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The idea comes up to, the intention,
today made a reality by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
to set forth, the first of its TEDx talks
Interesting ideas, the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo is always behind it, making events like this possible
We are here to talk about the future
let me inform you, we are in the future NOW
education is the best social policy of a government
Have you stopped to think in the past couple of years
what have you learned, where did you learn it, how did it happen
and the answer is that it almost never happened inside a classroom
it was almost never an exchange of knowledge between a professor and a student
and what is more important, is that it never led to a diploma
Learning is happening outside of schools
and learning can happen at any time at any place
Education is not what IT IS, instead it is being
How are we going to learn internet, without internet?
share experiences, share videos,share ideas, share culture in general
The necessity of saying, I am here, I'm documenting it, it's more than saying I'm on the other side of the screen, is saying I am on the screen
and I don’t just document it to keep as a treasure to show it
but I'm telling my network, the world, that I am here
For the first time we have global tools, truly global, to accomplish global missions
is a passive source that on its own does not teach anything but it is the individual that uses it that can act upon the information
a computer gives us, what we can call, a free access to information or education
Sometimes we tend to forget the things that we do right
because we have set ourselves in the “we have done it right”
so we only look forward but we don’t look back
and for the first time in our lives
we no longer depend on going to school from 8-10 or 8-9
besides, this time we can extend it
We are greater because we are together
We are greater because we are connected
and that is crucial and important for a human being
what we can do in this context is to motivate and facilitate change
The purpose of education is to help them grow citizens that are
Free, Happy, Accomplished