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Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

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    Right now, somewhere out there,
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    an educator is delivering
    a mind-altering lesson to their class.
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    I want to engage your brains in this.
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    Chris Anderson: I tried to get
    my head around how vast our Earth is.
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    Logan Smalley: That lesson only reaches
    the students in that room.
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    What would happen if we captured it?
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    It's a toothed wheel.
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    LS: What if pro animators
    and visualization artists
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    could bring that lesson to life?
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    CA: It's a common object
    that literally fits one million Earths.
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    It's got a bunch of notches
    and a bunch of teeth.
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    This was Fizeau's solution --
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    LS: When that lesson lands,
    curiosity is ignited.
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    CA: It seems impossibly big.
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    AS: Something interesting happens.
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    CA: In the great scheme
    of things, it's a pinprick.
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    AS: A door closes on the light beam
    that's coming back to his eye.
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    LS: Then that group of students
    is one thought closer
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    to being what every teacher
    hopes their students will become:
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    a lifelong learner.
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    AS: Based on the distance
    between the two stations --
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    CA: The quest for knowledge
    and understanding never gets dull.
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    AS: He calculates the speed of light
    to within two percent of its actual value.
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    CA: The more you know,
    the more amazing the world seems.
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    That's the central mission of TED-Ed:
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    to capture and to amplify
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    the voice of the world's
    greatest teachers.
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    He does this in 1849.
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    CA: It's the crazy possibilities,
    the unanswered questions,
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    that pull us forward.
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    So stay curious.
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    TED-Ed is really an invitation
    to teachers all around the world
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    to submit their best lessons.
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    Jordan Reeves: We review each submission
    and work with the educators
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    to refine the lesson and make sure
    that they're less than ten minutes long.
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    From there, we mail out
    these portable recording booths.
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    A teacher pulls up their final lesson,
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    presses record and can instantly share it
    with our animation team.
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    It's also an invitation to animators.
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    We are looking for talented animators
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    to get involved, submit their reels
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    and help us animate
    these incredible lessons.
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    LS: Right now, there's a gifted educator
    somewhere out there
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    delivering a life-changing lesson.
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    The TED-Ed team hopes that anyone
    who is passionate about education
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    will help us find that teacher,
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    capture that moment and amplify it
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    the way that it deserves to be amplified.
Title:
Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
Description:

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. You can nominate a teacher, nominate an animator or suggest a lesson here: http://education.ted.com

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TED-Ed
Duration:
02:12

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