … everything truly is a remix.

After you watch Kirby’s TED talk, be sure to check out his whole series: Everything Is A Remix. It will change the way you view the creative process.

Warning: Your favorite creators will be caught red-handed in the videos that lie within.

(via TED)

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