.Teach teachers how to create magic

1.Teach teachers how to create magic
What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time — and it’s a skill we often don't teach to educators. The science advocate (and cofounder of Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. with the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan) offers a vision to make the classroom come alive.

2.Turning trash into toys for learning
Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves — while learning basic principles of science and design.

Hidden miracles of the natural world

This TED talk video can be use to create curiosity in students.

1.Hidden miracles of the natural world
We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest project, a 3D film titled "Mysteries of the Unseen World," which slows down, speeds up, and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.
2.The weird, wonderful world of bio-luminescence
In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life.

The future of learning

In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children's education takes us through a series of startling results – children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves. Finally, the most startling of them all: groups of children with access to the internet can learn anything by themselves. From the slums of India, to the villages of India and Cambodia, to poor schools in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the USA and Italy, to the schools of Gateshead and the rich international schools of Washington and Hong Kong, Sugata's experimental results show a strange new future for learning. - 

See more at: The future of learning

Why do we do what we do....

Ted talks i like to share with you, as they are useful in our teaching profession...

1. Why do we do what we do...
"What is your motive for action? What is it that drives you in your life today? Not 10 years ago. Or are you running the same pattern? Because I believe that the invisible force of internal drive, activated, is the most important thing in the world."
In his TED talk Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions —
2. How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
"Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance — and limitations — of your "working memory," that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what's happening right now.
Peter Doolittle Educational psychology professor is striving to understand the processes of human learning.

  

3.  3 rules to spark learning
Chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.


 

4. Science teachers -- make it fun
High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) — and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations. 

Critical thinking...

Critical thinking... 
A good video to learn....of course have time to watch at a stretch or save it....

Tough Young Teachers-Episode 1

This a BBC series of six tough young trainee teachers.
each of three episodes are about one hour. 
Good guide for young teachers to observe and learn.

Study physics abroad in Europe -- virtually! Learn the basics of physics on location in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, by answering some of the discipline's major questions from over the last 2000 years.

Intro to Physics

The Story of Physics - Dara O Briain's Science Club - Episode 2 - BBC Two

THE BATTLE OF HYDASPES - ALEXANDER REACHES INDIA

my video samples_Science.

I am planning to develop video lessons in science for school students.

I am keeping few samples lessons here. 

Please view them and send me your feedback, to make these lessons really useful for the learners.

1. Properties of Light.

2. Reflection of light.

3. Light introduction in Telugu.

Learning Gaps

Many times we learn things, but are left with learning gaps, i mean, misunderstandings or misconceptions.

Here is an example of it.

These types of learning gaps create a route for rote learning in learning community. And majority of them can be cleared if peer collaboration is established. (Both for teachers and students.)

Please see this also...

Voyager Finds Magnetic Foam at Solar System's Edge

The Voyager satellites are now traveling through the outer edge of the solar system, called the heliosheath. Using a computer model based on Voyager data, scientists have shown that the sun's magnetic field becomes bubbly in this region due to reconnection. Because of this, cosmic rays must slowly work their way through the magnetic foam before continuing on toward the sun.

How the Heart Works 3D Video

Physics_simulations and videos

Few  physics animations. videos and simulation 

1. http://www.udacity.com 

one lesson Introduction to Physics. This is a Mooc course.

sample video clip from 'you tube'

2. MIT open courseThe Motion of Projectiles
see this sample video of thie great Physics professor, really these videos create keen interest to learn.

3. Few simulations form 

sample:

Monkey Plays With Tiger Cubs

Some thing to learn?? from this episode.
we may be tigers but these monkeys play with us don't get irritated and feel defeated.
Teasing and playing is a part of someones nature of playing and enjoying.........tolerate.........
 Just keep your majestic nature intact.

The orchestra in my mouth

In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile.

Hip-hop musician Tom Thum whirls together beat boxing, performance and an array of mouth sounds.

Stop the revolutions and let education evolve!

Allow education to evolve naturally in line with society -- as it always has -- rather than constantly trying to revolutionise it! Jane Ballantine, a former teacher and mobile-learning enthusiast/entrepreneur, analyzes different methods used to "fix" the education system and their mixed results as well as where the education system is currently going in the UK and overseas in light of the evolution and spread of modern mobile devices. The technology may be changing fast, but humans aren't; and our need for good and inspiring teachers remains.

Jane is an educationalist, e-learning expert and mobile app entrepreneur releasing educational apps She worked as a research scientist and engineer before her passion for education led her to retrain as a teacher. After five years teaching science and maths in London, she left the classroom to create innovative and award-winning e-learning products. Her company, Limitless Learning Limited, specialises in producing web-optimised learning materials for school-aged children

More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years

Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunately, they're not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing. 

Donald Clark is an evangelist for the use of technology in learning and has won many awards, notably the 'Outstanding Achievement in e-learning Award'.

Wild Dolphin "Asks" Divers to Help Free Itself from Hook

In this video, a bottle nosed dolphin with limited mobility due to a hook and fishing line restricting a pectoral fin, approaches some divers for help. Diving instructor noticed that the dolphin was hanging around them, and that it wasn't able to move freely. Closer inspection revealed the ocean debris lodged in the fin.

Thankfully, the dolphin not only allowed the divers to attempt to work the line and hook out 

of the fin, but actually shifted its body to make it easier.

The divers were able to remove the fishing line which allowed increased movement for the animal. Unfortunately, the hook was not able to be removed.

This is first time for me to see this type of video, even though the interaction between dolphins and humans is not new, but a this shows wild dolphins know that humans are tech animals and some time they help....

Motion of solar system in the 'Milky way'

Earth, planet we are living revolves around ‘Sun’ for its life.

Please see the planetary motion.

(Animation with details of motion of planets and their moons around the sun in circular paths) 

However today it is know that ‘Sun’ is not stationery, but revolves around the galaxy with a speed of 72,000 Km/hr.

This video depicts the motion of solar system in the Milky Way galaxy.