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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers

Bryn Jones pointed me to this site through one of his occasional postings on his blog at http://brynjones.edublogs.org/feed/

Inspired talks has a wonderful range of speakers, videos to watch.  See http://www.ted.com/index.php/

The one that Bryn pointed to was Sir Ken Robinson who ‘makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: “If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, please stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now.”
The URL is http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66

I explored the themes and found, among other offerings, Jimmy Wales on inventing Wikipedia (July 2005) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37

This entry was written by Kerrie Smith and posted on June 7, 2007 at 5:19 pm and filed under Educationau, teaching and learning, lifelong learning, professional learning, learning environments, blogs, Ken Robinson, Jimmy Wales, creativity. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Andrew Robitaille
    Posted August 10, 2007 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

    Ken Robinson’s talk is amazing! I discovered it a week or so ago and included it on my blog as well. Thank you for sharing it. A real thought provoker. And I think he’s spot on.

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