Video-based Professional discussions

Academic Earth: thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

EdTalk: a growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning, hosted by Core Education

TED: Ideas worth spreading - inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers

A good place to start is on TED with someone you may never have heard about: Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity, an English Knight of the Realm who became famous in the United States, at least in education circles, following his 18-minute speech he gave at the Technology, Education and Design (TED) Conference a few years ago in Monterrey, California. Robinson's talk threw the world of education into a spin after he spoke about how young children who are naturally curious, naturally creative, and inquisitive are taught through the course of their education career to not be curious, not be creative and not be inquisitive. It's worth the 18-minutes...

[Edit 26 May] Ken Robinson's take is that 'Schools Kill Creativity' What needs to change to foster innovation in Education?...