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How to Fix Africa’s Learning Crisis | Rapelang Rabana | TED
By 2030, nearly half the world’s young people will be African. Yet for decades, the continent’s learning crisis was treated with systems unfit for reality on the ground. Social entrepreneur Rapelang Rabana shows how homegrown leadership and technology designed for African classrooms can deliver foundational skills to millions of children — and shape a new…
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The Shape-Shifting Sounds of the Accordion | Maria Telesheva | TED
Musician Maria Telesheva plays the accordion like a second set of lungs, showcasing this powerhouse instrument and its impressive 226 buttons — whether she’s playing Bach or the Beatles. In this talk and performance, she discusses how she fell in love with this musical acrobat and plays two beautiful songs. (Recorded at Play@TED on May…
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Life, like music, was never made to run in straight lines #TEDTalks
Grammy-winning musician Jacob Collier has a name for the feeling that moves through a great piece of music: the wiggle. Watch him break down the idea into its three parts — melody, rhythm and harmony — with nothing but his own voice, a grand piano and Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” Turns out life,…
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Good news: Even moving as little as 1 minute every 60 minutes can have health benefits #TEDTalks
Can a five-minute walk change how you feel all day? Exercise scientist Keith Diaz shows how your body is built for the kind of movement that modern life has quietly erased — and suggests something refreshingly doable: making time for small doses of movement sprinkled throughout the day, as a way to boost your brain…
The Shape-Shifting Sounds of the Accordion | Maria Telesheva | TED
Life, like music, was never made to run in straight lines #TEDTalks
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@PhillipAtanga-x4x
September 10, 2026 at 11:07 am
🌍🌎🌏🌐❤️🖖💯💯💯
@VictoirelorsieNZENGUE
September 10, 2026 at 11:09 am
Yeah
@meanderinoranges
September 10, 2026 at 11:16 am
2nd graders are commonly considered literate in the west. If literacy is how you measure academic success, you need to take a couple of steps back and ask yourself some tough questions.
@PetraKann
September 10, 2026 at 11:27 am
Agree – the West is in no position to lecture anyone on learning and education.
@yungchum2073
September 10, 2026 at 12:54 pm
lmao where did you get this from? Wild claim.
@meanderinoranges
September 10, 2026 at 4:26 pm
@PetraKannthis lady’s claim is 80% of sub-saharan african 10-year-old kids are illiterate. Yes, absolutely, the west is MILES better than that. We are 100% in the position to be lecturing Africa on this.
@meanderinoranges
September 10, 2026 at 4:27 pm
@yungchum2073 it’s a wild claim that kids can read at age 6 or 7 in the west? No, that’s not a wild claim at all. …unless you’re talking about inner city kids.
@PetraKann
September 10, 2026 at 5:44 pm
@meanderinoranges
Literacy and intelligence are different characteristics – often unrelated.
The west sets these standards for education to fuel its corporate and government structures.
Young children are taught how to be parrots rather than how to be thinkers and creative individuals.
This is a generalisation of course, but the model used.
The genuinely bright and creative students are hindered in early schooling years with this military style approach to education.
@PetraKann
September 10, 2026 at 5:44 pm
@meanderinoranges
Literacy and intelligence are different characteristics – often unrelated.
The west sets these standards for education to fuel its corporate and government structures.
Young children are taught how to be parrots rather than how to be thinkers and creative individuals.
This is a generalisation of course, but this is the model that is used.
The genuinely bright and creative students are hindered in early schooling years with this military style approach to education.
@meanderinoranges
September 10, 2026 at 11:19 am
Solar tablets?!? This is your solution?! You’re pitching a product? 🤷
@rōnin_963
September 10, 2026 at 11:19 am
Cant fix the IQ problem.
@setitfree78
September 10, 2026 at 12:06 pm
Genuine question why does Africa look like it never progressed technologically?
@HIgodzilla.1
September 10, 2026 at 10:06 pm
Google that question. It has a deep answer.
@Shoobybuhdooby
September 10, 2026 at 12:08 pm
Thats Africas responsibility.
@Shoobybuhdooby
September 10, 2026 at 12:09 pm
“I missed the part where thats my problem.” – Tobey Maguire
@yungchum2073
September 10, 2026 at 12:52 pm
What do you think this lady’s nickname is? With a name like “Rapelang”……
@akbarshohbekjon
September 10, 2026 at 12:58 pm
🫗
@amblinalong
September 10, 2026 at 2:01 pm
Something has been holding back most of the nations of Africa, with Egypt being the only one which is effectively interacting with the rest of the world, if we are to focus on self-reliant, healthy advancement of a nation. What could be holding them back all this time? Sure, bad climate in some areas, muddy and flooding or dry and barren. Sure, but what has stopped them from terraforming and digging and creating infrastructure beyond a few major hubs? No, I don’t think it’s anything less than something behind the curtain making sure they have to crawl on all fours to grow their civilizations.
@scottmears7490
September 10, 2026 at 5:37 pm
A.I.
@harrypearle9781
September 10, 2026 at 5:45 pm
What about having this system online, for use in other places, as well?
@uaps28
September 10, 2026 at 5:54 pm
This ‘TED’ channel is still not too bad. However, the ‘TedX’ one is absolute rubbish now. The speakers, the topics, they suck. Do you guys agree?
@HispanoScot
September 10, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Start prosecuting Christians.
@MsAwesomeAnna
September 11, 2026 at 3:36 am
Tremendous!!! Excellent!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
September 11, 2026 at 5:18 am
eccellente, bravissima
@onmyway_97
September 12, 2026 at 12:22 am
I truly support this Program; it’s awesome ❤
@Moshiiliio
September 12, 2026 at 6:46 am
I do agree that modern technology properly used can be the answer to many problems. That said, I do have environmental concerns… phones, tablets, and computers are some of the most environmentally harming technologies that have been created, even solar powered the materials that would need to be gathered for such tech would have *detrimental* effect on the environment. Still, I do believe that modern technology used correctly can be the answer, but it to be so there may be a need to completely take down and redo the system
@ShahzanAli-c4i
September 12, 2026 at 8:08 am
Yes , High impact learning is almost out of the control across the 4 countries. By 2040, so many students will not react with education what they want to achieve, and simply system has already failed. That’s why many students read really well,yet don’t write real way. On the other hand, copy culture is very impactful to our system.
@shontucker4504
September 12, 2026 at 8:42 am
keep the tablets off the internet and make sure kids are still socializing and this will be an amazing step forward.
@AkshayKumar-yg4ts
September 12, 2026 at 9:34 am
Outstanding work….for education
@GoldenZenith108___offficial
September 12, 2026 at 9:59 am
And I am also support this program 🌸✨