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If the idea is approved, TED will send over a portable recording booth.

In the vast realm of dogs hugging baby deer and toddlers laughing hysterically, it’s not always easy finding online videos that have a deeply profound impact—that is, until Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) entered the market, providing “ideas worth spreading.” Now, TED is venturing into education with TED-Ed.

TED, a global set of conferences owned by the private nonprofit Sapling Foundation, usually gives speakers 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Malcolm Gladwell are just a few notable speakers who have presented at TED.

In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TED launched TED-Ed on March 12 with the intent of making available the “mind-altering lessons that happen in classrooms every day” to everyone in the world.

By delivering lessons that really “land,” TED representatives say, “curiosity is ignited and students become what they’re teachers always hope for: lifelong learners.”

Teachers who think they have a great lesson can submit their name and idea via the TED-Ed submission form. Anyone can nominate a teacher and his or her lesson.

If the lesson or idea is approved, TED will send over a portable recording booth where teachers can record their lesson. The lesson and booth are sent back to TED and sent to the organization’s animation teams.

TED says this is also an opportunity for animators to spread their names while supporting learning and innovation.

So far, TED-Ed has five series available, with multiple videos comprising each series. The series are Awesome Nature, How Things Work, Questions No One (Yet) Knows the Answers to, Inventions that Shaped History, and Playing with Language.

One great sample of TED-Ed’s videos can be found under Playing with Language. The video, titled “The Power of Simple Words,” describes how knowing an audience can influence the speaker’s choice of language—a skill many educators are trying to teach their social media and internet-loving students.

Meris Stansbury

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