Brainwaves Video Anthology
Olivia Van Ledtje - Being a Connected Learner
Olivia (aka LivBit) is a 10-year old who is smart about all things shark and hopes to be a future ichthyologist. She is an ambassador for the Gills Club, an organization promoting girls in science through inquiry-based experiences meant...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jerry Blumengarten - Keeping Your Students on Track
Jerry Blumengarten taught for 32 years in the New York City school system. Even though he was a licensed Social Studies teacher, he taught most subjects (Language Arts, Science, Math, Computers…) for grades 6-9. He wrote curriculum for...
Religion for Breakfast
Sikhs and Muslims: Bullied at US Schools?
Religious bullying is a common occurrence at schools in the US. What are some examples, and what can we do about it?
Easy Languages
How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea | Easy English 55
How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea | Easy English 55 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...
Science360
Engineering to Solve Real-World Problems - USA Science and Engineering Festival
The Mobile Area Education Foundation is designing lessons to teach kids that engineering and math can solve real-world problems...like designing ways to catch blood clots in a model human circulatory system.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Shetterly - Teachers Make a Difference - Moral Courage
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life -- from the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Antoinette Brim-Bell - 'Thank You Note to Picasso'
Antoinette Brim, author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a...
Globalive Media
Beyond Innovation: Episode 17
Stock trading becomes a snap, quantum computers answer complex questions and wearable devices track vital signs from your ear. Plus, Michael and Anthony speak with a South African startup using AI to enhance global trade. Hosted by...
friEdTech
Allowing Teachers to Invite Guardians to Google Classroom
This video shows Google Apps for Education Admins how to allow teachers to invite parents to see Google Classroom guardian summaries.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marc Prensky - Global Future Education
Marc Prensky, coiner of the terms "Digital Native" and "Digital Immigrant" is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant. and innovator in the fields of education and learning.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Liz Gallo - Education Through Making
Liz Gallo is the founder and CEO of WhyMaker. She is a trained Technology and Engineering Educator, Liz has a passion for helping students become problem solvers and design thinkers. Liz has been teaching for over 10 years. In this time...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ken Burns - UNUM - Many Stories, One Nation
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Eric Hanushek - Teacher Effectiveness
Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues. He has authored numerous, highly cited studies on the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Suellen Inwood - Teachers Make a Difference - Jamie & Rebecca
Sullen Inwood is the Director of Easton Country Day School.She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Disorders/Learning Disabilities at Northwestern University and her Master’s in Education for Pre-K – 12 at Southern Connecticut....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Josh Burker - The Logo Turtle
Josh Burker was privileged to spend some of his early years near his grandfather, who had a giant carriage shop with countless tools, many of which he taught Josh to safely use at a young age. By second grade he could be found in the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Herman Beavers - Teachers Make a Difference - Michael S. Harper
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael J. Hynes - Recess The Fourth R
Dr. Michael Hynes is the Superintendent of Schools for the Patchogue Medford School District. Prior to working in Patchogue-Medford, Dr. Hynes served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Shelter Island School District, the Assistant...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael J. Hynes - Eight Women Whose Works and Words Inspire Me
Dr. Michael Hynes is the Superintendent of Schools for the Patchogue Medford School District. Prior to working in Patchogue-Medford, Dr. Hynes served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Shelter Island School District, the Assistant...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Maria Sassi - 'Atlas Bone'
Maria Sassi, who was for several years Poet Laureate of West Hartford, Connecticut, is a prize-winning poet and playwright. Her first poetry collection, Rooted in Stars, now in its second printing, is part of The Beinecke Rare Book and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christy Baker - The Global Monster Project
Christy Baker earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Appalachian State University. She has taught first through fifth grades during her 18 years of teaching in Burke County North Carolina. Christy is National Board certified and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Pedro Noguera - Diversity
Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. Dr. Noguera is a sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nikhil Goyal - The Tyranny of Testing
Nikhil Goyal is the author of the new book Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice (Random House).
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Weihua Niu - Are Chinese Less Creative than Americans
Dr. Weihua Niu received a B.A in Psychology from Beijing Normal University and a M.S. in educational psychology from the Chinese Academic of Sciences (CAS) while working as an educational psychologist there. She received her Ph.D. in...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Marie Alcock - Being Loyal to Learning
Marie Alcock is President of Learning Systems Associates (LSA). Dr. Marie Alcock is a national and international education consultant. In addition she is currently on the faculty of Walden University’s School of Education where she...