TED Weekends reimagines education
At TED2013, Sugata Mitra accepted the TED Prize for 2013 with a striking talk. His wish: for children to learn about any variety of subjects...
Hunting monster primes: Adam Spencer at TED2013
Adam Spencer is a radio host in in Sydney during the morning commute. But he says he’s here not as a radio host or as a comedian, R...
Sugata Mitra shares his 5 favorite talks about education
Sugata Mitra’s bold efforts towards advancing learning earned him the first-ever $1 million dollar TED Prize. At TED2013, Sugata asked the g...
TED Weekends asks: What is at the heart of education?
Where does education go from here? On Tuesday, Sugata Mitra accepted the 2013 TED Prize and offered a bold wish for the world: that we encou...
Set high expectations for all students: Freeman Hrabowski at TED2013
Freeman Hrabowski is president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which has made an extraordinary name for itself educa...
Watch free online today: Skillshare at TEDActive
Today, TEDActive is teaming up with Skillshare, a platform that helps people learn anything from anyone, to create a free session of mini-le...
4 surprising lessons about education learned from data collected around the world
Education is generally thought of as a domestic policy issue. But what can we learn by looking at education on the global scale? In today’s ...
Math class without hand calculation? Estonia is moving toward it
Math class should be fascinating, right? At TED2010, Conrad Wolfram suggests that one reason it often isn’t is hand calculation. Most ...
Let’s fix science education: A Q&A with “Save Our Science” author Ainissa Ramirez
How is it that science classes have become about memorization and filling in the right circle on a Scantron sheet, rather than about doing h...