http://blog.ted.com/2009/11/07/the_buzz_kiran/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 10:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2009/11/07/the_buzz_kiran/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/11/the_buzz_kiran/#comment-2483 I showed this TED talk to my college students in South Texas recently- as a segue into their own team based community projects- I’ve been having college students make direct community impacts in many ways for over 8 years- what Kiran Bir Sethi calls the “I CAN” bug- is something even college students have to be infected with, coached to even start, encouraged and motivated -to make a difference in the world- through their actions, they gain a great deal, and our two county area of Hidalgo and Starr counties of Texas also gain a great deal- hands on, direct learning -beats the old “case study” any day of the week.

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