Make Lesson and Take Test with Ted-Ed

The technology is a media nowadays for various purposes like education. In order to cope up with the education, both teacher and student should have knowledge of technology which will help them to stay updated with the technology in education. Ted-Ed, let’s consider as a tool, is educational website based on internet by which learners from different background can take help to learn especially English language as well as knowledge of the world including arts, business, economics, engineering, technology, health, literature & language, mathematics, philosophy & religion, psychology, science & technology, social studies, teaching & education, thinking & learning and so on.

Ted-Ed holds a notion of ideas that have ultimate power to bring innovation to the attitudes, lives, and the universe. It took born in 2012, not so long ago keeping in mind that the power of ideas. However, Ted-Ed mainly focuses on education following the ideas of students and teachers around the world. It basically provides international platform especially for teachers in order to create interactive lessons. It helps to grow library of animated videos so that students get motivated and then engaged with the lesson.

And we know that animated videos are always interesting. Furthermore, it assists in building presentation literacy skills. Ted-Ed is doing wonderful and quite an effective job to provide education creating platform for millions of both students and teachers. The videos Ted-Ed uses are mostly short, award-winning animated videos about different ideas for learners. And Ted-Ed lessons are designed with questions, resources where learners will be able to know about the story of the videos, deep information, and later learners will be able to discuss the issues or matter related to the videos.

Ted-Ed is designed to provide education all over the world which is freely available. The moment any learner will appear to the website (ed.ted.com), learner will find it easy and simple to operate and cooperate as it is designed in such manner. It is user-friendly. In order to create and submit a lesson, a user should have an account which is pretty simple to open using an email account. To open an account, the instructions have been provided step by step. In fact, while creating lesson, videos are available there in the website which any one will be able to play. If necessary, the lesson can be customized easily. The entire website of Ted-Ed seems eye-soothing in color, graphics and the contents mostly videos.

There is a ‘if’ that if anyone find difficulty (which is hardly possible, unless someone is not familiar with using internet) finding videos from the resources, he/she can copy the URL from YouTube (www.youtube.com) and paste inside the search box which is also instructed simply and precisely. Creating lesson is way simpler as anyone can make their own lesson based on the selected video. Nevertheless, Ted-Ed is available as free and people with internet connection can get the easy access and learn more.

Interaction is essential in terms of education and learning. The classroom education is often designed to be interactive. Otherwise, the outcome of the lesson will not be positive or beneficial for learners. The lessons from the Ted-Ed are interactive using questions, discussions, deeper knowledge, and the customization as well. The lesson-creator as well as learner may share the lessons with others through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ where comments will be available to make. On top of everything, the ‘discussion’ part is open for all where interaction takes place.

A lesson ought to have the encouragement which leads to further knowledge on the given lesson. Ted-Ed offers very interesting videos by which learning will be able get new and different ideas on new things and matter. The animated videos in Ted-Ed are really motivating; although not only this, but also the educational videos as well. Every single lesson comes with new idea, hence new things to learn. Moreover, the ‘think’ phase allows to express own ideas in order to answer the given question and see the result later on. The ease of usage and the content of lessons can be very motivating for learners.