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TED2005, filmed Feb 2005, posted Dec 2006. St. John interviews a variety of "TED-sters" to learn their secrets of success, which are condensed into 8 points in this very brief talk,.

TS showed this TED talk and then asked her students to identify the thesis statement, week 3, semester 4.

Part of TED2011, filmed March 2011; posted October 2011 on TED.com. Coron is an artist who works in paper-cutting. In this video, she recounts her own life and work, with examples.

RA used this video to help her students think about their own "storytelling" as they worked on their final essays. She felt that this video also helped to expand her students' worlds.

TED2006, Filmed Feb 2006; posted June 2006. From the description, "Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity."

Looking to add "variety in instruction," KP closed her class with the first 6 minutes of this TED talk, week 1, semester 4.

TM shared this and several other TED Talks as examples of innovation in her classroom.

Video on TED.com, filmed March 2011; posted March 2011. Salman Kahn talks about starting up Khan Academy, and its goal of offering short videos of exercises. He suggests that teachers consider flipping the classroom: give students video lectures to watch at home and do the exercises in class with the teacher there to help.

TM recommended this video as background on the idea of "flipped classroom."

From TEDxToronto 2012. Filmed Sept 2010 and posted on Ted.com Jan 2011. Pasricha, who blogs 1000 Awesome Things and has written a best-seller, The Book of Awesome, asserts that with attitude, awareness, and authenticity, one can lead an "awesome" life.

RO used this video as a resource for her victim-creator essay, week 4, semester 4.

Dan Meyer video lecture on TED.com, posted May 2010.

This often-cited video was mentioned in Cohort 1 coffeeklatch and the Pedagogy Matters Jam.

TM included this on her list of favorite TED talks.

On TED.com, filmed July 2009 and posted October 2009. Talgam, a former conductor, describes the "unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders."

TM posted, with the message, "I think you would enjoy this video and it's implications for how we can inspire our students to learn."

On TED, Feb 2010. Jane McGonigal talks about an "epic win."

Presented on TED.COM, filmed Feb 2010 and posted April 2010. Wujec discusses his experience using the Marshmallow Challenge in team-building exercises. Observing the challenge 100s of times, he sees that kindergarteners do better than recent business school grads (better at prototyping, less jockeying for leadership), CEOs do well, but do even better with an executive admin on their team because facilitation is important. High stakes (he's offered a cash reward) works better once the team has acquired skills; high stakes with no skills is a disaster.

Inspired by this video, both LS and RS used the Marshmallow Challenge as an icebreaker on their first class meetings (2nd semester) and both were pleased with the results.

The marshmallow challenge continued to be a popular icebreaker throughout the GSCC project. In semester 4, RS referenced this video again, and LS created her own video (see tag marshmallow) with her students completing the challenge.

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Part of TED2001, filmed Feb 2001 and posted March 2009. Coach John Wooden of UCLA was one of the winningest coaches in basketball. According to the description, in this talk, "Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves."

RO showed this video in class that looked at student success and paragraph structure, week 6, semester 4.

Speaker: Sir Ken Robinson on Feb 2010; posted May 2010.

TM shared this and several other TED videos in the context of innovation in her classroom.

Conrad Wolfram presentation on TED.com (filmed July 2010; posted Nov 2010). Wolfram argues that math applications are all around us, and that people in a ever-wider variety of workplaces are excited about math...but students are not. Wolfram argues that bringing computers into the math classroom would help improve math's relevancy -- and build excitement as well. Use the tag wolfram to look at his "knowledge engine," Wolfram Alpha.

Dan Pink makes a case. The mismatch between what we know about motivation and what management does.

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From TED.com

Eric Berlow on Ted (Talks in Less Than 6 Minutes series). Posted November, 2010.

Library of videos described as "riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world."

TEDxTeen, filmed April 2011; posted Nov 2011. Warne defines "anonymous extraordiaries," the unknown people who make a big difference, e.g. the man who wrote Dr. King's speeches, or the young organizers (like Warne) who helped to organize a world-wide event that made a difference in a 25-year war in East Africa.

RO used this video in her penultimate class, which also included discussion of service learning, week 14, semester 4.

An RSA "Animate" presentation based on a speech given by Sir Ken Robinson. RSA is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, a "cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress." This animated presentation is a favorite of the KPI team.

TM shared this and several other TED videos in the context of innovation in her classroom.