Using TED Conversations in the classroom

TED Blog:

All semester, TED Fellow Nina Tandon has been using TED Conversations as part of her class in bioelectricity at Cooper Union. Yesterday in the TED offices, she hosted a Live TED Conversation to answer questions about using TED Conversations in her class. Here are some highlights:

Sarah Meyer: So your students asked questions of the TED community as they studied? Did any of their conversations get particularly good responses? Did you or your students learn anything from any of the comments?

Nina Tandon: We've been just blown away from the response -- our TEDinClass Conversations, for example, have been trending in the top five for 9 weeks straight, and each conversation is being viewed in up to 60 countries. And in total, the conversations are reaching about half a million Facebook users via shares. The students are also learning a ton content-wise through responding to comments. And then there's the more-difficult-to-measure but equally important lessons in poise and maturity that comes from leading. It's been amazing.

Emily McManus: What did you worry about most when starting this experiment, and how did you control for it?

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 11, 2012 1:26 AM
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