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How Global Virtual Communities Can Help Kids Achieve Their Dreams | Matthew Garcia | TED

How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research more accessible to everyone? Education equalizer and violist Matthew Garcia thinks one way to remove barriers is to create free, virtual education programs that connect talented young minds to the resources they need to thrive in their future careers. Learn…

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How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research more accessible to everyone? Education equalizer and violist Matthew Garcia thinks one way to remove barriers is to create free, virtual education programs that connect talented young minds to the resources they need to thrive in their future careers. Learn more about the power of virtual nonprofits to overcome geographic borders and deliver opportunity — and how you can help every kid reach their dreams.

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  1. shahid khan

    December 5, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    He is absolutely correct

  2. shizuwolf Howlajima

    December 5, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    So a free version of skill share?

  3. Christian Soldier

    December 5, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    Parents, raise your children to love God, love your neighbors and be good…

    • Sabur Salehi

      December 5, 2022 at 12:49 pm

      Great

  4. Silverlined_69

    December 5, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    They really want to make the matrix and “ready player one” a reality

    • MAX

      December 5, 2022 at 11:05 pm

      this doesn’t have VR technology like those movies

    • Silverlined_69

      December 5, 2022 at 11:17 pm

      @MAX so no vr is currently possible? I also think you missed the point

    • MAX

      December 5, 2022 at 11:27 pm

      @Silverlined_69 i mean this is basically global education with zoom calls

    • Silverlined_69

      December 5, 2022 at 11:32 pm

      @MAX how is that any different then ready player one? One just has extra steps and technology, but is the same

  5. Sagar Dahal

    December 5, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    I think we can do a great things from ” Vitual Non-profit organization ” .

  6. Ashley Young-bae

    December 5, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    I love Ted talks!

  7. Nadare Kokusaiha

    December 5, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    Virtual Reality is the future

  8. Your Thoughts

    December 5, 2022 at 1:14 pm

    “Achievements of today are the stepping stones for the future ones.”
    – Invajy

  9. José Cortez

    December 5, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    How about “How social networks help young people to isolate themselves and have less and less interaction with the real world and how this is causing more and more anxiety and illnesses associated with it.”?

    • Landon Hart

      December 5, 2022 at 2:03 pm

      There are plenty of videos about this. There are pros and cons about almost everything in life ☯️

    • José Cortez

      December 5, 2022 at 6:59 pm

      @Landon Hart, you are right.

  10. José Cortez

    December 5, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    Seriously? Classical music is elitist, competitive and exclusive for people without resources to study full time?!

  11. 狮七七七

    December 5, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    good

  12. Xenobia Foxclaw

    December 5, 2022 at 3:32 pm

    Brilliant!

  13. Amna Abd Alrazzaq

    December 5, 2022 at 3:45 pm

    dear ted’ do you want translator ? i mean to translate such videos into Arabic? i can do this job .. and do not worry about payment , i take less ..

  14. Will-CINCY

    December 5, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    Very Inspirational ????‼️

  15. Laralinda

    December 5, 2022 at 4:50 pm

    As long as scientists are chasing impact factors, nothing’s gonna change. As long as universities have to pay for access to literature their own researches have written, but were published in a high ranking journal that now owns the rights, nothing’s gonna change.

    • Sathya Narayanan

      December 5, 2022 at 8:52 pm

      As a scientist, I concur.

  16. En théo

    December 5, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    You don’t only have a talent for music but also your voice has a good timber.

  17. MAX

    December 5, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    i first thought this was about meta verse

    i was very wrong

  18. Manish Singh

    December 6, 2022 at 5:17 am

    Latinx ????

  19. Laily Nurhasbi

    December 6, 2022 at 7:56 am

    Good Job !!

  20. Bayu Nurcahyono

    December 6, 2022 at 10:02 am

    My son love drawing a lot , as parent i want connect him to the resources they need to thrive in his future careers.

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