TED Talk Resource: Communication as an Art Form by Sangeeta Isvaran

For those of you that frequent my blog, you are familiar with my video postings from various resources around the web. Today, I am pleased to share with you a TEDx video clip presented by Ms.Sangeeta Isvaran. This is special for me, because Ms Isvaran was my senior in high school back home in India. She is an amazing artist and expresses herself through the traditional dance form of ancient southern India, Bharatnatyam. In this video she explains how she communicates with the people around her using non verbal facial expressions and how she utilizes this art form in the social work she is involved in globally. Hope you enjoy the clip and gain insight in to this art form. I would as always, love to hear your comments on this post below. Watch this TEDx Sairam Talk by Sangeeta Isvaran and share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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TED Talk Resource: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

This is a great video on the Art of Choosing. We have a lot of choices available to us and around us. How are we doing making choices? Is it easy? It is difficult? Why so? Watch this TED Global talk by Sheena Iyengar and be inspired and share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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TED Talk Resource: Sugata Mitra- The child-driven education | Video on TED.com

Prof. Sugata Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at the Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He is the founder of the "Hole in the Wall (HIW)" experiment, where in the year 1999 a computer was placed in a kiosk created within a wall in an Indian slum in New Delhi and the children were allowed to freely use it. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught to use computers very easily without any formal training. Prof. Sugata Mitra aptly termed this methodology "Minimally Invasive Education (MIE)". His interests include: Education, Remote Presence, Self organizing systems, Cognitive systems & Physics & Consciousness. The video below is from a recent talk Prof. Mitra presented at TED Global 2010.

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

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