TEDxClassroom Project

The TEDxClassroom Project was created by Christian Long and used in my grade 10 Academic English class. This project that will have students analyze TED Talks and blog about them.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

By Darby A. Everyone loves the idea of happiness. People go to great lengths just to grasp its understanding and existence. Some people thi...

Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans

By Darby A. Every species is unique in one way or another, but how are we defined as unique? What makes our species more unique than any oth...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

By Samantha K. Dan Gilbert begins his talk by stating that "... in two million years the human brain has nearly tripled in mass, goin...

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion

By Mike B. Dayananda Saraswati is a Hindu teacher of Vedanta and Sanskrit in the tradition of Adi Shankar. He is well known as a very wise,...

Rives controls the Internet

By Stephen M. John Rives is a poet often featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and a large TED contributor. In this poem he describes th...

Arthur Ganson makes moving sculpture

By Luke D. Normally when one thinks of moving art, animation, be it traditional hand-drawn or CGI, comes to mind. However, with Arthur Ga...

Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn

By Hannah W. As the leader of imaging for the Cassini Mission, Carolyn Porco shares the immense progress that the space community has reac...

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