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Teaching Listening skills in an Experiential learning process

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I was actually searching for some training material when i came across TEDx talks and it was simply MINDBLOWING. Simon sinek, wow, this guy is fantastic. I also loved the talks of Kathryn schulz on being wrong. I now look forward to being a part of the community and actively participating in a TED event.

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• A reply on Conversation: Pneumatic power plant A new concept of power generation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okByMdP_fgw&list=PL1BD21E10508FB23E&feature=mh_lolz

  Aug 18 2012: Great. So what about the scalability of the model and the production per cycle?
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  A comment on Conversation: If Religion did not exist how far more advanced and how, much more tolerant of each other would we be?

  Aug 18 2012: Morgan, Religion is the development of an idea. Religion is an idea that seeks to explain all that remains unexplained by science. Coming to the question of it did not exist, i guess it is not just religion, but the difference in opinion. People have always been intolerant of ideas that they cannot understand. Its surprising though that many are opposed to technology in this age of ipads as they cannot understand it. The intolerance to others is of ideas and not just a particular idea as religion. This is where we have groups and sects. The world is full of them. Look at the difference in political ideas and you have as many people propagating the same. You have many schools of thought each saying that they are the best. So i believe its not just a question of religion but what if there was toleration of ideas. Religion too has been unable to remain immune to this effect. So the result, you have the catholics and the protestants. In the protestants you have many denominations. While the commonality does exist, the very existence of these proves the difference in tolerance of the ideas.
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  A comment on Conversation: Pneumatic power plant A new concept of power generation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okByMdP_fgw&list=PL1BD21E10508FB23E&feature=mh_lolz

  Aug 18 2012: Sandeep. The model is certainly interesting. However, what are the options for scalability of the model considering that in a country like India, the requirement is large. Other areas to be addressed are continuity of supply where traffic is usually erratic and Quantity of production per cycle.
  Also think of the person in the car, what about his driving experience. Any other method apart from putting it as a road bump?
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  A comment on Conversation: How have you benefited from TED?

  Apr 5 2012: TED has expanded and enriched my knowledge. Its been a source for material for all my training needs. Being a trainer, i need to understand the various perspectives of a subject from a trusTED source and that was my introduction to TED. That's a beginning.......

• A comment on Conversation: How closely do you feel education is related to advertising? How would you use advertising principles in education?

  Mar 28 2012: Also, i feel learning is not just a transfer of knowledge of gaining certain skills and competencies for real education is one of values associated with the learning of the subject. What would be the fate of values in a learning process that is pre-mediated?
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  A comment on Conversation: How closely do you feel education is related to advertising? How would you use advertising principles in education?

  Mar 28 2012: Education as a process followed by a student is used to develop skills and competencies. Real learning however happens in the education process when the student is more involved, interested and has the basic fundamentals to take the learning to the next level by achieving the desired behavioral change. The tools that are used are the various forms of Communication.
  
  Advertising is a very powerful media where communication is at its best. Advertising is aimed to getting a desired behavior in spite of the best intentions of those viewing these. Advertising also influences the process of memorizing in a very unique way in that we remember what the advertiser wants us to.
  
  Using Advertising principles of communication in Education in molding the desired behavior is what needs to be explored. Rather than looking at it as Subliminal manipulation, we need to evolve in terms of influencing the process of influencing learning to drive towards a desired behavior.
  
  However, this raises certain pertinent questions such as
  1) Is it really desired as a process? We would be killing the natural creativity and stifling further expansion of thought on the matter. Would it be the death of ideas if we did that?
  2) Is it the learning that is desired? What is the students intention and inspiration in being motivated to learn the subject?
  3) What is the purpose of such learning transfer? Is it merely a transfer of knowledge/intended behavior change or a stimulation of ideas that we need to look at?
  4) When education is delivered with a specific objective how inclusive is it of all the other factors that influence the learning environment (Using Advertising principles, we would have a limited or stimulated environment of learning)?
  5) Assuming that the process is perfected for using the principles effectively, will it reduce the role of teachers to merely being facilitators? ( I believe, teachers learn more in a teaching process).

• A comment on Conversation: Has language limited our capacity of thought?

  Feb 1 2012: Language is limited in the sense that the meaning of every word/sign/note/or whatever medium of expression is already defined. However, We can add more to the ambit of the definition and expand the scope of the same. For if we did that then we are expanding language. But then that is how Languages were born. But thought is neither limited nor defined. In fact it is thought that has shaped language and expression.
  
  I strongly believe, that Language has not limited our capacity for thought. It has created a platform for creating more thought, for when we look to express something that is already not defined, we are creating new definitions and are in the process creating language.
  
  Humans always had thoughts. The very presence of Brain gave us the capacity for thought. But Language was a later evolution. Our vocal cords had to be developed before we developed a capacity for language and then the rudiments of language we re born. Thoughts had already been in vogue. We began to crystallize them in the form of Language.