Exploiting Ted talks

I'm a bit late to the Flipped Learning Party, but even I can see the potential of Ted.com to get students doing work outside the class that can lead to really interesting and productive lessons in the classroom.

I took this very interesting talk by Emily Balcetis and put together a lesson that you might find interesting. The goals of this lesson were to:

• encourage students to do listening practice outside of class
• encourage discussion in the follow up class
• introduce the idea of assessing a speaker (my students have to give presentations so it is nice to get them looking at talks critically)
• introduce/consolidate some ways of evaluating the reliability of a source

Please let me know if you used the lesson, if you found it useful and if you have any suggestions. 

Click here for the lesson PDF