Best TED - and other good talks

Sir Ken Robinson, Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada and more take on big topics in the all-new TED Talks Education. Full feature presentation is here.

What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose.

In a recent visit to Charlie Rose, Sal Khan shared some insight into the current state of Khan Academy. He breaks down what's ahead for the site.

Det går knappast att klara sig i samhället i dag utan datavana. Hur ska det då vara när våra ungdomar går ut skolan?

Hur förändras medielandskapet och lärandet när vi går från trycka till digitala källor?

An insect's ability to fly is perhaps one of the greatest feats of evolution.

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TED Talks Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most.

This is Carol Dweck's keynote to the Scottish Learning Festival in 2009. I have fixed the volume which was problematic on the original which was first publis...

http://www.ted.com Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a dee...

http://www.ted.com Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. ...

In a single year, there are 200-300 million cases of malaria and 50-100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide. So: Why haven't we found a way to effectivel...

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Does Facebook make you happy? Here's a fascinating look (and quick! just over a minute to watch) at how Facebook makes you feel.

Hänger skolan med med i den digitala utvecklingen? I läroplanen står det att eleverna har rätt till modern teknik. Vissa skolor delar ut surfplattor till alla elever, andra skolor har knappt fungerande datorer.

För att öka förkunskapen inför lektionerna får eleverna se sin lärares föreläsningar på nätet. På så sätt får gymnasieläraren Daniel Barker mer tid i klassrummet att lägga på fördjupning och frågeställningar.

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud.

How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems.

High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand.

If you have an iPad, iPhone, Android device, or computer ... you should be listening to podcasts. Most are highly professional and packed with useful information.

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Learn more: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=gM95HHI4gLk Salman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com)

http://www.ted.com People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascina...

http://www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Tradi...