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Challenging your thinking about education! 
Some outstanding talks related to the future of education.






Ken Robinsons 10 Favourite TED Talks Related to Education : 


All over the world, there's a growing consensus that our education systems are broken. These educators offer lessons in how we might re-imagine school. (12 talks)



Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.



Sir Ken Robinson is not just an amazing orator -- he is the most-viewed speaker on TED.com. His three ... added every week. We hope you enjoy this installment. If you haven't watched Ken Robinson's classic talk, "Schools kill creativity,"


EPIC 2020, stands for the proposition that the education of the world will change dramatically for the better during this decade. This site attempts to provide ideas that shatter the paradigm that the future will be anything like the past. 



A great look at Sugata Mitra and the Hole in the Wall remote computer labs from Turk Pipkin's feature doc, One Peace at a Time. "We are moving from a world of haves and have-nots to knows and know-nots."

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