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I compiled a list of some of my favorite Ted Talks to use in the classroom Can you really tell if a kid is lying The magic of truth and lies and iPods Do schools kill creativity If I should have a daughter Forget multitasking try monotasking  Inside the mind of a master procrastinator  Gaming can make the world better The agony of trying to unsubscribe  A 12 year old app developer  Why school should start later for teens  Want to be an activist? start with your toys Build a tower build a team Don't eat the marshmallow   I show them as my students fill out this form from Laura Randazzo

So I have decided that I would like to start ending all of my classes with a Ted talk or a Ted Ed talk. I have been compiling lists of both that would be great for the English classroom. I thought I would share a sampling with you guys of some of the Ted Ed Talks that I have found.  Check it out: The power of a great introduction - Carolyn Mohr The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler Insults by Shakespeare If you are interested in the full list of 100 different Ted Ed Talks for the English classroom click the image below!

Okay guys listen up! I have a website that is going to change the way you teach (at least one strand). Do you have a hard time teaching author's viewpoint? Give the website: http://www.perspecsnews.com a go! Perspecs is a new free app that curates the top news stories from a variety of established regional, national and international news sources. Unlike traditional aggregators and news curation services, Perspecs goes a step further and offers readers 3 polarised opinions of the same story. How these opinions are categorised can vary. For political stories this could be in the form of ‘left’, ‘background’, ‘right’. For review items the categories could be ‘negative’, ‘neutral’, ‘positive  You can have kids go to the website and read the three different articles and point out the keywords words that make it slant negative or positive or unbiased.  It does an AMAZING job modeling the concept of slanted viewpoints! It is mainly an app, but they have plenty of news stories o...