September 26th: An Education (NY Times piece)

An American journalist recently subjected his kids to an experiment: language immersion. In addition to his full-length article, there is an accompanying video.

Was the experiment successful?

Do you think this is a good way for kids to learn a new language? What about people in general?

Read some of the comments. Do you agree with them, or not?

Going Back in Time

To practice making predictions, we viewed a video segment with Arthur C. Clarke. Were his predictions about the future correct?

A Life-Changing Experience

We listened to the audio track of another TED video, "3 things I learned while my plane crashed."

Ric Elias found himself in a situation that would cause many people to reevaluate their priorities in life. How do you think your priorities would change if you had this kind of situation?

Is there something you regret doing/not doing in life?

September 15th: What's in a Smile?

We watched a TED TV video about Ron Gutman's smile research.


Check out more TED videos here.


Also, test your Smile IQ on the BBC website with this online test.