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TED talks into animated lessons with materials and options to use as a flipped classroom.

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning? David Merrill works on Siftables, tiny computer blocks that interact with each other to make networks (and music)

Great TEDEd video lesson that teaches about visual media and the codes that are hidden in what we see.

The author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation's pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED conference.

This looks amazing, 3d photo environments, can you imagine children making a virtual field trip out of this to share as a project with kids overseas or ina different part of the country???