How to believe in yourself: Jim Cathcart at TEDxDelrayBeach. Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley. Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better. Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education. TEDxLondon - Ewan McIntosh. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ... 20 Essential TED Talks for Future Leaders. TED Conversations in the classroom. Can students learn better by sharing what they know? TED Fellow Nina Tandon believes in the power of sharing ideas and using TED Talks in her classroom.
In addition to that, she is now using the TED Conversation platform in the Bioelectricity course that she’s currently teaching at Cooper Union in New York City. After hosting her own conversation on TED Conversations, Nina was inspired to use the platform in her classroom and let students take the role of sharing knowledge and leading discussions with the global community. Here, Nina Tandon shares her motivation on using TED Conversations in her class: “I’ve been hosting a class blog each year for the past four years as a way for students to share amongst each other, but this year I wanted to extend our reach into the global community, to have the students engage in “external participation.”
Each week throughout the semester, students will be starting new conversations. 10 Inspiring Quotes From Our Favorite TEDTalks. Are you a fan of TEDTalks? Then you're going to love TED Quotes, a new Allianz-sponsored service that offers "salient bits of TEDTalks, on everything from activism to storytelling, from chemistry to curiosity. " "Everyone loves a good quote," June Cohen, the executive producer of TED Media, said in a blog post post announcing the launch. "They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compressed and contagious form — ideas. " In addition to showcasing some of the best snippets from TED Talks, the new service also makes the quotes easily shareable to your social circles.
To celebrate the launch of the new service, we've collected our top ten TED Quotes on the Internet and technology. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, tumpikuja.