TED+Talks

media type="custom" key="10090099" I thought this was really cool. Imagine being able to create an interactive white board for fifty bucks! In a school with a low budget that may still be using chalk borads, this idea is very helpful! And it's just cool. Spinning the picture around, creating three demensional images... the application of using the wii remote in the classroom is endless. I had no idea you could do any of that stuff with a remote.

media type="custom" key="10090133" When I was in high school, math was not my strongest subject. All of my friends took pre-cal and calculus and I just couldn't put myself through that. So I took statistics. It seemed less scary. And in actuality, it was super useful. I use statistics every day of my life:while shopping, gauging how long it will take me to get to school if I stop at mcdonalds... When a math problem comes up in my life, it usually is a stats problem. So I agree with Arthur Benjamin: statistics is the math every high school student should leave high school knowing!

media type="custom" key="10092493" I love this TED talk! It really brings home the idea that the internet reaches literally anyone! When you put something on the internet, you are allowing any person in the entire world with internet access to see it. Not just the intellectuals or people who believe what you believe, but literally anyone. When Greenpeace decided to give voting an extra week in order for their more powerful names to be voted on, they really didn't understand the web, I don't think. Of course a name like Mr Splashy Pants is going to be big with the average majority. Who cares about a name that means majestic waters when you could have a whale with a hilarious name that is going to be in the media? When something like that goes viral, it gets the message out but it is out of your hands and out of your control and you've just got to roll with it. If they didn't want Mr Splashy Pants to win, they shouldn't have put it on the list, but then it probably would never have turned into a viral message.

media type="custom" key="10092637" I didn't know we really had a problem with boys. I knew there were differnces between boys and girls but this TED got me thinking about those differences and how boys really act in schools. Thye do not have many role models, that is true. Education is still predominately a female occupation. What men do go into education tend to go into higher levels, such as high school or college. I did not have one male teacher in elementary school! I think that little girls tend to like games just as much as little boys and that redesigning them to create a fun, engaging educational game is a great start to getting boys to enjoy and excel in school.