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The event: TED Salon: Education Everywhere, curated by Cloe Shasha, TED’s director of speaker development; Stephanie Lo, director of programs for TED-Ed; and Logan Smalley, director of TED-Ed...

https://blog.ted.com/education-everywhere-a-night-of-talks-about-the-future-of-learning-in-partnership-with-ted-ed/

When Maestro José Antonio Abreu lifted his baton, magic sparked to life. Young people from diverse backgrounds played classical music that could take your breath away, yes, but something deeper ...

https://blog.ted.com/remembering-maestro-jose-antonio-abreu/

Any dedicated educator can tell you: A teaching job extends far beyond the hours of the school day. Molding the minds of future leaders while simultaneously ferrying them across the rapids of chi...

https://blog.ted.com/the-big-idea-3-reasons-to-be-kind-to-educators/

EverFi is supporting the TED2017 community in having a direct hand in changing the future. As a leader in connecting education to the real world since launching at TED in 2008, EverFi allows atte...

https://blog.ted.com/tedsters-get-to-know-students-around-the-world-thanks-to-everfi/

In Kingston, Jamaica, 4- to 6-year-olds in early education programs think about questions like, “What does it mean to be selfish?” In a school on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, fifth grad...

https://blog.ted.com/self-organized-learners-around-the-world-team-up-to-raise-money/

Sometimes technology isn’t the answer to every problem. Even at the TED conference. At TED2016, TED partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to run a blue-sky workshop session on creat...

https://blog.ted.com/what-if-the-coolest-thing-about-a-21st-century-school-wasnt-technology/

“Let’s skip ahead and assume that children of the future are always connected,” said education innovator Sugata Mitra. Thinking out loud about the evolution of screen sizes and the future o...

https://blog.ted.com/what-learning-at-the-edge-of-chaos-looks-like/

On Wednesday morning at John B. Russwurm Elementary School in Harlem, students pointed excitedly at cat photos on the Internet. No, they weren’t goofing off. They were participating in a “sel...

https://blog.ted.com/the-first-school-in-the-cloud-learning-lab-in-the-united-states-opens-in-harlem/

Caitlyn, a quiet seventh grader, was bullied by the other kids in her class at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank, California. She wore the same cowboy boots every day. “The other kids wer...

https://blog.ted.com/how-stories-can-transform-a-classroom-storycorps-interviews-affect-both-students-and-teachers/

“Innovation in education involves constant collaboration with colleagues — a total last-minute redo of a teacher’s lesson plan because there was something else out there that he or she jus...

https://blog.ted.com/a-new-program-asks-educators-to-innovate/

If you watch my TED Talk from 2010, you might see a confident 12-year-old, cracking jokes and striding around the stage in glasses that keep sliding down her nose. You won’t see me going home a...

https://blog.ted.com/advice-from-a-young-ted-speaker-start-a-ted-ed-club-at-your-school/

TED is coming to Broadway. And curious minds of all kinds are invited. “TED Talks Live” will bring six nights of talks to The Town Hall Theater in New York City’s Theater district this Nove...

https://blog.ted.com/ted-talks-live-six-nights-of-talks-on-broadway/

Erin Freschi, a California mom who has worked in education for nearly 25 years, has a nightly ritual with her 8-year-old son, Sawyer. Instead of bedtime stories or songs, Freschi and her son wind...

https://blog.ted.com/ted-before-bed-one-mothers-nightly-ritual-with-her-son/

LEGOs are for building spaceships, crafting castles and getting lost in your couch. But what if they could be used not just to dream of lands long ago and times far away, but to inspire future sc...

https://blog.ted.com/ted-scientists-get-the-lego-treatment/

As a Production Intern at TED-Ed, a big part of my job has been to make sure none of our video files have any glitches. So for the past two months, I’ve watched every single TED-Ed Lesson — n...

https://blog.ted.com/what-i-learned-from-watching-every-ted-ed-lesson/

You’ve probably heard of Area 51. But how about Area Zero? Area Zero is the flagship center of Sugata Mitra’s School in the Cloud, the idea that won him the 2013 TED Prize. It’s the final o...

https://blog.ted.com/the-flagship-school-in-the-cloud-lab-opens/

Picture a classroom teacher without a lesson plan — a teacher who instead asks students an open-ended question to explore: Can animals think? Did dinosaurs exist? What is a soul? With the openi...

https://blog.ted.com/building-a-center-for-research-into-self-organized-learning/

BRCK is best described as a “backup generator for the internet.” When it was announced, the idea of a rugged, rechargeable, mobile wifi device captured imaginations as a good way to bring...

https://blog.ted.com/a-rugged-mobile-wifi-device-brings-the-web-to-schools-in-africa-and-beyond/

By Krystian Aparta They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn’t mean that adults should give up. We asked some of the polyglots in TED’s Open Translation Project to share...

https://blog.ted.com/how-to-learn-a-new-language-7-secrets-from-ted-translators/

TEDYouth is a free event just for middle and high school students. This year, it takes place on Saturday, November 15, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, where more than a dozen speakers wi...

https://blog.ted.com/a-look-at-the-tedyouth-2014-speaker-lineup/