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TED Talks

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

12th - Higher Ed
Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as...
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Instructional Video5:42
TED Talks

Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright

12th - Higher Ed
Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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Instructional Video5:19
TED Talks

Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together.
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Instructional Video13:52
TED Talks

Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea

12th - Higher Ed
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
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Instructional Video16:50
TED Talks

Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!

12th - Higher Ed
Why do we ever stop playing and creating? With charm and humor, celebrated Korean author Young-ha Kim invokes the world's greatest artists to urge you to unleash your inner child -- the artist who wanted to play forever.
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Instructional Video7:59
TED Talks

TED: The trick to regaining your childlike wonder | Zach King

12th - Higher Ed
When we ditch our assumptions, new ideas can enter the world, says filmmaker Zach King. In an entertaining talk full of props and surprises, King shows us the trick to regaining our sense of childlike wonder through the power of...
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Instructional Video13:11
TED Talks

Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?

12th - Higher Ed
What does it take to build the fast, flexible, creative teams needed to challenge entrenched work culture? For transformation expert Martin Danoesastro, it all starts with one question: "What are you willing to give up?" He shares...
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Instructional Video13:43
TED Talks

Woody Norris: Hypersonic sound and other inventions

12th - Higher Ed
Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that use sound in new ways, including the Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD. He talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education, because, as he puts it: "Almost nothing has...
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Instructional Video12:58
TED Talks

TED: The beauty of being a misfit | Lidia Yuknavitch

12th - Higher Ed
To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of...
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Instructional Video6:06
TED Talks

Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as art

12th - Higher Ed
What do you do with an outdated encyclopedia in the information age? With X-Acto knives and an eye for a good remix, artist Brian Dettmer makes beautiful, unexpected sculptures that breathe new life into old books.
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Instructional Video7:15
TED Talks

TED: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? | Jane McGonigal

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal tried to teach TED to play her favorite game. Then again, when the game is...
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Instructional Video4:30
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle? - Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After years of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and treefolk will compete in a grand tournament of dragon jousting. You have the important job of recording the...
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Instructional Video12:26
TED Talks

TED: Do kids think of sperm donors as family? | Veerle Provoost

12th - Higher Ed
How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second marriages, surrogate mothers and sperm donations. In...
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Instructional Video6:34
TED Talks

TED: The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees | Feras Fayyad

12th - Higher Ed
Society has a set of stories it tells itself about who refugees are and what they look like, says documentarian and TED Fellow Feras Fayyad. With his films, he's on a mission to separate the facts about refugees from fiction, as a form...
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Instructional Video6:26
TED Talks

Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning

12th - Higher Ed
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big...
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Instructional Video7:47
TED Talks

Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

12th - Higher Ed
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through...
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Instructional Video4:11
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How brass instruments work - Al Cannon

Pre-K - Higher Ed
What gives the trumpet its clarion ring and the tuba its gut shaking oompah-pah? And what makes the trombone so jazzy? Al Cannon shows how these answers lie not in the brass the instruments are made of, but in the journey that air takes...
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Instructional Video4:29
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Can you solve the counterfeit coin riddle? - Jennifer Lu

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You're the realm's greatest mathematician, but ever since you criticized the Emperor's tax laws, you've been locked in the dungeon. Luckily for you, one of the Emperor's governors has been convicted of paying his taxes with a counterfeit...
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Instructional Video17:43
TED Talks

Yves Behar: Designing objects that tell stories

12th - Higher Ed
Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now -- including the "$100...
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Instructional Video7:46
TED Talks

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

12th - Higher Ed
The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an...
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Instructional Video4:53
TED Talks

TED: Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease | Khalil Ramadi

12th - Higher Ed
Could a small jolt of electricity to your gut help treat chronic diseases? Medical hacker and TED Fellow Khalil Ramadi is developing a new, noninvasive therapy that could treat diseases like diabetes, obesity, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's...
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Instructional Video18:55
TED Talks

Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity

12th - Higher Ed
Lawrence Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative culture.
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Instructional Video17:50
TED Talks

Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

12th - Higher Ed
In this funny and inspiring talk, Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own drive to make more...
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Instructional Video8:29
TED Talks

TED: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life | Pierre Barreau

12th - Higher Ed
Meet AIVA, an artificial intelligence that has been trained in the art of music composition by reading more than 30,000 of history's greatest scores. In a mesmerizing talk and demo, Pierre Barreau plays compositions created by AIVA and...