The Extend Activity Bank

I watched the Ted Ex on “40 seconds of compassion can heal”. He discusses his personal experience as an ICU physician in general but also in the context of analyzing the victims of a tragic bus crash and how they remembered their care at five years after. Most focused on their rememberance of a lack more… »

Notes on Ted Talk Topic: “The Birth of a Word” TED Talk by Deb Roy I. Introduction * Speaker: Deb Roy, Cognitive Scientist and Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab * Topic: The study of how babies acquire language * Research Question: How do infants learn language, and what role does social interaction play in more… »

I prepared a Cornell Note for the TEDTalk – Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson.

Here’s my Cornell Notes from a short Ted Talk. I can see these getting easier with practice – it can be a bit tough to keep up, but I think one finds that with any note taking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjBH2gTSln0 How to avoid the next financial crisis? | MICHEL GIRARDIN | TEDxGeneva I suggest that Cornell Notes is a very useful tool for everybody. It helps to arrange all ideas concerning the video, book, or article. Thank you for this great method! I’ve never heard about it before.

The link to the Ted talk is provided. I have not used Cornell notes before, a useful tool. I chose a Ted Talk about online learning in keeping with the overall course content and this speaker provides some interesting insight and challenges to the traditional forms of post-secondary education.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoRUrWcdkQ4&t=1s Title: Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy? Reflection: It’s been awhile since I’ve taken notes like this! I can see how this method could be very helpful to students (myself included) for processing information, and effectively curating the most important parts. I also see the value in teaching more… »

I enjoy Simon Sinek and am inspired with his approach to leadership. I chose to review his video on “Start with WHY”.  I have taught the Cornell Note taking method to students before, but never used it as an approach for deeper learning personally. I discovered this method was a great way to create links more… »

Subject: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much Key Points –social model of disability Change societal understanding of disability Notes ‘People with disabilities do not exist to inspire you -The representation of people with disabilities are limited; open more opportunities -disability is seen in a negative way; need to change that perception People with more… »

I took my notes to the Youtube seminar “Understanding Maths Notation”. This seminar can be useful for the international students who started to work with mathematical notations and should have the correct understanding of how these things should be pronounced in English. I use all these notations in my course “Quantitative Foundations”.