TED Radio Hour

Can curiosity save the wild?

As a zookeeper, my job was outreach education. And so I would bring wildlife to schools, to birthday parties, to events in person. And I would teach kids about them. So I was the zookeeper that showed up. And then when I started doing this rehab with Bean on stream, I found myself doing the spiel. This is a red-tailed hawk. It's the most common widespread bird of prey in North America. I'm doing the kind of event spiel. But at that time, I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.

TED Radio Hour

Can curiosity save the wild?

I found myself doing the spiel. You know, this is a red-tailed hawk. It's like most common widespread bird of prey in North America. You know, I'm doing the kind of event spiel. But at that time, I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.

TED Radio Hour

Can curiosity save the wild?

And so I would bring wildlife to schools, to birthday parties, to events in person. And I would teach kids about them. So I was the zookeeper that showed up. And then when I started doing this rehab with Bean on stream, I found myself doing the spiel. This is a red-tailed hawk. It's like most common widespread bird of prey in North America. I'm doing the kind of event spiel. But at that time I was doing it to thousands of people at a time that I knew were all over the world on this live stream, instead of in person with maybe 20 kids at a time.

The a16z Show

Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg

the most important question for students may not be which field is safest from AI, but what they care enough about to build

Book of the Day

'Swan Song' sees Princess Diana through her brother’s eyes | NPR's Book of the Day

Being told all the way through your school years that you are somehow less than the rest of the people in your class must have had a devastating effect on her... How could you not feel that you were somehow inadequate? And it was only after she left school where she truly flourished.

Book of the Day

'Swan Song' sees Princess Diana through her brother’s eyes | NPR's Book of the Day

Being told all the way through your school years that you are somehow less than the rest of the people in your class must have had a devastating effect on her. I also come to the conclusion, you know, which is fairly it was very obvious that she had this incredible burden from this criticism from teachers about being at the very low end in each subject she studied. How could you not feel that you were somehow inadequate?

The Prof G Pod

Ethan Mollick's AI Starter Kit: Which Models to Pay For and How to Use Them

The good thing about AI is it's very democratic, right? There's no better model than the ones you have access to today. You or every kid in Mozambique has access to the exact same tools that are at Goldman Sachs or Department of Defense or anywhere else.

TED

Why You Need the Growth Mindset of a Weed | Stephen Nobles | TED

A fact with that is if a kid lives in poverty, they're not poor. Their parents are poor and they live with them. The same way, if a kid's parents are rich, they're not rich. Their parents are rich and they live with them. So with that, all of the data, all of the characteristics of poverty, place it on the parents and not the student.

Book of the Day

'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee says writing 'American Hagwon' transformed her

I felt so sad for all these people who were spending so much of their very hardearned money, money they really didn't have to help their kids. It's not true. Like you could go to a fancy school and not have things work out. Every single person that you and I know can find five examples, not like one example, five examples, maybe 10 examples, maybe 20 examples of people who went to these schools. And these people did not have the life that you thought they would have or they thought they would have as a result of having gone to a name brand school.

Throughline

The report that changed public education | It's Been a Minute

Americans become convinced that public school systems are the way to transform the immigrant poor into Americans. Look, we will build a school and we will transform society eventually through that school.

Semafor

Youth Wellbeing Forum: Building Resilient Generations | Semafor Events

There's a concept called co cognitive shrinking that's being noticed now in children using AI.

TED

How to Fix Africa’s Learning Crisis | Rapelang Rabana | TED

Each child suddenly gets something incredibly rare: instruction that responds to them. The child who was struggling can slow down and get more practice. The child who is ready to keep going can rush ahead.

TED

How to Make Learning Impossibly Fun | Mark Rober | TED

It's kind of the most important job in on the planet and so and they're not compensated as well as they like we should be ashamed I think I said that like we should be ashamed of like the support teachers actually get um for the importance of what they do

Fresh Air

Back-to-school with Big Tech

the tech companies want kids to be prepared for the world the tech companies are building. But we're not saying to kids, do you want an AI-driven future? Do you want an AI-first future? Like, we're skipping over all the hard questions.

Diet TBPN

Hank Green Faces AI Backlash, OpenAI Math Advances, Million-Dollar Solo Firms | Diet TBPN

It's a real challenge to simultaneously say, I'm going to cover math. I'm going to cover science, but I'm not going to touch AI. That AI stuff's bad.

Office Hours

Do Ivy League Degrees Actually Matter? | Office Hours

The Ivy League generally attracts two cohorts, freakishly remarkable kids and the children of rich people. And disproportionately, increasingly more the latter than the former. The former is used as Vaseline to smear over the lens of income inequality and the fact that kids from the top 1% income earning households are 77 times more likely to get into an elite university.

TED

Why AI Will Never Replace a Great Teacher | Matt Wu | TED

We're investing billions into making sure we put the very best AI tools onto every screen on the planet. But with all this technology at our fingertips, why aren't we investing just as urgently into making sure every student can connect with the people who will change their life?

TED

Why AI Will Never Replace a Great Teacher | Matt Wu | TED

AI is making knowledge more accessible, more personalized, and more intuitive than we ever thought possible. But ask any student what has changed their life the most, and they won't tell you about a technology. They'll tell you about a person.

TED

Why AI Will Never Replace a Great Teacher | Matt Wu | TED

Ask any student what has changed their life the most, and they won't tell you about a technology. They'll tell you about a person. A teacher who believed in them before they believed in themselves.

TED

Why AI Is an Even Bigger Deal Than You Think | Reed Hastings | TED

We keep doing things to improve classroom education, but the fundamental power distribution is 25 kids stuck at the same level. And that the friction that that creates which is you know roughly a third of the kids are behind a third of the kids are bored and above and a third you're teaching to is the fundamental friction in uh our mass education system.

TED

Why AI Will Never Replace a Great Teacher | Matt Wu | TED

That is what makes education human. Not just the transfer of knowledge, but the ability to understand others and use that to shape your own perspective.

TED

The Invisible Threat Taking Away Our Brightest Minds | Drew McCartor | TED

If you rob one child of their potential, that's a tragedy. But to do it to a billion kids, that changes the trajectory of humanity.

Office Hours

Is an MBA Still Worth the Debt? Scott Galloway Breaks Down the Numbers | Office Hours

Business school is really for what I call the elite and the aimless. I was in investment banking before business school didn't know what I wanted to do next. Just knew I didn't want to be in investment banking.

Pivot

Trump Cuts CDC Funding. Diarrhea Outbreak Explodes. Scott Galloway: “Connect the Dots” | Pivot

Young men are falling behind because they aren't low on testosterone. They're falling behind because they're low on purpose, education, work, and relationships.

Book of the Day

Mary Beard's 'Talking Classics' examines our obsession with the ancient world

We might not like the ancient world. I don't think I like it very much. But we can't just ignore it, or we have an impoverished view of our own culture if we try to ignore it.

Book of the Day

Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era

My mother was like, no, my kids are going to college. And and you know, uh my brother went to Williams College, my sister went to Villanova, I went to Yale. So, you know, her vision of the family was the vision that determined our lives.

The Prof G Pod

The College Affordability Crisis: Is a Degree Still Worth It? | Office Hours

If we had a drug that reduced suicide rates by 60%, increased your likelihood of getting married by 80%, massively increased the likelihood that you decided to run for public office, doubled your income. If we had that pill, would we hoard that pill? Would we let the cost of that drug quadruple? Well, we have that pill. It's called higher education.

Prof G Conversations

Ted Dintersmith: Are We Failing Our Kids? | Prof G Conversations

The story of American education is we teach what's easy to test, not what's important to learn.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I left private equity because my view was has to have, you know, a very long term approach, and I had suffered a personal tragedy in my life which made me reexamine what I wanted to do, and I decided that I wanted to try and build a school group.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I was a partner at a private equity firm and they used to invest in the education sector. And as I spent time looking at the sector, I really fell in love with the school sector and I looked more closely at the opportunity and my view was how nice would it be to have a group of the best schools around the world that maintain the ethos and values of the schools that are part of the group, but yet share global best practices.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I looked close more closely at the opportunity and my view was how nice would it be to have a group of the best schools around the world that maintain the ethos and values of the schools that are part of the group, but yet share global best practices.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I had suffered a personal tragedy in my life which made me reexamine what I wanted to do, and I decided that I wanted to try and build a school group.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

It's a move really from the education a lot of us were familiar with, which was everyone sitting on the mat learning together, progressing as one, to actually adapting to the strengths and weaknesses of an individual student.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I was a partner at a private equity firm and they used to invest in the education sector. And as I spent time looking at the sector, I really fell in love with the school sector.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: Future Builders | Semafor Media Partner

Nothing in the history of Western civilization has gotten more expensive more quickly than a four-year degree.

Fresh Air

The hidden history of blackface in America

Historians right now are in somewhat of a culture war in that it is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity.

Fresh Air

The hidden history of blackface in America

It is our patriotic duty as American citizens and as patriots to help make sure that the American public has access to our history in all of its complexity. And the truth is, is that you can't understand the victories and the triumphs without understanding how far Americans had to push.