Archive for month: November, 2024
A new resource to empower educators and students to address climate change
View TED-Ed’s new climate education resource .“TED Explores: A New Climate Vision” is a 60-minute film that brings to life the groundbreaking ideas shared at the 2023 TED Countdown Summit in Detroit, Michigan. Hosted by Manoush Zomorodi of the TED Radio [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Want to inspire action? Write someone out of the story
If someone forgets your birthday or can’t remember your name, it’s easy to set things right. However, what happens when someone doesn’t include you in your own story? How do you right that wrong? Throughout history, half the population has [...]