Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators

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Here are my top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the TED presentations that I think are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators as well as make them think!

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web

Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom

Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library

Jonathan Drori on what we think we know

Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together

Patti Maes demos the Sixth Sense

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

David Perry on videogames

Stuart Brown says play is more than fun

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves

Charles Leadbeater on innovation

Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain

Dave Eggers’ wish: Once upon a school

Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us

Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas

Howard Rheingold on collaboration

Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning

Ann Cooper talks school lunches

Load these onto an iPod, hand it to a busy school administrator, and say, “Here are some presentations that I think you’ll enjoy while you’re exercising or driving around. After you’ve listened to a few, let me know what you think!”

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Come back tomorrow for my list of the top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy school administrators.

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