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Disruptive Innovation and the Way We Learn

08 12 2010 02:02:58 +0000

Movie Title: Disruptive Innovation and the Way We Learn

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 1.20.23

Movie Synopsis:
Clayton Christensen, professor, business administration, Harvard, discusses his model of disruptive innovation and its application to the field of education. One reviewer describes the discussion as follows: "An excellent insight into past failures and perhaps we can learn to avoid those kinds of failures in the future. I believe education is on a new trend and the old traditional structure will one day collapse entirely. I wonder though, how much of this new age thinking is being filtered through to developing countries? Would it not be cost concentric to start now, so they will not be playing catch up later?"

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Dr. Jill Biden on Good News for Higher Education

21 03 2011 23:55:44 +0000

Movie Title: Dr. Jill Biden on Good News for Higher Education

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 3:15

Movie Synopsis:
Dr. Jill Biden, lifelong educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden, gives parents some good news about how the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act makes college more affordable. Learn more at whitehouse.gov/StudentAid.

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Freedom to Learn

04 12 2010 23:08:53 +0000

Movie Title: Freedom to Learn

Movie Language: English

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Movie Synopsis:
When, due to the well-meaning fears of parents, a high school social studies teacher is charged with teaching communism, she explains why she teaches about communism and why she believes it important that students know the facts about subjects they discuss in current event

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Girls&Boys Education-Fresh Perspective Pakistan

13 03 2011 11:45:24 +0000

Movie Title: Girls&Boys Education-Fresh Perspective Pakistan

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 4:30 mins

Movie Synopsis:
EDUCATION FOLLOWS FLOOD Children play outside their old school building in Central Sindh province which was hit by the terrible flood of last summer. Eleven year old Noor Khatoon, shows just how high the waters reached. – This building has been condemned as unsafe. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Noor Khatoon, 11:“I miss my school, I really want it to be rebuilt so I can start studying again.”A temporary learning center has been established on the grounds of the old school. But the level of teaching, aimed at younger children, has left Noor extremely dissatisfied. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Noor Khatoon, 11: “I want my school to be rebuilt so I can start going to school again, because I don’t enjoy the centre here.” Noor’s criticism required courage, especially in a country where millions of girls are deprived of education. But the flood has provided an opportunity for change. SOUNDBITE (English) Karen Allen, Pakistan Deputy Representative, UNICEF: “We saw a real birth of motivation in the little girls but also in the parents, who said: ‘oh well, maybe we should consider sending our girls to school, well because look how happy it made them and they were really learning useful things’. So we believe that when they take those children back home there will have been a mind shift, at least the start of a mind shift in sending girls to school.” The story of Aqsa Rehman who lives in Mulla Village in Southern Punjab is a prime example of changing attitudes. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Aqsa Rehman, aged 9: “This was my bathroom and now it’s broken. That used to be my bedroom. There was water all around. Our house and houses around it had fallen down. Whatever we touched would break and fall down. All the furniture had broken. And the water had taken away all my dolls and clothes. We will come to school, even if we have to struggle for it. We will study and become women soldiers. We will help our people by replacing everything they have lost in the floods.” Aqsa’s relatives are determined that she will have a different future from other women in the family. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Haji Abdur Reahman, Father of ten: “I am educating them so that they have a bright future and a comfortable life. We will also be comfortable and when the girls get married, their in-laws will treat them with respect.” SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Iqbal Bib, Aqsa’s aunt: “We are educating our children to get rid of poverty. We hardly have enough to eat or feed the children. But we are still educating them so that they become better people.” The temporary school is certainly benefiting first grader Mohammad Haseeb. SOUNDBITE (Punjabi) Mohammad Haseeb, age 5: “Seven rooms of our school were demolished. I started to cry. And we got very upset to see what had happened to it.” SOUNDBITE Jan Sigismund, Emergency coordinator, Punjab province, UNICEF: “This brings hope for the community. The children will have a changed behaviour and girls will want to go to school and actually when we get to the next phase is when we raise an actual structure here which is not a permanent structure but something better than this. There is development there: the school is getting better and better.” But the future of many children is being stolen because they are used as cheap motorcycle mechanics or brick makers. As Pakistan reconstructs after the floods, many poor parents will choose the brickyards instead of education, the essential building block for life.

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India Education Advance

09 12 2010 21:58:16 +0000

Movie Title: India Education Advance

Movie Language: Hindi

Movie Length: 4:30 minutes

Movie Synopsis:
In India, where eight million children between the ages of six and 14 are estimated to be out of school working as hard labourers or domestic workers, UNICEF implements an innovative teaching method needed to help these children eventually enroll in the mainstream school system.

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Live and Learn

05 12 2010 01:40:32 +0000

Movie Title: Live and Learn

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 12.22

Movie Synopsis:
Sid Davis' 1951 film Live and Learn illustrates several preventable, life-threatening situations in which children frequently find themselves due to their own indiscretion. Most of the accidents depicted are fairly pedestrian, but some are quite sensational. After each accident occurs, the film escorts the viewer to the hopsital and forces them to observe the grave injuries suffered by each child.

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Making Films that Teach

05 12 2010 02:11:16 +0000

Movie Title: Making Films that Teach

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 18.12

Movie Synopsis:
Made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, this film shows the steps in the process of producing educational films, including scripting, shooting, editing and capturing of sound.

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Muhammad Yunus: Creating a World Without Poverty

07 12 2010 19:15:42 +0000

Movie Title: Muhammad Yunus: Creating a World Without Poverty

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 47.13

Movie Synopsis:
In a lecture given at the Commonwealth Club in California, the Nobel Prize winner and guru of microfinancing talks about a future where people will visit poverty museums.

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Opening the Doors of Higher Education

28 12 2010 18:43:53 +0000

Movie Title: Opening the Doors of Higher Education

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 10:57

Movie Synopsis:
Taking a defiant stance towards those banks defending the status quo, the President proposes cutting out the middle man in student loans for a savings of almost $50 billion over ten years.

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Randy Pausch interview about the "The Last Lecture"

08 12 2010 01:54:18 +0000

Movie Title: Randy Pausch interview about the "The Last Lecture"

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 41.22

Movie Synopsis:
Randy Pausch ABC Special about "The Last Lecture" and his book, April 2008

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Sudan Voter Education

09 01 2011 00:00:26 +0000

Movie Title: Sudan Voter Education

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 1:30 mins

Movie Synopsis:
Women Initiatives Group in coordination with United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations and the Southern Referendum Commission (SSRC) organized an awareness campaign to educate southern Sudanese on how to vote in the upcoming referendum. The campaign targeted all the remote areas where the southern people live. Martin Walliam, a teacher involved in the campaign, has been involved in the various stages of the referendum process and is now training voters on how to vote. Similarly Flip Nsyoun, also involved in the campaign, talked about educating people on the use of ballot papers. His co-worker Samuel Tor Major called the referendum a “democratic experience.” Almost four million southern Sudanese have registered to vote in a milestone process of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 to end a two decade war between north and south Sudan where close to two million people were killed and four million others displaced. Sixty percent of those who registered are expected to turn up during the vote for it to be considered valid. Those voting are expected to vote for either unity or secession.

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Taking on Education

18 12 2010 21:28:01 +0000

Movie Title: Taking on Education

Movie Language: English

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Movie Synopsis:
The President explains the urgency of changing the way we educate our children, and offers four pillars of reform.

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The Children Must Learn

05 12 2010 01:03:16 +0000

Movie Title: The Children Must Learn

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 12.52

Movie Synopsis:
The Children Must Learn is an "authentic record" of the education of the children of the Appalchians. Shot in total montage style the film offers beautiful tableus and unbelievable imagery. Of particular interest is the music, which is sort of acapella bluegrass, with the odd guitar thrown in at occasional points.

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Weekly Address: Education for a More Competitive America & Better Future

21 03 2011 18:35:06 +0000

Movie Title: Weekly Address: Education for a More Competitive America & Better Future

Movie Language: English

Movie Length: 5:56

Movie Synopsis:
The President discusses his blueprint for an updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act to overhaul No Child Left Behind, the latest step from his Administration to encourage change and success in America’s schools at the local level.

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