When education tastes sweeter than winning the lottery | Koen Timmers | TEDxUHasselt

Do you automatically feel a cold shiver whenever you have to attend your classes via video call? Many students struggle with their school career, they are delighted with these technologies providing them qualitative education. The creator behind the hightech software platform is not only a teacher himself, he is also a researcher and has launched several educational projects across the world. Koen is known for being declared as one of the 10 best teachers in the world by entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Gates in 2018. With his projects our speaker pursuits a bigger goal, taking our current education to a higher level while at the same time realizing a world without critical sustainability problems. In this journey he has worked with the WWF, UN, NASA and more. Koen has also received personal endorsements from Jane Goodall, Dalai Lama, The Queen, and Charlize Theron. His Innovation Lab Schools and Climate Action Project reached 2.5 million students in 140 countries and were covered by CNN, National Geographic, BBC and Netflix. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx