iNSPIRING VIDEOS 2
A selection of inspiring videos. Use them at Staff meetings and some with the students. They challenge us to think beyond our current situation and discover new daring and creative solutions.
Kermit the Frog
BRILLIANT KERMIT THE FROG INTERVIEW
𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑’𝑠 2025 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑔 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩 𝐶𝑁𝑁’𝑠 𝑆𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑟
Life’s like a movie write your own ending keep believing and keep pretending.
Believing in others is easy but believing in yourself and your dreams that’s the real trick. Your life is in your hands and nobody can make you a success except you.
In The MONKEY Did It!
I tackle this issue.
You can write your own story,
you can make your own adventure,
you are the author of your own life.
Take up your metaphorical typewriter and write your own story.
We need more stories for brave adventurous kids who take charge
and take agency over their lives.
The message needs to be:
YOUR life is in your hands and nobody can make you a success except you.
𝐒𝐀𝐋 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧
SAL Khan speaks at Johns Hopkins University's 2025 Commencement
𝑊𝘩𝑒𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠(𝐴𝐼 & 𝐵𝑖𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝘩) 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑑𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢... 𝑐𝘩𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩 𝑖𝑡.
These 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐋𝐒 like fire or knives, are morally neutral.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐥𝐥.
AI for GOOD or EVIL
𝐒𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦.
𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒… & 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑛.
This is the message we need kids to embrace, we need stories about this, discussions about this, here's a good place to start:-
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐭!
And other brave empowering fun and entertaining stories.
First and foremost, fun and entertaining and also a quiet nudge toward agency, creativity and the power of choosing your own path.
Dan Barber
How I fell in love with a fish
This is just a great video, here is a guy who is passionate about food. This video is about providing a optimum environment for FISH. Where the fish are, well, happy, the environment is about relationships, health and freedom. I loved it.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Flow, the Secret of Happiness
Embrace and change life and never be the same again.
In 1994, Steve Jobs was privately interviewed by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. What he said during that interview was remarkable. In this footage, Steve talks about his values, advice to entrepreneurs and his thoughts on how to best live life.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
How a boy became an artist.
These kinds of talks should be shown to students and parents (and school board members and education departments and governments) because this is what we want every student, the opportunity to be creative and draw NICE CATS.
Ken Robinson
Why schools need to embrace kids’ creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. this is a much watch video, amusing and absolutely right on the money.
Finland's Revolution
Finland's Revolutionary Education System
Even if you hear all the solutions will we ever change?
"Finland's educational system. Fascinating thing about three decades ago Finland has an educational system that is doing terribly and they look around and they go okay what are we going to do about this, we gotta revamp the whole thing." Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the revolutionary educational system Finland has instituted and the results of that system on the education of their children.
Education in Finland
Finland is outperforming everyone else. All Finnish teachers are treated like professionals, when people ask us how do you know that students are learning, we say, ask the teacher, they will know, just as you would ask a Doctor how well a patient is doing, he/she will know. Finland is a place where Teacher's are appreciated.
Ramsey Musallam
Student questions are the seeds of student learning.
3 rules to spark learning - Curiosity comes first
Musallam emphasized the need to engage students' curiosity, and let their questions be a guide for teaching. Watch this video if you aren't convinced about who should ask the questions in your classroom this WILL convince you.
Rule Number 1 Curiosity comes first
Rule Number 2 Embrace the mess
Rule Number 3 Practice Reflection
Tania Luna
Taken by Surprise
Is about admitting you don't know something and making the feeling of not knowing DELIGHTFUL.
How do we wonder more and allow yourself to be taken by surprise? The surprise unleashes curiosity, passion, learning, growing, wonder, and saying I DON'T KNOW.
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