TED: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you

I had a breast tumor detected in 2009 and as a cancer survivor I was delighted to hear about a tool that can help all women detect breast tumors more efficiently and less painfully than normal mamographies.

                                              Completely bald opening a gift

At the same time, it's shocking to see how little do politicians and other powerful men regard the health of women. You see,  the approval of a more efficient screener and less expensive machine can disturb the "pockets" of many powerful manufacterers.

This presentation by Dr. Deborah Rhodesis is both informative and important to ALL WOMEN. Let's hope it doesn't take ong (5 or more years) for us to have the possiblity of having this powerful tool to help us take care of our health.

The Child-driven Education

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com via kwout

Take some minutes to watch this INSPIRING VIDEO.

Quotations from the video to think about:

• "Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do."
• "A teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be."
• "If children have interest then education happens."
• "There was photographic recall inside the children and I suspect it's because they were discussing with each other."
• "Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenom."

(a self-organizing system is one where the system structure appears without explicit intervention from outside the system)

Are we killing Creativity?

This is a wonderful talk given by Ken Robinson at TED. Really worth watching.

Technology WOW

I found these videos via Ronaldo Junior´s tweet and felt the need to publish them in my blog. I guess any teacher interested in using technology to enhance learning has an eye on new technolgy about to come to the public. Well, the SIXTH SENSE had me baffled. It´s just like seeing Tom Cruise move his hand and interact with content in "The Minority Report".



This second video shows tiles which put together can read each other content. Can you imagine that in a classroom?