by JAK | Mar 30, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TED, video
Yesterday while driving home with my daughter after one of her after school activities she mentioned that she was thinking it would be good to be a primary school teacher. I asked her why primary school (equivalent to elementary school in US) and she said it is...
by JAK | Mar 20, 2013 | big data, industry futures, video
Last October there was a health conference meets big data event in SF called StrataRX. As the intro (below) says it was exploring a future where we can better use technology to manage the explosion of data available from our various health systems....
by JAK | Mar 5, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
Last year I watched an earlier version of this talk from the South African edition of the TED talent quest. As NZ is world famous for pastoral based farming I’d expect that NZ agricultural scientists know something about pastures and vegetation management....
by JAK | Feb 27, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
The TED2013 Prize has been awarded to Sugata Mitra for his projects on self organised learning systems. The prize has just been awarded less than an hour ago so here are a couple of slides and links till the clip from today becomes available. Note: now updated with...
by JAK | Feb 22, 2013 | big ideas, TED, TEDx, video
Next week is the TED2013 conference in Long Beach. Subtitled the – The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered; this series of talks looks to be a milestone in what has become the flagship of an ideas movement. What is different about this time is that auditions for...
by JAK | Feb 14, 2013 | big ideas, culture, video
One of the things I love doing is working with students on learning and life development. Wait, let me re-phrase that – there is always another way to do something and if we are open to it the chance of learning moments can change us and those around us for the...
