Educators With Ideas Worth Spreading
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18 Episodes
Murray Gibbon - Building Successful School Partnerships
Murray is the headmaster of Claremont High in Cape Town, a new Maths and Science focus school, which is partnering with the highly successful Westerford High school. In this short talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Murray describes the benefits of his successful partnership and why it could be key for creating…
Phadiela Cooper - No Excuses, Just Success
Phadiela Cooper is the principal of a Khayelitsha school, Centre of Science and Technology, the first township school to make it on to the province's list of top 10 schools. One of their students achieved six distinctions. The school is one of three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) facilities…
Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz - SA Needs Open Education
Laura has worked in the field of educational technology at the University of Cape Town for over a decade. The founding Director of the Centre for Educational Technology, she is currently the Director of the OpenUCT Initiative. In this talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012 she shares her passion for open education…
Steve Sherman - The Global Classroom, Live from South Africa
Steve is the Managing Director of an Educational NGO called Living Maths. He teaches ¬4500 students weekly in schools around Cape Town and now recently, the world. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and empowering young people. In this whistle-stop tour through his current experiments with technology and education he…
Jos Dirkx - Girls, Football and Learning
Jos Dirkx is the founder and director of the award-winning 'Girls & Football SA'. She is passionate about gender equality and equality in equal education. In this talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Jos reveals some of the subtle and pervasive ways prejudice about gender roles infiltrates our attitudes, and their harmful…
Craig Charnock - Language Learning: Bridge to a Better World
(This talk has a music video by Craig Makhosi Charnock singing in Xhosa in the beginning but the whole talk is in English.) Craig Makhosi Charnock is the founder of UBuntu Bridge, a Xhosa and Zulu language teaching company. In this talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Craig shares briefly about his…
Xola Sdiki - The Power of Peers
Xola is an 18 year old male who was selected as a GOLD Peer Educator when he was in grade 10 due to his leadership potential (He says he was already influencing people, just not in a good way!). He lives in Kraaifontein, a community riddled with poverty, gangsterism and…
Malinga Nopote - Excellence Through Trust
Malinga was appointed principal of Sinenjongo High School in Joe Slovo township, Cape Town in July 2010. She and her team increased the matric pass rate at Sinenjongo from 44% in 2009, to 98% in 2010, and 88% in 2011. In this short talk from TEDxCapeTownED, she tells the story…
Louise Van Rhyn - Life-changing Partnerships: Principals and Business Leaders
Louise is the founder of Symphonia, a group of organizations committed to sustainable transformation in people, teams, companies, organizations and communities throughout the world. Through Symphonia, Louise works to mobilize citizens to become actively involved in addressing the education crisis facing South Africa. In this deeply personal and moving talk…
Rich Mulholland - Escaping Educational Legacide
Richard kicked off his career as a rock n roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. From there he started SA's largest presentation firm, Missing Link and co-founded 21Tanks, SA's first perspective lab. In this irreverent but deeply relevant talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Rich…
Prof Tim Noakes - The Mindset to Succeed
Prof. Tim Noakes is a co-founder and executive director of the Sports Science Institute of SA. He is an author, respected academic and A1 rated scientist and has long been acknowledged as an expert in the field of sports and the science of physical exercise. Tim is a Director of…
John Gilmour - Education for the Whole Person
John Gilmour is the Founder of the LEAP Science and Maths Schools. He was Principal of Abbott's College for five years before leaving to set up the LEAP Science and Maths School. In this deeply personal talk from TEDxCapeTownED, John shares some of his regrets over the conversations he failed…
Christoph Hagspihl - Graduates in the Township
Christoph surprised the bank that offered him a job by asking for a one year deferral so that he could teach maths at Mfuleni High School situated in one of Cape Town's townships. In this amusing short talk from TEDxCapeTownED he talks about the challenges of teaching maths in a…
Leigh Meinert - The Soul of Education
Leigh co-founded the Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) at the age of 22. In this personal talk from TEDxCapeTownED 2012, Leigh shares her firm belief that asking big questions is the soul of education and practically explains how they try to make this a reality at the TSiBA.
Sam Paddock - What if Mothers Taught the World?
Sam is the founder of GetSmarter, an online/distance learning organisation. In this short talk from TEDxCapeTownED he lays out the philosophy behind their success rates (over 90% vs 9% at South Africa's largest distance learning institution). He credits their success to splitting the role of administrator ('Mother') and teacher, and…
Prof Ian Scott - Failing the Majority
Failing the Majority: The Need for Higher Education to Face Reality Prof. Ian Scott is the director of Academic Development and a professor and deputy dean at the University of Cape Town. He has been a member of the Ministry of Education's Reference Group on Academic Development since 2000. In…
Soli Philander - What My Children Taught Me
Soli is a seasoned broadcaster, award-winning actor, television presenter, director, comedian, playwright, columnist and motivational speaker. In this short talk from TEDxCapeTownED he passionately explains what his children taught him in ABC 123. Honest and inspirational, he calls on parents to be the one person their kids need to believe…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele - Rising to our Citizens' Responsibility
Dr Ramphele is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement. In this short talk from TEDxCapeTownED, she issues a strong rebuke for the passivity of South African citizens and explores some changes that…