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Making the most of life and helping students to do the same. Preparing our future generations to have the skills that will help them to keep up with the world around them.

An idea worth spreading

If used correctly ICT tools in education are not toys but powerful tools to help us make the most out of every education experience and collaborate on a global scale. Also that when talking ICT in education lets not focus on the tools themselves but how we use them and the skills we use to advance ourselves and our world through them. That way as technology develops (as it is exponentially) we don't continuously fall behind but rather we have the skills to be adapting with the world around us, which is a much more fluid world than ever before.

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• A comment on Conversation: How about setting up TED University? With campuses all over; with exchange programs on every continent...

  May 4 2011: What great ideas, all about breaking down the worlds boundaries (or barriers) for global sharing of knowledge and information.

• A reply on Conversation: Is common sense an over rated concept or is it under rated?

  Apr 8 2011: IQ is a measure where as common sense could be considered a tool or approach. What would you think to be larger issue or which one of these would have more problems in the current world: a person of high IQ and no common sense or a person of a high level of common sense but a rather low IQ?

• A reply on Conversation: Is common sense an over rated concept or is it under rated?

  Apr 7 2011: I completely agree, I often put it to my students that theory is meaningless and often useless with out there being practical application. The reason why I ask this question is that I have always thought common sense is an important ingredient in the thinking process but recently at a conference listened to a speaker (in the field of education) go on a rant about common sense being the 'pits' in a learning environment due to it limiting the ability to think big...
  I have always thought that common sense is something that should be encouraged and taught in schools through problem solving and if done well there would still be the chance for the dreaming big with out limits and then use common sense to select/apply the ideas.
  It really is something that is lacking in upcoming generations...

• A reply on Conversation: How can we make the world even smaller, more accessible? *A TEDActive Mobility Project Question*

  Apr 4 2011: I think most people would realise the govt's have no interest in this but the idea of TED is to discuss ideas and ideals etc without all the naysaying that goes on by the negative people Stoyu.

• A reply on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

  Apr 3 2011: I like the ideas, it's great to have children play a game and then afterwards ask them what thinking and learning they may have done, after they have thought about this they then try the game again and see if the realisation of the learning involved has managed to help them improve in their gameplay and in what they take from the game.

• A comment on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

  Apr 3 2011: The interesting thing is that Montessori systems were developed in the late 1800's and early 1900's and are based on the overall principal that is being envisaged here... only difference is that nowadays there is greater access for the children to a wider world than when this method of education first came about!

• A comment on Conversation: How can we empower kids to reshape the education system? *A TEDActive Education Project Question*

  Mar 31 2011: It is our job as educators to find the students passions and guide the direction this takes, we have the knowledge and wisdom - they have the dreams. It isn't about students creating their education it is about teachers and students collaborate in the overall education process. I know children's dreams change often but this comes through following passions and deciding which ones are or aren't for them. If we don't allow them to do so they may be stuck with a passion that may not suit them because they never got the chance to explore it to find wether or not it was for them. As teachers it is our job to foster and encourage this discovery into these passions and ensure that the students learn processes and skills through this that are transferable and lifelong to enable them to continue to discover, search and dream.

• A reply on Conversation: What are 10 things YOU know to be true?

  Mar 24 2011: What part would emotional intelligence play in this? Could artificial intelligence ever possibly replicate this form of intelligence?

• A comment on Conversation: What are 10 things YOU know to be true?

  Mar 24 2011: 1) Our world is shaped by our interactions within it.
  2) Societies that advance too quickly become morally underdeveloped just as fast.
  3) No one problem has only one solution.
  4) Listening to the views of others can help us better listen to ourselves.
  5) A lot of the people charged with making big decisions are the ones who have no understanding of their impact.
  6) Pastry may not be good for cholesterol but it sure is great for the soul.
  7) It is better to believe in something outrageous than to believe in nothing at all.
  8) The more time we spend searching for answers, the less likely we are to remember what the question was.
  9) There is an ever widening gap between being good and not being bad.
  10) The only way to truly learn, understand and know something is to do it yourself.
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  A reply on Conversation: Why are we getting so much better at identifying problems, yet no better at solving them?

  Mar 23 2011: Therefore do we need greater balance in our development as a society? Is it worthwhile having communication develop at a rate that makes us aware of more problems. Without developing the solutions at a rate that is even are we therefore simply adding further stress to our world?