TEDx Talks
Rank: 184 / 2196
13 selected videos
VirtualHighSchool.com: Stephen Baker at TEDxBayfield
Stephen Baker is the Principal of Virtual High School Ontario. The mission of the Virtual High School is to provide students with the opportunity to achieve success according to the student's own interests, abilities and goals. By providing a quality online education within the student's greater educational community, Virtual High School can offer the student more choice. While the Virtual High School may have changed the form of the traditional physical school in which this mission is carried...
Related topics : virtual online high school / online schooling for high school students / high school education at home
School Textbooks are Boring - How They can be Redesigned | Kunal Chawla | TEDxAhlconIntlSchool
Kunal Chawla delivers a talk titled ‘School Textbooks are Boring - How They can be Redesigned’. A teacher with a passion for innovation, he talks about the uneasy relationship of books with teachers and students. He highlights the need for redesigning textbooks, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment to create interest among the students for learning. Kunal Chawla is an educator who has inspired the students and evoked the spirit of curiosity in them. He has made online courses with Google,...
Related topics : online courses for middle school students
So I studied science in high school…now what? | Noah Kaminsky | TEDxHunterCCS
STEM Education has changed in many High Schools across the US, what can students do to keep hold of those new methods of enquiry as they progress through their college science classes?
Noah graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in geology and received his masters degree in teaching secondary science from the American Museum of Natural History. This fall, he begins his second year teaching high school at the Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce in East Harlem. In college, he sang...
Related topics : high school education at home
How Home Education Helped Unlock My Creativity | Emily Bullock | TEDxBolton
The stigma around home education is rapidly lifting with more and more parents pulling their kids out of traditional education and into home ed.
However, there are still a lot of misconceptions surrounding home education and Emily Bullock is prepared to convince you otherwise: she’ll walk you through how home education has changed her perspective, how she’s found new ways of unlocking her creativity, how’s she's building up her confidence, how home education is instilling a love of...
Related topics : home education help
Segregation at Mountain View High School | Andrea Halsted | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
Silicon Valley is home to many different cultures and races, but as it becomes more gentrified, these cultures begin to clash and separate. Andrea began to see this separation of cultures and socioeconomic class at Woodside high school in Redwood City during her freshman year. But after moving to Mountain View high school and seeing the same things happen, she decided that it was not just a coincidence.
Mountain View High School student
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED...
Related topics : mountain home high school
Online piracy is illegal, but is it wrong? | Douglas Bednorz | TEDxChallengeEarlyCollegeHighSchool
Douglas, as many teens will tend to do, found it tempting to "pirate" material online for a cheaper price (if not free) instead of paying for it from a vendor. In this talk, Douglas explains how learning the skill behind video game design helped shift his perspective.
Douglas is a senior at Challenge Early College High School and will be attending Texas Tech University in the Fall. Douglas looked at the world of illegal game downloads through the lens of his shifting perspective about whether...
Related topics : texas tech university high school online
Can Online Gaming be Educational? Lewis Tachau at TEDxStudioCityED
Lewis Tachau is a 13 year old middle school student and avid online gamer.
Lewis enjoys online gaming. In this talk, he explores the educational, social, and communication benefits of his favorite game. He also explores how he self-regulates while enjoying these benefits.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep...
Related topics : educational online games middle school
Learning Through Unschooling | Callie Vandewiele | TEDxCambridgeUniversity
In this engaging talk, Callie shares with the TEDxCambridgeUniversity audience her experience of 'unschooling'. Different to 'home-schooling', Callie reflects upon how this new educational method and philosophy impacted upon her development. She argues that children need to be put back at the centre of their education.
‘Unschooled’ until age 16 when she started high school in the United States followed by local community college, Callie Vandewiele is now studying for a PhD at the...
Related topics : high school education at home
I like Drawing:So what? | Ina Kim | TEDxSeoulForeignSchool
Budding artist Ina Kim introduces us to her love of art and illustration.
Ina Kim is an aspiring illustrator and a sophomore in Seoul Foreign High School. She is currently working through her school IGCSE art curriculum, developing her technique and creativity. Always making videos and drawing; Ina is also working on her skills with animation and storytelling, and hopes to get a webcomic out before she graduates high school. Know-
ing her, she is probably drawing somewhere right now.
This...
Related topics : art high school curriculum
What’s Your Superpower? | Leslie Anderson | TEDxEastBrunswickHighSchool
HOW TO FIND YOUR SUPERPOWER AND BUILD ON IT TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU NEVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
Leslie C Anderson graduated Rutgers University with a BS in Chemistry but knew that formal research was not her passion. She entered the education world and quickly found a home at East Brunswick High School where she was hired as a chemistry and physics teacher and has been happily working with students and staff for the last 20 years. To spend additional time with students, Leslie advised the...
Related topics : brunswick high school home