What Stops Population Growth? - Hans Rosling

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/

I'm sure that you know of the WONDERFUL website: Gapminder.org (correction made to original post). You might have seen one of his presentations on Ted. I was browsing the gapminder.org site just now and was exploring some of the other , perhaps less well known features of the site. For example, under the Gapminder World link, click on the link for "Gaps Between" and watch data about the gaps between states in the US, or in China. Or, on the front page, click the links to watch some of the videos like the one I linked to at the top of this post.

First, watch the video (above) and then ask yourself if that data told the story. I think you'll agree that it did. Then ask yourself if giving a presentation like this is better than diving a PowerPoint presentation. I think you'll agree, again, that it is.

Now, if you're s social studies teacher who talks about global issues or how tries, at least, to put the events of the US into a global perspective, why not spend some time in Gapminder exploring the data? Why not find those data elements that, when plotted together, tell a story much more effectively than ANY PowerPoint could do?

Send this post along to your favorite Social Studies teacher after you watch the video. In a World Class education system, shouldn't the students be making presentations like this?