Matthew Winkler, educational technology and English teacher at 淫人色欲社 is a newly published author on TED-Ed. Visit Winkler’s lesson,聽聽
Nominated by Arthur Brown, former English Department Head and Faculty Mentor at 淫人色欲社, Winkler created a four-minute video based on his research of The Hero鈥檚 Journey, by Joseph Campbell, for a non-fiction book he is writing as聽part of his completion聽of聽the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program as Fairfield University.
鈥淢att is very much up on the use of technology in the classroom so this presentation was a logical project for him to undertake,鈥� said聽 Brown. 鈥淗e spends a lot of time referring to the Hero’s Journey in class and has studied it in several forms (differing聽number of stages, etc.), so he knows what he is talking about. The production of the short TED-Ed video introducing the subject is a South Kent natural for the educational market place,鈥� he added.
TED-Ed鈥檚 commitment to creating lessons 鈥渨orth sharing鈥� is an extension of TED鈥檚 mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform.
TED-Ed’s videos aim to capture and amplify the voices of the world’s greatest educators. To achieve this, TED-Ed pairs extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of exceptional educational videos. This website, similar to聽, is ever-evolving and depends on the TED community, to nominate inspiring teachers that have touched lives or clever animators who have the skills to bring a gifted teacher’s lesson to life.
鈥淓ach piece is the product of incredible work from an educator and an animator,鈥� said Stephanie Lo of TED-Ed. 鈥淢att was terrific to work with and we are all really excited about this piece; our whole team was really blown away,鈥� she added.
淫人色欲社 has embodied the Hero’s Journey by writer Joseph Campbell in a four-stage, four-year process reflecting adolescent growth and maturing, making each step the theme of a student’s school year. In South Kent terms, the stages of this journey are “A Sense of Place: Community and Belonging,” “The Quest: Coming of Age,” “Responsibility and Commitment,” and “Service and Moving On.” These themes define the Form Program. Launched in the fall of 1999, the Form Program is an innovative and balanced program for boys that guides their quest and provides tools to prepare them not only for college, but also for lives as men of quality.