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What is the future of the library?

What is a library when 'everywhere is here'? This architectural animation explores the question of the role of the public library when digital information is everywhere and is everything. What happens to the spaces of books? and how should traditional spa

Hegley Gets Creative in the Classroom

Poet John Hegley arrives at Eleanor Palmer primary school to teach year 6, armed with a pile of leaves.

Erin McKean redefines the dictionary

Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation.

Murray Gell-Mann on the ancestor of language

After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common ancestry of our modern languages.

Jay Walker on the world's English mania

ay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.

Little red Riding Hood

School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little Red Ridning Hood. Inspired by Röyksopps Remind me. Music: Slagsmålsklubben, Sponsored by destiny smk.just.nu Animation: Tomas Nilsson tomas-nilsson.se

School House Rock: Conjunction Junction

Learn it through song!

Music? in the classroom

Are the kids enjoying this?

A High School on the Front Line

At Cecil D. Hylton High School in suburban Virginia, non-English speaking students thrive academically in separate classrooms, but what opportunities do they sacrifice in return?

Rea d ing W ords I n I so lat tion

Imaging a world where we all read words by world or read words in isolation. Weeee!!!!

sounding out

Sounding out CVC words. This is an encoding skill and a s-t-u-p-i-d way to teach reading.

Words families

A teacher teaching word families. Teaching in isolation seems wrong/convoluted.