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From Student to Student: Risk, Aversion and the Role of Integration
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In her final semester as a business major, Jade Trinh was uninspired by the obvious career paths open to her. In her 2011 BIF Talk, Trinh recounts her story of stumbling into an entrepreneurship course that revealed an unexpected and exciting new path. She argues that students crave the kinds of real-world, experiential learning environments she was fortunate enough to encounter and urges that experiences like hers should not be the exception, but the rule.

Subject:
Business and Communication
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Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest / ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Jade Trinh
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Personalized Learning: What is Most Interesting and What Do You Know?
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What if educators could see what a student knows, what they need to know, and how to motivate them...all by looking at a map? Danny Hillis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Applied Minds, asks us to imagine a learning map that goes beyond existing search engines to show educators just that.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest / ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Date Added:
12/05/2011
STEAM: Learning That is Representative of the Whole World
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STEAM stands for "Science & Technology interpreted through Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements," and aims to bring FUNctional literacy to students. Founder/teacher Georgette Yakman describes how her immigrant grandparents, brother with Asperger syndrome, and artistic stepfather led her to bring Arts into STEM.

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Arts and Humanities
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Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest / ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Serious Play-Dough: Inspiring Young Circuit Designers
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At the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, this engineering professor and her team demonstrate that science or engineering lessons can be found in almost anything -- and a sense of play can make those lessons accessible and incite young minds.

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Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest / ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Date Added:
12/05/2011