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What is it?
TEDEd is a free interactive and educational website for educators and students alike. Teachers can create or modify their own video lesson on this technology tool. They also have access to existing lessons or series; the two types of lessons available to access are expert created and visitor created. This allows teachers the ability to build a lesson around any TED talk, Youtube video, or video from the continually growing TEDEd library of lessons.
TEDEd philosophy
TEDed’s slogan is “Lessons Worth Sharing”. This represents the power they believe thoughts, creativity and ideas have. Power to change lives and to affect something even as great as the world. They believe in the support of educators, such as teachers, to facilitate a desire for innovation and learning in students. They place an importance on global and interdisciplinary learning with the mission of allowing great ideas to be further and further built upon.
How is it used?
Written instructions:
- Use the TEDEd webpage to find any YouTube video or existing lesson
-Enhance the video using these features:
- Let's Begin
- Add context or define a learning objective
- Think
- Create questions for your students
- Dig Deeper
- Link to supplementary resources that expand on the video
- Discuss
- Facilitate discussion around a chosen section of video by including discussion questions
- Exclude the features you don't want to use
- Click Customize or Publish
- Students can access lessons at any time and save progress under the YOU tab
- Teachers can view their students' progress by clicking on Lesson Stats
Reasons teachers love it
-TEDEd is an interactive tool for both students and teachers.
-Lessons can be shared with other teachers in a collaborative environment
-“Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student”
-Any video, from any resource, can be uploaded and edited to TEDEd for a creative, educational experience
-Students and teachers can access this educational tool from anywhere, as it is a mobile resource
-This site allows lessons to be created around a video so that students can participate in learning as they watch by answering questions, discussing topics and viewing additional resources teachers imbed into the video.
-TEDEd is a credible resource that stems from TED talks, which is a modern and familiar concept to most educators.
Examples of use in classroom
-TEDEd serves as a resource for lesson planning for teachers and knowledge building for students.
-Classroom lessons can be built around preexisting or teacher created educational videos.
-TEDEd can be used as a format for a research project for students.
-This technology tool can be used to assess student comprehension of particular lessons through the discussion questions and additional resources included in a video lesson.
-TEDEd lessons are useful when a substitute is needed in the classroom. Using TEDEd, the classroom teacher can pre-create a lesson with a designated learning objective. The substitute can easily manage the class and learning can continue in an effective way, even with the primarily teacher absent. Additionally, students can work individually and at their own pace, and the primary classroom teacher can track progress made by students.
Content Integration
TEDEd provides a wonderful resource to integrate communication into your lessons. Allowing the students to respond online and at their own pace helps to reduce the affective filter that oftentimes hinders them sharing their opinions in class. They learn how to communicate their ideas through writing and are challenged to express themselves using higher order thinking. TEDTalks model good communication skills and provide examples of engaging speeches. To encourage students to share their own big ideas, schools can set up TED-Ed Clubs, which meet regularly to share and discuss students' ideas in a shortened version of a TEDTalk. These informal presentations help students develop public speaking skills and emphasize the importance of communication to express an idea in a manner that is easily understood. TEDEd clubs can also connect students with other clubs around the globe in order to share ideas and even practice different languages.
Resources
TEDEd
YouTube
TEDtalks
TEDEd's Role in Today's Classroom
50 TED Talks Every Educator Should Check Out
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