TED is a small nonprofit organisation dedicated to promoting "Ideas Worth Spreading" and brings together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design. Live events include the annual TED Conference in California, the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, the TEDIndia Conference and the new TEDx community program.
On the TED website, the best talks and performances from TED and their partners are made available for everyone. Currently there are over 450 TED Talks to choose from, with more being added each week.
The talks and presentations are indeed excellent, being both entertaining and thought provoking. Many of the talks relate directly to education as highlighted by the two samples below.
In the first, Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind the open source Connexions online education system, covered in a previous post.
In the second, Arthur Benjamin explains his bold proposal about making math education relevant in the digital age.
It would be well worth adding the TED RSS feed to your reader if you have not already done so!!
Patricia Donaghy is an ICT Teacher in Dublin, Ireland. You can read some more information 
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