Tag: TED Talks

• Subvert the dominant paradigm: link roundup

  Here’s a roundup of online reading I’ve been doing lately around issues fo diversity, gender equality, and culture change. Enjoy! Why gender equality is good for everyone — a very interesting TED talk by Michael Kimmel. Twofer from the New York Times this Sunday — when can women stop looking perfect? (hint: now) and it’s payback time…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 11, 2016

  Notebook

  Angry White Men, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, Basic guaranteed income, Brigid Schulte, Conference panels, Daily Life, Diversity, Emma Paling, Feminism, Gender equality, Harper’s, Huffington Post, Jennifer Weiner, Judith Shulevitz, Lauren Bacon, Laurie Penny, Michael Kimmel, Motherhood, New Stateman, Normalizing, Pinup calendars, Quartz, Rebecca Solnit, Sexism, Shonda Rhimes, Star Wars, Subvert the dominant paradigm, TED Talks, Television, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Women, Work

• Schools… Not Factories

  I listened to Sugata Mitra’s TED talk on self-organized learning, and it was extremely inspiring for anyone interested in learning or the education of children. Sugata Mitra won the TED Prize for 2013 to help seed his ambitious project to create a “school in the cloud.” Here was the a-ha point for me in his…

  Shannon Turlington

  May 9, 2013

  Notebook

  Education, Schools, Sugata Mitra, TED Talks