TED: Caring for engineered tissue

Based on: Nina Tandon "Caring for engineered tissue"






Interesting places:

• Cornell University
• Columbia
• MIT BE

Let's talk about it!:

1. Do you support research on living tissues?
2. What do you think about transplantation? You support it or not?
3. Would you like to work as a biological engineer?

TED: Magical houses made of bamboo by Maciej Łabuś

Based on: Elora Hardy. Magical houses, made of bamboo




Interesting places:
About Bali
here 7 UNIQUE HOTELS IN BALI SO COOL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO STAY FOREVER
Afrika House

Discussion:
What can we do to protect bamboo?
What is the ideal building material for use in your region, justify your opinion?
What do you think about bamboo houses? They are magic or not?

Ted. Katarzyna Jastrzębska. ''The power of believing that you can improve''

Pytania:
Do you believe that the human mind is so powerful?

Do you think that if Polish teachers introduced the event '' not yet '' Polish students would have improved their grades?

Would you participate in ''not yet'' event?
Do you think that belief in yourself is able to lead you on the path of success? Ciekawe linki: 1) Ciekawostki na temat ludzkiego mózgu. Interesting facts about the human mind. 2) Wiara w siebie. Krótki filmik. Believe in yourself, enjoy your life and watch this movie! 3)Co jest w stanie zrobić ludzki umysł a czego nie wykorzystujemy. What is it a lucid dream? What is it an OOBE?
Quizlet - pomocnicze słówka.

TED: How schools kill creativity

TED: https://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular_talks_of_all#

Quizlet: Dissciusions:
1. Do you think that the school is killing your creativity? Why ?
    What do you think about education system in our country and in the world? Do you see difference between them ?

2. Do you support the current education system? Are you creativity ? Do you have passions, dreams or talents which you  develop ?

3. What would you like change in education/ education system ? Why ?

Interesting facts:
http://www.inc.com/larry-kim/9-ways-to-become-more-creative-in-the-next-10-minutes.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6NiLpD678



Angelika Karwowska

TED: Joe Landolina and his biomedical gel

Greetings!

I want to share with you a video in which a Joe Laolina inventor and biomedical enginieer talks about his recent invention the VITE-GEL. 

Awesome isn't it? Just think about all this possibilities! For example it could be such a great improvement for people with hemophilia or we could use it insted of adhestive bandages(imagine that insted of learning how to dress injuries with Mr Zając you can simply apply some gel on the wound). By the way it reminds me of medi-gel from Mass effect franchise.

In case if you find some words or phrases too difficult I have prepared a quizlet for you.

I also attach a few links to sites where will you find thing or two about latest scientic discoveries, interesting articles and films:

• here
• here
• and here

As a exercise I have prepared three discusion questions, hope that you will like them:

• What is in your opinion the greatest dicovery\invention  of the XXI century?
• in which spheres life or industry will the VITE-GEL be used?
• make a statement if it is good to use gel for military purpose?

TED: This is what it's like to teach in North Korea

TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/suki_kim_this_is_what_it_s_like_to_teach_in_north_korea#t-353199

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/85847831/education-in-north-korea-flash-cards/

Discussions:   1.  What if we still won’t notice everything what happens there? What will happened to those people living there?
2.What if in another country the situation of education will be the same as in North Korea?
3.  How can we help those people to relisted the coves of the regime of government?


Intresting informations:

1.       http://www.quora.com/How-is-North-Koreas-education-system

2.       http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html

3.       http://www.nknews.org/2014/03/what-i-learned-from-a-north-korean-education/

Maciej Warchoł

TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work#t-167874

TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work#t-167874

Oglądnijcie niesamowity gościu Shaw Achor, który wam opowie jak ważne jest szczęście w waszym życiu !!!

https://quizlet.com/_1f3za4

A tutaj możecie poćwiczyć potrzebne wam zwroty bądź słówka zawarte w jego prezentacji :D


1.  What do you do in your daily life to be happy and improve your brain ?
2. What ways of improving yourself can you think of?
3.Do you tend to have more positive or negative thoughts?

TED: What's wrong with our food system? by Adrianna Moroń

Based on: Birke Baehr " What's wrong with our food system?"

Interesting places:
Museum of Health Care
John Innes Centre
Bencab Museum

Discussion:
1. Fastfood or Slowfood? Explain your answer.
2. What do you think about genetically modified food?
3. Do you agree with the phrase " You can go to the slowfood farmer or the hospital."? Why/why not? 

TED:The magic of truth and lies (and iPods). by Adrianna Moroń

Based on: Marco Tempest " The magic of truth and lies ( and iPods)"

Interesting places:
Edinburgh's Camera Obscura and World of Illusions
American Museum of Magic
Cirque Italia

Discussions:
1. Do you think that magic is an art? Why/ why not?
2. What do you think about the statement "lie is part of life."?
3. Did you ever heard the phrase "lie creates the truth." ?What do you think about it?

TED: Why did I ski to the North Pole? by Adrianna Moroń

Based on: "Why did I ski to the North Pole?" Ben Sauders

Interesting places:
Greenland National Museum
Museum of Art in Nuuk
Greenland - Kayaking
http://www.glacierlodgeeqi.com/

Discussion questions:
1. What do you think about exile sentenced to death on North Pole?
2. How do you imagine your life at the pole?
3. What do you think motivates people to journey to the Pole?

Adrianna Moroń

TED: Perspective is everything

Questions: 1) Imagine a situation when you are on a walk and two kind are tuning across the street and shouting. How would you behave? Take two points of view: as present you and as a one those kids. 2) Why different people are having different points of view so that different opinions? How do we create our opinions? 3) Why is it so hard to understand somebody who's 'on the other side'? Interesting places in the Net: 1)http://www.simplypsychology.org/perspective.html 2)http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2434773) 3)We can find term 'perspective' also in physics: http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/perspectives.htm Julia Bękarciak

How to make peace? Get angry.

1. What do you think about topic of this film? (Do you think it could work in our live?)
2. How can we help to the poorest group of our society?
3. Is it true that the best ideas come to us, when we are angry?
1. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0306/feature1/
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyCQDIwHlXY
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_India

Maciek Wartecki

TED: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorst

1. If the FBI creates terrorist plots then what will happen if they cannot control them?
2. What if the FBI releases too much money to terrorist activities and the US government will fall into a big crisis?
3. What if they make a mistake and accuse a person who had no links with terrorist plans? What if that person were you?


More interesting places:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

Film TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning#t-144008

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/85751919/learning-flash-cards/

How can we grow our curiosity?

Are we asking enough questions?

Can we spark curiosity in youngest?

https://growingcuriosity.wordpress.com/

http://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-lose-our-natural-curiosity-and-passion-for-learning-and-exploring-the-world-as-we-grow-older

https://curiosity.com/