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Education vs. Accreditation

Published March 24, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Have you ever felt that there was something like a “disturbance in The Force” in regard to our education system? I do. But, as someone that it is far from being an expert on the subject, I don't feel confident enough to even consider that my arguments are based on a set of solid criteria.

Anyway, I have always have a feeling that something was wrong. And, once again, I find myself in front of an awesome talk –“Leading@Google”, by Josh Kaufman– learning about the difference between Education and Accreditation.…

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Hans Rosling and Data Visualization

Published January 16, 2010 by Carlos Veira

I would like to start this year with a couple of videos. They show, besides the main subjects of both conferences, several important questions:

  1. the key role that data visualization plays when we need to learn how a very long-term process behaves.
  2. the importance of having a right perspective when you have to deal with long-term issues.

Both talks took place at TED and the first one, back in 2006, was presented with this words:

You've never seen data presented like this.

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Ken Robinson: “schools kill creativity”

Published November 10, 2009 by Carlos Veira

I've liked the idea of posting videos that I've found particularly interesting. So, I've decided to do it from time to time. Here is the first one :-D.

This is a talk Sir Ken Robinson performed at TED back in 2006. The web site says this about it:

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

(…) Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children.

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