The Big Idea: 3 reasons to be kind to educators
Any dedicated educator can tell you: A teaching job extends far beyond the hours of the school day. Molding the minds of future leaders whil...
TEDsters get to know students around the world, thanks to EverFi
EverFi is supporting the TED2017 community in having a direct hand in changing the future. As a leader in connecting education to the real w...
“We are going to make things happen”: Notes from a TED-Ed Innovative Educator
Wendy Morales is one of a group of TED-Ed Innovative Educators who got together at our recent TEDSummit conference. She files this re...
Self-organized learners around the world team up to raise money
In Kingston, Jamaica, 4- to 6-year-olds in early education programs think about questions like, “What does it mean to be selfish?” In a scho...
What learning at the edge of chaos looks like
“Let’s skip ahead and assume that children of the future are always connected,” said education innovator Sugata Mitra. Thinking out loud abo...
Italy’s Education Ministry rolls out TED-Ed Clubs nationally
TED-Ed Clubs are about to get a lot of visibility in Italian high schools. On Thursday, March 3, in Rome, the Italian Minister of Education,...
The first School in the Cloud learning lab in the United States opens in Harlem
On Wednesday morning at John B. Russwurm Elementary School in Harlem, students pointed excitedly at cat photos on the Internet. No, they wer...
What does innovation in education look like? A new program asks educators to imagine it
“Innovation in education involves constant collaboration with colleagues — a total last-minute redo of a teacher’s lesson plan because there...
Advice from a young TED speaker: Start a TED-Ed Club at your school
If you watch my TED Talk from 2010, you might see a confident 12-year-old, cracking jokes and striding around the stage in glasses that keep...