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Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube Thinks About Copyright
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube…
Copyright is an area of immense interest for me: I cannot say exactly why, but I think it is to do with the interplay of creativity, reward and culture. I mostly think of copyright as being a battle between the content creators and content …
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Golf Ball Deforming on Impact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqM13EUSKw
Each of us has our own understanding of the laws of physics. These beliefs are formed through personal experience (falling out of a tree), classroom education (an apple falls out of a tree) and much more. My own experience has taught me that the …
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Gever Tulley on 5 dangerous things for kids
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/gever_tulley_on…
As a parent and a teacher, I am keenly aware of the need to provide children with a safe environment in which to grow up and learn. However, at a certain point, too much safety begins to deny children the opportunities to assess and …
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No Arms, No Legs. No Worries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA
Nick Vujicic may have neither arms nor legs, but what really sets him apart from most of us is his attitude. Whilst it is hard to imagine someone with more to complain about, he maintains an extremely positive outlook on life. In this video …
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Damien Walters 2010 Parkour And Free Running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1oMa3gZPg4
I like to think I am not generally given to hyperbole, but this might be the most amazing video I have seen this year. Damien Walters is a practitioner of parkour, which is “the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s …
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Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_specter_the_danger…
In an age where we rely so heavily on technology, more and more people are starting to doubt and deny the science that underlies it. In this fascinating talk, Michael Specter discusses the danger of such denial. Examples include the supposed link between autism …
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One of the first news reports about this thing called “Internet”
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/04/17/news…
This extremely dated video clip introduces video to a new craze sweeping the world: Internet. When you need something to remind students that there was life before the Net, this is the resource to use. It also provides a view of the Internet as …
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Ocean debris turning Hawaiian beach ‘into plastic’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8639769.stm
It is easy to assume that if we make a mess, we can simply clean it up. However, this is not always the case, as shown in this disturbing video, where a Hawaiian beach is slowly turning into plastic. The video introduces us to …
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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html
This video is really interesting; and comes to the heart of how we use language as a social semiotic (i.e. a socially constructed set of common meanings and understandings). Language is changing. How can this be used in teaching? Get students to write a …
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