- -: TEDxISL - James Penn - Wild About My Garden
December 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized even...
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- -: TEDxISL - Janet Ungrin - Wild About My Garden
December 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Janet Ungrin is a Canadian teacher with experience in Ontario, New Zealand, Mexico, and Europe. In her career she has taught Physical and Health Education, Science, Math, Outdoor Education, and the Humanities, mostly at the secondary level. She enjoys sports of all varieties, paddling through mo...
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- -: TEDxISL - Geoffrey Jenkins - Why We Should Teach About Money
December 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)I am a History and Business teacher of many years' experience. I have always been interested in Economic and Social rather than political and diplomatic History. I started teaching Economics in my first post in the 1970s and over the years, while maintaining my interest in History teaching have m...
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- -: Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
January 12, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the ...
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- -: Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
February 29, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to buil...
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- -: John Francis: I walk the Earth
November 6, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful talk with occasional banjo. Follow us on Twitter at htt...
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- -: John Wooden: Coaching for people, not points
March 26, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the be...
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- -: Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
May 5, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinkers. TEDTalks is a daily...
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- -: Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time
March 30, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual. TEDTa...
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- -: Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
May 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and th...
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