TED Talks
TED: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures | Fei-Fei Li
When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling talk, computer vision expert Fei-Fei Li describes...
Crash Course
Natural Language Processing: Crash Course Computer Science
Today we’re going to talk about how computers understand speech and speak themselves. As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been an growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly...
TED Talks
Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from filmmaker Mira Nair, writer Richard Ford, sculptor Richard...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Beware of nominalizations (AKA zombie nouns) - Helen Sword
Few mistakes sour good writing like nominalizations, or, as Helen Sword likes to call them, zombie nouns. Zombie nouns transform simple and straightforward prose into verbose and often confusing writing. Keep your nouns away from...
TED Talks
Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy
What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its "loneliness, longevity, grim thrill" -- that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours...
TED Talks
Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language
While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in "maps." The idea now powers the FreeSpeech app, which can help nonverbal people...
TED Talks
Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. In this talk, he shares how his ambitious new project,...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a grammatically correct sentence. How? Emma Bryce explains how this and other one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them...
SciShow Kids
Birds that Talk!
Birds can communicate with each other in lots of ways, but some types of birds can learn human words! But just because they learn human words, does that mean that they can understand them?
Curated Video
Singapore Language
New ReviewThe country of Singapore has four official languages: English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. Malay is the island’s national or original language. Learn more about the cultural origins of this combination of languages and become acquainted...
Curated Video
Basics of Chatbots with Machine Learning & Python - Tokenization
New ReviewIn this lesson, we will perform two types of tokenization—sentence tokenization and word tokenization—using the NLTK library.
Curated Video
4 Types of Sentences {Sentence Writing}
New ReviewIn this video, we explore the four types of sentences and practice identifying them along with using the correct punctuation mark at the end—a crucial step in building strong writing skills for students of all ages. We cover declarative-...
Curated Video
Parallelism
New ReviewThis video defines and provides examples of parallelism in writing.
Curated Video
Editing Sentences
New ReviewThis video discusses run-on and fragment sentences and the ways to correct them.
Curated Video
Clarity In Writing
New ReviewThis video identifies how to revise writing by varying sentences to make text more interesting.
Curated Video
Understanding the 8 Parts of Speech | Grammar Essentials | EasyTeaching
New ReviewAll the words in the English language can be organised into groups according to the role they play in a sentence. We call these groups ‘parts of speech’.Knowing how words function helps us to construct sentences. Words are generally...
Curated Video
Third Conditional Explained | Conditional Series Ep. 4 | EasyTeaching
New ReviewThis video explains how to form and when to use third conditionals in English. This is the last lesson in a series all about conditionals. Check out the other videos in this series to learn about the zero, first and second conditionals...
Curated Video
Present Perfect and Past Simple: A Guide to Mastering Them | EasyTeaching
New ReviewPresent Perfect and Past Simple both refer to past events, but they’re used differently. Present perfect connects to the present, while past simple does not.In this lesson we’ll explore the differences between past simple and present...
Curated Video
There, Their, They’re – Stop Making This Common Mistake! | EasyTeaching
New ReviewThere', 'their' and 'they’re' are often confused. This lesson explains the the key differences between them and shows how they are each used. Avoid making this common mistake, and gain confidence in your writing and speaking.Never mix...
Curated Video
Relative Pronouns: When and Why to Omit Them | EasyTeaching
New ReviewRelative clauses often begin with a relative pronoun. Like in these two sentences. Sometimes the relative pronoun can be left out.In this lesson, we’re going to look at when and why the relative pronoun can be left out.
Curated Video
First Conditional Explained | Conditional Series Ep. 2 | EasyTeaching
New ReviewThis video explains how to form and when to use first conditionals in English. This is lesson two of four in a series all about conditionals. Check out the other videos in this series to learn about the first, second, and third...