As we begin a new school year, I've been looking for new and interesting resources to use with my students. After hearing about TED talks for some time, I decided to explore their website. What a treasure trove!
Today, they started posting new talks after a summer hiatus. There is a brilliant talk from Scilla Elworthy exploring the issue of fighting violence with nonviolence. I plan to incorporate this into our Civil Rights Movement unit in the spring. This will be particularly useful for my gifted students to take these ideas that we study in social studies and applying them to real situations in the world. They CAN change the world, and Scilla Elworthy is an excellent role model for them to begin to emulate. She is particularly eloquent when saying "Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward." What a wonderful analogy. The video is embedded below!
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