Ted Talks… for Kids
Looks like TEDxSMU has organized the first ever Ted Talks for kids. TedxKids was the first of its kind and invited local students to share their thoughts in the TED format, as well as attend presentations. The organize of the conference had this to say:
“It’s important to get kids interested at an early age and one of the hopes is that TEDxKids will be a meaningful experience for both us and other kids.”
The event was a couple of days ago and as of now, there haven’t been any videos released from it, but I did find this blog post mentioning it.
On Friday, the TEDxSMU team also hosted the first-anywhere TEDxKids event, bringing many of the speakers we saw Saturday to a group of middle school students. While I didn’t attend that event, reports were that the kids had as exciting a day as we did — we got to see a fun video from their day, including a segment where some of them filled in the blank on the statement: “My parents don’t know that _________.” (Our equivalent was “How I got this scar.”)
I love the idea and think it would be a magnificent addition to any conference. Allow students to share TED style presentations, stories to share, that they think would be important for teachers, educators, and decision makers to hear.
Any conference organizers interested in stepping up and adding this on to the agenda somewhere?
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Shawntel Landry
10/14/2009
Steve – I was there and it was awesome. TED can bring real research from scientists and others directly into the classroom. I will send you the links as soon as they are posted.
CompassLearning
10/16/2009
Steve Dembo on Ted Talks…For Kids. A very cool idea: http://ow.ly/uOyz
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10/16/2009
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10/16/2009
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Anne Schulte
11/7/2009
Any time kids have a presentation/venue from outside, a new world is opened up to them. Much more inspiring than the usual classroom fare.
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Scott Meech
3/13/2010
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