Regardless of whether you’ve watched TED Talks before, this video helps to convey the energy and significance of “Ideas Worth Sharing,” TED’s subtitle. Understanding how the brain works can be critical to teachers’ knowledge of students and to students’ knowledge of how their brains change as they grow. An article by eSchoolNews’ managing editor, Laura Devaney, provides a helpful synopsis of each of 11 different TED talks about science and the brain,
including The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain. You can read all 11 descriptions of these TED talks in Devaney’s article along with links to TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.