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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!

  1. Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
  2. Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
  3. Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library
  4. Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
  5. Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together
  6. Patti Maes demos the Sixth Sense
  7. Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration
  8. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
  9. David Perry on videogames
  10. Stuart Brown says play is more than fun
  11. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves
  12. Charles Leadbeater on innovation
  13. Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain
  14. Dave Eggers’ wish: Once upon a school
  15. Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
  16. Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas
  17. Howard Rheingold on collaboration
  18. Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
  19. Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
  20. Ann Cooper talks school lunches

    21. 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!”

    Stay tuned

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

      • See also

      • The Moving Forward wiki’s Podcasts page

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