Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School
Part 8/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - 18 March, 2010
Title – Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School
Presenter: Dave Eggers - Writing is only his day job: Dave Eggers moonlights as a publisher, philanthropist and advocate for students and teachers.
About this Talk
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open……..
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
Part 8/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Title – Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
Presenter: Mae Jemison - In 1992, Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to go into space. She's become a crusader for science education -- and for a new vision of learning that combines arts and sciences.
About this Talk
Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinker
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Part 7/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 16, 2010
Title – Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Presenter: Ken Robinson- A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world once, while leading Microsoft to dizzying success.
About this Talk
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
Part 6/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 12, 2010
Title – Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education
Presenter: Bill Gates - A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world once, while leading Microsoft to dizzying success.
About this Talk
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
Part 5/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 11, 2010
Title – Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
Presenter: Arthur Benjamin's - Mathematician and magician Arthur Benjamin combines his two passions in "Mathemagics," a mind-boggling presentation of lightning calculations and other feats of mathematical agility.
About this Talk
Someone always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Michelle Obama's plea for education
Part 4/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 6, 2010
Title – Michelle Obama's plea for education
Presenter: Michelle Obama- First Lady Michelle Obama, a lawyer and administrator, is an advocate for working parents, military families and national service
About this Talk
Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education
Part 3/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 5, 2010
Title – Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education
Presenter: Liz Coleman - Liz Coleman radically remade Bennington College in the mid-1990s, in pursuit of a new vision: higher education as a performing art.
About this Talk
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Part 2/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 4, 2010
Title – Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Presenter: Temple Grandin - Through groundbreaking research and the lens of her own autism, Temple Grandin brings startling insight into two worlds.
About this Talk
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
Part 1/10 - BigGyan Cloud eLearning: Top 10 TED Talks on education
Posted on - March 3, 2010
Title – Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
Presenter: Nicholas Negroponte - The founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte pushed the edge of the information revolution as an inventor, thinker and angel investor
About this Talk
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."
For more such talks visit – www.ted.com
101 Reasons to Use BigGyan
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2. Include humor into classroom
3. Show not just tell
4. Surprise you students
5. Be up to date and earn respect of students
6. Throughly prepare for classes
Earn Money
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Provide Content
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14. Posting links to videos
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30. Import hundreds of preprepared courses
Communication
31. Sharing student ideas and projects
32. Sharing community events
33. Setting up groups for classes (large or small)
34. Enhancing faculty-to-student communication
35. Enhancing student-to-student communication
36. Facilitating group projects by allowing students to discuss particular topics or exchange files
37. Getting 100% participation in class discussions
38. Helping students find study partners
39. Providing advance organization for in-class discussion
40. Sending specific emails to a subset (group) of students
41. Reminding students of important deadlines
42. Providing opportunities for learning communities
43. Providing online homework help (virtual office hours)
44. Encouraging out of class discussion via discussion boards or chat rooms
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47. Communicating expectations and objectives
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Assessment
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55. Measuring student access to course materials and tools
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65. Recording, display, calculate, and analyze student scores
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69. Assessing student progress with just-in-time methods
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71. Creating drill and practice exercises
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Salient Features
75. Timing-control access to information by students
76. Putting an end to the “lost papers” excuse
77. Integrating technology into curriculum
78. Improving retention of course material
79. Helping students come to class prepared
80. Engaging students outside of class
81. Meeting student expectations
82. Providing 24x7 access to course materials—anytime, anywhere
83. Providing consistency in course structure
84. Providing continuous access to a student roster
85. Providing more time for classroom instruction and activities
86. Allowing students to review lecture notes before or after class
87. Alumini association
88. Copying course content from one quarter/section to another
89. Encouraging students to read their textbook
90. Encouraging students with different learning styles
91. Live lectures
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93. Provide students with best available
94. Student online security
95. Guest lectures
96. Having alumni mentor current students
97. Keeping parents involved in learning process
98. Latest on internet
99. Student portfolios acts as CVs during placements
100. Write less and use computer more. Prepare for handwriting free world
101. Be the best!!!
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