More over, these talks will show you that when we concentrate in our shared humanity and allow ourselves to see others as we see our families and friends, we will be unstoppable in our growing, we will be experiencing true freedom and will truly be living in peace. Each speaker reveals his or her passion of a view or a subject with the enthusiasm of a first-year teacher. Enjoy our first installment of 10 Awesome TED Talks on Education. Our rankings include programs students can only find online. Sanford Biggers pushes us through his creations to have the difficult conversations we must have at this point in time, and analyzes with candor the history of social injustice experienced by black America. This one is tough, tragic and beautiful all at the same time. David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. Green analogizes the lifelong quest for knowledge to cartography. He has a vision for making this education possible and shares it passionately. On occasion, we also use cookies to collect information from our toddlers, but that’s a totally different thing. Further your education career with a self-paced online Certificate. In the face of these numerous and mounting challenges, elected officials and lawmakers have been short on meaningful solutions. 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. If you’re looking for solutions to education’s myriad problems from the smartest folks, most of them have delivered a TED Talk at some point. Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Thought provoking and another way that we can acknowledge that what we think we know for sure might not be so. It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a bold talk, he shares the epic carbon-capturing potential of seaweed, explaining how oceangoing seaweed farms created on a massive scale could trap all the carbon we emit into the atmosphere.

He says that games are the most innovative, creative, and intellectual tools that are working to bring improvement in almost every aspect of performance in cognitive areas. For the sake of time, and not allowing my lack of it to lead to complacency, I listen to podcasts and TED Talks while I exercise or work. Watch the video here. In this Ted Talk, Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback, Gates talks about the need for teachers to receive valuable feedback so that they can improve and strengthen their skills and become better teachers. Teaching Kids Real Math With Computers. Public School teacher John Hunter is warm, funny and personable as he explains his extraordinary approach to stimulating interactive learning among gifted students. At the Bowery Poetry Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful, 3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere.

Tim Brown explores the relationship between creative thinking and play, and how this relationship can be nurtured. Nonetheless, schools train students to be frightened of being wrong, and of making mistakes. He shares his findings, supplying answers to fundamental questions about racism -- and lays out an exemplary path for practicing effective allyship. Every weekday, TED Talks Daily brings you the latest talks in audio. Of course, I particularly enjoy talks that address diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism and love that these topics are being discuss from very different perspectives and levels of expertise. Although I didn’t grow up with a stutter, on the contrary I’m known for talking too much a lot. The centerpiece of his Talk is the resolution that these virtual spaces have become, for a new generation of learners, the kind of communities we used to have as students, communities that allow us to continue following our own learning maps into adulthood. Robinson insists that we can’t afford to continue on this way, that we need to radically rethink our view of intelligence as something diverse, dynamic, and distinct.

If you’ve ever seen Bill Gates speak, then you know this one isn’t breathtakingly exciting. Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. Whereas we respond to failure in this sector by probing for yet greater achievement, the education business has failed to use science to improve its approach to children. Black voices have already offered their stories in books, movies, TV shows, and essays. In a heartfelt piece, the poet paints the scene of his father’s furious and fearful response. Ever heard the phrase “Those who can’t do, teach”? “Founding Fathers” should mean and represent Mothers and Children - all our ancestors with all their flaws. After leaving his Microsoft job in Washington, Awuah returned to his home in Ghana and has helped to open a liberal arts college there. Specifically, Baraniuk speaks about the drawbacks of texts books and how using online open-source information provides more current and relevant material.

neither Republican nor Democrat obtain the necessary 270 electoral votes, then the winner is the party with the most electoral votes - which will then approximate the popular vote and therefore reflect voters’ choices much more accurately than is presently the case. Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. What We’re Learning From Online Education. Sir Ken Robinson gave this speech in February of 2006 and it has since been viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube and a remarkable 39 million times on the TED Talks website. Again, this won’t be the most entertaining TED Talk you’ll ever watch (and the visual aids just scream Windows ’98), but Gates is right. 2. A professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas and the founder of Connexions, an open-source education system, Richard Baraniuk talks about the benefits of open source for educators. Accordingly, says Wapnick, we should all be pursuing careers based on how we’re wired. While accepting his TED prize, physicist Neil Turok shares his wish to provide opportunity for the future of Africa through opening and nurturing the creativity available in the young people there. Yassmin Abdel-Magied wears many hats, including a hijab. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works. So we all know that education in America has its fair share of problems (understatement alert). How to raise a black son in America. From TED: We're taught to believe that hard work and dedication will lead to success, but that's not always the case. Here are 10 TED Talks about race in America that teachers may find useful for starting difficult conversations in the classroom: In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. I have collected 13 Ted Talks that cover a variety of issues intersecting racism, colorism and prejudice. I did do a lot of reading at the same time, mind. With TED Talks Dai… Gabe Zichermann explains how games make kids smart. She reveals just how fascinating and all-encompassing mathematics are, and just how scintillating they can be. Filmed in March of 2013, Gates’ Talk has been viewed roughly 293,000 times on YouTube and just under 2 million times on the TED Talks website. We need creative thinkers to tackle the world’s problems, Wapnick argues. Green advises that as we age out of school, we often lose that level of engagement. 3 secrets to Netflix's success | Reed Hastings, What does it take to cultivate a culture of innovation and reinvention at work? As a graduate and principal of North Philadelphia schools, Cliatt-Wayman gives a stirring and personal speech, one that moved many in the audience to tears. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable.

The Birth of the Open Source Learning Revolution. Gates suggests that this method could be a pathway to providing teachers with real-time diagnoses on their performance and could ultimately help schools develop the tools they need to act on these diagnoses. In case you are not hook to TED as I am (yet! That's what journalist and documentarian John Biewen did, leading to a trove of surprising and thought-provoking information on the "origins" of race.

He argues that all children are born inherently creative and that school systematically squanders that creativity, and “pretty ruthlessly” at that. What happens when our perception comes from a place of a prejudice, a bias planted in our heads at some point in our lives? I love that this artist decided to reclaim his voice, not only in his animations, but also being on a stage like TED to talk about things like bullying, and the notion of what’s normal or not. How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison, 10. Featured photo courtesy of Light Brigading/CC BY-NC. I wish you keep the interviews in a separate podcast, it’s just not what I’m looking for. The ancient, earth-friendly wisdom of Mongolian nomads | Khulan Batkhuyag. The artist mentions how people don’t like to talk about slavery and racial tensions, and about the need to do so in a thoughtful way. Gates diverges with a brief video featuring a teacher who uses a camera to record her classroom lessons. If race is a sensitive subject for you to think about or bring up in your community, then this talk is for you. Indeed, John told the audience that he’d happily send his fourth graders to consult Al Gore because they succeeded in solving the problem of global warming in a single week. Her experiential wisdom makes for a poignant Talk, anchored by a few of the slogans that have produced meaningful change at her Strawberry Mansion High School (where it bears noting she was the fourth principle in four years). We’re losing kids, we know we’re losing kids, and yet we simply don’t allow real educational innovation to occur. Teachers often use TED Talks in the classroom to introduce a lesson topic or to frame a student discussion. Using examples from the natural world, Brown shows how play is an integral part of life and how it can change behaviors. Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. A tale of two Americas.

The founder of the MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts discusses his program, called “One Laptop Per Child.” This project hopes to build $100 pedal-powered laptops and distribute them to children in developing countries around the world in an effort to promote education. Stuart Brown says play is more than fun.