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TED Talks and other videos for the classroom.

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This resource website had an article “8 TED Talks You Need to Share with Your Students.” So what’s TED? It stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It’s a video resource for teachers, kind of like TeacherTube. In this list of 8, I chose five videos I liked.

Learning from Sherman the Shark. Tim Toomey is a cartoon artist who spreads the word about problems going on in our ocean (such as garbage, shark finning, etc.) through his comic strips. This is a great way to teach kids about what’s going on in the land beneath the surface of the ocean, and using cartoons in general are a great way to engage kids about almost any real-world/current event issue.

If I could draw cartoons, I’d love to use it as a way of addressing classroom rules and why we have them for the younger grade students. Ideally, I would probably ask an artsy student or the art teacher to draw these cartoons of puppets that I already own so that way if a rule is broken, the puppet from the familiar comic strip character could “talk” to the student about why we have rules and why they’re not meant to be broken. I imagine that would be more effective than “pulling cards” or “time outs.”

Now this girl, first of all I can’t believe she’s a “child” for she speaks like a very wise woman. IF you are an educator of anytime, please listen to this! She talks a lot about education from the child’s point of view and her want to do better and for her teachers and adults in general to expect more out of what children can do.

This one is about a very bright student who invented a completely mobile hands on product that can do many things. Pick up a book and it’ll project ratings and reviews of the book via Amazon onto the book itself, project a dial pad on your hand, take pictures with only gestures, project your photo gallery on a wall, a lot of cool stuff.

This amazing young man is only 19, from Africa, and wanted to learn about how to make a windmill. So he did and built one in his village and now has plans to bring electricity to his village and irrigation! Did I mention he’s 19?

This is an interesting look of video game history, and thinking about the progression of video game design. It started with students creating the games themselves! And it’s not unlikely that I or any other teacher will have some brilliant minds in our classrooms probably designing their own games for fun.

This video also addresses video game addiction from the point of view of an addict and very much worth watching. It’s a little scary but very true and very real for a lot of people.


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