Archive for month: December, 2024
Sparking a school-wide passion for public speaking: A conversation with educator Fernando Oringo
Since 2014, thousands of student groups across the globe have been developing and sharing their ideas using our free TED-Ed Student Talks resources. To celebrate 10 years of TED-Ed Student Talks, we have been collecting stories of impact from the [...]
4 innovative educators share their visions for creating better classrooms
If you’ve ever had a conversation with an impassioned educator, you know that they are overflowing with brilliant, resourceful, innovative, and – in all likelihood – extremely under-circulated ideas. We celebrate and elevate educator ideas for the sake of improving [...]
Assessing innovations from the pandemic and reinvesting in educator well-being: 9 educators share their learnings
This is part 2 in a series focusing on what educators are building through the TED-Ed Innovative Educator Alumni Innovation Projects. Read part 1 here. The TED-Ed Innovative Educator Alumni Innovation Projects launched as a way to solve some of [...]
Redesigning instruction and addressing inequities: 6 TED-Ed Innovative Educators share their learnings
Earlier this year, alumni of the TED-Ed Innovative Educator (TIE) program embarked on their respective Innovation Project journeys – uniting their myriad gifts and experiences to tackle global issues in education. TIEs started the process by developing four Opportunity Statements [...]
A new immersive learning experience for the 21st century classroom
We are transitioning from a world of passive technology to a world full of active learning experiences. There is a wealth of opportunity for students to become creators of content, as opposed to simply consumers of content by using just [...]
The technology gap: How to ensure students aren’t falling behind
Across the United States, 15 million students lack access to the technology and devices they need to participate in online distance learning. As educators continue to develop online and hybrid learning models in response to the pandemic and our reliance [...]
10 incredible women in history you should know
A few years ago, I began to notice that the people I taught about in my World History classes were, more often than not, European men. When women were included in the state curriculum, they felt like token inclusions who [...]