Good evening, and welcome to ted talks education. We are so excited to have a packed theater here at town hall in new york city. Thats right. Yes. And a special welcome to those watching on pbs. I would say we wish you were here, but that would make it really uncomfortable, crowded, and new york city rents are high enough, so why dont we both enjoy from where we are. Tonight we will be examining how we teach, marveling at how we learn, and celebrating the timehonored tradition of educating the next generation. The speaker were about to bring to the stage used to work for a hedge fund. Then to help tutor his cousin, he started uploading math lessons to youtube. In true entrepreneurial spirit, he turned these oneonone lessons and grew them into the khan academy, delivering over 380 million lessons in over 36 languages all across the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please, put your hands together for sal khan. [cheering and applause] iim here today to talk about two ideas that, at least base
Good evening, and welcome to ted talks education. We are so excited to have a packed theater here at town hall in new york city. Thats right. Yes. And a special welcome to those watching on pbs. I would say we wish you were here, but that would make it really uncomfortable, crowded, and new york city rents are high enough, so why dont we both enjoy from where we are. Tonight we will be examining how we teach, marveling at how we learn, and celebrating the timehonored tradition of educating the next generation. The speaker were about to bring to the stage used to work for a hedge fund. Then to help tutor his cousin, he started uploading math lessons to youtube. In true entrepreneurial spirit, he turned these oneonone lessons and grew them into the khan academy, delivering over 380 million lessons in over 36 languages all across the world. Ladies and gentlemen, please, put your hands together for sal khan. [cheering and applause] iim here today to talk about two ideas that, at least base
Professor at virginia tech. During the 20152016 academic year, dr. Salaita is serving as the edward site chair of american studies at the American University of beirut. We are delighted he here today from beirut. Copies of dr. Salaitas book uncivil rites will be available for purchase after the event. Weve asked them to talk about 40 minutes, after which will open the floor for discussion. Those of you who are online can tweak your questions to us at Palestine Center. Please join me in welcoming professor steven salaita. [applause] okay. Can anybody hear me . Okay. Louder. Louder, okay. How is this . Okay. Thank you very much for coming out this afternoon and spend a little bit of time with me. I especially want to thank the Palestine Center and zeina and everyone who helped put the talk together. Im going to try not to be too long winded can which is sometimes a problem for me so we can have plenty of time for conversation and questions and discussion. I havent given a public talk in
Host is an oral argument in the court ever change your mind about a case . Guest thats a common question most people seem to be under the pressure that oral arguments is just a dog and pony show. What im telling you is what almost all appellate judges will tell you, it doesnt change your mind that often, but it frequently makes up your mind. So so many of the cases are very close. You go in on a knifes edge, persuasive counsel persuasive counsel can really make the difference, it is well worth doing right. Host who should read this book . Guest anybody arguing in front of me because it will not only help him but it will help me,s argument will be shorter and hell answer my question, ill be able to understand the case better. Host what have you learned on this book to her and what you think about the dog and pony show that comes with it . Guest im going to be here in our half or so at the end of the day, im not worth much at the end of the day anyway. Host have you been touring quite a
To b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you dont have to rebuild the Network Every time you do that. Thats one of the things thats taken into consideration as youre doing standard. Yes, sir . Thank you, sir. David mccabe from the hill. Im looking a the next couple months and it seems like im sorry, youre what . A the next couple months. It seems like there may be a point where youre fighting contentious battles. The set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. I wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells . So, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0 of the time theres consensus. All you get to see is the fun stuff. I was interested during the Media Coverage of Justice Scalias death that one of his quotes was