Selected Resources for Lecture Report & Note-Taking Assignments
Video Lectures
Education
Health & Lifestyle
Media Studies
Psychology
Linguistics/ World English
Science & Technology
- TED Radio Hour. "How Much Can Children Teach Themselves?" Dr. Sugata Mitra talks about his amazing experiments in learning. You'll be surprised at the result. 10 minutes; difficulty ***
- Gabe Zicherman: "How Games Make Kids Smarter" 16 minutes difficulty level ****
- Dr. Stuart Brown: "Play is More than Fun" 26 minutes; difficulty level ***
- Dr. Nicholas Negroponte: "One Laptop per Child" 17 minutes; difficulty level ***
- Sir Ken Robinson: "Bring on the Learning Revolution" 17 minutes: difficulty level *****
- Howard Gardner: "Five Minds for the Future" Lecture at Ross Institute's Summer Academy, 2007. 45 minutes; difficulty ****
- Patricia Kuhl: "The Linguistic Genius of Babies" 2010; 10 minutes; difficulty level ****
- James Flynn: "Why Our IQs are Higher Than Our Grandparents'" 18 minutes *****
- Salman Khan: "Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education" 20 minutes ****
- Daphne Koller: "What We're Learning from Online Education" 20 minutes ****
- Video: Sugata Mitra: "Kids Can Teach Themselves" 23 minutes ****
- Annie Murphy Paul: "What We Learn Before We're Born" 15 minutes ***
- Lenora Chu: "'Little Soldiers' Examines China's Military-Like Education System" NPR interview; audio only; 7 minutes; difficulty ****
- Ray Anderson: "The Business Logic of Sustainability" 16 minutes ***** beautiful southern U.S. accent; challenging vocabulary
- Richard Wilkinson: "How Economic Inequality Harms Societies" 17 minutes **** British English
- Loaves & Fishes Speech: "Dave Dahl from Dave's Killer Bread" 15 minutes ****
- Iqbal Quadir: "Mobile Fight Poverty" 16 minutes; difficulty ****
- Lisa Gansky: "The Future of Business is 'The Mesh'" 15 minutes; difficulty ***
- All Things Considered (National Public Radio) "As Overseas Costs Rise, More US Companies are 'Re-shoring" 6 minutes, **** Broadcast January 26, 2014
- Paul Piff: "Does Money Make You Mean?" 16 minutes; difficulty ****
- Michael Norton: "How to Buy Happiness" 11 minutes: difficulty *****
- Keith Chen: "Could Your Language Affect Your Ability to Save Money?" 12 minutes ****
Health & Lifestyle
- Ariana Huffington: "How to Succeed? Get More Sleep!" TED Talks 4 minutes; difficulty ***
- Julian Treasure: "5 Ways to Listen Better" TED Talks 8 minutes; difficulty ****
- Graham Hill: "Why I'm a Weekday Vegetarian" TED Ed 4 minutes; difficulty ***
- Sandra Aamodt: "Why Dieting Doesn't Usually Work" TED Talk 12 minutes; difficulty ***
- Bel Pesce: "5 Ways to Kill Your Dreams" TED Talk 6 minutes; difficulty ****
- Robert Waldinger: "What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness" TED Talk 12 minutes; difficulty ***
Media Studies
- Paul Lewis: "Crowdsourcing the News" 17 minutes: difficulty level **** (British English)
- Gary Kovacs: "Tracking Our Online Trackers" 6 minutes ****
- Mikko Hypponen: "Who Are the Hackers?" 17 minutes ****
- Avi Rubin: "All Your Devices Can Be Hacked" 17 minutes ****
- Eli Pariser: "Beware online 'filter bubbles'" 9 minutes ***
- Sherry Turkle: "Connected, but Alone?" 20 minutes ***
- Cameron Russell: "Looks Aren't Everything. Believe Me, I'm a Model" 9 minutes. ****
Psychology
- Amy Cuddy: "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" TED Talks. 21 minutes; difficulty ****
- Elizabeth Loftus. "The Fiction of Memory" TED Talks. 17 minutes; difficulty ****
- Psychology 110 (Introduction to Psychology) website. Dr. Paul Bloom, Open Yale Courses. This site includes the entire course: syllabus, all course materials, all the lectures (video), powerpoint slides and tests.
- Helen Fisher. "Why We Love; Why We Cheat" TED Talks. 23 minutes; difficulty ****
- Helen Fisher. "The Brain in Love" TED Talks. 15 minutes; difficulty ****
- Dr. Paul Bloom, Yale University. Psychology 110: Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 1. This video shows the first day of class and outlines course requirements and the basic scope of the course. Interesting! 45 minutes. Difficulty ***
- Dr. Paul Bloom, Yale University. Psychology 110: Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 2: "This is Your Brain." 53 minutes; difficulty ***
- Dr. Paul Bloom, Yale University. Psychology 110: Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 3: "Foundations--Sigmund Freud" 56 minutes; difficulty ***
- Dr. Paul Bloom, Yale University. Psychology 110: Introduction to Psychology, Lecture 4: "Foundations--B. F. Skinner" 58 minutes; difficulty ***
Linguistics/ World English
- Andras Kornai (interview on CBC) "Is the Internet Fueling Language Extinction?" 15 minutes; ****
- John McWhorter: "Txtng is Killing Language. JK!!!! 14 minutes; difficulty level ****
- Patricia Ryan: "Don't Insist on English" British English 10 minutes; difficulty level ***
- Lisa Lu: "How Books Can Open Your Mind" 7 minutes; difficulty ***
- Amy Cuddy. "Your Body Language Makes You Who You Are" 20 minutes; difficulty ****
- Keith Chen: "Could Your Language Affect Your Ability to Save Money" 12 minutes; difficulty ****
Science & Technology
- Manu Prakesh "A 50-Cent Microscope that Folds Like Origami" 10 minutes; difficulty ****
- Mikko Hypponen "Three Types of Online Attack" 9 minutes; difficulty ***
- Lorrie Faith Cranor "What's Wrong with Your Pa$$wOrd?" 17 minutes difficulty ***
- Mark Bittman: "What's Wrong with What We Eat" 20 minutes; difficulty ***
- David Roberts: "Climate Change is Simple" 15 minutes; difficulty ****
- Luis Von Ahn: "Massive-Scale Online Collaboration" 17 minutes; difficulty **** The inventor of CAPTCHA discusses his newest, most amazing project--DuoLingo
- USGS (United States Geological Survey) Lecture Series. This site has links to videos of many, many public lectures sponsored by this government agency. Many scientific topics are covered. Most lectures are about an hour long.
Audio Lectures for Note-Taking Practice (.mp3)
- "The Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People do Bad Things" This is an in-depth and fascinating story from National Public Radio that combines the topics of business and psychology. It focuses on real people--just like you and me--and shows exactly how they get started down the wrong road. 18 minutes. Difficulty: * (includes full text and "graphic novel" in addition to audio). Just listen to the story a couple of time and take notes. Repeat difficult sections several times. Then, write the main ideas of the story from your notes. Finally, check your work by reading the article.
- "The Politics of Immigration, Labor, and Food" City Club of Portland Friday Forum. Speaker: Paul Apostolidis, Judge and Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science, Whitman College. Date: January 29, 2010. "Play now" or download .mp3 audio file. 60 minutes
- "Earthquakes in Oregon" City Club of Portland Friday Forum. Speaker: Scott Burns, Professor of Geology, Portland State University. Date: March 12, 2010. "Play now" or download .mp3 audio file. 60 minutes