TED Introduces TED-Ed Clubs to Get Kids Talking About Big Ideas

TED recently introduced a new initiative called TED-Ed Clubs . TED-Ed Clubs provide a framework for getting students together on a regular b...

The History of Timezones - A TED-Ed Lesson

Today, I am traveling to Phoenix, Arizona to work with some teachers there tomorrow and on Friday. The more I travel and the more I work wi...

Teenage Life in Ancient Rome - A TED-Ed Lesson

A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome is a new TED-Ed lesson developed by Ray Laurence from the University of Kent. The video and its a...

A Thought or Two About TED Ed

TED made headlines this week with the launch of TED Ed . TED Ed is a new platform through which teachers can build short lessons around shor...

TED on the Radio

Watching and listening to TED Talks is one of my favorite ways to discover new ideas and challenge my current thinking about various topics...

TED Education - It's a Good Start

This morning the TED Blog announced the launch of TED-Ed . I've watched three of the twelve videos in the TED Ed channel  on YouTube and...

Clay Shirky Talks About Why SOPA is a Bad Idea

I've been traveling today and working from a dial-up speed connection at the hotel I'm staying in. Therefore, I'm late to the pa...

Android Apps to Watch TED on the Go

The more time I spend traveling the more time I spend consuming content on my Android devices. Two days ago, thanks to David Andrade I disc...

A Map of the Brain

In the TED Talk below Allan Jones explains and shows how he and his team are creating a map of the brain. This is a great talk for biology ...

Squishy Circuits - A Hands-on Electricity Lesson

Squishy Circuits is a project developed at the University of St. Thomas for the purpose of creating tools that students can use to create ...

Doodlers Unite! The Positives in Doodling

In the TED Talk embedded below Sunni Brown , author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers , presents th...

Watch Sir Ken Robinson Speak Live on September 17

Tomorrow, September 17, TEDxLondon will be streamed live on the web. The theme of TEDxLondon is The Education Revolution. There is a fantas...

All Kinds of Minds - A Nice TED Talks Playlist

I have my first day of school today (yes, on a Friday) and my students return next Tuesday. Just as I was scanning my RSS reader for the las...

TED Talks Vacation Playlists

The TED bloggers are on vacation for the next two weeks. While they're away the TED Blog is publishing a new playlist for each day. The...

TED Talk - Five Ways to Listen Better

Julian Treasure, whose work I've previously highlighted , recently gave a talk at TED Global in Scotland. His talk, 5 Ways to Listen Bet...

10 Common Challenges We'll Face This Fall - Challenge #1: Access

One of my most popular presentations, the one that I'm most frequently asked to give , is 10 Common Challenges Facing Educators . When g...

My Best Tip for Beginning Bloggers...

is to write something everyday. I've written about my "blogging secrets" in the past so I won't go down that road in this...

60 Second Lectures from U Penn

Larry Ferlazzo has discovered another great little source of "TED Talk -like" videos. The 60 Second Lectures is a series of one ...

John Wooden Gives a TED Talk

This afternoon while waiting for the start of the Butler vs. VCU NCAA basketball game CBS aired a segment about legendary UCLA basketball co...

Salman Khan - Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education

Salman Khan, founder of the wildly popular Khan Academy , recently gave a talk at TED . As you might expect, Khan does tell the story of how...