These talks show how gamification can bring the spark to everything from physical therapy to international relations.

Do kids these days have short attention spans, or does the world just move too slow? Gabe Zichermann suggests that today's video games are making children smarter -- and we should all embrace gamification.

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.

In 2007, Mayor Mick Cornett put Oklahoma City on a diet, after the city made a less-than-flattering appearance on a list of the most obese cities in the United States. In today’s talk, Cornett shares the aha moments that led him to create This City Is Going on a Diet, a somewhat unusual mayoral initiative. “On New Year’s Eve of 2007, I we...

About this event: Gamificación (Gamification)

About this event: This year's event will feature talks by students, alumni, and faculty members on a variety of topics, including heartbreak, radical gamification, social media, and the concept of home explored through art.

About this event: TEDxRuoholahti 2023’s theme is “Digital is Political!” The one day experience will host between 10 to 15 speakers to share their ideas (tentative) around these topics: quantum computing, climate change, dialogue in digital age, why digital sex is political!, embodiment in digital, open source, digital identity, gamification, dark patterns, cyber...

About this event: The Future of Health. Where are we headed? TEDxMaastricht 2012 held on monday April 2nd was centered around five tracks, covering the fields of health and care, cure, prevention, research and lifestyle: medicine around the World, health is a data problem, E-health is Empowered-Health, to talk or not to… listen, the gamification of health. Check ...

About this event: Next Generation Education: Rethinking Learning for a Changing World. Education is evolving faster than ever, shaped by technology, creativity, and shifting global challenges. In regions like Syria, where education has faced disruptions, we must rethink how learning happens, beyond traditional classrooms, exams, and rigid curricula. This event wi...

Turn it into a game, says technologist Esra’a Al Shafei. Thanks to features like a point system and a leaderboard, her small site for LGBTQ people in the Arab world is not only fun to use -- it’s free from harassers. Many LGBTQ people in the Middle East live under a cloud of stress and fear -- depending on where they live, they may face social ...

About this event: In a complex world like ours, learning has become the key to open the doors of endless opportunities. Learning decides who we become in the future and how we will impact others’ lives and eventually society at large. Who learns? How do we learn? What do we learn and why? Who organizes learning and what is learning going to look like in the futur...

As unusual seasonal effects raze our global ideas on sustainable practices, TED set out on a tour of 14 cities on six continents to find fresh perspectives for the TED2013 conference. While the 293 speakers who participated in this global Talent Search came from wildly different backgrounds, we couldn’t help but notice sweeping themes emerge...

About this event: The TEDx Imarticus' theme is driven by the core values of transformation and modernization of education through innovative technology. It aims to revolutionize traditional educational practices, systems, and tools, and harness the power of technology to create better learning opportunities for all. The concept of "Re-Imagining EdTech" recognise...

About this event: At April's TEDxKrakowCinema we talked about games and gamification and as usual, Kino 18 was packed with some incredible people who shared their opinions on Tom Chatfield and Jane McGonigal's thought provoking talks. Both talks generated a lot of interest - in particularl Jane McGonical's view that the skills gained during gaming could be app...

Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he's here to talk MOOCs, those "massively open online courses" that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago. Then one of the scene from today....

About this event: The second edition of TEDxDelft: 5 October 2012. This year TEDxDelft theme is ‘never grow up‘. Never stop asking questions, never stop wondering, always think of other ways to face challenges, always question why things are the way they are, keep wondering, keep on learning, always stay young, never stop dreaming, never stop doing, creativity by...

About this event: “SWITCH ON„ is the accompanying theme of the next edition of TEDxGdynia. It's a motto that encourages action, learning and development. Therefore each speaker of TEDxGdynia will present a different approach to education: from learning from someone else's mistakes, through by gamification, pertinaticy, to volunteering - at school, after school h...

About this event: This TEDxYouth event is related to the "What Now?" motto that many events will share around the world during that weekend in November. Most of our attendants will be students in their last year of studies in upper secondary school that face a new stage in their lives. Most of them will have to make difficult choices so as to choose the most conv...

“This is a little different than the mainstage at TED, in a sense that this is a little more relaxed,” says our host, the poet and TED speaker Clint Smith. “These are speakers who have not been selected specifically for the mainstage, but they’re just as talented, just as brilliant, and just as important.” A spectrum of ideas, stories, pe...

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Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking.

Online retailers resort to all kinds of strategies to separate you from your hard-earned money. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa names three tactics to look out for -- and shares how you can keep yourself from falling for them.

2013 was a year of hype for MOOCs (massive open online courses). Great big numbers and great big hopes were followed by some disappointing first results. But the head of edX, Anant Agarwal, makes the case that MOOCs still matter -- as a way to share high-level learning widely and supplement (but perhaps not replace) traditional classrooms. Agarw...

Let's face it, online dating can suck. So many potential people, so much time wasted -- is it even worth it? Podcaster and entrepreneur Christina Wallace thinks so, if you do it right. In a funny, practical talk, Wallace shares how she used her MBA skill set to invent a "zero date" approach and get off swipe-based apps -- and how you can, too.

In this practical talk, cybersecurity expert Nadya Bartol brings this crucial topic out into the open, lifting the shame around tech mistakes and offering creative ways to celebrate and reward good cybersecurity habits at work and beyond.

In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity instead of efficiency and questions instead of answers. Leberecht proposes four (admittedly subjective) principl...

Going to school in a refugee camp can be complicated: students encounter crowded classrooms, rigid curricula and limited access to teachers. Joel Baraka, who grew up in the Kyangwali refugee camp in Uganda, is determined to change that for the better. He shows how educational board games can be a fun and effective way to improve access to learni...

Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics -- but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that this beautiful, rewarding subject is difficult and boring. His company is experimenting with a bold idea: paying students for completing weekly math homework. He explores the ethics of this model and how it's helping students -- and why learning m...

The next big shift is now, and it's not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. Tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.