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Instructional Video3:40
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Why should you read “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In her Auntie An-mei’s home, Jing-Mei reluctantly takes her seat at the eastern corner of the mahjong table. At the north, south and west corners are her aunties, long-time members of the Joy Luck Club. This gathering is the point of...
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Instructional Video3:50
Curated Video

Modernity and Imperialism

12th - Higher Ed
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra talks about how modernity arrived in Asia, Latin America and Africa under the auspices of imperialism and exploitative capitalism while highlighting how it was also problematic for many people...
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Instructional Video3:16
Curated Video

The Last Genius

12th - Higher Ed
Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College, talks about Einstein as the last true genius in history, the present, all-pervading genius culture and what that means for the future.
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Instructional Video4:25
Curated Video

Experiencing East versus West

12th - Higher Ed
Historian Maria Mavroudi, UC Berkeley, talks about how we can make sense of both the distinction and the unity between West and East by taking into account different human experiences.
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Instructional Video4:57
Curated Video

Lying and Politics

12th - Higher Ed
Historian Martin Jay, UC Berkeley, talks about the situations in which lying takes place in politics and might be justified and even expected in adversarial, diplomatic and other situations.
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Instructional Video4:41
Curated Video

Better Science

12th - Higher Ed
Historian of science, Michael Gordin, Printceton University, talks about the demarcation between science and pseudcoscience and how very few fringe theories that are empirically wrong actually survive by letting the scientific process...
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Instructional Video4:50
Curated Video

Fault Lines in China

12th - Higher Ed
Karl Gerth, Professor of Chinese Studies, UC San Diego. talks about the many fault lines in Chinese society, such as environmental degradation, that are well-known to everybody, including Chinese leaders and how solutions are not as...
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Instructional Video2:54
Curated Video

Comparing USA vs. China

12th - Higher Ed
Political theorist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, compares and contrasts how well the USA and China have been governed from an economic and human rights perspective since 1979 up to the present day.
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Instructional Video3:53
Curated Video

Technology to the Rescue

12th - Higher Ed
Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, discusses how he expects that by taking advantage of technological advances in higher education a much broader audience will be able to take a more critical look at the simplistic...
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Instructional Video4:04
Curated Video

Different Perspectives on China

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Berry, Professor of Cinese Culture at UCLA, talks about the impact his time in China and becoming fully fluent in Chinese had on him and how it provided him with an alternative perspective on differences in culture, values and...
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Instructional Video4:44
Curated Video

Definitions and the need for caution

12th - Higher Ed
Historian David Armitage, Harvard University, discusses the necessity for historians to be very cautious about the impulse to provide clarity in things like legal definitions needed by politicians, policy-makers, military officials and...
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Instructional Video5:32
Curated Video

Civic Virtue & Democratic Principle

3rd - Higher Ed
“Civic Virtue and Democratic Principle” defines the terms civic virtue and democratic principles and discusses examples of each in terms of community and the classroom.
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Instructional Video2:19
Curated Video

Citizenship and Personal Responsibility

3rd - Higher Ed
This lesson explains how citizenship includes obligations by describing examples of how citizens exercise personal responsibility.
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Instructional Video5:31
Mr. Beat

When Abortion Became Legal | Roe v. Wade

6th - 12th
In the first episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat explains one of the most controversial cases in American history- Roe v. Wade. A young woman named Norma McCorvey was single, pregnant, and scared about her future. She wanted an...
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Instructional Video3:03
Mr. Beat

The Difference Between Gambling and Gaming | FCC v ABC

6th - 12th
In episode 31 of Supreme Court Briefs, a game show gives away money and stuff, and the FCC gets all upset and tries to stop it.
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Instructional Video5:26
Mr. Beat

When Does a Police Officer Go Too Far? | Graham v. Connor

6th - 12th
In episode 15 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man with diabetes is beat up by the police who think he is drunk and just robbed a convenience store. Spoiler alert- he didn't.
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Instructional Video3:36
Mr. Beat

Broadcast Television on Your Phone? | ABC v. Aereo

6th - 12th
In episode 14 of Supreme Court Briefs, a company trying to show broadcast television on phones and tablets gets sued by, you guessed it, broadcast companies.
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Instructional Video6:57
Mr. Beat

The Supreme Court Case That Led to The Civil War | Dred Scott v. Sandford

6th - 12th
In episode 11 of Supreme Court Briefs, a slave fights for his family's freedom after they live in free states for a while.
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Instructional Video5:25
Mr. Beat

Why You Can Buy The Next President | Citizens United v. FEC

6th - 12th
In episode 10 of Supreme Court Briefs, a corporation argues it has the right to spend as much money as it wants on a political campaign because of the First Amendment.
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Instructional Video5:42
Mr. Beat

Protecting Whistleblowers | New York Times Co. v. United States

6th - 12th
In episode 24 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man exposes dark government secrets about the Vietnam War, and gets in big trouble from the government for it. Should whistleblowers be protected?
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Instructional Video4:52
Mr. Beat

Why You Get a Lawyer If You Can't Afford One | Gideon v. Wainwright

6th - 12th
In episode 9 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man can't afford a lawyer, struggles to defend himself in court, gets convicted of a crime he didn't commit, writes a letter, and everything turns out all groovy.
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Instructional Video3:30
Mr. Beat

The Federal Government Gets More Power | Gibbons v. Ogden

6th - 12th
In episode 16 of Supreme Court Briefs, two dudes fight over whether or not one can operate his steamboat in New York. In the end, the federal government just gets more power.
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Instructional Video6:49
Mr. Beat

Ending School Segregation | Brown v. Board of Education

6th - 12th
In episode 8 of Supreme Court Briefs, the Court unanimously has major issues with Plessy v. Ferguson, and ends up dramatically changing the future of the Civil Rights Movement by ruling segregation "inherently unequal.”
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Instructional Video4:05
Mr. Beat

Is Prayer Allowed at Public School? | Engel v. Vitale

6th - 12th
In the third episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat examines the first of many Supreme Court cases dealing with the separation of church and state- Engel v. Vitale. The state board of education said that students were to open each day...