Ideas worth spreading
What's TED-Ed Student Talk
At TED-Ed Student Talk, students discover and explore great ideas with peers and other students around the world. They'll research and develop their own "idea worth spreading" and learn how to present it in the form of a short, TED-style talk.
Class Structure
Identify Your Passion
"What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the curriculum has students explore the ideas they're passionate about, starting with telling the class "who you are". By diving into activities that expand curiosity, participants will identify and discuss what matters most to them.
Choose Your Idea
"What is your big idea?" As students journey through the curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, students will craft their very own TED-style talk, from research, writing script, visualizing the ideas, to presentation.
Start Talking
"How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their cycle, students will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
"What makes your heart beat faster?" The first part of the curriculum has students explore the ideas they're passionate about, starting with telling the class "who you are". By diving into activities that expand curiosity, participants will identify and discuss what matters most to them.
Choose Your Idea
"What is your big idea?" As students journey through the curriculum, they'll be challenged to identify and shape the story only they can tell. Through guided brainstorms and active peer feedback exercises, students will craft their very own TED-style talk, from research, writing script, visualizing the ideas, to presentation.
Start Talking
"How can your idea change the world?" By the end of their cycle, students will have recorded their very own talk and uploaded it to our YouTube channel, which can then be shared with their families, friends, communities and the world.
Which age group is this class for?
TrinityScholar's TED-Ed Student Talk class is available for Grade 6-8 and Grade 9-12.
What's TED-Ed
The TED-Ed platform allows users to take any TED Talk, TED-Ed Lesson or educational video and easily create a lesson plan of customized questions and discussions. Users can then distribute these lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class or an individual student. Launched in 2012, TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.
What's TED
TED believes passionately that ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. This underlying philosophy is the driving force behind all of TED’s endeavors.
TED is an American media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading", starting in 1984 as a conference, and has been held annually since 1990. Now it's TED Foundation, a non-profit organization, with various projects including the TED Conferences, TEDx, TED Books, the TED Fellows Program, and the TED Open Translation Project. With this philosophy in mind, and with the intention of supporting teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners around the world. It has since broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian and academic topics. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Sean M. Carroll, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, Cédric Villani, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Temple Grandin, Shahrukh Khan, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Billy Graham, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bill Gates, Dolph Lundgren, Bob Weir, Shashi Tharoor, Bono, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Leana Wen, Pope Francis, Jeff Bezos, and many Nobel Prize winners. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.
Since June 2006, TED Talks have been offered for free viewing online. As of December 2020 over 3,500 TED Talks are freely available on the website. In June 2011, TED Talks' combined viewing figure stood at more than 500 million, by November 2012, TED Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide.
TED is an American media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading", starting in 1984 as a conference, and has been held annually since 1990. Now it's TED Foundation, a non-profit organization, with various projects including the TED Conferences, TEDx, TED Books, the TED Fellows Program, and the TED Open Translation Project. With this philosophy in mind, and with the intention of supporting teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners around the world. It has since broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, humanitarian and academic topics. The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can. Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Sean M. Carroll, Elon Musk, Ray Dalio, Cédric Villani, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, Temple Grandin, Shahrukh Khan, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Billy Graham, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bill Gates, Dolph Lundgren, Bob Weir, Shashi Tharoor, Bono, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Leana Wen, Pope Francis, Jeff Bezos, and many Nobel Prize winners. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.
Since June 2006, TED Talks have been offered for free viewing online. As of December 2020 over 3,500 TED Talks are freely available on the website. In June 2011, TED Talks' combined viewing figure stood at more than 500 million, by November 2012, TED Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide.