About TED-Ed
TED
TED believes passionately that ideas have the
power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately,
the world. This underlying philosophy is the
driving force behind all of TED's endeavors,
including the TED Conferences, TEDx,
TEDBooks, the TEDFellows Program, and the
TEDTranslations Project. With this philosophy in
mind, and with the intention of supporting
teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners
around the world, TED is excited to launch its
newest initiative, TED-Ed.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons
worth sharing is an extension of TED’s
mission of spreading great ideas. Within the
growing TED-Ed video library, you will find
carefully curated educational videos, many
of which represent collaborations between
talented educators and animators
nominated through the TED-Ed platform.
This platform also allows users to take any
useful educational video, not just TED's, and
easily create a customized lesson around
the video. Users can distribute the lessons,
publicly or privately, and track their impact
on the world, a class, or an individual
student.
TED-Ed Videos
TED-Ed's videos aim to capture and amplify
the voices of the world's greatest educators.
To achieve this, we pair extraordinary
educators with talented animators to
produce a new library of exceptional
educational videos. This website, similar to
TED.com, is ever-evolving and we depend
on you, the TED community, to nominate
inspiring teachers that have touched your
life or clever animators who have the skills
to bring a gifted teacher's lesson to life.
Flip This Video
The "flip this video" button allows you to turn a video into a customized lesson that can be assigned to students or shared more widely. You can add context, questions and follow-up suggestions.
Why is contextualizing a lesson important?
Because every learners' needs are different. TED-Ed videos come equipped with optional supplementary materials. When you "flip" a video you get to decide which of those materials you keep, and whether to craft your own. This will allow you to relate the resulting lesson to your class, to an individual learner, or to a wider group.
What kind of supplementary materials can you customize when you flip a video?
In addition to framing a video for your intended audience, you can also select from preconfigured quizzes and questions, create new open-ended questions, and add additional readings or activities to each lesson you create.
Why is contextualizing a lesson important?
Because every learners' needs are different. TED-Ed videos come equipped with optional supplementary materials. When you "flip" a video you get to decide which of those materials you keep, and whether to craft your own. This will allow you to relate the resulting lesson to your class, to an individual learner, or to a wider group.
What kind of supplementary materials can you customize when you flip a video?
In addition to framing a video for your intended audience, you can also select from preconfigured quizzes and questions, create new open-ended questions, and add additional readings or activities to each lesson you create.
What do I do after I create a lesson?
You can share the lesson with students and others via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It will exist on its own unique page on TED-Ed, and you can decide who gets to see that page.
After sharing, can I see who has completed my lesson?
Yes! After you have shared your lesson, you can log in at any time to see who viewed your lesson, the number of questions they attempted, the answers they provided, and, in the case of multiple choice questions, the number of questions they got right (with their permission, of course).
So why is it called "flipping" a video?
Two reasons. "Flip" is meant to indicate that teachers of all stripes can propel/catapult/slingshot the video to a wider audience. And "flip" is also a reference to a nascent and evolving teaching method called Flip Teaching.
What is flip teaching?
This refers to a method of instruction where classroom-based teaching time and traditional "homework" time are reversed (flipped). A teacher provides video lessons to be reviewed outside of class, which in turn gives teachers more time in class to focus on higher-order learning skills.
You can share the lesson with students and others via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It will exist on its own unique page on TED-Ed, and you can decide who gets to see that page.
After sharing, can I see who has completed my lesson?
Yes! After you have shared your lesson, you can log in at any time to see who viewed your lesson, the number of questions they attempted, the answers they provided, and, in the case of multiple choice questions, the number of questions they got right (with their permission, of course).
So why is it called "flipping" a video?
Two reasons. "Flip" is meant to indicate that teachers of all stripes can propel/catapult/slingshot the video to a wider audience. And "flip" is also a reference to a nascent and evolving teaching method called Flip Teaching.
What is flip teaching?
This refers to a method of instruction where classroom-based teaching time and traditional "homework" time are reversed (flipped). A teacher provides video lessons to be reviewed outside of class, which in turn gives teachers more time in class to focus on higher-order learning skills.
Teachers who want to use videos as a teaching tool are excited about the following:
- Students using video outside class, can learn at their own pace. Those who get stuck on a concept can replay and watch again.
- Video can include explanatory visuals that enhance understanding.
- By allowing the students to absorb the basics of a lesson before coming to class, time is opened up in class for inquiry, discussion, collaboration, critical thinking, and personalized attention.
- Essentially, flip teaching allows teachers to time-shift and expand total learning time.
Our Partners
Kohl's believes in giving back to the communities it serves. Through Kohl's Cares, Kohl's support kids' health and education, environmental initiatives and women's health. In partnership with TED, Kohl's is proud to expand support of kids education through the development of TED-Ed. Because everyone has something to teach. Visit Kohl's Cares to learn more.
YouTube allows for millions of people around the world to discover, watch, share and learn from others and is committed to making educational content more easily accessible through its YouTube for Schools Initiative. YouTube is supporting TED-Ed as part of its YouTube Original Channels program. You can see our original content on the TED Education channel.
Our Advisors
Aaron Sams
Aaron Sams has been an educator since 2000 and currently teaches science at Woodland Park High School in Colorado. He was awarded the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and recently served as co-chair of the Colorado State Science Standards Revision Committee. Aaron is among the educational pioneers developing the use of video and screencasts as part of his teaching. He also helps train other educators around using video through his recently co-launched the Flipped Learning Network.
Jackie Bezos
Jackie Bezos is the President and Co-Founder of the Bezos Family Foundation, which focuses on education from birth through grade 12. Through investments in research, public awareness and programs, the foundation aims to elevate the field of education and improve life outcomes for children. At the core of the foundation’s work is a belief that rigorous, inspired learning environments will allow students to put their education into action. Bezos serves as chair of Thrive by Five, the statewide early learning initiative for Washington, as well as on the advisory boards of The Institute for Learning and Brain Science, Teach for All and Global Nomads Group.
John Hunter
Musician, teacher, filmmaker, and game designer, John Hunter has dedicated his life to helping children realize their full potential. His own life story is one of a never-ending quest for harmony. In 1978, at the Richmond Community High School, Hunter led the first sessions of his World Peace Game, a hands on political simulation. The game has now been played around the world, on a four-tiered board. It's the subject of the new film World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements.
Jonathan Bergmann
Jonathan Bergmann has spent twenty-four years as a high school teacher and was named a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2010. He won the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching in 2002. He is among the educational pioneers developing the use of video and screencasts as part of his teaching. Jonathan also helps train other educators around using video through his recently co-launched the Flipped Learning Network.
Sir Ken Robinson
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken Robinson led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. Sir Ken challenges the way we're educating our children and champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Melinda French Gates
As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates helps shape and approve foundation strategies, review results, advocate for foundation issues and set the overall direction of the organization. Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In the United States, it seeks to dramatically improve education so that all young people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health with vaccines and other life-saving tools and giving them a chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
Salman Khan
Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy--a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used education video repository on the Internet. All video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry and biology, have been made by Salman.