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"Kim Preshoff is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of science teachers in her community. With more than 25 years of classroom experience, she's an expert at how to use the force of curiosity to keep kids engaged and learning. For her TED-Ed Innovation Project, Preshoff created a classroom-ready digital collection of 100+ great videos and learning resources about core topics in art, history, science, and beyond. [To add a video to your school's learning library, use the TED-Ed Lesson Creator.] Below, check out Preshoff's curated collection of school-friendly videos and learning resources:"

An extremely valuable new addition to the TED creative community. Includes 263 video with ideas for creating "lessons worth sharing" and a simple lesson plan for creating your own.

An interesting discussion of the theory behind maths. No lesson plan has been developed yet for this TED-Ed video, so have a go!

In this TED talk, Andreas Schleicher describes a new scale, "PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment), an initiative of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). PISA not only tests students on their mathematical understanding, reading level and ability to apply learning to new problems, but also looks at what teachers get paid, how long the school day is, what the average class size is and whether quality of education is uniform across schools and social stratifications. It even measures cultural attitudes, like whether people in the country expect all students to achieve or only a small segment of them to. It's this broad approach to data collection that makes PISA so powerful, says Schleicher." An interesting way for a country to compare where it is and how it compares globally.

The software iStopMotion is fun to use and suitable for kids. See other articles on stop-motion animation and the TED-Ed videos at Animation Basics 101: http://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/07/13/animation-basics-101/

This looks like fun, and would be great for students doing projects to add some spice to their work.

This TED talk described the World Peace Game, which John Hunter has been teaching for some 20 years. Leisurely, but interesting.

Talks listed are mainly on MOOCs, bringing creativity back to education, and why schools are bad. Food for thought.

Defines 3 types of bilinguals. Helpful in defining what your students needs might be.

A video with a little history and discussion of the use of the element should help students remember them better. Accompanying lessons for each element as well.

This is a fascinating description of what FMRIs have found about brain function and playing music. We should all out our guitars and tune up the piano.

Some interesting objections to Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall and the SOLE project he proposed at TED. Children need supervision. But I am reminded of Summerhill where children had a good deal to do with the kinds of questions that were asked and input into how they came to be answered, or at least responded to. Social organization is not natural and turning kids loose on computers doesn't have just happy endings.

The Future of Learning: can it be a school in the cloud. This 22+ min. talk is inspiring for those who love technology and futurist thinking. He aks for help in designing the "School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud." Are we still creating for a machine that no longer exists?

A look atMOOCs from the co-founder of Coursera. Shows how video lectures are delivered with spot-check questions and feedback, and the use of peer/self grading. The conversations, home-work assignments, and so on, are all data fodder for an examination of how MOOC learning works. Students were also self-selected into virtual and land-based study groups. Feedback on quizzes and spot-checks also led to the development of "individualized" responses to wrong answers/misconceptions. Demonstrates how tutoring one-on-online is far better than lecture courses. The goal of Coursera is to ignite students creativity through active learning.

The sites include Codeacdemy, where you can learn to program i HTML and Javascript, TED, Academic Earth, etc. Learn anything about everything or vice versa.

This is truly the best of the best podcasts for the inquisitve mind. Includes links to TED talks, "Stuffy you missed in history class," "This American Life," and even "Wait, Wait..." for fun. Excellent for the teacher who wants to keep up, or the advanced learner who might want lots of listening practice while learning about American culture and interests.

Stop-motion animation would be a great project for middle school and high school students. Teaches planning and patience.

True grit may be the most important thing students can learn from you, according to this TED talk. Darwin thought that hard work was not only the most important thing in intellecutual endeavor, but the only thing. To see how to inspire grit, check out Larry Ferlazzo's inks and other resources, including free excerpts from his books, at this blog post.

You can create your own lessons for flipped classes, or select from the many lessons already created. Great content-based study. For mature secondary or adult learners.

A surprising journey through the value of teaching literature and the possible promises of future journeys. I have always felt that literature was the best basis for language study. This short video helps explain why.