TED: Ideas worth spreading
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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
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Here are excerpts from the "About" page at TED.com:
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. Almost 150 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
Our mission: Spreading ideas.
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. Over time, you'll see us add talks and performances from other events, and solicit submissions from you, as well. This site, launched April 2007, is an ever-evolving work in progress, and you're an important part of it. Have an idea? We want to hear from you.
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Talks Martin Seligman: What positive psychology can help you become 2 Replies
"Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psycholog...
Tagged: positive+psychology, Seligman
Started by Connie Weber. Last reply by Kathryn L. Keene Jan 9.
Talks Carl Honore: Slowing down in a world built for speed
"Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes...
Tagged: Honore, stress, slowness
Started by Connie Weber Dec. 10, 2008.
Second Life, where anything is possible ( Philip Rosedale ) 2 Replies
Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale (avatar "Philip Linden") talks about the virtual society he founded, Second Life, and its underpinnings in human creativity. It's a place so different tha...
Tagged: Serious_Play, TED_talk, creativity, virtual_society, Philip_Rosedale
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Dec. 5, 2008.
TED Prize wish on mentoring 4 Replies
In light of the conversation about personalized learning and the ideas about mentoring/tutoring that were being developed there, I thought that this particular TED talk would be relevant. It's Dave...
Started by Penelope Millar. Last reply by Daniel Bassill Nov. 28, 2008.
once gloomy, Bill Joy's optimism, curiosity, and activism
Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech. Consider his forward-looking, full-of-cu...
Tagged: activism, gloom_and_doom, pragmatism, bill_joy, curiosity
Started by Skip Zilla Nov. 25, 2008.
Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain, from TED
"Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, sup...
Tagged: brain, neurology, computers, future, TED
Started by Connie Weber Aug. 4, 2008.
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
we step into the future...
Tagged: TED, Kelly, technology, future, web
Started by Connie Weber Aug. 4, 2008.
Amy Tan on Creativity
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Tagged: amy+tan, creativity
Started by Connie Weber Apr. 30, 2008.
Our Amazing Brains 10 Replies
For anyone interested in the inner workings of the brain, here is a personal story of a brain researcher and her experience of a stroke that opened her awareness to realms of consciousness previous...
Tagged: spirituality, neuro-biology, brain, science
Started by Anna Billings. Last reply by Connie Weber Apr. 3, 2008.
I didn't know that TED is in iTunes!
Hello fellow TED lovers! In case you were not aware, TED videos are available as a free podcast in iTunes. I just bumped into it this weekend, and needless to say, I have listened to (watched) lit...
Started by Sue Palmer Mar. 7, 2008.
Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma
What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael ...
Tagged: strategy, possibility, survival, nature, intellect
Started by Skip Zilla Feb. 11, 2008.
What does technology want?
Kevin Kelly uses evolutionary theory to discuss the purpose and value of technology. By asking, "What does technology want?" he shows that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like t...
Tagged: complexity, humans, purpose, value, ubiquity
Started by Skip Zilla Feb. 5, 2008.
Tales of passion: Isabel Allende on TED.com (1/3/2008) 2 Replies
In one of the most beloved talks from TED2007, novelist Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. She tells the stories of powerful women she has known, some larger-than-life (l...
Tagged: women, passion, power, dignity, grace
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Skip Zilla Jan. 24, 2008.
Will Wright: Toys that Make Worlds 5 Replies
Check this out: an upcoming game... From the TED site: "In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous ...
Started by Connie Weber. Last reply by Skip Zilla Jan. 9, 2008.
TED Talks -- A video player worth spreading
I'm a big fan of both the videos and discussions. On my own ning, I have secreted away, a nice player with a playlist/feed of TED talks. I'll post it here in hopes that we can use it. Just scroll, ...
Tagged: videos
Started by ddeubel Jan. 4, 2008.
Are we developing the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence in students (and in ourselves)? 3 Replies
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Sharing the results of psychological experiments (and the story of the Santa Cruz Strangler...
Tagged: book, psychology, emotional+intelligence, tedtalk
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Jan. 3, 2008.
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Comment by Jane Nordli Jessep on May 30, 2009 at 6:18pm - No one has visited this discussion for a good long while. In the meantime, I was at TED this year as a TED fellow. Very interesting. But I'm writing at this moment to invite all of you to view the video from a while ago, with Vilayanur Ramachandran speaking about the brain. It's interesting and you might also like to read the article about him in the May 11, New Yorker. What does this mean for us as educators?
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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on January 21, 2009 at 12:55pm - Well, my arm isn't quite long enough to pat myself on the back, but you did just describe me. I have to keep myself in check and remind myself continually that my students, in general, aren't there yet. I have shared Randy Pausch and some "Teds" (they loved Sir Ken Richardson; we then tye-dyed old sheets, decorated them, and painter our favorite inspirational quotes; my classroom became quite colorful!) Have you ever seen Karl Fisch's "Fischbowl" website? He started the "Did You Know" video and many more like them. This week they did a Skyping of sorts, allowing his Colorado teens to interview Daniel Pink...that's what our kids need...oooh! exciting!
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Comment by Skip Zilla on January 21, 2009 at 12:17pm - I don't want to say this too bluntly nor in a pejorative way, but it is those adults/teachers who are life-long learners themselves, very curious about the kinds of enlightening communication that TED provides for example, that I hope are present most prevalently to our kids. Those who know the excitement and discovery of learning cannot deny it to others, especially youngsters--full of themselves and their world!
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Comment by Connie Weber on January 21, 2009 at 7:44am
- Yes, hooray for Skip for starting this important group! A total Idea Bank. Uplifting, energizing, inspirational. Like medicine.
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Comment by Skip Zilla on January 21, 2009 at 12:58am
- Thanks, Kathryn. Bill Strickland's story is not only unforgettable, but also imaginable as the motivational paradigm for turning kids loose on self-interested and self-directed learning ventures. Haven't most folks in the profession been influenced by "veterans in the trenches" to be skeptical of the fundamental claim of positive psychology that nearly everyone has the innate potential of becoming an entrepreneur of the spirit? Unfortunately, an unknowing and negative mindset is the only "reality." There are developmental learning perspectives and practices within the human capabilities of families and other more complex communities of mentors/learners which might relieve, if not remove, the typical anxieties of dutiful, but largely solitary teachers who are overwhelmed by distractions to their students' learning.
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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on January 20, 2009 at 9:17pm
- Hey, y'all! If you're bored, try TedTalks and Google, Bill Strickland....you must be patient, have 30 free uninterrupted minutes to gift to yourself, and be prepared to be stunned...that's all I have to say...
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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on January 7, 2009 at 4:34pm
- I just joined Fireside and am thrilled you care about Ted this much. I am enthralled with TED...it's nice to find others who enjoy it as much...
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