power of introverts

This video is absolutely contradictory to everything that I hear from teachers and trends. I am always reading about how to get children to work in groups, about how to include more opportunities for collaboration in my classroom. I have even felt guilty for implementing a quiet writing period three days a week.

"There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas."

A TED talk on the power of solitude by Susan Cain.

ted talk: injustice

In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

save the world? what about art...

"JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at insideoutproject.net."

-TED