Lane Graciano

Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Global soul, Idea generator, Life mentor, Performer, Project manager

design, poetry, music, who makes things, how things work, why things fail, what makes us go on

We should all be feminine (not the same as feminist)

literature, movies, music, performance, theory of knowledge, trivia

I started, like everyone else in 2006, by watching Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on why we must nurture creativity in students. Eight years later, I organized my first TEDxYouth conference at the request of two of my IB students. I’ve transcribed and translated TED and TEDx talks as well as TED-Ed videos. The year when most of us were locked down by Covid, I co-hosted and attended TED Circles online. In 2018, I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend TEDWomen in Palm Springs, where I met Chris Anderson as well as Marian Wright Edelman, Dolores Huerta and Tarana Burke, and shared a late-night limo with Lucy Cooke. One highlight was the video call I made to my TEDxJIS student team back in Jakarta, where they were having a lunchtime meeting at school while I was attending the evening welcome party. I enjoyed helping students organize TEDx conferences in the international schools where I worked. From my experience with kids, they have always been creative – not to mention passionate, intelligent, collaborative, hard-working and fun-loving. We adults just have to keep nurturing all these traits in them. Twenty years after watching my first TED video online, I gave a TEDx talk. Intelligence had become artificial, and NI (natural intelligence) devalued. As the age of information matures, and people are learning less from other people and more and more merely extracting ideas from real-life humans to be distilled for machine-like humans and consumed by digital-native kids still navigating “the real world” … do TED talks still have an audience? I’d like to know.

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