Bringing the world into the classroom with TED-Ed clubs
What is a TED-Ed club?
TED-Ed is a category of TED talks which is an educational initiative to celebrate the ideas of students around the globe. The TED-Ed Clubs program supports students in discovering, exploring and presenting their big ideas in the form of short, TED-style talks.
Structure of a Standard TED-Ed Club Program
A standard TED-Ed Club program consists of an educator who gets materials and a hands-on orientation from the TED-Ed staff and leads the club through a series of 13 meetings, designed to get students to think and absorb. For the first three meetings, students watch TED Talks, discuss them and begin to think: Which ideas have captured my imagination? From there, students learn how to frame their ideas and present them in a TED-style talk. In meeting 11, students give their talks in front of the club and, in the next meeting, work on editing their video. As a final step, these talks are uploaded to the TED-Ed YouTube channel while some may even be featured on the TED-Ed website.
TED-Ed at Sapphire International School
On 28th June 2018, Sapphire hosted TED-Ed Video Conference and with this initiative; Sapphire International School became the first and only school in Noida to host TED-Ed program. Our students made the most of this opportunity and expressed their ideas and views during the video conference.
Watch the video below to get the sneak-peak of our students' interaction during the Ted-Ed conference.
(Video attached in the mail)
7 Benefits of TED-Ed Club
1. A student as a speaker gains confidence and learns to express his/her ideas.
2. He/she learns to develop ideas, manage time and present a speech. TED-Ed provides a platform and throws challenges to him/her.
3. A deeper understanding of the subject. Students become more confident individuals.
4. With a variety of topics discussed by the speakers, students in the audience get an opportunity to experience broadness and diversity of ideas and views.
5. Opens mind and feeds creativity. The platform celebrates smartness and articulation.
6. An absence of presenting grades or special commendations to students for their work as it promotes inequality.
7. Students often have busy lives outside of school that affect their learning capability such as health problem, home environment, neighbourhood, etc. Such complications result in irritability, sleeping disorders and negative thoughts. Topics like these also have a healthy space at TED-Ed.
5 useful topics for parents and their kids covered by TED-Ed Student Talks
1. The video talks about kids who tend to stay confused and disorganised. We hope the video will help your kids to open up more about their anxieties and queries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmV75DrTX6w
2. The conversation in the video aims to acknowledge young minds with diseases, health issues and the role of present medicines. How their knowledge, awareness and contribution can curb the death rates in this world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2a3OGv8w4
3. The video talks about the damage that we humans have done to the oceans and marine life. It's time we wake up and solve the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-arqhTszc
4. The video takes us to a futuristic imagination where Artificial Intelligence can take over humans and its negative consequences. It's time we sit down and deeply discuss the appropriate uses of AI system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJNEUMkNuQ
5. The video talks about kids' (of all ages) fascination and obsession towards superheroes. The speaker talks about how each of us has the capability of becoming a superhero with an act of kindness and courage by demonstrating an instance of a real-life crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0VzMy5Tn4M
Aren’t these conversations in the videos mind-awakening and problem-solving? That’s exactly how TED-Ed Talks aims to inculcate in school-going children and Sapphire has been practising it to empower its students.
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