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29 Sep The Future of Augmented Reality

Posted at 10:02h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Fashion, Management, North America, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology

Can enhanced versions of the real physical world using digital visual elements improve the way we learn? Various applications are presented to show the future of this type of technology and how it will affect our world. A useful topic to debate not only the future...

29 Sep The AI that Creates any picture you want – Explained

Posted at 09:57h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Technology, Vox

Artificial Intelligence researchers investigating automated image capturing processes. Playing with images and text to generate novel scenes that don't happen in the real world...

28 Sep Beware online «filter bubbles» TED

Posted at 12:18h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Environment, Management, North America, Politics, Problem Solving, Technology, TED

How does information flow online? Are you paying attention to what gets filtered on your social media accounts? How do our filters get edited out and which companies do it? Does a standard Google still exist? A controversial talk about how the internet is showing us...

28 Sep 10,000 YEARS OF BRANDING EXPLAINED IN 6 MINUTES – Debbie Millman

Posted at 12:10h in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, North America, Popular Culture

Debbie Millmam an American Brand Designer explains how design and branding have changed over the years and are currently reflections of major events in society such as the `Black Lives Matter Movement.`She discusses how as societal behaviour changes so does what we choose to buy...

28 Sep The 4 Things it Takes to be an Expert

Posted at 11:38h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Economics, Management, Non Guided, North America, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science

What makes someone an expert? Exploring different systems of thought, the video interviews experts in various subjects from chess champions to PI formula memory champions. An interesting topic that questions memory, brain patterns and recognising configurations. The topic is also useful for meetings, public speaking (dealing with...

28 Sep The Science of Thinking – System 1 Vs System 2

Posted at 11:32h in Australia, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Management, Non Guided, North America, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science, Veritasium

How often do we actually use our brains to think these days instead of going straight to Google to get the answer? System 1 and System 2 are presented in this video showing the blindspots in the way that our brains work, consciousness vs unconsciousness....

04 Sep The dangers of copying successful people – non guided – template

Posted at 21:47h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Management, Non Guided, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology

This short video (3m20s) takes a look at people’s tendency to look for "magic formulas" to achieve success. For example, should you be waking up at 5 o’clock every day like Michelle Obama and Apple CEO Tim Cook (he actually wakes up at 3.45!)? Is...

30 May The Effective Executive

Posted at 21:27h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Management, Other, Psychology

This video is based on a famous book by the 60’s “business guru” Peter Drucker. Effectively, it’s a book summary video (this concept works well for W&T lessons, by the way) but it’s summarised by a guy who is himself a modern-day “guru” /influencer/ YouTuber...

30 May Why we see patterns in randomness

Posted at 20:58h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Complete Lesson Plan, Psychology, Science

This video covers a number of fallacies like the Gambler's (a.k.a. Monte Carlo) fallacy as well as the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy which help explain why people see patterns in randomness. “Bad luck comes in threes” and other cliches are debunked. ...

30 May Talking about my generation

Posted at 18:09h in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Complete Lesson Plan, Other, Popular Culture, Psychology

The video contrasts the differences between the different generations. It’s very American (or just Manhattan!) focused but makes a good starting point for comparing and contrasting with other cultures and countries. ...

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