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[|Talladega Nights video clip - Make friends with your fear]

[|Ning for independent school educators]

Links for feeding your need or finding fuel: [|TED - inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers] Sign up for the podcast in itunes to have new content delivered directly to your computer. Recommended Talks :
 * [|Sir Ken Robinson]- educational reform
 * Martin Seligman - psychology and fulfilled life
 * Rives - 4 in the Morning
 * Howard Rheingold - the coming of world collaboration
 * David Gallo - watch for the hidden octopus - amazing
 * Ron Eglash - I am a mathematician and would like to stand on your roof.
 * David Kelley - Hunman centered design

[|Educational Podcast Network] - variety of podcasts categorized

Check out itunes for more podcasts.

[|Video of Daniel Pink -author of A Whole New Mind]

[|Video of Ken Kay presentation on 21st century learners]

Books of possible interest: //The Last Lecture// - Randy Pausch //Teaching for Tomorrow// - Ted McCain //Understanding by Design// - Grant Wiggins //Experience and Education// - John Dewey //The School and Society// - John Dewey //The Child and Curriculum// - John Dewey //The Tao of Pooh// - Benjamin Hoff //Punished by Rewards// - [|Alfie Kohn] //The Schools Our Children Deserve// - [|Alfie Kohn] What Great Teachers Do Differently - Todd Whitaker //Multiple Intellingences: The Theory in Practice// - Howard Gardner //Re-inventing Project-Based Learning// - Suzie Boss & Jane Krauss //Good to Great// - Jim Collins //The New Meaning of Educational Change// - Michael Fullan //The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization// - Peter Senge //Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society// - Senge, Scharmer, Jaworksi, & Flowers //The New Brain// - Richard Restak //Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot// - Richard Restak //Predictably Irrational// - Dan Arielly //Everything Bad is Good for You// - Steven Johnson //The Brain that Changes Itself// - Norman Doidge //The World is Flat// - Thomas Friedman //Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die// - Chip and Dan Heath