Скачать или смотреть Changing the World of Teaching: Lee Meadows at TEDxBirmingham 2011

Lee Meadows thinks change is a a good thing. He's changed his own teaching from straight lecture to a classroom where students work in small groups, answer big questions, and tap today's technology. He's working with other education leaders across Alabama to get hands-on, inquiry-based science in every K-12 classroom. He's helped UAB's medical school recently make their transition to an entirely new curriculum based on med students studying human body systems. He's helping science teachers across the country in such places as Orlando, FL, Tacoma, WA, and Savannah, TN, implement the inquiry-based science, the cutting edge today of science teaching. His book, The Missing Link: An Inquiry Approach for Teaching All Students about Evolution, helps science teachers change evolution from a topic that puts up walls to one that engages kids afraid to learn about evolution. As a professor in UAB's School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences, as a husband and a dad, and as an adopted Alabamian and life-long Southerner, he sees great hope for changes that can make our schools vibrant places bringing hope to children's lives.

TEDxBirmingham 2011 - "Waking the Giant" - was held on October 8, 2011 at historic Woodrow Hall in Birmingham, Alabama. 10 speakers plus several artistic performers spread their ideas with cross-disciplinary mix of attendees from the Magic City, ranging from civic and business leaders to professionals, educators, technologists, and artists. TEDxBirmingham -- like all TEDx events -- is an independent, volunteer effort. It is not organized for political reasons, monetary reward, or personal gain. Everyone associated with TEDxBirmingham does so because they believe in the power of ideas to change the world. http://www.tedxbirmingham.org

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