Lecture 03 - Watch Daily TEDx Video | Rehan School Curriculum For 5th Grade (Level 1)

In our Level One, there's another thing, which is, first, understand what TED is. TED

started with Technology, Education, and Design. That's what TED means. It started about 20-25 years

ago. A gentleman from England started it. After that, he gave it to Chris Anderson.

Chris Anderson was born in Shikarpur, Pakistan. He was the son of a priest. Then

he moved back to America. Now he runs it. He loves Pakistan. He and his

wife want to build such a Pakistan

that they can live in Shikarpur after they retire. Otherwise, Shikarpur is not worthy of

people living there right now. After TED came TEDx. TED standard work used to be

that they would invite some special people to speak, like Bill Gates would come, Steve

Jobs would come. People like them who had done great things in technology, education, or

design would be invited. Ten speakers would come. There would be one event a year.

People would watch it. Then recording started. Then it was put on TED.com. Then TEDx

was created. The person who created TEDx is also on my Facebook.

It was recently the tenth or fifteenth anniversary of TEDx. You can connect with that

too. So TEDx said that our format, what we learned in ten years is that

the video should not be longer than eighteen minutes. You shouldn't talk about yourself. There

should be no product selling. You should only talk about a subject. You can share

your experiences or talk about a subject. That's what TED is. Similarly, TEDx is that

now they said that similar events should happen in every city: Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, London,

New York, everywhere. In TEDx,

some good, influential, good experts from that region are invited, and they are asked, 'We

are doing TEDx, and you come and talk to the children, talk to the adults.'

That's TEDx.

In TEDx, there

isn't just one subject.

There's a theme, but it's not about one subject. Rather, different topics are discussed.

And it's not a life story. Many people, I've heard them say, 'This person isn't

telling their life story.' People are sharing their life experiences. It's not a life story,

but it's about their experience. They worked on fish,

they worked on poverty, they worked on laughter, they worked on play. They worked on

any subject, and they tell the story of what they learned from it in their

life.

When we were creating the 'Wala Wali' in the school, we would teach 'Wala Wali'

on how to solve the water problem. For the water problem, thousands of people, hundreds

of people. Now, if there's a child who is into water, and they watch a

TikTok video about water every day, and they also find the specialist who gave that

talk. Now, when they listen to that talk again, they'll make their own video, talk

about it, and try to become friends with the expert. Finding the expert has also

become easy.

Similarly, people write white papers, research papers. Now, how can an eight-year-old child read that

white paper? Well, with ChatGPT, they can read

it, but how did they read it before? So, in simple English,

that person explains the concept. It's like a white paper, and they explain how they

achieved it. So, we have to explain that eighteen-minute video in eighteen minutes. Now, the

mistake being made in our school

is that they try to explain an eighteen-minute video in two minutes. Because I said

at the beginning that the minimum is three minutes. Because at that time, no one

was ready to speak, so we set a three-minute limit. The actual work is to

listen to that eighteen-minute video and then present it again in eighteen minutes, not to

extract its essence

and present it in one minute. So, if you want

to teach properly and truly benefit from it, you have to present in eighteen minutes

what you heard in eighteen minutes. If you heard ten minutes, you have to present

it again for fifteen minutes. Just like you fill notebooks in school, that's how storytelling

will come to you. You heard a story, you watched a movie. After watching the

movie, you came home and told the story of the movie. That's storytelling. You took

that two-and-a-half-hour movie and spent an hour telling the whole story: then this happened, then

this happened, then this happened. Like now you've come to Karachi, so when you go

back, you'll tell the story to someone, right? To a close friend, that 'we arrived,

it was like this, the weather was like this, it was yellow.' You'll exaggerate it,

you'll explain it.

In TEDx, you have to do the same: explain what you heard completely so that

the other person can digest it.

You'll explain it to your friend, your acquaintance, in your own words. If McDonald's

is mentioned there, or a burger shop that doesn't exist here, then you'll add your

own example. For instance, 'Student Biryani,' for example, 'Fulkara Pulao,' for example, 'Saeed's Pulao.' Someone

from Islamabad

knows Saeed's, but someone from Karachi doesn't. Saeed's isn't in Karachi.

When we translate this, we'll say, for example, 'Student Biryani,' 'Malik's Nihari,' 'Zahid's Nihari.' There

might not be a famous Nihari shop there. If it's from Lahore, it would be

'Muhammad's Nihari.' So, to explain this TED talk, to localize it, a few examples are

added. For example, you won't say, 'He said this, for example, do this.' Instead, you'll

stretch it to eighteen or twenty minutes, not finish it in three minutes. This is

the current flawed practice because we are making many mistakes right now.

Why are we silent?

Because if I tell a girl for the first time, 'Your chapati is round,' her

heart will break, and she'll never make a round chapati again because she'll stop trying.

That's why many mistakes are made in our school, which we silently...

My number one advice is: be silent, be

silent, be silent, be silent. Because if I speak, the other person won't even reach

where they could have

reached. When we started the school, this task wasn't just one; it took eight months.

No one made three posts. Maybe it took longer. Our online school students should conduct

TEDx in their respective cities.

Conducting

TEDx

strengthens your local network significantly. You can organize TEDx in

your known places, like a mosque. And who will come to speak? Whoever are the

influential people in your city. You invite them. Now, because it's a mosque, and

you yourself are a religious scholar, all your acquaintances are religious scholars. So, you can't

talk about religion in TEDx. You can talk about meditation, contemplation. It will align with

the spirit of Islam. You're talking about yoga. It

aligns with the

spirit of Islam. So, secular plus Islam. Why is this? In my opinion, the best

yoga is prayer. But in prayer, we do many quick movements. In yoga,

you go slowly, do

everything like Tai Chi,

slowly. And it's also commanded to pray slowly, like the elderly pray. But we pray

so fast, like a speed racer. It's not even finished, and it feels like a

race. If you

slow it down, it becomes yoga, it becomes Tai Chi, and it has the same

benefits as yoga. If prayer is performed fully, including all the Sunnah, Fard, and Nafl,

then the need for yoga ends. The condition is that prayer is performed as

it should be: slowly, bowing. Not sitting on a chair.

That's fake yoga. So, those who pray can comment on prayer.

This is my opinion, so I don't mix them, lest people get offended. In my

opinion, there's no need for yoga if prayer is performed correctly. In TEDx, in the

first year, at this level,

we focus on ethics, so that a person's morals improve. If

morals are good, then everything else follows. That's why in the first year, TED talks

related to ethics are shown. We are not strict in the first year about what

is shown. In the second year, only show TEDx related to 'Wala Wali' to the

child. Show them only those TEDx talks related to their 'Wala Wali'; there's no need

to show others.

To instill the habit,

show three hundred TEDx talks in the first year. But later, watching good TEDx

talks opens their mind completely because every talk is about a completely new world. You're

watching an Australian video, a New Zealand video, an American video, an English video. Your

daily needs, the need for food, the need for knowledge – you're getting a very

different kind of input. This gives people a chance to think. And the second thing

we need to do is connect them on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. We don't do that

either. We need to emphasize that. If you don't make connections, then why are we

showing TEDx? We are showing TEDx because it's like we are reading a new book

every day, meeting a new person every day, and making a connection. Because there's a

chance that most TED speakers are alive. So, the child gets an opportunity to talk

to a stranger. Sir, Assalamu Alaikum.

My name is Ali Raza Panjwani, not the water guy, but the job guy.

I study in a school in Karachi.

I am twelve years old. I watched your TED talk today. It was very enjoyable.

Thank you very much for making it. Now, when he sends a message on Inbox,

Messenger, he also learns to message. On LinkedIn, the other person will say, 'Yes, this

twelve-year-old child is networking with me. Let's accept it.' Why and

how? I've explained all three. If you don't understand, please watch again, watch again, and

definitely ask questions in the comments.