This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Anita Collins shares how learning music influences our brain development, and what this means for musical education.

Anita Collins was handed a clarinet at the age of 9, and it changed her life. This single event dictated her future career as a musician, music educator and academic.

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Shelia Hill grew up in San Francisco’s Sunnydale Projects. It was a rough neighborhood. She got into trouble when she was young and dropped out of school. She thought it wasn’t for her. Hill’s attitude changed after she had her own children. One day, her son asked why he should bother going to school since she didn’t. It was a lightbulb moment. Hill realized that she had to do better for herself and her family. She learned how to read and got her high school diploma through Five Keys, an organization that gives members of underserved communities a chance to restart their education. Today, Hill works for Five Keys as community ambassador. She goes out into neighborhoods considered education deserts on the Five Keys bus and encourages residents to board the mobile classroom where they can study with a teacher and earn their GEDs. Hill doesn’t want anyone to feel ashamed for not finishing school. So she always makes sure to share her own story, letting people know there was a time when she couldn’t read. And she’s big on follow-up with potential students. “I’ll call them. I’ll bug them. I’ll text them. I’ll email ’em. Whatever it takes,” she says. “I just want you to get your education. That’s it.”

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says her department is working tirelessly to improve reading and maths for learners in early grades.

The department is currently focused on its new Early Childhood Development system and aims to have a detailed cost plan for the project by March 2020.

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What is the current state of liberal arts education, and what is its place in society? David Banash discusses the need to reform the way we think about a liberal arts education in today’s world.

David Banash is a Professor of English at Western Illinois University, where he teaches courses in contemporary literature, film, and popular culture. He is the author of _Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption and editor of Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction.

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Jack Ma is now one of the world's richest men but failed – thrice – at entering university. The founder and executive chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group was in Hong Kong on May 18 to receive an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong.

He urged the young to help solve Hong Kong's and the world's problems.

To him, the greatest challenge of the future is to nurture independent and creative thinkers who are capable of doing what machines are not able to do.

The South China Morning Post is owned by the Alibaba Group.

Florian Radke talks about how Augmented reality is not a toy, it’s a powerful tool that will help solve some of the worlds biggest problems. If we do it right, it can be the next great platform for education, human connection and productivity. Like Iron man, we all will soon be surrounded by data and 3D models that we can interact with, as early as the year 2025.


Florian is currently leading communications at Meta, an augmented reality (AR) company that is one of the companies at the forefront of designing our AR future. Meta’s focus is not on creating experiences that distract or pull us out of the real world, but rather that enhance our natural environments and facilitate greater learning and communication than has been available before.
The possible applications range from more immersive classroom learning to a collaborative creative tool that can be used in real time to bring storytellers together from around the world.


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Brown v. Board of Education was a case brought to the Supreme Court in 1954 after Linda Brown, an African American student in Kansas, was denied access to the white-only schools nearby her house. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer for the case, and argued that segregated schools were inherently unequal. Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Linda Brown and declared segregation unconstitutional. This is one of the landmark cases that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

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Brian Lozenski is a doctoral student in the Culture and Teaching program at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on youth participatory action research as an educational project that positions youth as agents of societal transformation. Prior to enrolling at the University of MN, he taught secondary math for eight years in public schools in Philadelphia, PA and St. Paul, MN. Brian has combined his work as an educator dedicated to social justice with his passion for community organizing and music. Brian is currently developing a youth research partnership between the U of M and a local non-profit.

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Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of heroin, with over 500,000 acres of opium. So why are they burning 20 tons of it?

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UN Office on Drugs and Crime: The Opium Economy in Afghanistan
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"For more than two millennia, Afghanistan has been at the crossroads of civilizations and a major contributor to world culture. In the past quarter century, the country has also found itself at the crossroads of international terrorist violence and became a major contributor to world narcotics production."

International Affairs Review: Narco-Terrorism in Afghanistan: Counternarcotics and Counterinsurgency
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"Since the 2001 invasion and the lifting of the Taliban opium ban, opium production in Afghanistan has increased from 70 percent of the overall global illicit opium production to 92 percent today."

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Mark Twain is attributed with the saying "Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't."

We are now a couple generations away from our forefathers who abandoned classical education. We are now the generation that does not even know what it has lost. Wes Callihan gives a glimpse at the kind of richness we have lost in this excerpt from the Old Western Culture curriculum on the great books of Western civilization. If you don't study the classics, you have no advantage over those who can't. Roman Roads Media provides tools to help you accomplish this task! Get started today!

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The education system in India is age old and has to go through drastic changes before it can be effective again. At TEDxGITAMUniversity ,Pragnya Suma speaks on why this scenario must change.

Suma has an enriching experience in the field of education.Despite coming from a family of doctors, she chose to follow our passion and become an academic. She aspires to change the education system in the country by making it student friendly.

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In this fun and engaging talk, Ria Mirchandani tells the story of why she turned to liberal education and what it has offered her.

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Ria Mirchandani (Brown, `15) is the winner of the 2012 TEDxBrownU Student Challenge, earning her a spot in the 2012 TEDx lineup. She is a sophomore from Mumbai, India, and is currently comfortably confused as to what her concentration may be. She has spent her time at Brown soaking in the open curriculum by taking classes in departments ranging from Literary Arts to Engineering to Archeology, and has even designed her own course with friends. See her full bio and learn more about this event at the TEDxBrownUniversity website (http://brown.edu/tedx/).

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By cultivating strong school leadership, committing to ongoing professional development, and exploring innovative models like its technology-infused Future Schools, Singapore has become one of the top-scoring countries on the PISA tests. Find more videos from Edutopia's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/edutopia

Asia is renowned for producing some of the best and brightest students in the world. Such academic achievement is often underpinned by parental pressure, strict discipline and relentless hard study.

In Hong Kong, the demand for extra tuition has turned cram or tutorial school teachers into rich celebrities.

Yet some students have been driven to contemplate suicide as they try to make the grade.

101 East asks: What is the secret behind Asian students' academic success and what happens when the pressure becomes too much?

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Currently around 63% of students are disengaged at school, meaning that they withdrawal either physically or mentally before they have mastered the skills that are required to flourish in later life. In this talk Scott Bolland explores the science of learning, the mismatch between how we teach and how the brain natural learns, and the important role that artificial intelligence could take in addressing the limitations in our current education system.

Dr Scott Bolland is the founder of New Dawn Technologies, a high-tech software company aiming to revolutionise education through the use of artificial intelligence. He has spent the last 20 years actively researching and teaching in the field of cognitive science – the scientific study of how the mind works – which spans disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and computer science. He holds a PhD in this field, as well as a university medal for outstanding academic scholarship.


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In this talk, Sonam Wangchuk shares his experience of bringing education reforms in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India.

Sonam Wangchuk is the founder of Students' Educational & Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL).
While he was doing his mechanical engineering at NIT Srinagar he understood the hardships faced by the Ladakhi students in the government schools; 95% of them were failing in their matric exams every year. Once he finished his graduation, he went back to Ladakh and started SECMOL together with some like-minded youth.

After initially starting with coaching classes to help matric students, they soon realized that for a lasting solution they needed to bring reforms in the village primary schools. So they launched an education reform movement in collaboration with the government. Within seven years the results went up from 5% to 55%. Today it stands at 75%. For those who still failed, they set up a very special and innovative school which has produced many inspiring stories.

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President Obama speaks about the critical need for education reform and discusses what his Administration has done to raise standards and encourage excellence during a speech to the Urban League. July 29, 2010.

Our Schools in India, did not teach us anything about Sex Education.
Our Parents pretend that sex doesn’t exist.
And our siblings are too busy with their own lives!

Don’t you think it’s high time we start taking Sex Education seriously? We need to experience how awesome it is and also need to learn how to protect ourselves from Sexually Transmitted Diseases, while practising safe sex. And that’s what we are going to do today.

Today’s Agenda:
1.  9 of the most commonly asked questions related to sex education.
2. Bonus Tip that will help you decide what is the right age and time to erm…just do it?

The questions regarding Sex Education that we are going to cover today are:

1. Is sex painful?
2.  What are Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and how to prevent/cure them?
3.  How to practise safe sex?
4.  What are the different birth control options?
5. Should you have sex during periods?
6.  I don’t enjoy sex. Is it normal?
7. When I was 23, my boyfriend kissed me by force and we had sex. I did not say no because he said he loves me. Was I wrong?
8.  What is the right age for parents to talk to their kids about sex?
9.  I keep on thinking about love and sex and I am unable to focus on my studies. What should I do about it?

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