Sir Ken Robinson 1950-2020

Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4Q17t4muY

Life is short but wisdom, values remain.

Sir Ken Robinson died Last August from an aggressive cancer, not from Covid, eventhough this is 2020.

I hope you'll listen to it all. 

"People love to learn he says."

What he says before and after that is really something. 

"There is an opportunity, it takes bravery and imagination and we have plenty of that in store."

You've heard of the boiling frog syndrom. Haven't you?

 

CONSENT : Easily understandable with tea instead.

I thought in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein story, posting this video could be appropriate. 
(Voc. brackets: Journalists tend to call what they are working on 'a story'. Judicial courts,deal with cases. In politics, they refer to narratives or story-telling.)

Sure, everybody likes a good story. Here is one.

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Follow up article; from across the pond. June 10th, 2016... With this very Amercian title:

"The very British video helping Americans understand sexual consent."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/10/the-very-british-video-helping-americans-understand-sexual-consent/?utm_term=.aac2fec957e0

Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9MtAfDswzQ
 Just chose to put a pic instead of the video. It is craftily preventing from allowing me to integrate it! Never mind, justwatch the link! Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9MtAfDswzQ

We are citizens of planet Earth

Call to Earth - A Message from the World's Astronauts to COP21

Fighting to spread the truth

Harvey Wasserman:  

This man wants you to know the truth about Fukushima

13 minutes in:

"The fact of the matter is that Tepco like ever utility company in the U.S. has no financial liability for any of the damage that they do. 

It is not in the interest of # PG&E or any other corporation that owns a Nuclear power plant to protect the public safety because there is no money in it.”

  

On moveOn.org
http://front.moveon.org/this-man-wants-you-to-know-the-truth-about-fukushima/#.VgLnpPRdsUp

Football, sponsors and responsibility!

Jon Oliver, comedian, made a promise to Budweiser: "If you pull your support and help get rid of Joseph Blatter, I will put my mouth where my mouth is."
A few days later, after Blatter's resignation, he did!
Don't you have fun with John Oliver?!

Ahead of her Time: Saheela Ibraheem

 She was accepted to Harvard College at age 15!
 https://college.harvard.edu/

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/ahead-of-her-time/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hu-twitter-general

Water is Life.

OFF THE GRID

 WATCH THE FIRST 21 secs and guess what the change could be.
 VIDEO Off the Grid
One family left everything they had behind to live without electricity, running water, or any means of communication in the backwoods of Eastern Idaho.

In Going Off Grid, Laura Ling examines how 180,000 Americans a year are choosing to live entirely disconnected from our modern internet-focused world in pursuit of a more sustainable, simple lifestyle.

5 tips for teaching ... kids

Educational Utopia : It's tough to be a teacher .... mais c'est passionnant!
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/tips-for-teaching-tough-kids-josh-work?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-tips-for-teaching-tough-kids-feb-repost

Meanwhile I'm correcting your papers, dear pupils.. You'll visit the Cahier de texte next thursday if you will.
Thinking of H.

The Mirror

Leonardo DiCaprio's 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech

Resilience

Thinking of you, terminales, taking the Baccalaureat! All the best.

How determined are you to win your race?

GO FOR IT!

Don't you get caught in the Web...

and a criticism of that video, but in French. Sorry about that.
http://mobile.lemonde.fr/vous/article/2014/05/13/leve-les-yeux-de-ton-ecran_4416039_3238.html

A young girl and her scientific experiment

A child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.  
 

Help Father Christmas

The arctic is in danger.

What is Wealth really like?

Idle No More: a spreading Canadian grassroot movement

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/01/04/prime_minister_stephen_harper_to_meet_first_nations_leaders_jan_11.html

"We need to make this a blockbuster!"

Malala inspires children worldwide

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school student and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Pakistan. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where theTaliban  had at times banned girls from attending school. On the 9th of October 2012, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus.The young Pakistani girl struggles to stay alive after an attack by gunmen. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/10/world/asia/pakistan-malala-one-month/index.html

http://tribune.com.pk/story/499016/malala-has-inspired-children-worldwide-un-campaigners/

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