100 Great Tech Talks for Educators | Best Colleges Online. Posted on Monday May 31, 2010 by Staff Writers If you’re an educator, surely you know that technology has and will continue to have an incredible impact on learning. Whether it’s the Internet, innovative learning tools, or teaching technology itself, these two subjects are intertwined. In these talks, you will find essential information for educators concerned with technology. General Learn about making technology work in education and more in these talks. Rethinking the Student Experience in the 21st Century Public Research University: See how a diverse student body and technology can make a difference in the student experience today.
[UCTV]How to Learn (Almost) Anything: This lecture explores learning that the digital revolution brings. Sharing Education These talks explore the idea of open, shared education. Hector Ruiz on Connecting the World: Hector Ruiz lectures on Internet access for everyone. Creativity & Innovation Internet & New Media Leadership Educational Technology Teaching Methods. TED: Ideas worth spreading. PopTech : Home. Great speech after great speech -- for free. (Updated 27 April, see below) One is a novelty. Two are a coincidence. But three (and possibly in a few hours, four) make for a trend. So there is a new trend: exclusive, often expensive, high-level conferences that give away world-class speeches for free as online videos.
Not just live videostreams and archives -- that has been the case for a while now at many conferences -- but edited and curated versions that can be watched online or downloaded into a laptop or an iPod or a cell phone and subscribed to via RSS. TED started the movement last June by offering its first TEDtalks (Al Gore on climate change, Majora Carter on community development, Hans Rosling on understanding data, Tony Robbins on why we do what we do, Ken Robinson on education, etc). Five days ago, Pop!
The TEDtalks can be accessed in multiple ways: by themes ("Inspired by nature", "Tales of invention"), by title or speaker name, by tags, by events at which they were recorded, etc. Welcome.