ABC Ted Talks

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

TED videos have been making the rounds online for a couple of years now. I have personally shared several of them here and I am still amazed by the new ones that are released from time to time.TED is a video resource that I consider as a must for all educators and teachers to use. There are hundreds of videos you can share with your students and all of which are student friendly

lessons games can teach us about engagement and about learning itself

11 year old Thomas Suarez app designer

"What makes TED such an appealing web series and organization is its desire to offer up a little something for everyone. This includes high school students and the teachers who love, hate, or tolerate them. Honestly, pretty much any video hosted there boasts its own educational value, but some hold more relevance than others. Whether they empower and inspire, shine a light on social injustices or simply show off some seriously cool innovations, the following 20 videos are bound to make class time just a little more interesting."

"Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking. "

Kids making apps-I would really like to get our kids doing this. I have played with some of the software in the development kit, but don't have a strong enough understanding of programming.

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension -- and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

Our 6th grade students have teamed up with two other schools in the US to work on on a multimedia project  which has focused their attention on global issues. This is a collaborative project during which students have: researched global issues, collaboratively written a group rap song (based on one issue) using Google Docs, performed Google Advanced searches for Creative Commons licensed media, "Blabberized" images so as to create speaking avatars, mixed musical loops and recorded their raps using GarageBand, edited and dubbed their videos in iMovie and uploaded their work, including a reflection to the project Wiki.This was a great project which enabled students to learn many new skills, add a number of digital tools to their tool kits, enjoy each step in their learning and share their work with other schools as well as the end.http://a-better-world.wikispaces.com/ The students and teachers in the 3 different schools have worked very hard over the last few months on their parts of the project and we are very pleased with the results. The kids have learned a lot about global issues and learned many important ICT skills along the way.If you are interested in becoming a part of this project at any point during this or next school year, do let me know.JenniferAcademia Britanica CuscatlecaEl Salvador

Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

Steve Jobs's Stanford grad address. How to live before you die.

before 2010 so a bit old

"Video Post: Dr. Joyce Valenza - "See Sally Research""

Really worth watching - 9 minutes Web searches are tailored to your search history - we all get different links depending on that History

inspirational