CBC [ 28 MAR 2021 | Innovation Economics | 22:06 ] Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao were still in high school when they discovered plastic-eating bacteria in Vancouver’s Fraser River. Passionate about the problem of plastic waste, the two
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Sal Kahn [ 26 SEP 2016 | Reinventing Education ] I’m here today to talk about the two ideas that, at least based on my observations at Khan Academy, are kind of the core, or the key leverage points for
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Shark Tank
Eddy Zhong [ 6 FEB 2015 | Reinventing Education ] I want to share with you a big secret today. And it’s not one that a lot of you are going to want to hear. But at the same,
Make It Stick
Henry Roediger [ 4 APR 2014 | Reinventing Education | 24:49 ] points out that Psychologists have been studying learning and memory with experimental methods for roughly 130 years — since Hermann Ebbinghaus compiled his Curve of Forgetting experiments. What
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Peer Networks
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