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Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools.

I think this Ted talk really helps us rethink the way our minds work. It also helps reconstruct our ideas about people whose minds work completely differently, like kids that may struggle in school. It pushes us to think about right brain thinkers vs left brain thinkers, and why we need a better balance for both.

We all want to be teachers, but I think this helps us look at what kind of teachers we want to be. I know I don't want to be another bland, boring teacher who just goes by the books. Ken Robinson helps us see what schools do stop stop us reaching our full potential and why we need more creativity and arts - things that students will be passionate about in class - in the classroom.

A TED talk (because that's more or less all I'll be posting) about the status of creativity in early education, and the implications for all levels of education (and beyond).

Ken Robinson describes how schools are killing creativity and most importantly highlights why it is so important in our futures. He urges us to maintain creativity in our curriculum so English teachers, please do your part to keep it.

A TED talk from Sugata Mitra about education as a self-organizing process; includes information from some incredible social experiments with non-English speaking learners in India and elsewhere.

Gates gives an interesting take on what it means to be a highly qualified teacher. He even suggests a few controversial ideas on how to help teachers and hold them accountable.

More Sugata Mitra; an overlapping presentation with his other (linked) talk. Fighting the concept of design as the most effective instrument of education.

Nothing earthshattering, but a lot of humorously presented general common sense information about the Internet.

Because this is relevant to everything.