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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:31
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.
Bill Gates talks on the importance of education.
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:55
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Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
Bill Gates talks on the importance of education.
Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:54
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From the EG conference: Productivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question -- "What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to learn to do anything.
Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:57
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Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age.
Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:57
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Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one—to create bold thinker.
Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:58
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Ray Kurzweil’s latest graphs show that technology’s breakneck advances will only accelerate—recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.
Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:58
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Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents.
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 6:40
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At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks—including death itself.
Patrick Awuah on educating leaders
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 8:59
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After working at Microsoft for almost a decade, Patrick Awuah returned home to Ghana and cofounded Ashesi University, a small liberal arts college that aims to educate Africa’s next generation.
TED Prize winner 2008 - Neil Turok
Last Edited: Sat, February 06, 2010 - 9:08
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Neil Turok holds the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University. In 1992 he was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell medal of the Institute of Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics. His wish is for the NextEinstein project to build science and math academies in Africa.