Archive for month: December, 2024
Helping girls bridge the confidence gap: A conversation with Illana Raia
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 program’s [...]
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 [...]
TED-Ed’s student materials are now in Spanish!
Our team has a big announcement! Educators working with Spanish-speaking students or students learning Spanish can use our free curriculum to create TED-style Talks with their students in Spanish! Our TED-Ed Student Talks curriculum has been a successful resource in [...]
How one student turned an idea into a global mission to end our planet’s plastic waste crisis
In 2018, then 11-year-old Haaziq Kazi delivered his first TED Talk at TED-Ed Weekend and unveiled his prototype invention: a ship called Ervis that cleans plastic from the surface of the ocean. The homemade prototype he created in his bathtub [...]
How one student found purpose in the chaos of 2020
For nine years of school, I was bullied due to my unique interest in STEM and my body weight. I was often classified as the unwanted kid and the class weirdo, thus being cut off from social groups. In those [...]
Developing student voice in the ELA classroom
A South Texas school district is inspiring student voices by utilizing the TED-Ed Student Talks curriculum in all their 6th grade writing classrooms. Here, educator Corinne Spellane discusses how they incorporated the program into the ELA curriculum, and how it [...]
6 students (virtually) share what they’ve learned over the past year
The TED-Ed community consists of thousands of amazing students around the world. Each year, the TED-Ed team designs ways to bring students together and connect over ideas worth spreading. In January 2021, TED-Ed hosted the first ever Exploring Together virtual [...]