TED Talks

The Decline of Violence


Speaking of Metaphors

Wow! This talk on internet collaboration will blow your mind!

You know those annoying hard to read characters you have to type out when you sign up for a newsletter or something similar? Want to learn a language for free? It’s actually related.

 

Dance your PhD and ditch PowerPoint – Very clever!

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Do you doodle? – Its good for you and your students so go for it!

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Creativity and Play – Do you play in your classroom?

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Storytelling?

 

Kids do TED too.

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It's funny. It’s true. This TED talk about creativity in children will have you teaching a little different tomorrow.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

 

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

 

Play this for your students...please! Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.