[YouTube is allowing videos longer than 15 minutes now which is why I'm uploading this video again, but it's in one piece this time.]

Are schools designed to help people learn? Are colleges and universities really institutions of higher education? Do students actually learn any science in science classes? Can skateboarding give us a better model for teaching and learning? Watch this video to find out.

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http://DrTae.org

For more details about this video, read my blog entry about "Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning"
http://drtae.org/building-a-new-culture-of-teaching-and-learning/

0:37
"School Sucks"
If you've never seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" you should watch it here:
http://ted.com/​talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

1:22
"Universities are not doing a good job."
Watch the entire interview with Dr. Leon Lederman on The Science Network.
Education, Politics, Einstein, and Charm: a conversation with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman.
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/​the-science-studio/​robert

3:02
Depersonalization 101: "They're...checking Facebook or their email..."
Is the digital revolution turning us into delusional multitaskers who can't focus?
Watch "Digital Nation" from Frontline on PBS
http://pbs.org/​wgbh/​pages/​frontline/​digitalnation/​view/​

4:37
"Increasing number of educators found to be suffering from teaching disabilities"
The Onion
http://theonion.com/​content/​news/​report_increasing_number_of

5:45
"Over 90% of middle school science teachers in this country have never taken a science course outside of high school."
Watch the entire discussion between Dr. Lawrence Krauss and Dr. Richard Dawkins:
http://richarddawkins.net/​article,2472,Richard-Dawkins-and-Lawrence-Krauss,RichardDawkinsnet

7:05
"...the difference between certifications and qualifications."
Malcolm Gladwell has argued that if we don't have a good way of predicting who will become great teachers, we must drastically change hiring practices in schools.
"Most Likely To Succeed: How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?"
http://newyorker.com/​reporting/​2008/​12/​15/​081215fa_fact_gladwell

9:30
"...the most effective thing we can do to improve the quality of physics instruction...is to hire, honor, and promote good teachers."
Dr. David J. Griffiths ( academic.reed.edu/​physics/​faculty/​griffiths.html )
"Is There A Text In This Class?"
http://ajp.aapt.org/​resource/​1/​ajpias/​v65/​i12/​p1141_s1

10:00
"Do they just sit there?"
Dr. Dean Zollman ( phys.ksu.edu/​personal/​dzollman/​ )
"Do They Just Sit There? Reflections on helping students learn physics"
http://web.phys.ksu.edu/​papers/​millikan.html

11:41
"Congratulations! You haven't learned a damn thing about science."
Watch Richard Feynman for a more insightful view of science.
"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
http://video.google.com/​videoplay?docid=7136440703094429927

13:23
"Maybe lawyers are getting in the way of science education."
Watch Geyver Tulley's TED Talks about
"Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do"
http://ted.com/​talks/​gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html
"Life Lessons Through Tinkering"
http://ted.com/​talks/​gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html

16:40
"Work your ass off until you figure it out."
Dr. Carol Dweck might call this having a "growth mindset."
"How Not To Talk To Your Kids"
http://nymag.com/​news/​features/​27840/​
Mindset by Dweck
http://mindsetonline.com/​
Branford Marsalis thinks some students don't understand the idea of hard work.
http://youtube.com/​watch?v=5rz2jRHA9fo
"Making The Grade: Many students wheedle for a degree as if it were a freebie T shirt"
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/​~mleach/​myturn/​makingthegrade.html

17:32
"That's a long time"
Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell
http://gladwell.com/​outliers/​index.html
Dr. Alan Schoenfeld
http://gse.berkeley.edu/​faculty/​ahschoenfeld/​ahschoenfeld.html

22:40
"Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic-Studies Major"
The Onion
http://theonion.com/​content/​node/​30911

23:03
"You can polish a turd."
MythBusters: Polishing A Turd
http://dsc.discovery.com/​videos/​mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

24:35
Distributed Computing on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Distributed_computing
SETI@home
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/