我在北外青少的CAE精品班开学的第一次课是检查寒假作业，其中有一项是要求孩子们在假期自选10个TED演讲观看，在开学第一次课上与同学们分享自己最喜欢的一场演讲，要说明演讲内容和阐述喜欢的原因，并且用PPT＋演讲的方式完成这一分享。【什么是TED？请登录www.ted.com，这里是智慧、创新和信息的海洋，只要孩子们的英语水平达到了FCE及以上的水平，就可以大致跟得上这里的演讲，完全免费。】

    作为老师，原本我是想通过这个活动评价一下孩子们的英语口语表达和演讲技巧，但没有想到在整个分享过程中，我被孩子们的讲述深深吸引，忘记了他们是在说英语，也忘记了什么演讲技巧，忘记了自己是老师，而是作为一名听众，完全陶醉在他们广博的兴趣，人文的情怀，世界的眼光和创新的思维中。

    真棒，TED！确实是一个“Ideas worth spreading”（值得分享的思想）的论坛！真棒，孩子们！不愧是有想法的一代！而且还是用英语！

    这里列举了孩子们观看过的TED演讲，仅从题目上，我们就可以看到这帮孩子兴趣之广泛。

 

1.         Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?

2.         Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran

3.         Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam

4.         Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of Sixth Sense technology

5.         Ken Robinson: Schools kill creativity

6.         Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

7.         Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch

8.         Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed

9.         Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark

10.     Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book

11.     Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing

12.     Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

13.     Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus!

14.     Pete Alcorn: The world in 2200

15.     Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

16.     Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

17.     Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

18.     Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West -- the myths that mystify

19.     Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

20.     Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

21.     Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter

22.     Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God

23.     Felix Dennis: Odes to vice and consequences

24. Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!

25. Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

26. Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls

27. Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt

28. Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.

29. Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint

30. Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

31. Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day

32. Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun

33.     James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?

34.     Marco Tempest-A cyber magic card trick like no other

35.     Doris Kim Sung: A metal that breaths

36.     Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water

37.     Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle

38.     Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt

39.     Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitoes to fight disease

40.     Munir Virani: Why I love vultures

41.     Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

42.     Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

43.     Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint

44.     Kid President: I think we all need a pep talk

45.     James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?

46.     Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

47.     Could the sun be good for your heart？

48.     What we learn before we’re born?

49.     The secret lives of paintings

50.     Building a museum of museums on the web

51.     A look inside the brain in real time

52.     A robot that flies like a bird

53.     Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

54.     What we learned from 5 million books

55.      Neil Harbisson: I listen to color

56.      Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

57.      Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

58.     Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

59.     Stuart Brown: Play is more than fun

60.     Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

61.     Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

62.     Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

63.     Louise Fresco : On feeding the whole world

64.     Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see

65.     James Watson: How we discovered DNA

66.     Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work

67.     Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey"

68.     Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when

69.     Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?

70.     Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

71.     Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

72.     Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums

73.     Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

74.     Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

75.     Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

76.     Jay Walker: On the world's English mania

77.     The quantified self

78.     Color-coded surgery

79.     Building the Seed Cathedral

80.     The shareable future of cities

81.     Printing a human kidney

82.     The future of lying

83.     How the Internet will (one day) transform government

 

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