Education, Education System, Innovation, Medium < 30m, The RSA, Video
Another inspiring RSA Animate taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education expert and recipient of the RSA Benjamin Franklin...
Art & Culture, Medium < 30m, Teaching Resource, TED, Video
At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves — while learning basic principles of science and...
Disease, Documentary, Health, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Agonizomai is a Greek word which means: To strive, Fight, Struggle with death Labour Fervently; “STRIVE TO ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW DOOR. FOR MANY, I TELL YOU, WILL SEEK TO ENTER AND WILL NOT BE ABLE…” Luke 13:22-30 It reflects the intense struggle COPD...
Freedom, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, to begin a life in hiding, as a refugee in China. Hers is a...
Diversity, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, Racism, TED, Video
Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward...
Human Rights, Medium < 30m, Peace, TED, Video
In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful “backline” stories of women who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women to have a place at the negotiating table...
Language, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old...
Democracy, Entrepreneurialism, Global Citizenship, Medium < 30m, Political, TED, Video
Before he hit eighteen, Fred Swaniker had lived in Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. What he learned from a childhood across Africa was that while good leaders can’t make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries with weak...
Design & Technology, Diversity, Global Citizenship, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and...
Education System, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can...