Unlike TED.com: Ideas worth sharing, which often included motivational speeches and topics geared toward adults and specific professionals, TED-Ed can be used by teachers in collaboration with their lesson plans. With hundreds of videos for students from Elementary through the Collegiate level, and topics ranging from the Arts to Philosophy/Religion, there is no shortage of lessons that focus on critical thinking skills and strategies.
Students start each lesson when they WATCH the short video in any given topic. This is followed by a THINK section, which includes a combination of several Multiple Choice and Open Answer questions. With these questions being related to the video, each lesson then provides a DIG DEEPER link with more resources to alternate materials on the same topic. The final step of each lesson includes Guided Questions where students can DISCUSS each topic in more detail to a greater audience.
All of the lessons provided on TED-Ed are free to use for the public, however teachers have the option of creating an account, and are then allowed full access to customize each lesson. Using this option, the multiple choice questions and text questions are completely editable, or can also be excluded from the lesson. When the new lesson is complete, you can choose to keep your lesson private, or UNLISTED to the TED community and will be provided with a unique link that can be shared via Google Classroom, or other LMS, for only your students. As students progress through the answers, when they click "Save my answer" it will inform them whether or not they are correct, and if they are incorrect, they will receive this message, letting them know to try again, and includes a video hint if necessary.
If you'd like to learn more about this and other video tools for the classroom, please consider our upcoming Model Schools course, "Interactive Videos: Because Lecture is Never Enough" on January 29th, which can currently be found in the OU Regional Catalog on MyLearningPlan.
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