TED Talks
TED: The US has a teacher shortage — here's how to fix it | Randy Seriguchi Jr.
How much should we invest in teachers, and what should new investment actually involve? Education innovator Randy Seriguchi Jr. suggests the US should create a "G.I. Bill" for teachers, with a particular emphasis on uplifting Black male...
TED Talks
TED: 5 steps to building a personal brand you feel good about | Marcos Salazar
Whether you realize it or not, you have a personal brand, says social entrepreneur Marcos Salazar -- and you have the power to shape what it is. Here's how you can create a brand that captures who you are, who you'd like to be and how...
TED Talks
TED: How video games can level up the way you learn | Kris Alexander
Video games naturally tap into the way we learn: they focus our attention and track our progress as we head toward a clear goal. Kris Alexander, a professor of video game design and passionate gamer himself, thinks the same elements...
TED Talks
TED: 3 steps to help kids process traumatic events | Kristen Nguyen
What do we say to kids when intensely traumatic events interrupt everyday life? Whether you're a teacher, parent or community builder, educator Kristen Nguyen provides three research-backed steps for navigating these difficult...
PBS
Can ‘cultural proficiency’ among teachers help close student achievement gap?
Racial disparity in academic achievement remains a leading problem in American education, both at the K-12 and the college levels. A number of studies show greater diversity in the teaching profession can address some of those concerns....
PBS
How Minnesota's Lack Of Teachers Of Color Hurts Students, And What Reform Could Look Like
Many schools across the United States are grappling with ways to close the
achievement gap between white students and students of color. Special
correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on those efforts in Minnesota,
which has some of...
PBS
Harnessing Boys' Strengths & Passions to Improve Academic Achievement (May 7, 2014)
Increasingly, boys appear to be falling behind girls academically. Test statistics, grades and college degrees are part of the story, but experts are also concerned about the messages young men get about masculinity. Gwen Ifill talks...
PBS
Two Students' Brief But Spectacular Takes On Race And Being Underestimated
Shortly before the pandemic, NewsHour traveled to Georgia and spoke with
two high school seniors, Audrey McNeal and Shaylon Walker. Now in their
first year of college, here's their Brief But Spectacular takes on race and
being...
Curated Video
4:3 Chinese president in Chicago; DC sbites, protest, Daley sot
Chicago - Jan 21, 2011
1. Wide of Chinese President Hu Jintao's plane taxiing on runway at Chicago airport
Chicago - Jan 21, 2011
2. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other officials standing on the tarmac awaiting Hu's arrival
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PBS
Counting the benefits of teaching math to 3-year-olds
"In Boston public schools, 3, 4 and 5-year-olds are getting their first introduction to math. Before they walk through the kindergarten door, the "Building Blocks" curriculum is designed to encourage very young children to think and talk...
PBS
Ruby Bridges
In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school. Thirty-seven years later, Ruby Bridges Hall discusses her memories of the first day she entered her new school in New Orleans,...
Crash Course Kids
Resources: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Welcome to the Neighborhood! Humans need a lot of things to survive (I'm sure you've noticed). We need food, water, and shelter and it takes a lot of resources to get all of those things. What are resources? In this episode of Crash...
SciShow
Psychology Hacks to Become a Better Teacher (or Student!)
If you are a teacher who is trying to make new lesson plans, or a student trying to learn more, we have some psychology hacks for you!
TED Talks
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that...
SciShow
5 Things You Were Taught Wrong in Elementary School | Compilation
When you’re learning about science for the first time, it can be easier to break things down into a simpler form, and you can end up with a few misconceptions about the world. But sometimes this is the first step to understanding that...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe | Iseult Gillespie
Feeling disconnected from creating art within classical conventions, artist Georgia O'Keeffe began experimenting with abstract drawings that defied easy classification. Using the shapes and rhythms of nature to capture her internal...
SciShow
5 Psychology Experiments You Couldn't Do Today
In the past, some experiments were run in scary and unethical ways. From using children to unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the rest of their lives.
SciShow
The Sound of Your GPA Slipping Away
Researchers have noticed some trends in the relationship between academic performance and noise. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t sound good.
TED Talks
Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
In her talk, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video...
TED Talks
Technology can't fix inequality -- but training and opportunities could | 'Gbenga Sesan
Centuries of inequality can't be solved with access to technology alone -- we need to connect people with training and support too, says tech inclusionist 'Gbenga Sesan. Sharing the work behind the Paradigm Initiative, a social...
SciShow
Richard Feynman, The Great Explainer: Great Minds
Like SciShow? Help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso, or hold your liquids! Chapters View all GREAT EXPLAINERS 0:26 QUANTUM MECHANICS 2:54 THEORETICAL PHYSICS 3:04 PRANKING OTHER PHYSICISTS 3:55...
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Bugs Aren't Brainless! | Great Minds: Charles Henry Turner
At the turn of the 20th century, scientists thought that insects were nothing more than tiny reflex machines. But Charles Henry Turner, who was possibly America’s first Black entomologist, ran some groundbreaking animal behavior studies...
TED Talks
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor: Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor leads a thoughtful and history-backed examination of one of the most divisive words in the English language: the N-word. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how reflecting on our points of...
TED Talks
Sal Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises,...