We are all probably familiar with TED Talks and similar videos of intelligent, engaging, and influential people discussing a broad range of topics relevant to society. In that vein, TED-Ed offers a ...

Students love snacks, bite sized ones in particular, and as everyone knows, that usually means cookies. But if you’re a teacher and opposed to putting the sweet and sugary before your kids, then what ...

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Most schools across the country are still operating remotely, and as the days tick by, it’s easy for students and teachers to feel as if they’ll never return to the physical classroom. Teachers and ...

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Recently I gave a TED talk on synesthesia, which you can see here on YouTube or at the TED–Ed web site. Mostly, given time constraints, it focused on grapheme synesthesia, one of the most common forms ...

When Kim Preshoff’s students watch some animated TED-Ed videos, they don’t know that she was the one who came up with the lessons and wrote the scripts until the credits roll. The New York state-based ...

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