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Education

One Laptop per Child at TED@Aspen

The Aspen Institute’s Devlen Watkins (at right, above) reports from the One Laptop per Child table at TED@Aspen: Steve Howard (at left...

Feb 27, 2008
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Education

Why we should teach philosophy to kids

Via the BPS Research Digest: A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method. In a study of 105 children, all around 10 year...

Dec 13, 2007
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Education

Time to get your XO laptop, and to give one

Since Nicholas Negroponte presented his idea for a “100-dollar-laptop” at TED2006, the project has been going through many ups a...

Nov 15, 2007
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Education

Training our next leaders: Patrick Awuah on TED.com

Patrick Awuah left a comfortable life in Seattle to return to Ghana and co-found a liberal arts college. Why? Because he believes that Ghana...

Aug 6, 2007
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Education

Something Important to Encounter

Encounter Point, an incredible documentary that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a...

Nov 16, 2006
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Architecture

Worldchanging, the book

The Worldchanging book, “A user’s guide to the 21st century,” is published today. Our friends at Worldchanging.com in Seat...

Nov 1, 2006
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Education

Richard Baraniuk on TEDTalks

Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation,...

Aug 29, 2006
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Business

Jimmy Wales on TEDTalks

Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the futu...

Aug 29, 2006
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Development

Nicholas Negroponte on TEDTalks

Nicholas Negroponte is former Director of the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the non-profit, One Laptop Per Child, dedicated to making the fa...

Aug 1, 2006
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