TED+Talks

=TED Talks=

Search the TED talks for a topic related to any of the chapters in the Maiers book and watch 1-2(they're all about 15-20 minutes). Post the link to the video along with a short reason for why we should all watch it.
 * **Name** || **Link to Video** || **Why we should watch it** ||
 * Gwyneth Dean-Witte || [] || To remember how we should really treat people around us and around the world. ||
 * Leah Howes || [] || To understand why kids say the words they do ||
 * Kelli Shryock || [] || Failure is instructional. Students learn from mistakes. ||
 * Karon Stevens || [] || A 12yrs.old's bold ideas and wild creativity ||
 * Tera Koupal || [] || Everyday we have the opportunity to affect someones life. ||
 * Michael Koupal || [] || Everyday we are teaching the next generation ||
 * Becky Bell-Krueger || [] || Something close to home ||
 * Gloria Vavra || [] || I think that everyday, doing a little thing for someone makes the day worth living. ||
 * Curtis Huffman || [] || Teaching one child at a time. ||
 * Melissa Mebius || [] || See students' strengths not always their weaknesses ||
 * Erin Bergeleen || [] || The great John Wooden talks about what he believes success is and what he tried to instill in his kids as a teacher and a coach. ||
 * Doreen Kuca || [] || Be positive- it may change someones life. ||
 * Theresa Koupal || http://www.ted.com/talks/ali_carr_chellman_gaming_to_re_engage_boys_in_learning.html || Meet students where they are, especially male students. Good discussion of why boys are disinterested in school. Accept that gaming is part of who they are - use it to help engage them in education. ||
 * Julie Bruckner || [] || Imagination Use homemade playdough to conduct electricity ||
 * Mary Lease || [] || Kiran Bir Sethi talks about the attitude of "you can" which relates to persistance and courage. What these students have overcome and achieved is truly inspriring. ||
 * Lisa Bergeleen || [] || It reminds us being positive can go along way ! ||
 * Kim Borkowski || [] || Reminds us perseverance in science needs moral balance. ||
 * Jason Von Eschen || [] || This is a great talk by a great Speaker, Temple Grandin. It is a great way to see how a student with Autism thinks and learns. ||
 * Gina Bialas || [] || Not only did this video give me a the motivation to continue teaching the students I have with the resources I have, but it also gives us a knew understanding of how students can learn. It focuses on the ability of student groups to teach themselves. ||
 * Connie McLaughlin || [] || a Holocaust survivor speaks about seeing the potential in what kids can do and expecting that instead of teaching where they are at ||
 * Donna Wagner || __ [] __ || It shows how giving students the opportunity to interact in the real world can empower them in their education. ||
 * Stephanie Rostad || [] || It is a good talk about how it is OK to be wrong. We need to embrace our wrongness, it is how we learn. ||