TED-Ed

Hi there YT Community! We’ve been working on a secret project for the past year and a half and wanted you to be the first to hear about it. It’s called Pandora’s Legacy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ted-ed/pandoras-legac…

Part jigsaw puzzle, part escape room, and part legacy board game, it brings together the work of puzzle masters and talented visual artists. We will be launching it on Kickstarter in just a few months, with all proceeds going to support TED-Ed’s nonprofit mission.

1200+ pieces to assemble
17 boxes to unlock
16 devious puzzles to solve

Do you dare open Pandora’s box?

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 4,499

TED-Ed

Introducing ✨Super Thanks✨! This #givingtuesday, consider supporting TED-Ed with a Super Thanks donation! Just click on the heart under one of our videos and select the amount you want to donate. Every dollar contributed supports our nonprofit mission of bringing free educational content and programs to educators and learners around the world. Help us spread curiosity!

Super Thanks donors will be able to buy one-time animations on our videos and post special, highlighted comments in our comments sections. We can't wait to engage with you there!

You can learn more about Super Thanks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YpeN...

4 months ago | [YT] | 1,865

TED-Ed

Can you guess who this is... as a cat? Meet the newest addition to your morning routine: The Purring Test, the first game by TED. Designed as a playful way to help players gain insight into how AI and Large Language Models "think", The Purring Test asks, "Can you get inside the mind of an AI cat?" Play it today and learn more about TED Games here: ted.com/games?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tededYT…

Ok, this is TED-Ed, so you might be asking, "Is the Purring Test educational?"

Well, as AI-generated images and text proliferate across social media– often without identification, sometimes with the express purpose of misleading people– the ability to recognize them for what they are is becoming a critical media literacy skill. The bar is shifting so rapidly that it’s tough to keep up with (it feels like centuries ago when counting fingers was a viable strategy). The Purring Test is a fun way to track this change, and we’re exploring additional clue types, like video and audio, as ways of extending this recognition to other media.

We also see educational value in learning about the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of generative AI. For that reason, wherever possible we take a “warts and all” approach to level creation, where we allow for absurdities and inaccuracies in clues up to the point where they’d be frustratingly misleading.

And finally, we hope that everyone who plays The Purring Test finds themselves eventually wondering “how does this actually work?” and that they avail themselves of the educational resources TED (and others) have created about the AI revolution we’re living through. To that end, a few resources:

A playlist of TED Talks about AI: www.ted.com/games/the-purring-test

The TED AI show: www.ted.com/games/the-purring-test , a podcast in which technologist Bilawal Sidhu talks with the world’s leading experts, artists, journalists, and more to explore the thrilling, sometimes terrifying, future ahead.

6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2,186

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You can now subscribe to TED-Ed in even more languages! If you know someone who speaks Arabic youtube.com/@TEDEdArabic, French youtube.com/@TEDEdFrench, Hebrew youtube.com/@TEDEdHebrew, Portuguese youtube.com/@TEDEdPortuguese, Swahili youtube.com/@TEDEdSwahili or Thai youtube.com/@TEDEdThai, please help us spread the word!

All our new channels are professionally translated and dubbed (by real voiceover artists). Which language should we launch next?

6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2,743

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This community is amazing! Our new channels are growing, but we need help reaching our goal! If you're a German- (bit.ly/TEGYTC), Hindi- (bit.ly/TEdHYTC), Japanese- (bit.ly/TEJYTC), or Mandarin- (bit.ly/TEdMYTC) speaker, or if you're looking to practice your language skills, help us reach 5,000 new subscribers by the end of our first month!

German: bit.ly/TEGYTC
Hindi: bit.ly/TEdHYTC
Japanese: bit.ly/TEJYTC
Mandarin: bit.ly/TEdMYTC
Spanish: bit.ly/TESYTC

Know anyone who might be interested in one of these channels? Please share this post with them!

As always, thank you for being such a curious, supportive and engaging community. We're so grateful you're here.

2 years ago | [YT] | 3,909

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We have some exciting news - TED-Ed just launched 5 new channels! If you're a German- (bit.ly/TEGYTC), Hindi- (bit.ly/TEdHYTC), Japanese- (bit.ly/TEJYTC), Mandarin- (bit.ly/TEdMYTC), or Spanish-speaker (bit.ly/TESYTC), or if you're looking to practice your language skills, subscribe to these channels!

German: bit.ly/TEGYTC
Hindi: bit.ly/TEdHYTC
Japanese: bit.ly/TEJYTC
Mandarin: bit.ly/TEdMYTC
Spanish: bit.ly/TESYTC

Over the years you've asked us to make our content available in more languages, and we are thrilled to finally have gotten the opportunity to make our animated shorts more widely accessible. TED-Ed has partnered with talented voice actors and translators (sorry, robots, no offense) to publish professionally dubbed animated shorts on a weekly basis.

This is just the beginning! If you want to know when we start publishing animations in *your* native language, subscribe to our newsletter: bit.ly/3IMOtkM


Let us know in the comments which languages we should publish in next! And please share this news with anyone you think might be interested.

2 years ago | [YT] | 6,084

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Today, TED-Ed is celebrating a big milestone: our 10th birthday! Here's a note from TED-Ed's Founding Director Logan Smalley:

"When we published our first batch of videos on March 12, 2012, we didn’t know what TED-Ed’s future might hold. Now, we’re looking back on a decade of curiosity, asking and exploring answers to life’s big questions, and meeting one of the most inquisitive and supportive communities on the internet – that’s you! 1,400 videos and 3 billion views later, you’ve spent a whopping 166 million hours—almost 20,000 years—learning on this channel.

Thanks so much for sticking with us this past decade—for the obvious things like watching, liking, and subscribing, and for the not-so-obvious things like giving us video ideas, making us laugh in the comment sections, and more. We can’t wait to see what the next decade brings!"

Help us celebrate #10YearsofTEDEd by sharing a video about your favorite TED-Ed animation, or any special memories you have associated with TED-Ed Animations or TED-Ed Programs here: bit.ly/TEDEdCapsule

We'll pass the love along to the amazing animators, educators, and TED-Ed team members who make the magic happen!

3 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 3,632

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Will you help us shape the future of TED-Ed?

Our mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers, students and life-long learners around the world — and we want to know how we're doing! If you watch our videos or engage with our programs, please take a moment to fill out this survey to help us understand and maximize our impact: www.surveymonkey.com/r/tededyt

Every day, our YouTube community supports us by tuning in to learn something new; by taking this survey you'll be helping *us* learn something new — and you'll be supporting the future of TED-Ed.

3 years ago | [YT] | 7,787

TED-Ed

Let's do this! The 2021 TED Countdown Global Livestream starts...NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_vq...

Tune in for this empowering event that will be laying out a credible and realistic pathway to a net-zero future. Tune in now and take action on climate change.

Hosted by Latif Nasser, with appearances by AsapSCIENCE (@asapscience), Don Cheadle, TED science curator David Biello, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Joe Hanson (@itsoktobesmart), Valerie June, Regina Hall, Prajakta Koli (@mostlysane), Rooney Mara, Dave Matthews, Amina Mohammed, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlie Puth, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Vins (@bravewilderness), Forest Whitaker, Rainn Wilson and more, along with scientists, activists, artists and leaders from business and government.

Combining new TED Talks with live performances, short films, expert conversations and more, this event is intended to vividly explain the climate crisis, focusing on solutions and calling for leaders and citizens everywhere to step up.

Be a part of the solution!

3 years ago | [YT] | 4,037

TED-Ed

The scene in the Suez Canal is reminding us that we posted our first ever TED-Ed Animation 9 years ago this month. The topic? Containerization! Any OG TED-Ed subscribers remember this one?

Watch the animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7Io...

Also thanks for sticking with us for 9 years! Should we have a party next year when we turn 10? ;)

4 years ago | [YT] | 11,712