What is TED-Ed?
Hi everyone, now I want to give some review about TED-Ed as a learning tools for student, teacher and everyone else. If you notice my previous entry about MOOC Open Learning as a learning tool, this TED-Ed learning tools also act the same like the previous one. However, TED-Ed is more
worldwide than Open learning. Through TED-Ed learning tools,students can
explore and seek information through many subject such as Mathematics, Teaching and Education, Social Studies and many more. It is a ready made information that has been publish by some people around the world. TED-Ed is TED'S youth and education initiative which aims to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and student around the world. Besides, TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.
Maybe some of you curious about TED-Ed Learning tools and want to know what is their capability. TED-Ed is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas in short and powerful talk which is 18 minutes or less. TED began in 1984 as a conference where technology, entertainment and design converged. However, it covers almost all topic from science to business and global issues in more than 100 language nowadays.
Meanwhile, independently run TEDx event help share ideas in communication around the world. It is a global community and welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. They believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitude, lives and ultimately the world. On TED-Ed.com they are building a clearing house of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers and community of curious soul to engage with ideas and each others both online and at TED and TEDx event around the world. In fact, everything they do such as
Conference and TED-Talk
Their TED-talk to the project sparked by the TED-Prize
which is from the global TEDx Community to the TED-Ed lesson series.
It is driven by the goal of "How can we best spread great ideas?"
TED-Ed Originals are their signature content which is short, award-winning animated videos about ideas that spark the curiosity of learners everywhere. Every TED-Ed Original represents a creative collaboration between experts such as TED Speakers, TED Fellows, educators, designers, animators, screenwriters, directors, science writers, historians, journalists and editors. These Original animated videos paired with questions and resources, make up what we refer to as TED-Ed lesson. This platform also allows users to take any TED Talk, TED-Ed Lesson or educational video and easily create customized questions and discussions around the video. Users can then distribute these lessons publicly or privately and track their impact on the world, a class or an individual student.
Features of TED-Ed
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| This picture shows you TED animated videos and TED News. |
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| This picture shows you TED Live or TED Talk. Preface of TED-ed 
Here is a preface of this Learning Tools when I open it and I will choose number 1 as a student to proceed.
Next, it will appear some of the subject that attract student interaction and share a lot of useful information. I choose random subject about a video discussion the Difference between Private School and Public School and who will go on to make money in life. This video is publish by Cynthia Silva.
Watch Section
If we click on the Watch button, we are able to watch the video and every button at the right corner has their own function. These original animated videos, paired with questions and resources, make up what we refer to as TED-Ed Lessons. Below is some question prepared by the publisher for people who watch or interest in thinking, dig deeper and discuss the topic with others. You can click the video below to see the content.
Think Section
 Dig Deeper Section & Discuss Section  |
Cynthia Silva is one of the publisher that share her experience and knowledge with others. She is Social Media Intern and able to speak in three different language which are Mandarin, Spanish and French. She lives in United States.
Benefits of TED-Ed in teaching
TED-Ed is an online learning tools that is suitable for teachers. It is a "lesson creator" platform that allows teacher to structure an assignment around a video and assess students' engagement with the material. The lesson format consists of a lesson title, a written introduction ("Let's Begin"), a series of multiple choice or open-ended questions ("Think"), a place for additional resources to encourage further exploration("Dig Deeper"), an interactive class discussion ("Discuss") and closing ("And Finally"). They also can select from the special curated TED-Ed Originals section which is lesson co-created by educators around the world or else do a TED-Talk. As a teacher, they will notice whether their student complete their lesson by review a summary of the comment and result on their individual answers. Their students' response include an open-ended answer and they can download it and import the file into Excel.
With the obvious caveat
that teacher need to have is find an appropriate video. This is a tool that can
easily be adapted for pre-assessment, formative assessment or summative
assessment purposes by altering the type of question that the teacher ask. For
example, teachers can use the video prompt for a topic that they are just
beginning and have students share with them what they know beyond the video's
content. They can use it mid-way through a unit to measure progress towards
learning objectives or they can use it at the end of a unit to challenge
students to apply what they have learned to the context presented in the video.
Other than that, teacher also can search for ready made lesson that being shared on TED-Ed through the subject and every lesson on TED-Ed can be customize to meet the needs of the educators.
In my reviews, teacher can make their own TED-Ed Club through this learning tools in the school. This club purposes is to give the opportunity toward the younger in spreading their ideas. It is not just an adult that have a good idea, in fact the younger often hold up as a creative ideal in the TED-Talks itself if you browse it. Hence, TED-Talk is one of the platform to student in learning and out spoken their opinion to others. Besides they will learn all about what makes a great TED-Talk and will work on practicing their speech writing and presenting skills until they are ready to put on an event of their own. In doing so, students will not only gain confidence in their own ideas, but they’ll also be learning a lot about writing, discussion, storytelling and the skills you can translate into more traditional essay writing and analysis in other settings. The part is, the best speech of the student can be submit to be featured on TED-Ed, where they might win a presenter’s slot at TED-Youth and become a confidence booster to others.
Benefits of TED-Ed in Learning
Through the animated video in the TED-Ed or their YouTube, student can studies at their own pace, and help them with audio and visual learners because this is also a tool which contributes to both motivation and assessment, but only if the videos available are consistent with the curricular.
- Substitution: Students will independently watch a video, answer written questions, and participate in online discussion — this takes the place of showing a video in class and having students discuss or be quizzed in class.
- Augmentation: As students discuss and answer questions about the video, a teacher can respond privately and individually. There is also a written record of the discussion and exchange which can be referenced as an assessment tool.
- Modification: Through embedded “video hints,” students’ attention can be easily drawn to specific segments of the video for independent review of complex elements of the video. The use of the “Dig Deeper” section of the lesson plans promotes independent exploration of curated resources.
- Redefinition: Students use TED-Ed to create their own lessons and share the link with classmates, peers in other schools, and experts in order to broaden the discussion.
- Math: Students watch a video that is either explicitly about a math concept or a subject which requires numeracy skills to understand. Students answer related questions which require calculations similar to those in the video. Also see TED Ed Originals and TED Ed lessons for mathematics.
- Science: Have students find a video which could be used to demonstrate a particular scientific concept (e.g., gravity) and create a lesson plan which is then shared with other students. Also see TED Ed Originals and TED Ed lessons for science and technology
- Second/Foreign Languages: Students practice listening skills by watching videos of speakers in “authentic” scenarios and answering questions which require focus on particular content or constructions.
- Other: Student groups are assigned with different videos on the same topic and reply to identical question sets. Once complete, students share and compare their answers either in an online discussion or face-to-face and discover in what ways the videos complement or contradict each other and suggest why this might be the case. Also see TED Ed Originals and TED Ed lessons for social studies.
How to start with TED-Ed?
To start with TED-Ed, you need to sign up first in this learning tools by using your email or else you can just sign in through your Facebook if you already have the account. You need to do this to activate your account in TED-Ed to get a lot of benefits with it. Then you need to fill in whether you are a teacher, student or others and what kind of field that you involve or interest in. After finish filling the requirement needed, you are free to learn with more than 100 subject in TED-Ed or teach and create your own subject and animated video as a lesson to share with the worldwide.
However, as an educator or teacher who want to create lessons, you must open an TED-Ed account, which requires an email address or Facebook account and password. In order for students to save their work (i.e., their answers to the questions) they need to have an account as well. The TED-Ed privacy policy indicates that in addition to account information and cookie use, comments made on discussions are public. However, it is possible to modify account preferences so that discussion comments you make are attributed to “anonymous.”
- Go to https://ed.ted.com/
- Click “Register” to sign-up for an account.
- View the featured lessons, click through to all existing lessons, or click “Create a Lesson.”
- On the “Create a Lesson” page, enter a keyword to search for possible videos or a url if you know what video you want to use.
- After selecting a video you will be moved to the “Create a Lesson” page. Note there are currently two versions of the page with different interfaces, but they have the same functionality and you can switch back and forth by using the link in the upper right hand corner.
- Change the lesson title, if needed. Add the following content: introduction, questions, discussion, supplemental info, and conclusion.
- Use the “More” button to preview the lesson or get help.
- Use the “Publish” button when you are ready to share the lesson by generating a link or sending the lesson to entered email addresses.
- Watch your email or login to your account to see your dashboard, which will include all the lessons you’ve created or begun to create, as well as lessons and discussions you’ve participated in. You can also control settings and notifications in this area.
- The tab beneath each video on your dashboard tells you what actions you might take, e.g., review students work, starting a lesson, or finishing a lesson.
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