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You Are There: The Thinking Person's YouTube
By Diane Demee-Benoit
12/11/07I was recently introduced to FORA.tv, a new Web site that aggregates videos of discussions and debates on interesting political, social, and cultural issues. If your schedule is anything like mine, it's difficult to find the time to travel to a bookstore to hear a famous author read or to afford the price of a ticket to see a big headliner speak. FORA.tv -- the name is the plural form of forum -- offers an alternative: Sit on your couch with your wireless laptop and listen to a variety of interesting speakers. It's a thinking person's YouTube.
FORA.tv's videos capture an entire presentation or panel discussion, so they are rather long; however, they do a decent job of breaking the video up into chapters, segmenting the speaker's or speakers' topics and themes.
Here are a few FORA.tv videos that might interest Edutopia.org visitors:
- MySpace Generation: Why the Hype and Hysteria?: This panel discussion about young people and their technology use was taped October 27, 2007.
- Retooling Schooling: Innovations in Education: I put this panel discussion together for an audience of journalists October 16, 2007, in San Francisco.
- Youth Voices: What Do Young Adults Think?: At the Aspen Institute's 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, three young adults talk about the vulnerability of youth and their paths to adulthood.
Visit these pages and tell us what you think, and share your ideas about how you might use the site in your teaching or in professional development.
Education For Creative Living
Submitted by Rohit Sood (not verified) on January 2, 2008 - 04:41.
The Call Beyond got me into a progressive school for three years of my life to understand how I learn, how children learn and the quality of my aim which would determine the quality of my life. Eight years with children, parents, teachers and organizations that work with school to bring in some kind of change and reform has just left me to believe that today the most important component in Education which is missing is the Spiritual Dimension.
We have the best curriculum in the world, the technology, the infrastructure and resources yet there is a void in our lives, our children's lives. I am in the process of developing a concept on life long learning and education for creative living. I feel we have forgotten the timeless simplicity to understand as to what it means to be human. With all the violence and environment degradation, all we need to understand and live a clutter less life in a consumerist society. Be the change, the catalyst for change and live in harmony with nature and our fellow human beings. A revolution, a perfection in a single soul can bring down the divine consciousness to the earth consciousness and lead us all to change for the better. The process of evolution and involution is necessary in the realm of consciousness. As co-creators and communities lets join hands and aspire for beauty, grace, more compassion and understanding amongst us and our children. Peace is the way.
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