Good critical analysis desconstructing some of the things people say about how we learn from TED videos. And I think this point is especially relevant: "Nobody watches a TED talk for "just-in-time" learning. People watch TED talk for entertainment." I like TED videos, in MP3 format, to listen to when I'm riding my bicycle. But I wouldn't say I'm really learning from them. TED videos tend to oversimplify and suggest that complex phenomena can be reduced to a single point (did people even say "here's the thing..." before TED videos?) and that intractible problems can be solved by an uninformed outsider with an innovative idea or different perspective.
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