TED-Ed
The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4
Robots come in handy when planning a train heist. The hero and her robot continue their quest to find artifacts to save the world. They must locate and steal the Node of Power on a specific car of a train by writing computer code for the...
TED-Ed
How Close Are We to Uploading Our Minds?
What would it take to digitally upload someone's mind? A fascinating video first describes how a brain works, then looks at a future where people can live forever through avatars. The video describes the required technological advances...
PBS
Documenting the Dust Bowl
Paul Taylor's interviews and Dorothea Lange's photographs bring to life the unimaginable devastation of the Dust Bowl. After watching a short video from PBS, viewers are asked to imagine how they would react, whether they would stay or...
Learning Games Lab
Understanding the Major
The purpose of university courses is not always clear. A comprehensive video presentation explains the importance of a well-rounded education and a complete college experience. Professionals discuss how their post-secondary educations...
Learning Games Lab
Why Study Soil?
Some scientists spend their entire careers analyzing and learning about soils. An interesting video lesson provides an overview of what soil scientists do and why. Pupils learn how soil analysis connects to other branches of science...
Learning Games Lab
Soil Infiltration: Soil Porosity Testing
Soil pollution has a longer reach than may seem possible. A video presentation demonstrates how a seemingly isolated soil contamination spreads and even reaches waterways. The lesson demonstrates how scientists conduct porosity tests...
Learning Games Lab
Everything is Chemical
Chemistry is the foundation of good farming. Learners explore how chemical bonding applies to agriculture. The lesson highlights the difference between organic and inorganic compounds and how similar compounds bond in very different ways.
Learning Games Lab
Unavailability of Water in Saline Soils
Viewers of a short video learn about salt and water molecules and how their characteristics determine how they interact with each other. Then, they watch a simulation of how the interaction limits the uptake of water in plant roots and...
Learning Games Lab
The Olsen Test for Phosphorus
A short video teaches viewers about the Olsen Test, a soil test specific for plants grown in arid regions. The soil in arid regions has a higher pH and plants require special treatment to thrive. The video provides information about the...
Learning Games Lab
Properties of Soil
How do the different types of soil allow water to flow? Scholars compare flocculated and dispersed soils and their ability to move water through the soil. Silt, sand, and clay particles clump together and create large pores in the soil...
Learning Games Lab
Overcoming Academic Struggles
Hear from students and professors about how to overcome academic struggles in higher education. They discuss supports most college campuses have in place and how to benefit from courses that may be difficult. Speakers also provide...
Learning Games Lab
Choosing A Career
Careers in science aren't limited to labs. Pupils learn about different aspects of careers in agriculture through the lens of several scientists. The scientists talk about how the field of soil science is a growing in this important...
Learning Games Lab
Overcoming Personal Road Blocks
A preparatory video describes supports available on most college campuses for those who face challenges to their success. The faculty discusses ways to ask for help and alternative means of completing coursework.
TED-Ed
The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3
It's time to defeat the army of furnace bots. Continuing from the previous episode, the hero of the story must locate and take over the zero bot that controls all of the other furnace bots. Viewers see how writing a program that involves...
Crash Course
Humans and AI Working Together: Crash Course AI #14
There's no need to be afraid of artificial intelligence. An educational video describes how humans and AI can work together to solve problems. It looks at Centaur chess, where humans and AI play as a team, and examines ways in which AI...
Crash Course
Let's Make an AI That Destroys Video Games: Crash Course AI #13
Now that we've made a video game, we might as well figure out how to beat it. Scholars create simple video games and then program an AI to defeat them in the 13th installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series. They...
Crash Course
AI Playing Games: Crash Course AI #12
Can AI beat humans at tic-tac-toe? The 12th episode in the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series focuses on teaching computers how to play games. Scholars learn about historical attempts to teach checkers and chess, and see how the...
Crash Course
Robotics: Crash Course AI #11
Robots can't take over the world just yet. Viewers of an informative video consider the connection between artificial intelligence and robotics. They learn how robots are useful for specific purposes and that localization, planning, and...
Crash Course
Symbolic AI: Crash Course AI #10
If you think logically, AI is all about symbols. An instructional video explains the development of symbolic artificial intelligence. Viewers see how AI translates problems of interest into symbols and then apply propositional logic to...
Crash Course
Reinforcement Learning: Crash Course AI #9
Even AI likes rewards. The ninth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video playlist focuses on reinforcement learning. Scholars see how credit assignments, which are rewards when agents (bots) successfully navigate...
Crash Course
Make an AI Sound Like a YouTuber (LAB): Crash Course AI #8
AI is so smart that it can finish people's sentences. The eighth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series has pupils create a program that completes written sentences. They learn about tokenization, vectors, and...
Crash Course
Natural Language Processing: Crash Course AI #7
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps," linguist John Firth once said. To get AI to understand language, engineers write programs by applying distributional semantics, count vectors, and recurrent neural networks. Scholars view...
Crash Course
Unsupervised Learning: Crash Course AI #6
Is it safe to leave AI unsupervised? An educational video describes the process of unsupervised learning and how it applies to AI. Viewers learn about K-means clustering from an example where AI needs to distinguish between three types...
Crash Course
How to Make an AI Read Your Handwriting (LAB) : Crash Course AI #5
Robots can't read your mind, but they can read your handwriting. The fifth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video series looks at how to program an AI to read handwriting with a multi-layer perceptron neural...