I have mentioned TED talks in previous posts. TED-Ed is an initiative to have professional graphics developers animate selected teachers’ best lessons for web distribution. The TED-Ed introduction video is only two minutes long and shows what TED-Ed envisions better than I can write. The video itself is the case in point! Better to show and tell than just tell. Top comment on the video as of my viewing was “I hope this turns out to be something like an animated Khanacademy 😀 [sic]”.
3/19 update: TedTalks available for streaming on Netflix. Still available free on YouTube.
this is amazing! and they say that some (or a lot?) of these lessons will be available in early april 2012! i can’t find out from their site if you need to be a member and pay an annual fee or not to have access to these lessons…but based on what they provide for free, i think not! 🙂
Thanks for this, Geof! Your post is making the rounds here at the Newseum. I wonder if they will expand beyond the initial 5 categories…
@Quincylink-For categories, I see the Arts, Business and Econ, Design and Engineering, Health, Literature and Language, Math, Philosophy and Religion, Psychology, Science and Tech, and Social Studies, as well as an Other category.
@Carolyn-It isn’t clear from what I can see, but I inferred that these would all be made available for free to educators.
I wonder how copyright laws will be interpreted for this. Teachers can use many copyrighted materials in their classrooms without permission. I’m not sure that the materials can be distributed outside the classroom though. Looks like another clash between 19th century print laws and 21st century distribution methods.