Top 10 Movies About Teachers
Everyone agrees education is important. Most people agree teachers are valuable. Few people know the difference between learning and teaching. Learning happens naturally when children are fully engaged. Teaching happens when teachers love what they do and share that enthusiasm with the children they teach. After spending years lecturing at private schools across South Africa, […]
The Internet: A World Without Boundaries
There was a time when we lived in a world without borders. In an age before the United Nations, free trade zones or countries. In those dark ages way back when, people lived in villages and often nomadic tribes. There was no clear borders and for mostly people moved freely. Today you may think we […]
Have You Been Sold A Lie? No.
Recently I told someone on Twitter lying is more fun than telling the truth. This was after listing to Jon Rappoport talk about one of his imagination exercises. They are meant to stimulate your imagination through story telling. In these imagination exercises you get together with a group of people and you tell each other […]
Falling In Love With Artificial Intelligence
“I don’t think we think unless it is about me.” – Kurt Cobain More than twenty years ago I wrote my first few lines of computer code using a language called BASIC. At university I studied Computer Science. After few years working in the IT industry, I did not enjoy working began exploring potential common […]
Louise van Rhyn’s Journey: Mobilizing Citizens for Educational Change
Louise van Rhyn is the founder of Symphonia, a group of organisations dedicated to sustainable transformation in people, teams, companies, organisations, and communities worldwide. Through Symphonia, Louise works to mobilise citizens to become actively involved in addressing the education crisis facing South Africa. In this deeply personal and moving talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Louise talks […]