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- What Adults Can Learn from Kids. This TED Talk is probably the most popular of the bunch. Adora Svitak, a child prodigy, explains how children see the world with a broader perspective.
- Grit: The Power of Pas sion and Perseverance. Via Angela Lee Duckworth. Based on a book with the same title, this TED Talk features Angela Lee Duckworth talking about how to properly use grit and self-control to be successful in life.
- The Best Kindergarten You’ve Ever Seen. This talk is about Fuji Kindergarten—the best kindergarten you will ever see. Fuji Kindergarten was founded in 2007 by Takaharu Tezuka, an architect who received his graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
- A 12-Year-Old App Developer. Thomas Suarez is not your ordinary 12-year-old kid. While most boys his age are busy playing video games, his focus is on building one, and teaching other kids how to do the same.
- Emma Bryce: What really happens to the plastic you throw away? (3:53) Follow the life cycles of three different plastic bottles and learn the dangers these disposables present to our world.
- Matthew Winkler: What makes a hero? (4:30) What trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature’s most interesting heroes? And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes?
- Angela Koine Flynn: The science of skin color. (4:39) When ultraviolet sunlight hits our skin, it affects each of us differently. One person might turn beetroot-pink, while another requires hours to experience the slightest change.
- Anita Collins: How playing an instrument benefits your brain. (4:30) When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active.
- 1 – Do Schools Kill Creativity? – Dr Ken Robinson
- 2 – What Adults Can Learn from Kids – Adora Svitak
- 3 – A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out – Tavi Gevinson
- 4 – Science Is For Everyone, Kids Included – Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole
- 5 – How I Harnessed The Wind – William Kamkwamba
- 6 – A 12-Year-Old App Developer – Thomas Suarez
- 7 – Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection – Reshma Saujani
- 8 – The Power of Introverts – Susan Cain
- 9 – A Promising Test For Pancreatic Cancer… from A Teenager – Jack Andraka
- 10 – 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do – Gever Tully
I love this talk for kids, and I do believe it’s important for kids to hear views like this. As someone who doesn’t consider themselves to be creative, it made me wonder why I lost that creative spark I once had when I was at school. But I did realize that my writing is my creativity, but not all adults have a creative outlet. What this talk does i...
I absolutely adore this TED Talk, and not just because it’s being presented by a 12-year-old. Adora challenges learning to be a two-way street, where children learn from adults and adults learn from children. She talks about how children don’t see obstacles like adults do and therefore their scope of possibilities is much wider. A great reminder fo...
What strong female characters have your kids had in their lives? All you need to do is look at the latest movie releases to see what kinds of ‘strong female leads’ there are. While this talk was filmed in 2012, and we are *slowly* starting to see more strong female leads, they still aren’t always an accurate representation of women, of females, and...
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto believes that all people should participate in the process of discovery through science, including kids! Beau talks about the keys of science being play and rules – such as those involved in a game – and this is exactly what kids are best at. Which, in turn, would make kids the best scientists, right? Whenever we want to d...
During a time of famine in Malawi, William at the age of 14, after dropping out of school, taught himself scientific principles through images in science books to create a windmill for his family and village. This windmill created electricity and allowed irrigation for the poor farming family. This is a short but inspiring story that inspires kids ...
‘A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them.’ But where do kids go when they want to learn how to develop apps? Parents like us don’t usually know, teachers don’t always know, this is a whole new era of abilities that is unique to the younger generation. Thomas has created an app club at his school to help share his...
A great talk for parents of girls – challenging the way we approach our way of talking to our girls and how we encourage them in taking risks, rather than being ‘perfect’. As the founder of ‘Girls Who Code’ Reshma wants us to encourage our girls to take risks, to do things that they may not be good at but be okay with failing and learning. Learning...
Are you a parent of an introverted child? This talk is included in this best-of list because it’s so important for us to encourage our kids to be confident in who they are, including if they are introverted. There are high expectations for our kids to be extroverted, to be outgoing, and that this is the way they learn and is the best way for kids t...
Still unsure about the power of young minds and their ability in the world? In this presentation, Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a test for the early detection of pancreatic cancer and how he used his ‘teenage optimism’ to challenge the 60-year-old technology that was being used. Jack talks about how he emailed 200 professors in determin...
Okay… maybe you don’t want to let your kids watch this TED Talk… but I promise it brings up some really valid points and challenges your way of thinking (as all TED Talks do). The question is, do you think we protect our kids too much? We often think of the dangers that face our kids, but Gever challenges our thoughts on these based on the evidence...
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- Adora Svitak on ‘What Adults Can Learn From Kids’ Svitak is an American writer and works for Wikimedia as a communication associate. She was 12 years old when she gave her TedTalk amidst a large audience.
- Maryam Elassar On ‘Diversity, Inclusion, And Lessons In Friendship’ This third grader left the audience in awe when she went on stage. Elassar, at a timid age, engaged everyone around her by emphasizing the power of kindness.
- Jack Andraka On ‘A Promising Test For Pancreatic Cancer’ Ideas lead to innovations and innovations… well let’s just say that they’re game-changing. They are portals that add the ‘revolution’ to every era.
- William Kamkwaba on ‘How I Harnessed The Wind’ Desperate times call for desperate measures. Kamkwaba found himself in distress due to the lack of electricity in his rural area in Malawi.
March 24, 2021 at 12:30 am. Contributor: Meghan Moravcik Walbert. There are lots of inspiring TED Talks out there for adults — but if we’re not sharing some of them with our kids, they’re missing out on all the entertainment, context, knowledge, and motivation so many of them can provide.
- 11 min
- 2007
Mar 23, 2021 · Here’s the description for this Ted Talk from 2010 with a message that still holds up today: Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity ...
Kids, teens and their great big ideas. Amazing inventions, activism and tons of genius delivered by an awesome group of kids and teens. Watch now. Add to list.
