TED-Ed is a
“lesson creator” platform that aims to spark and celebrate the ideas and
knowledge-sharing of teachers and students around the world. It allows you to
organize an assignment around a video and evaluate student interaction with the
material.
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| TED-Ed Platform for Creating Interactive Lessons |
Creating Interactive Lessons Using Ted-Ed Platform
What is TED-Ed?
The TED Network is a periodic forum in which elites of
professionals, hobbyists, creative people and those with successful experiences
lecture with the aim of spreading their creative ideas and visions to the
world.
TED-Ed is a “lesson creator” platform that aims to spark and
celebrate the ideas and knowledge-sharing of teachers and students around the
world.
The TED-Ed platform now includes more than 80,000
sections and lessons, and more than 2.5 million questions, in various
disciplines such as arts, business, engineering, technology, health,
mathematics, psychology and many others.
In 2012, the TED-Ed platform was launched as a sub-platform
of the TED parent network with the aim of expanding its services and benefiting
the educational field.
The Ted-Ed platform offers a library of more than 1000
lessons in an interactive video template in various fields. These videos are
characterized by excellent creative output and sober scientific content as they
are subject to a careful examination of the facts as part of their production
process, which makes it a unique network when compared to other video publishing platforms.
The site also provides teachers and hobbyists with a
number of tools that enable them to design interactive educational lessons
based on video clips developed through the site or brought from YouTube and the
active interaction between teacher and student.
The interactive lessons presented on the Ted-Ed
platform follow a fixed design framework comprising four parts as follows:
Watch: It contains the video that provides scientific
content, and it can be retrieved from the videos included on the platform or by
bringing a video from YouTube.
Think: Contains questions about the video topic in one of two
formats, multiple choice or open question.
Dig Deeper: Provides additional resources on the topic of the
lesson.
Discuss: A discussion platform where discussion sessions can
be opened in which students engage in enriching discussions on the topic of the
video.
The TED-Ed platform also provides additional tools for
monitoring student performance. The number of times each student has viewed the
video and the scores he obtained in Think Section questions can be extracted
from an Excel file.
One of the unique features of the platform is that it enables
the teacher to reuse the lessons designed and stored in their rules, not only
by re-publishing them, but the teacher can edit any of the four sections in a
manner that suits his goals.
The platform also shows high flexibility in registration,
whether for the teacher or the student, as the student can log in, watch
interactive videos, and answer questions without the need to create an account.
How to create a TED-Ed
account
The TED-Ed platform does not differ from other educational platforms
much in the procedures for creating an account, as it begins with a request to
determine the type of account (teacher or student). Then the other
routine procedures are completed.
First step: Determine the type of account.
Second step: Enter the email address, followed by the
password, then the first and last name.
Here it is worth noting the flexibility of the website design
with regard to registration tasks, as it is limited to the basic data shown
above only. In addition to that, the site enables the teacher to publish his
lesson and invite students to do it without the need to create an account by
students but is limited to requesting the student's first and last name in
order to be placed in the evaluation records.
How to create TED-Ed Lessons
The TED-Ed platform organizes work within a fixed framework
in which the teacher passes through six steps to complete the contents of the
interactive lesson, and according to the design scheme, the first section
begins with a presentation (Let’s Begin), where it is used to present the goals
expected to be achieved by the student.
This is consistent with educational research that emphasizes
the importance of presenting goals at the beginning of the activities presented
to the learner, as this has a positive impact on directing his behavior in a
way that supports learning.
The second section: The lesson depends on the platform in its
educational content on only one video that is inserted from the site's library
or brought from YouTube and placed in the section (- Watch).
The third section (Think): It is to create questions related
to the lesson through two formats: a multiple-choice or an open question, and
it is recommended here to add questions of an analytical nature that prompt the
student to analyze the information in the video to find the correct answer.
The fourth section (Dig Deeper): It is to add enrichment
materials that will provide the student with additional resources for the topic
being studied, such as infographics that summarize the proposed topic or a
video link that provides an additional explanation for one of the sections of
the lesson.
The fifth section (Discuss): It is to open discussion panels
on the topic of the added video. The section is closely aligned with recent
trends in education, as many contemporary types of research emphasize the
necessity of dialogue as a source of learning and building knowledge.
Section Six (And Finally): through which a summary of the lesson and a final message are presented.