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15 ENTRIESJane McGonigal’s 2012 TEDGlobal talk connects her recovery after a serious concussion with the design of SuperBetter, a game meant to help people practice resilience. The provocative title about extra years of life is a.
Sugata Mitra’s Build a School in the Cloud argues that children can learn remarkable things through curiosity, access to information and collaborative exploration. The talk proposes self-organized learning environments rather.
Salman Khan describes the development of Khan Academy and argues that video lessons plus interactive practice can change what happens inside a classroom. The proposal gives students opportunities to revisit explanations while
At TED2015, Bill Gates argued that the world was inadequately prepared for a major infectious-disease outbreak. Speaking after the 2014 Ebola crisis, he called attention to public-health capacity, rapid detection, vaccine research and the need t
Comedian James Veitch's TEDGlobal>Geneva talk recounts a prolonged, absurd email exchange with an alleged scammer. The audience laughs at the escalating messages, yet the talk also reveals why deceptive online approaches can become convincing: t
