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A comment on Conversation: TED Talks in most countries!
Apparently there´s one coming up in Goiânia, check it out:
http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2387
(meu nome é esquisito mas sou brasileira, fique à vontade de me escrever em português se quiser!)
A comment on Conversation: What's the best hidden gem in the TED archive?
Nic Marks: http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html
Tony Porter: http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_porter_a_call_to_men.html
Rory Sutherland: http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man.html
A comment on Conversation: Test Schools, Not Children
Because the thing is, schools ARE tested, scored and ranked... but for things like how many of their students got into "good" universities, average SAT scores, drug use, teen pregnancy, bullying, number of dropouts.
The important, meaningful things - in my opinion, of couse - are not. Things NOT measured in GDPs, as pointed out in Robert Kennedy's famous '68 speech. Things such as motivation, engagement, creative output, a sense of belonging...
I am no scholar, and don't have any data to back me up on this. However, I have a very strong feeling that measuring things like that, and holding schools responsible for providing those things as strictly as we hold them responsible for teaching kids how to read and write might even make testing both kids and schools a thing of the past. What do you guys think?
(By the way, if ou haven't heard the Kennedy speech I referred to, look it up on YouTube - it is visionary and incredibly powerful!)
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