Brainwaves Video Anthology
Karin Hurt - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Henry Sims
Karin Hurt inspires courage confidence, and innovation. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she’s known for growing courageous leaders, building great cultures, and inspiring high-performance teams. She’s the award Winning Author of...
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Melissa Tracy - Food Matters
Melissa Tracy is a 2023 top ten finalist for the Global Teacher Prize. She teaches at Odyssey Charter School, an innovative and diverse dual-language Greek School founded in 2006 which is currently the second-largest public charter...
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Ed Ayers - A New Way to Teach American History
Edward Ayers is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, where he is President Emeritus. President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2013, hailing his "commitment to making our...
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Melissa Tracy - Teachers Make a Difference - John Gunnin
Melissa Tracy is a 2023 top ten finalist for the Global Teacher Prize. She teaches at Odyssey Charter School, an innovative and diverse dual-language Greek School founded in 2006 which is currently the second-largest public charter...
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Floyd Cheung - The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
Floyd Cheung, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and a professor of English and American Studies at Smith College, has edited several volumes highlighting forgotten and lesser-known Asian American writers, focusing on diversifying...
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Tracking Students for Safety: The Tokyo Experiment and Controversy
In this video, it is explained how a school in Tokyo is using short range wireless transmitters in students' backpacks to track their arrival and departure from school. The system sends an email to parents to notify them of their child's...
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Initiative: The Key to Making Things Happen
The Tyrannosaurus Rex, often referred to as T-Rex, is one of the most iconic and fearsome dinosaurs that ever roamed the Earth. With its massive size, sharp teeth, and powerful jaws, it was the ultimate predator of its time. Its presence...
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Andy Hargreaves - Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation
Andy Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada and Research Professor at Boston College in the US. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education, former President of the International...
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Revolutionizing Education: The Ulwazi e-Learning Initiative in South Africa
This video highlights the Ulwazi e-learning Initiative, a project that connects schools in under-resourced townships in South Africa to classrooms in more privileged areas through technology. Using video and audio feeds, students in the...
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Red Arrows and Rolls Royce: Inspiring Science Education
The Red Arrows aerobatic team, known for their skilled pilots and impressive maneuvers, are now part of a science education initiative. Through the Rolls Royce Science Prize, teachers and students have the opportunity to spend a day with...
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The Future of Football in the United States and South Africa
This video discusses the popularity of soccer in the United States and the potential for it to become one of the dominant sports in the country. It also explores the efforts to promote soccer through the Major League Soccer competition...
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Derek Penslar - Teachers Make a Difference - Anita Shapira
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He is the director of undergraduate studies within the department and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at the Minda de...
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Joel Westheimer - What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our Children for the Common Good
Joel Westheimer is University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa and an education columnist for CBC Radio. He began his career teaching in the New York City Public School system before obtaining a PhD...
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Derek Penslar - Zionism vs Anti-Zionism
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He is the director of undergraduate studies within the department and directs Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies. Penslar is a resident faculty member at the Minda de...
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Artur Proidakov - Teaching in Difficult Times: From Pandemic to War
Artur Proidakov is a Top 10 finalists Global Teacher Prize 2023 and the winner of Global Teacher Prize Ukraine. He was born and grew up in Stakhanov (now Kadiivka) in Luhansk region, under Russian occupation since 2014, where Russian...
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Artur Proidakov - Teachers Make a Difference - Natalya Filonenko
Artur Proidakov is a Top 10 finalists Global Teacher Prize 2023 and the winner of Global Teacher Prize Ukraine. He was born and grew up in Stakhanov (now Kadiivka) in Luhansk region, under Russian occupation since 2014, where Russian...
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Floyd Cheung - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Floyd Cheung, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at Smith College and a professor of English and American Studies, welcomes new students to the community. He emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the diversity within ourselves,...
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Rita Omokha - Teachers Make a Difference - Paula Span
In 2019, after a career in sales and marketing at CNN, NBC, and Viacom, Rita Omokha pursued her calling to become a reporter by enrolling at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Nervous about leaving a secure income, she...
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Rita Omokha - Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
Rita Omokha, an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America. The book, inspired by the 2020 protests following the deaths of...
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Amanda Jones - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Shirley McDonald
Amanda Jones love of reading began with her mother, a former kindergarten teacher who encouraged books at home, and was nurtured by supportive teachers throughout your school years. In high school, she met Dr. Shirley McDonald, the first...
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Amanda Jones - That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones, author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America, shares her story as a small-town school librarian in Louisiana who has faced harassment and threats since speaking out against censorship at a library...
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Living On the Edge
Cities near fault lines are at high risk of earthquakes. Can earthquakes be predicted, and how can these communities prepare for the worst? Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. Cities near fault lines are at high risk of...
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Irrational Numbers: Pythagoras
Beside the now-famous theorem which bears his name, discover the bizarre life of Pythagoras and his Brotherhood, in which maths was the language of the Gods and irrational numbers were heretical. Maths - History Of Maths A Twig Math...
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History of Computer Science for Kids | Bedtime History
Learn about the history of computer technology, from the abacus of the ancient world to smartphones of the modern age.