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With A New Educational Platform, TED Gives Teachers The Keys To A Flipped Classroom

You may know TED, not as the guy from marketing, but as the nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" — or as the set of global conferences, Talks, and videos that touch on the many heady, relevant issues surrounding Technology, Entertainment, and Design.

As an increasingly powerful medium through which the world’s experts share their hard-won knowledge, TED is also an educator. In March, the organization launched the first phase of its "TED-Ed" initiative, in practice a series of a dozen short animated YouTube videos "created for high school students and lifelong learners," in the big picture an invitation to teachers to collaborate with TED to create more effective video lessons that can be used in classrooms.

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Full Story: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/24/ted-launches-new-ed-platform/

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