Huffington Post – TED Weekends

TED Talks Education What should America do about its disastrous high school dropout rate? That’s the focus of TED Talks Education, the first ever TED/PBS television special, hosted by John Legend, the award winning musician. The program looks not only at what’s going wrong in high schools, but how to put it right. As it happens, the solution is not a mystery; but putting it into practice will…

The Dynamics of Creativity

Do you know, there’s an app that turns your iPhone into a harmonica? When the iPhone was launched in July 2008, there were about 800 apps. Five years later, there are over 775,000. Some of these apps have launched whole new businesses. Most of them weren’t anticipated by Apple when they designed the iPhone. They couldn’t have been. When they set about creating a game-changing smart phone, I’m…

Ideas for modern living: passion

I was asked by the Observer newspaper in the UK to contribute a 280 word piece on passion to the regular series on Life Lessons. Here it is: Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat… It was Jeremy Bentham, I believe, who said there are two types of people in this world: those who divide the world into two types and those who do not. Well, these days I do. On the one hand, I'm…

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9/01/14 – BBC Radio 4 - The Educators 11/23/13 – Desert Island Discs Sir Ken Robinson: The True Story of an Education Revolutionary 6/19/13 – On Point: Sir Ken Robinson On Discovering Your Passions 7/9/12 – BBC Radio: In His Element 11/20/10 – BBC Radio: Saturday Live with Sir Ken Robinson 6/3/10 – The Huffington Post – When Practical…