why are we using class time for these hour-long lectures, academic lectures? the mortgage research a lot of these basic commonsense ideas common sense ideas gelled with the research. when research tells you something nonintuitive but here tells you something very very intuitive. the heart to grasping as we are indoctrinated into the strange model. >> host: it all makes sense. tell me about your education and despite the regimented system that you grew up in, something must have gone right. was at your teacher, was it your parents beds gave you the sense of inquisitiveness or was that yeah did you go from a particular type of school that was open to nurturing you as an individual paying attention to your specific needs or yeah any of these things? >> guest: no, no, i am sometimes delusional but i think there are two. they're a bunch of different factors and i'm probably forgetting some of them. one of them as i have an older sister who was a very good student but when i would walk into a classroom, the teachers would remember my sister and say oh you are her br

when you're lecturing, it's hard to know where people are. i mean, you might be able to pull them, ask questions, but it's hard. students are blank faces, but if you do problem solving together, much more -- you can understand where students are and diagnose them. that's the flip. what used to be homework in the classroom, what used to be lectures are now at home. it makes the classroom interactive, students get lectures at their time and pace. great. what i foe e cues on in the book is let's go further. still, even the flip, assume that all the students are going to cover the same material at the same pace together, and what i talk about is this -- we've been in the system, and when i talk about the system, it's not what should be the student teacher ratio, but the system, grouping kids by age-based cohorts. they cover certain subjects at a set pace, grade them on their variable understanding and push them forward. we assume that's what school is, but what i go to show is, no, it's a relatively knew phenomena, 200 years -- not that new, but

why are we using class time, this time which human beings with his hour-long lectures, 90 minute lectures. can we get people to interact more. the more i did research the more these basic common sense ideas delta and it is weird when research does is something very not intuitive. it's telling you something very, very, very intuitive. the only hard to grasp thing is that we are indoctrinated into a strange model. >> it all makes sense. tommy about your own education. something, despite the regimen of system that you grew up in, something must've gone right. a teacher, parents who built this sense of the acquisitiveness and it -- or was it -- yes. did you go through a particular type of school the was open tonight during you as an individual and paying attention to your specific needs? hard did none of these things -- >> i mean, i would be delusional to follow and sometimes delusional. i think there were probably a bunch of different factors. improbably for getting some. one, i was bust have an older sister who was a very good student. i think that projected, when i was walking to class fro

i don't have to give that lecture anymore.they can watch it in their own time meandering mediate without picking up class time and then when they go to class that's when they could either ask the questions for clarification and to problems together so it used to be home work. the advantage is the learning occurs when you do the engagement, when you are doing the problems and i think traditionally students either don't do homework because there is no one at home to help them out. they have an underutilized resource in the classroom not only to help you but when you learn to the to help others you learn better and also gives the teacher when you are lecturing it's very hard to know where people are. you might be able to ask them questions but it's hard. now if you are doing problem-solving to get there you can do much more -- you can understand where students are and diagnose them so that's the flip what used to be home work in the classroom and used to be electors are now at home. it makes the classroom interactive and they get

this is a subject for a whole lecture. we have the internet and this conversation that we have in our small c constitution. must strive to become more decent, more rational, more thoughtful. there was never a golden age of political debates. it is always some much raucous and we cannot expect the political world and the public discourse to be in the confines of a court case or a legal argument. we must pay more attention to making principled -- there are tremendous changes. we had a case in which the question was whether or not cable-tv must carry rules for broadcasters. the technology is going so fast, we are reluctant to freeze into the constitution first amendment principles based on technical mechanisms. the emergence of the internet and twitter and other innovations shows the wisdom of that. we're going very fast. it is important that we use this new power, this new potency we have to have a civic discourse in a small c constitution. that is respected by the rest of the world. make no mistake, the verdict is out on de

this is a subject for a whole lecture. we have the internet and is this conversation that we have in our small c constitution. must strive to become more decent, more rational, more thoughtful. there was never a golden age of political debates. it is always some much raucous and we cannot expect the political world and the public discourse to be in the confines of a court case or a legal argument. we must pay more attention to making principled -- there are tremendous changes. we had a case in which the question was whether or not cable-tv must carry rules for broadcasters. the technology is going so fast, we are reluctant to freeze into the constitution first amendment principles based on technical mechanisms. the emergence of the internet tan twitter and other innovatios shows the wisdom of that. we're going very fast. it is important that we use this new power, at this new policy we have -- potency we have to have a civic discourse in a small c constitution. that is respected by the rest of the world. make no mistake, t

it was a great effort by the folks who do that lecture. to show you how well i listened, i have some take away points on that. the first is that all disasters are local. the folks here in san francisco are going to be in charge from the minute the disaster happens and i think that that's really critical to understand. the local authorities evaluate the situation on the ground and execute what locally is available, then they evaluate shortfalls and what they have and then generate those requirements up through that defined chain of command, as i mentioned earlier. then once those agencies determine what those requirements are, they are given back to the city who employs those as they think they need to be deployed because, again, they are the eyes and understand the local situation. i think going through this that the navy and the marine corps, we're used to being in charge whenever we show up and we're not going to be in this situation. i think it's important for us to understand that and we do and i think we, if we were employed in this c

they can hear that specific part of the lecture dpivgiven by the professor. the pens are so effective, they're donated to virtually every one of the 400 veterans enrolled at foothills. the pen should be especially helpful to those with perhaps some visible or hidden injuries. >> especially some of the veterans coming back with post-traumatic stress. and these are things to help them succeed. and if they succeed they're going to do well. and continue on with school. >> the thing i like about it really is -- i get distracted in class. but i can take this thing home and hook it up to my compute r and crar -- computer, crank it up. >> have the whole experience. easy to reflect back where you are having problems in your notes. you go directly to that spot. hit the pen on the note paper. it will tell you exactly what is going on during the lecture. >> silicone valley help for the gis on their next assignment. at foothill college, damian trujillo. >> vietnam veterans in the south bay will break ground tomorrow on the memorial in honor of the men that didn't return h

they don't just have you sit and watch a lecture for 30 minutes or 60 minutes.en they engage you. so like a physics course, ph-100 is a great example where he makes physics fun and you're always thinking do i understand that or not. let me go back over it. so that interactivity piece is new and clearly phenomenal. the other thing is if you have a lot of kids taking the same course, you can use collaborative tools like bulletin boards for reviewing each other's work and answering each other's questions. answeri other's questions. rather than just working one on one, they review this peer engagement, making sure it's not going off course, that it's not incorrect so the students are getting high quality. so it's very promising, but we have to admit, the last two times people thought technology would change the space, it didn't happen. and so far the courses have mostly been taken by a barely fairly elite set of people. so i'm a huge believer in it, fount additi the foundation is setting up a lot of activity. >> the picture you're painting is one where education is

ahead of the lecture she exchanged views with india's prime minister singh about the process of bringingemocracy to myanmar. >>> afghanistan produces more than 80% of opium circulating around the world and trade in the drug threatens to destabilize the entire region. politicians from several nations have been meeting in the pakistani capital islamabad to discuss ways to tackle the problem. >> reporter: cabinet members from afghanistan and 11 nearby countries attended the two-day conference that ended on tuesday. opium produced in afghanistan is smuggled into pakistan and central asian nations such as tajikstan and uzbekistan. the united nations office on drugs and crime says 5,800 tons of opium was made from poppies in afghanistan last year. there's an increase of 60% from the year before. the afghan government says opium is a major source of funding for taliban militants. it held a ceremonial burning of accelerated drugs to highlight its campaign against the poppy trade. but opium is a regional problem. afghan-made drugs fund islamic extremists and crime organizations in pakistan and ot

culinary program sign up for a special six-month culinary that i come in and teach a couple special lectures and hands-on with them to give them a more technical flavor. >> you need to have technical thinking instead of just accepting facts. >> one of the more important classes that we teach is on sousvide and low temperature cooking. that's anything cooked in a bag. low temperature cooking is actually the most important thing. it's the accurate control of temperature that fundamentally change the way many cooks approach a lot of their cooking problems. when you're cooking, you're not thinking, hey, a degree can make a big difference in something. and yet i can show you that the difference between a fully runny egg yolk and a fully set egg yolk is only two degrees celcius. the whole way you think about how cooking works has to change. >> i'm doing a sauce with dave arnold. it's a very intense program on sousvide and low temperature cooking. dave knows all about technology. >> you may not want one of them, and that's fine. we're looking at the technique and the variable so they go down the li

whoever you are i don't appreciate be lectured by someone like you. and i am going to do everything in my power to make sure that you are no longer part of this any more. and it gets to the point where people who take a vow to support and defend the constitution start to abuse members of the public. i know that it has gone too far. and i know that you don't like the comments. basically what i found on a lot of these city commissions they want to take credit for everything that goes well and avoid responsibility for anything that isn't going well. they want credit for showing up. but they don't want to be bothered with a lot of the work. and we had one member of the commission when there was an argument going on tell one of the witnesses, when they were referred to one of the documents that have been submitted to them and they said, well i don't need to read the documents. and it is time and time again and the reason that i do this is for one simple reason. there are a lot of people who getting up in front of a public body especially on public televisi

i think the program notes are sufficient and rather than lecture i would much rather you enjoy the performance. the one thing i would like to emphasize about the first piece this is indeed a comic piece and in most instances westerners have a great problem when they come to a concert of classical music and view it as this is supposed to be serious music. this is not serious music and i would ask to you laugh. you are welcome to laugh. you may laugh. you need to practice laughing. we can progress -- all right. now, for those of you that find laughing difficult ladies and gentlemens you can at this timtiter in a nice way andf you want to be butch about it do the manly thought. please this isn't a work of aesthetic value it should be seen as humorous. as i of practicing this piece i can assure you and my ability for tongue twisters in english is limited let alone in japanese so if you see me stop and the priest turn extraordinarily red it's because i had a booboo. if you will excuse me. (music) this is the sort of thing you don't normally see. this would be a curtain and the oil makes it easier t

literally lectures around the dinner table about how important it is to protect your neighbor and their father was a unionist trade unionist believe this part in the a.f.l. at the time and a beer wagon driver and so he instilled in them a very early age you know the idea of protecting your neighbor and fighting for your fellow worker and then by socialist we're talking more about what today we would refer to as democratic socialism as you see in the in the scandinavian countries are the european countries as opposed to what you know soviet style social socialism that sort of thing i mean there's really a world of difference between the two and although they did once make the visit of the soviet union which was two of the brothers did which was. quite problematic and controversial. that was not what they were about if i have this right that's correct and that's absolutely correct yes and they spent you know as you just mentioned a good part of their early career making it very clear which socialism they believed in you know democratic socialism in and pushing back against there were sort

an update on the latest results these are preliminary figures barack obama has two hundred ninety lecture on college very it's an image romney currently stands at two hundred and three of course what you're looking at right now is live pictures from pennsylvania avenue. euphoria seems to be they. have to see as soon as of both mitt romney can see the is concerned his speech and we're obviously waiting for the winner speech from the president of the united states barack obama who will accept his awin we'll bring you more of that and more updates on the latest figures as they come in. a number of organizational floors and verge of violations along with huge accuse at polling stations have been a whole mark of the election process and blogger brad friedman says the problems are persistent ones in new ones democracy. but i was just looking at a video report out of south carolina where he had a woman who said i've been here four hours and i can't wait any longer i'm leaving they said oh well it's only going to be another hour i got to tell you you know no matter what the cause is i believe thi

but colin cavell as a former lecturer at the university of bahrain he told me the monarchy is unlikely to listen on the left to jail someone for voicing their opinion violate the rule of expression it violates any standard of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime has learned to play the world media like a violin and they claim they support human rights they claim that instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes are just rosy in bahrain meanwhile they continue the crackdown they continue the torture they continue to jail and they continue to kill even bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population of iraq or out of it the royal family which is power now for two hundred thirty years mostly they must abdicate there will be no social be in bahrain and the situation will continue to get more chaotic the jailed punk band pussy riot anti putin stunt landed them in the global headlines but now the potential to cash in on that fame so battle commence over copyright lease caffe

otherwise i'll show you later in the lecture. paint lines are another indicator of how damaged buildings are. if you want to look at the paint lines on this building, it's kind of hard to tell until you get up close. remember, this building is kind of a grayish tannish color, i guess. when you get a little bit closer, this side of the building should be the same color as this side of the building. what happened was this building moved away from the building next door and that's how far it moved. separation between buildings. you want to look at the separation to see if it's even, is it the same distance at the bottom as at the top, but that's another indicator of how damaged buildings are. this one looks fairly even, but when you get closer you can tell with the racking on the bottom that this building was pulled away. liquefaction, liquefaction is a term they use when the ground is loose. usually when structures or infrastructure is built on sand or land fill, something that's not solid, what happens is in shaking, during an ear

reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lecturesradar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪

of my lectures across the country with the exception of one were about our elections. there was tremendous in strip -- interest in that. i think it is true. if you look at the media here, for several days, all of the major satellites, the egyptian tv, they were all doing shows continuously. they had election returns. six hours of election returns on aljazeera. i spent my evenings there, learning about who had won the election. so, yes, there was a lot of interest in that, and you are right, not a lot of people know about it. one of the problems we had after 9/11, at the very same time we were needing more and more interactions, whether students or businesses, we had more restrictions that made it more difficult because of the security issues, and i think it is time to revisit that. >> i did an aljazeera english interview. they asked about whether the election was based along racial lines, for example, because they said different subgroups disproportionately 21 group or another -- went to one group or another. one minority candidate defeated another minority candidate,

but when i lecture to environmentally-concernedenvi students, they tell me, no, everybody in the worldton have cars and washing machines.a how can we tell this woman that can't have a washing machine? ca washing machine. john: students don't want to everyone are a washing machine? about they have not thought it through, they get concerned about one thing in the world, and they forget. i asked them, how many of you hand wash your jeans and your sheets, no one, once a boy said, but around him there was an empty circle. a sort of a we like it because it is saves so much time. that use, you know of industrial revolution ern wants, when they open it, they say, lonely the power station, and long live the chemical processing industry. john: a good talker, he corrected me on that. viewed by how many? >> totally 10 million. >> and youo a presentation, most of history people were poor, died before age 40, only recently have things changed. you did a chart this is life span. this is wealth. and for most of history, people have been down here, just recently, united states some other countries are

reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lecturesradar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> san francisco recreation and parks department offers classes for the whole family. rec and parks has a class for everyone. discover what is available now and get ready to get out and play. henri matisse. frida kahlo. andy warhol. discover the next great artist. get out and play and get inspired with toddler classes. experience art where

andrew wile, well known book writer and lecturer, so -- and dean ornish and that, who is now going to say, i now know where they are coming from? >> i think a lot of people view dr. wile and dr. ornish as sort of fringe doctors who advocate for alternative med -- medicine. i think that is an unfair view point. first of all, i think they are both incredibly smart and incredibly passionate about fixing the health care system, and they both strongly believe that we need to move away from this system to a much more preventative-based health care system. dr. wile is dedicating himself to education. dr. ornish has used science to show that lifestyle can actually reverse heart disease. it is amazing what he's done recently. he also has shown that you can shorten your telemeres. when you are stressed, they get lessened. when you don't eat well and don't exercise, they get lessened. when you shorten your telemeres, you are more suceptible to disease. what he has shown is if you increase your lifestyle, if you exercise more, eat right, destress, you can lengthen your telemeres and protect yours

i don't need to lecture you about change. change is the air you breathe. you are it. i think change is your expectation. but what might it mean for you when the pyramid and a whole lot else gets turned on its head? what a huge haunt the affords you if you're willing to sees it. because there's million -- willing to seize it. because you have got a lot of levers in your hand, and when we press them together at the same time that's when a lot of things really start happening. but first let me hit the brakes before some of you do, and let's acknowledge that it's brutal out there. it's brutal out there. and by "there" i mean, here. right here in america. economy is still in rough shape, and that slashing sound you hear is a big pair of scissors bearing down on the federal budget. safety aid cuts and all this coming if we drive over this fiscal cliff, so-called. and cuts, they hurt. somebody bleeds. the aid cut alone would mean that nearly 275,000 people won't get aids treatment they need resulting in yet over 60,000 deaths. $250,000 more children become aids orphans. real

it's called silence at the end in slow march to a lecture the village that was bombed by saddam hussein and was wiped out completely. her. through. it's a street that i think it's one of the current in our century a leader been doing this to so many people. the first there is nothing we can do about it but the remembering she can make you think how to treat men. who lose her what can we do to stop making that happen again as humans not this there's not this iran is not the same world these you know not as citizens of any country but as humans. or. this is basically the adaptation of ageing from one thousand straining my interpretation has been to bring all of these elements in this this moral agency and see how it works in fun temporaries time. as i was working the ransom you're on you're taking place the green movement so a lot of this is just parts he demands of their shots quite well. all the phones i've recorded as roasts made to agree with me and still. there's a reason for this uprising is that people didn't just under vote was told people if you. want their voices heard i use mov

it's call silence at the end so march to a lecture the village that was bombed by saddam hussein and was wiped completely. her time. through. its history did i think it's one of the common in our century a leader from doing this to his own people. the first there is nothing be chandra by them but the membrane perhaps he can make you think how to treat men. who lose her was what can we do to stop making that happen again as humans not this there's not a civil union is not the same world these you know not as citizens of any country but as humans. or. this is basically a deposition of aging from one thousand plenty my interpretation has been to bring all of these elements in this is moral and see how it works and function for its time. as i was working with the ransom you're on are taking place in the green movement so a lot of this is just parts he demands of their shots quite well. all the phones and recorded ice rothstein's made their preaching to me and still. good reason for this uprising is that people didn't vote and their vote was told people of the few million want their voice

we didn't lecture mubarak much about his internal politics and probabl going to lectu lecture morsi about his. >> and president obama is stuck now, he wants to court morsi, now that morsi is acting extra illegally, he's almost forcing president obama to rebuke him publicly. and the question whether he will do so. >> the president left to play golf and a tree was greeted by mrs. obama, malia, sasha and bo. >> and the palestinian president abbas plans to take the issue of palestinian state hood to the u.n. general assembly. they've been unable to convince abbas not to do so and president murphy of egypt is unlikely to stand in his way, shannon. >> jennifer griffin live from the white house tonight. thank you. >> the two day old cease-fire between israel and gaza is mostly holding, all has not done smoothly. connor powell has the story from jerusalem. >> the fra gifragile cease-fire. and the border between israel and gaza and some were farmers wanted to get access to their land. and others the cease-fire agreements. after shouting verbal warnings to the crowds, israeli troops opened fire kil

of my friend marshall alenstein who has put together these videotapes a these dvds that spread my lectures from the classroom into the classrooms of many people. and so, it's wonderful being that role model for other teachers and students. and whatever i can do to be a burl grey to other people, to let them see that perhaps a very good foundation for, hey, what's going on in the world, certainly, is science. so let's hear it for physics. physics first, it's a wonderful way to look at the world. it makes sense out of what ordinarily might be just too cplex to understand. physics, i love it. i hope you do too.