Selected for connections to our SAIS work, the following TED talks are offered to help us reflect on and engage in conversation around the following topics.
Build Academic Foundation
Develop Character Foundation
Foster Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking
Cherish Childhood
Deepen Understanding
Empower Learners
The videos will play from this page. To see and read the corresponding transcripts, use the associated hyperlinked text. Access to a transcript may help you select your sentence, phrase, and word for our discussion in the fall. You are invited to add your sentence, phrase, and word in the comment section below as you watch and reflect. (Please be sure to include the title of the talk in your comment.)
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win
Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don’t have one true calling
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun
Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Sugata Mitra: The Child Driven Education
John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game
Embrace the Near Win – Sarah Lewis
Sentences (I couldn’t do just one!):
Mastery is the reaching not the arriving.
The pursuit of mastery… is an ever-onward almost.
We thrive not when we have done it all but when we still have more to do.
Phrase:
“that still point of a turning world”
Word:
Thrive
How I Teach Kids to Love Science – Cesar Harada
S – We can no longer afford to shield the kids from the ugly truth because we need their imagination to invent the solutions.
P – a place where adults and kids can play together
W – hyperconnected
Embrace the Near Win, by Sarah Lewis
S – We thrive not when we have done it all, but when we still have more to do
P – an ever, onward “almost”
W- mastery
How I Teach Kids to Love Science, by Cesar Harada
S – Maker Space is a place where adults and kids can play together, where kids’ dreams can come true with the help of adults, and where adults can be kids again.
P – imagination to invent the solution
W- possible
Embrace the Near Win – Sarah Lewis
S – Mastery is not a commitment to a goal, but to a constant pursuit.
P – …a near win can propel us to an ongoing quest…
W – Focus
How I Teach Kids to Love Science – Ceasar Harada
S – We can no longer afford to shield the kids from the ugly truth because we need their imaginations to invent the solutions.
P – …just take a leap….
W – dreams
Embrace the Near Win
Word – “reaching”
Phrase – “an ever onward almost”
Sentence – “Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain more than you ever dreamed you could.”
On Being Wrong
S – Most of us do everything we can to avoid thinking about being wrong, or at least to avoid thinking about the possibility that we ourselves are wrong.
P – terrified space of rightness
W – rediscovery
What Your Designs Say About You
S – How can you ask yourselves and how can you find an answer on what vision of the good life you want to convey and create with your designs without asking the question, what vision of the good life do you yourself want to live?
P – like peeling an onion
W- question
How to Manage for Collective Creativity
S – Innovation is a journey.
P – the secret sauce
W – Leadership
Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling
S – What if there are a lot of different subjects that you’re curious about, and many different things you want to do?
P – Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability
W – multipotentialite
Every Kid Needs a Champion
S – We’re born to make a difference.
P – value and importance of human connection
W – relationships
Kathryn Schulz – On Being Wrong
S – Why do we get stuck in this feeling of being right?
P – We insist we’re right…
W – feeling
Sebastian Deterding – What Your Designs Say About You
S – Whatever we put out there into the world has a persuasive component.
P – unintended side effects
W – ethics
Linda Hill – How to manage for collective creativity
S – Innovation is not about solo genius.
P – innovation is a journey
W – mistakes
Emilie Wapnick – Why some of us don’t have one true calling
S – Innovation happens at the intersection.
P – one true calling
W – multipotentialite
Rita Pierson – Every kid needs a champion
S – Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like!
P – …I am powerful and strong, and i deserve the education I get….
W – relationships
Stuart Brown – Play is more than just fun
S – Nothing lights up the brain like play.
P – social play, rough play, and imaginative play
W – transformation
Mac Barnett – Why a good story is a secret door
S – That will NEVER happen!
P – …a story no matter how strange somehow symbolizes the truth…
W – Wonder
Embrace the near win – Sarah Lewis
s – Mastery is not a commitment to a goal but to a constant pursuit.
p – value the gift of a near win
w- thrive – definition- when we still have more to do
Sarah Lewis – Embrace the near win
S – Mastery is not a commitment to a goal but to a constant pursuit.
P – an ever, onward almost
W – tenacity
Cesar Harada – How I teach kids to love science
S – We can no longer afford to shield the kids from the ugly truth because we need their imagination to invent the solutions.
P – the students saw a local problem, and boom
W – imagination
On Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz
S – The miracle of your mind, isn’t that you can see the world as it is, it is that you can see the world as it isn’t AND Our capacity to screw up is not a defect in the human system, it is fundamental to who we are.
P – tiny, terrified space of rightness
W – error blindness
What Your Designs Say About You, By Sebastian Deterring
S – No matter what technology or design you look at, it comes with certain values embedded in it.
P – the good life, persuasive technology
W – Bias
How to Manage for Collective Creativity, by Linda Hill
S – Innovation is a journey, a type of collaborative problem solving usually among people who have different expertise and point son view.
Leading innovation is about creating a space where people are willing able to do the hard work of innovative problem solving.
P – collective genius, collaborative problem solving, discovery driven learning, integrated decision making
W – innovation
Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling, by Emilie Wapnick
S – Innovation happens at the intersections. Embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be.
P – all that you can be
W – Multipotentialite
Every Kid Needs a Champion, By Rita Pierson
S – No significant learning can happen without a significant relationship.
P – seeking first to understand
W – connection
Play is More Than Just Fun, by Stuart Brown
S – We are designed to play throughout our whole lifetime.
P – dangerously but seriously fun
W – curiosity, exploration
Why a Good Book is a Secret Door, by Mac Barnett
S – The best readers deserve the best stories we can give them.
P – real feelings about characters that aren’t real
W – wonder
Math Class Needs a Makeover, by Dan Meyer
S – We have the tools to create high quality curriculum in our front pocket.
Insist on better math curriculum. We need more patient problem solvers.
P – impatience with irresolution
W – real-life, redefine
The World Needs All Kinds of Minds, by Temple Grandin
S – The world needs different kinds of minds to work together. We need to help students who have unique minds to be successful.
P – light the spark
W – mentors
The Child Driven Education, by Sugata Mitra
S – Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do. If children have interest, then education happens.
P – self-organizing learning environments
W – deep learning
Kathryn Schulz – On being wrong
S – In fact, most of us do everything we can to avoid thinking about being wrong, or at least to avoid thinking about the possibility that we ourselves are wrong.
P – attachment to our own rightness
W – blindness
S – What do you want to do?
P – an empty space to make meaning out of their own understanding
W – collective wisdom, spontaneous compassion
Oops! This post was for Teaching with the World Peace Game, by John Hunter
Sebastian Deterding – What your designs say about you
S – These technologies want us to stay in the game that society has devised for us. They want us to fit in even better. They want us to optimize ourselves to fit in.
P – we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade
W – questions
Linda Hill – How to manage for collective creativity
S – Innovation is not about solo genius, it’s about collective genius.
Leading innovation is about creating the space where people are willing and able to do the hard work of innovative problem solving.
P – innovation rarely happens unless you have both diversity and conflict
W – leadership, innovation
Emilie Wapnick – Why some of us don’t have one true calling
S – Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability: three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at, and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus.
P – embrace your inner wiring
W – multipotentialite
Cesar Harada – How I teach kids to love science
S – So freedom came with responsibility.
P – citizen scientist
W – imagination
Play is More a Than a Just Fun
S – Now one of the things about play is that it is born by curiosity and exploration.
P -empowered through their play
W – neoteny
Why a Good Book is a Secret Door
S – Adults can too, and we get there when we read.
P – willing suspension of disbelief
W – wonder
Rita Pierson – Every kid needs a champion
S – Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.
P – the value and importance of human connection
W – relationships
Stuart Brown – Play is more than just fun
S – The human hand, in manipulation of objects, is the hand in search of a brain; the brain is in search of a hand; and play is the medium by which those two are linked in the best way.
Nothing lights up the brain like play.
P – curiosity, exploration, are part of the play scene; play has a biological place, just like sleep and dreams do
W – neoteny (retention of immature qualities into adulthood)
Mac Barnett – Why a good book is a secret door
S – I would want anyone I was writing for to be in that place emotionally with the things that I create. I feel lucky. Kids like Nico are the best readers, and they deserve the best stories we can give them.
P – a book to be a secret door that opens and lets the stories out into reality
W – believe
Dan Meyer – Math class needs a makeover
S – The math serves the conversation, the conversation doesn’t serve the math.
P – it’s scary to talk about sources of error when the theoretical does not match up with the practical; let students build the problem
W – patient problem solvers
Kathy Schutz – On being Wrong
S – Our capacity to screw up is not a defect in the human system, it is fundamental to who we are.
P – we feel very right and that’s a problem
W – error blindness and feeling
Temple Grandin – The world needs all kinds of minds
S – We’ve got to think about all these different kinds of minds, and we’ve got to absolutely work with these kind of minds, because we absolutely are going to need these kind of people in the future.
P – the world is going to need all of the different kinds of minds to work together
W – details
Sugata Mitra – The child-driven education
S – So at the end of it, we concluded that groups of children can learn to use computers and the Internet on their own, irrespective of who or where they were.
P – If children have interest, then education happens; education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon
W – change
John Hunter – Teaching with the World Peace Game
S – There’s a trust and an understanding and a dedication to an ideal that I simply don’t have to do what I thought I had to do as a beginning teacher: control every conversation and response in the classroom. It’s impossible.
P – they trust me because we have a deep, rich relationship together; I’m just a facilitator
W – engagement, authentic assessment of learning, compassion
Sebastian Deterding – What your designs say about you
S – It’s better if you care about learning something.
P – idea of a good life
W – question
Stuart Brown – Play is more than just fun
S – Nothing lights up our brain like play.
P – Personal play history is unique
W – Neoteny – definition: retention of immature qualities into adulthood