Resources

• Instructional Resources
• Media Resources
• TED-Ed: TED’s Education Series
• TED Talks
• Ted Global
• Other Media Resources

Instructional Resources

1. Sample Common Experience Assignment (doc)
2. Example of using Common Experience in class (ppt)
3. Example: Learning Syllabus (pdf)
4. Example: Introduction to Psychology Syllabus (pdf)
5. 2012 Common Experience Breakout Session (ppt)

Media Resources

1. Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
2. Lives on the Boundaries Mike Rose Interview Reel 1 of 2
3. Lives on the Boundaries Mike Rose Interview Reel 2 of 2
4. Mike Rose - Lives on the Boundary
5. The Boy who harnessed the Wind
6. Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story

TED-Ed: TED’s Education Series; Includes review questions, etc.

http://ed.ted.com/ | http://ed.ted.com/lessons | http://ed.ted.com/series

1. How simple ideas lead to Scientific Invention (7-8mins)
   Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.
2. How Containerization Shaped the Modern World (5mins)
   Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean, a small-town truck driver, to invent the shipping container. Containerization was born, and it transformed the modern global economy.
3. Navigating our Global Future (7mins)
   As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility of improved life for everyone.

TED Talks

1. Put the Financial Aid in the Bag (5mins)
   At TEDYouth 2011, performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken-word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.
2. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education (17 minutes)
   Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
3. Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums (19minutes)
   Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

Ted Global

http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2011/

1. Now live on TED.com: Let's take back the Internet!
   Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the Internet isn't as free as you might think: Private companies have become "sovereigns of cyberspace," making arbitrary decisions that undermine access, privacy and free speech. She asks: "How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control?"
2. SmartBird takes flight in TED audience
   The audience watches in awe as the robotic SmartBird -- powered simply by the motion of its wings -- takes flight over their heads in the TEDGlobal theater. "We try to mimic nature," said designer Markus Fischer.
3. "You have been digitally preserved"
   "You have been digitally preserved," Ben Kacyra told the audience, who were 3D scanned during his talk. His CyArk project uses the same technique to document the contours of world heritage sites. "Our heritage is much more than our collective memory. It's our collective treasure," he argued. "We owe it to our children, grandchildren and generations we will never meet to save our heritage, and pass it along."
4. Let there be light - and data
   In a stunning demo, Harald Haas reveals (for the first time in public) a desk lamp which uses light, instead of radio waves, to transmit an HD video data stream.
5. Atheism 2.0?
   "Religion's ideas are so intelligent, so subtle, they are not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone," said Alain de Botton, in a thought-provoking talk on bringing religious culture and traditions into secular life. Could a religious framework -- without a supernatural aspect -- help atheists live more meaningful, emotionally connected lives? Most of the TEDGlobal audience seemed to think so -- the talk drew a thunderous standing ovation.
6. Now live on TED.com: Finding yourself in others
   Actor Thandie Newton talks about her success, and her progress as a person -- which she credits, in part, to an initial feeling of "lack of self" as a young woman. "When I'm acting a role, I inhabit another self and give it a life for a while. For when the self is suspended -- so is divisiveness," she said.

Other Media Resources

1. Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams