TED Talks Education

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What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world's greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Recent Episodes
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  • The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla | Marco Tempest
    Jun 20, 2012 – 00:06:05
  • The 100,000-student classroom | Peter Norvig
    Jun 21, 2012 – 00:06:11
  • Reinventing the encyclopedia game | Rives
    Jun 26, 2012 – 00:10:46
  • Every city needs healthy honey bees | Noah Wilson-Rich
    Jul 28, 2012 – 00:12:22
  • A teacher growing green in the South Bronx | Stephen Ritz
    Jul 31, 2012 – 00:13:21
  • What we're learning from online education | Daphne Koller
    Aug 1, 2012 – 00:20:40
  • How we can eat our landscapes | Pam Warhurst
    Aug 9, 2012 – 00:13:00
  • The self-organizing computer course | Shimon Schocken
    Oct 4, 2012 – 00:16:25
  • Talk nerdy to me | Melissa Marshall
    Oct 11, 2012 – 00:04:34
  • What I've learned from my autistic brothers | Faith Jegede Cole
    Nov 2, 2012 – 00:05:20
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    Nov 8, 2012 – 00:10:41
  • Your brain on video games | Daphne Bavelier
    Nov 19, 2012 – 00:17:37
  • Kids need structure | Colin Powell
    Jan 23, 2013 – 00:17:26
  • Hey science teachers -- make it fun | Tyler DeWitt
    Feb 5, 2013 – 00:13:50
  • Let's teach kids to code | Mitch Resnick
    Jan 29, 2013 – 00:16:28
  • Dare to educate Afghan girls | Shabana Basij-Rasikh
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  • A girl who demanded school | Kakenya Ntaiya
    Mar 7, 2013 – 00:15:16
  • Build a School in the Cloud | Sugata Mitra
    Feb 27, 2013 – 00:22:31
  • 4 pillars of college success in science | Freeman Hrabowski
    Apr 8, 2013 – 00:14:53
  • Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson
    May 3, 2013 – 00:07:30
  • 3 rules to spark learning | Ramsey Musallam
    May 8, 2013 – 00:06:29
  • Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | Geoffrey Canada
    May 8, 2013 – 00:17:07
  • Grit: The power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth
    May 9, 2013 – 00:05:55
  • My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher | Pearl Arredondo
    May 8, 2013 – 00:08:03
  • Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! | ShaoLan
    May 7, 2013 – 00:06:10
  • How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson
    May 10, 2013 – 00:18:54
  • Teachers need real feedback | Bill Gates
    May 8, 2013 – 00:10:04
  • Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers | Adam Spencer
    Sep 3, 2013 – 00:17:17
  • The pursuit of ignorance | Stuart Firestein
    Sep 24, 2013 – 00:18:16
  • The magic of Fibonacci numbers | Arthur Benjamin
    Nov 8, 2013 – 00:06:24
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    Jan 27, 2014 – 00:15:02
  • A new equation for intelligence | Alex Wissner-Gross
    Feb 6, 2014 – 00:11:48
  • Teach teachers how to create magic | Christopher Emdin
    Apr 8, 2014 – 00:06:54
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    Apr 23, 2014 – 00:12:14
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    May 8, 2014 – 00:09:29
  • What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet | Deborah Gordon
    May 13, 2014 – 00:14:09
  • What makes a word "real"? | Anne Curzan
    Jun 17, 2014 – 00:17:13
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    Aug 4, 2014 – 00:10:48
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    Aug 8, 2014 – 00:12:45
  • The danger of silence | Clint Smith
    Aug 15, 2014 – 00:04:05
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    Aug 29, 2014 – 00:06:00
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    Sep 2, 2014 – 00:17:03
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    Sep 19, 2014 – 00:21:35
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Recent Reviews
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  • Agreeable Anonymous
    REALLY GOOD HIGHY RECOMEND
    I never got things like this would actually have a big impact. I always thought things like this were pretty boring but I’ve noticed a humongous change and I had a different perspective on a few things podcast is actually really worked very well. Highly recommend.
  • Sophiellin
    Nice
    Nice
  • TED talks educations
    TED talks education
    I decided to go with the style of TED talks for a few reasons. The first being it's very familiar and easy to use. Second, in most podcasts you don't see the people talking, you usually just listen to them while on TED talks you get to see the people talking and see and feel the emotions and expressions during their talks. There are a few things that I found to be very memorable. Such as when one of the speakers said to raise our kids to give them the tools to solve the problems we want to solve. Meaning the problems we see in our society we raise our kids to fight those problems. The speaker goes on to talk about how parents who don't want to talk about hard things to talk about often make the kid figure out those things on their own which can be very dangerous especially if the kid is using the wrong things to learn from. Another speaker came out and talked about how she used to love dirtbikes but they were illegal to own at her age in her town so she got really big into science and in class she blew her eyebrows off, glued someone to a chair, and even made stink bombs in class. And the teacher just chopped her up for being the “ bad kid” when they were overlooking the talents she had. AT the same time the only thing I didn't like is a lot of the speaker's rambling off and telling stories that have nothing to do with the overall point they're getting at. Overall I would give this podcast a 4 stars out of 5 because it brought up some very good stories that a lot of people can relate to and also talked about things everyone and society can work on to improve.
  • Sydnee A. M.
    Podcast Review
    While doing research on adolescent behavior I started looking into various podcasts on education. The one thing that caught my attention in “TED Talks Education,” was the episode [Why students should have mental health days.] I then started to take a deeper dive and found many episodes pertaining to mental health and motivation which are both of great interest to me. While I have found many inspiring TED Talk episodes in the past, I couldn’t help but notice that some of the episodes in this podcast were either irrelevant to education or had a speaker who bragged about making a change without saying how. However, don’t let my opinion on those few episodes keep you from enjoying the many that are both inspiring and follow the education theme of the podcast. My two personal favorites were [Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school] and the one I mentioned earlier about student mental health. Both had a focus on mental health and how schools could work to improve it by allowing days off for it and working with students with behavioral challenges rather than disregarding them. They also had an emphasis on teaching students how to identify what their feelings are, how to manage them, and how to advocate for themselves. Another episode I found inspiring was [How teachers can help students navigate trauma.] From this episode I received what I believe is the most important lesson I will ever learn as a student teacher: don’t assume you already know the ending to your students story. I find this to be an incredibly inspiring message about not stereotyping our students which is the reason why I rate this podcast five stars, and will continue to use it personally, as well as suggest it to others in the field.
  • BSDERT88
    Great app
    I really admire the speakers on TED talk as I find them to be knowledgeable at their craft and informative and illuminating with their delivery.
  • dinirules
    Not bad at all
    At first I was reluctant to listening to this since I thought it would be just like the rest. But now this has taught me things. I like a lot of them, but some I don’t
  • DisNameIs_NUGETT
    Ted is for everyone
    I’m 11 going on 12 and I love Ted Talks. I seem to find so much from them and I spread that knowledge around school. A lot of people at my school find it useful and some don’t by it doesn’t bother me as long as I’m spreading good knowledge. It might be now or later, but sometime in life the kids in my school will look back and realize that they need that knowledge. And that knowledge will turn them into the people that are going to be smart, responsible, mature people. I don’t die it because I want more people to come to me for advice or any other reason like that. I do it so that maybe, just maybe they will take that advice , share it, and make it into something wonderful. I don’t ever look and say that I’m not going to do it because of what people will think of me because no matter what I will continue spreading this knowledge that I’ve gained for the rest of my life. If anyone reads this comment go out and use what you learn/learned from Ted Talks and make a difference.
  • Tri Ngoc Nguyen
    So cool
    I learn a lot from these videos. English and many knowledge about people development
  • Tickedick
    Brief. Concise. Educational
    I've learned a lot for Ted talks. They have a spectrum of issues covered from a variety of perspectives. I just wish I could give it more stars than only 5!!
  • Sinimoh
    Me
    Excellent articles
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