Ted Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

Early this month, TED Talks created a spin-off of their wildly popular video site. This new site, entitled TED-ED: Lessons Worth Sharing, organizes TED videos based on subject and curricular strands. For each video, TED-ED has also included a introduction to the video; a short quiz; a thinking question (which students can answer in a text box) and then extension questions/activities that will promote critical thinking.

Each video page also comes with the ability to "Flip The Lesson". The main idea behind a flipped classroom is that your students will watch/read new content at home and then come to class to work review exercises or critical thinking questions. As the teacher, you will no longer be the presenter of content, but the facilitator of understanding.


So, for this example, the students would watch the video at home, assess their understanding using the Quick Quiz and then come to class the next day prepared to discuss the answers to the Dig Deeper Questions.


What do you think?