I’m in New York City for the TEDxNYED conference which is focused on how new media and technology are shaping the future of education. I can’t say enough about the speaker line-up. Many are people whose work and ideas I’m familiar with (Lawrence Lessig, Michael Wesch, George Siemens, David Wiley, & more), as well as [...]
Since the topics of following one’s passions and life-long learning have been topics I’ve written about recently, I couldn’t help but love Ben Dunlap’s TED talk from 2007. It tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian holocaust survivor who moved to segregated South Carolina and started up an integrated textile factory.
It’s 19 minutes [...]
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Ben Wildeboer. 9th grade science teacher, etc.
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