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Dr. Eglash's TED talk on African Fractals and its application as teaching tools in Math

Watch this TED Presentation by Dr. Ron Eglash, where he discusses how cultural aspects such as Board Games, cultural design themes and practises have underlying Mathematical and Scientific principles. We can create unique cultural teaching tools if we are able to identify the core Scientific Principles from culture and develop a supplimental curriculum  based on the same.

Dr. Eglash presenting at TED conference. You can read more about Dr. Eglash's contributions from his TED profile page and from his home page at Rensselaer Polytechnic.

You can also explore online teaching tools developed using Dr. Eglash's research from here.

Understanding Creativity in Children

Watch creativity expert Ken Robinson disuss creativity in children and how schools "educate kids out of creativity"

Understanding World Cultures

Understand how culture and language are intextricably intertwined and why language loss leads inevitably, to culture loss.

Watch National Geographic's Wade Davis presentation at TED conference, where he talks about "Ethnosphere" the "cultural web of the world".