Ken Robinson: How To Escape Education’s Death Valley
Sir Ken Robinson delivers yet another fantastic TED Talk and tells us how to escape the educational “death valley” we now face. He...
Game based language learning using the Wii and electronic dancemats
Game-based learning has been used in language classrooms for many years, but the availability of motion sensing devices has opened up a whole new...
Perks and drawbacks of Massive Open Online Courses
This interesting video from Stephen Roth discusses the perks and drawbacks of MOOCs, Massively Open Online Courses. These types of courses are...
How to get a safe audience for classroom and student blogs: Quadblogging
Classroom and individual student blogs are a popular way of getting students to express themselves, be creative, generate dialogue, increase literacy...
‘A is for Ampere’ Teaching Kids Electronics with Adafruit
A new web series for teaching kids all about electronics ‘Circuit Playground’ has just been launched by online electronics learning...
Amazing 24 Piece iPad Performance In School
An oldie but a goodie… This video shows how music educationalists Store Van Music, conduct a 24 piece iPad performance in a school. A great...
iversity – a platform to develop your own MOOC
The iversity open course platform provides a structured course environment that features multimedia teaching materials, assessment features to keep...
What’s new on TED-Ed…
The TED-Ed website allows you to engage in or create dynamic lessons around the hundreds of thousands of educational videos on YouTube. In this...
Code.org Launches To Help Students Learn How To Code
Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education. Founded by two brothers, Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi,...
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Implementing Khan Academy in the Math Classroom [Vimeo]
The K12 Technology Summit is a yearly forum for senior-level information technology administrators from school districts all over the US....
Teaching kids to program using Scratch and the Kinect – Stephen Howell [YouTube]
In our latest issue of our iPad magazine, we talk about the importance and benefits of teaching kids how to code. This lively video by Stephen Howell...
How to defeat a dragon with math – Garth Sundem [TedEd]
“Having trouble remembering the order of operations? Let’s raise the stakes a little bit. What if the future of your (theoretical)...
Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code [Ted Talks]
TED have some enlightening and important talks related to education, and this recent talk from Mitch Resnick about teaching kids coding is no...
Managing with one iPad in the classroom [YouTube]
This short video from WSR Tech shows how Southeast Elementary teacher, Abby Wood manages with one iPad in her classroom. It shows how even with...
Tips for Setting Up ICT in Schools
This short video from RMEducation has tips for schools setting up ICT infrastructures from teachers who have gone through the process. There are...
Extending The Reach Of Excellent Teachers [Video]
This comprehensive video explains how new models let schools pay teachers up to 40 percent more and teacher-leaders up to 130 percent more, within...
Teacher Librarians at The Heart of Student Learning [Video]
This video from the Washington Library Media Association describes the importance of school library and information technology programs. It...
Can money buy happiness? [Science / Philosophy]
We stumbled upon the AsapScience YouTube channel, and found a huge treasure trove of clever science videos with bright and engaging graphics. The...
Great Teachers are Great Learners [Video]
This video from Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership aims at encouraging education leaders to develop a framework for teachers...
Smarter Schools Case Study: Flexible Learning at the Big Picture Campus
The Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has produced a whole heap of new videos that feature Australian schools...
Detention or Eco Club: Choosing your future [Philosophy + Religion]
This is an inspiring and humorous TedEd flip by Juan Martinez, who tells his story from his background in South Central Los Angeles, to becoming a...
Safer Internet Day 2013 – Connect With Respect [Video]
This short and sweet video should be shown to all young kids using the Internet. It almost made me feel all teary eyed. It was made to promote Safer...
Periodic Table of Videos [Chemistry]
If you are looking for a great free online video series about Chemistry, look no further. The University of Nottingham have produced a quirky video...
What is the future of learning? [Short Documentary]
GOOD is a global community of, by, and for pragmatic idealists working towards individual and collective progress. They have created a great...
The Harvard Economics Department Does ‘Call Me Maybe’
The ‘Call Me Maybe’ lip syncing parody craze has hit the Harvard Economics Department. The video was created using iMovie by the 10 year...
Tablets in Schools: A selection of video case studies [YouTube]
Case study videos are a great way to see how other schools are using educational technology, such as tablets in their classroom. They can show how...
Applying algorithms to the real world [TedEd Talk + Flip]
TedEd have released a new video from Kevin Slavin, who argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by...
How to Deliver an Engaging Virtual Classroom Presentation [YouTube]
This video from Facilicator.com gives some useful tips on making a virtual classroom engaging and to get the best results out of using a virtual...
Fixing ‘you’re’ worst writing crimes [YouTube]
Students can find it difficult to get their heads around ‘their’ and ‘there’, where to put commas, and using the passive...
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Embodied learning experiment with Dutch kids [Video]
This video shows an experiment by Jelmer de Maat at Creative Learning Lab / Waag Society, conducted at the Poseidon School in...
Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.
15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries,...
Quirky english grammar: The art of the metaphor [TedEd Video]
We love this TedEd English grammar video by Jane Hirchfield that explains metaphors with quirky animation and a nice clear voiceover. It is also...
Crash Course: World History and Biology YouTube Channel
If you are looking for lively, fast paced and slightly frenetic History and Biology videos you can’t go wrong with the Vlogbrothers...
Kindle at School [Case Studies]
Many of us have changed our reading habits by changing from paper based books, to electronic means, such as using the Kindle. This video shows some...