Tag: TED ED Learning Adventures

Risk-taking, mistake-making, and lifelong learning | Dr. Kathleen Ciez-Volz

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This talk was given at first TEDxFSCJ 2014, a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this charming talk, Dr. Katheleen Ciez-Volz dives into the importance and need for all of us to reject fear and embarrassment over mistake-making, and instead take risks and embrace the possibility of mistakes for the sake of lifelong learning.
Fall 2016 Online Discussion:
Share a lesson that you learned, or an insight that you gained, from a mistake that you made in your workplace. What decision did you make? What risks were taken in the decision making process?
How, if at all, could that that mistake have been avoided? What what the most important lesson that you learned from the mistake?
Link to TED Ed Lesson: https://ed.ted.com/on/cTIQI79M
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Big Data – Tim Smith. #bigdata #internet – TED Ed Lesson

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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades – stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst ‘solving’ their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN’s involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.

Discussions:

Why big data is important in the creation and development of useful databases? What is the connection with business intelligence?

How big data is useful to solve environmental issues?

Link to TED Ed Lesson: http://ed.ted.com/on/ybeUkkuS

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Be Prepared to Change. A Personal Leadership System Overview

Management of Personal Systems. Be Prepared to Change and Lead Yourself to Higher Levels. A Personal Leadership System®. u01 Overview. Time is one thing in the world that we cannot change. Information, communications, family, friends, and work overload our time. We fill our day with activities that overwhelm our capacity to handle them. We need extreme time management methods to cope with stress, un-productivity, and procrastination. Is not about multi-tasking, it is about packed-tasking. Time survivors keep them busy without losing sanity. Busy people always have time to do more. Lazy people always complain about the things they cannot do. Managers select busy people when assembling successful teams. Personal Leadership System (c) developed by Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche (www.lepervanche.org) based on beliefs, values, priorities, lifelong project management, effective delegation, and technology usage to simplify life and work.