Compiled by: W. Huitt (N ~ 550)
Last updated: June 2010
Introduction to Education
Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Educational Psychology
Higher Education
The Scientific Method
Educational Research and Statistics
Philosophy and Worldviews
Science and Religion As Sources of Knowledge
Science and Humanities As Sources of Knowledge
Science and Society/Culture
Dynamic Systems and Cybernetics
Dynamic Systems and Psychology
Systems Theory and Organizations
Feedback and Associated Mechanisms
Quantum Theory and Dynamic Systems
Quantum Theory and Psychology
Information Age, Conceptual Age, and the Future (Sociocultural Evolution)
Transhumanism
Social Capital
OverviewSpiritual (Religious) Capital
- Howard Rheingold (TED): Way-new Collaboration (2005)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
- David Suzuki: True Wealth (2008)
- Conference Presentation (2 minutes)
- James Fowler: Connected: Social Networks 1 2 3 4 (2009)
- Book Presentation (about 10 minutes each)
- Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler (Microsoft Talk): Connected 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (2009)
- Invited Presentation (each segment about 10 minutes)
Holistic/Integrative/Integrated Education
School Choice and Privatization (Charter Schools,, Vouchers, Homeschooling, etc.)
School Characteristics and Processes
Social and Economic Development
Overview
- Jordan School District, Utah: Pay Attention (to Digital Learners) (2007)
- Video Slideshow (8 minutes)
- A Vision of K-12 Students Today (2007)
- Faculty Video (4 minutes)
- MSN Video: Is It OK for Kids To Be Busy? (2007)
- Professional Video (6 minutes)
- CBS News: Overscheduled Kids (2007)
- Professional Video (4 minutes)
- New York Now: Overscheduled Kids (Part 1) (Part 2) (2007)
- Professional Video (10 minutes each)
Learning Style
- Daniel Willingham: Learning Styles Don't Exist (2008)
- Video Slideshow (7 minutes)
- Raising Small Souls: Animal School Movie (2008)
- Video Slideshow (5 minutes)
Personality, Temperament
- Zach Anderson: Four Basic Personality Types (Temperaments): In Hungarian with subtitles
- Demonstration (3 minutes)
Academic Learning Skills
- Academic Skills Center (Dartmouth College): Variety of Academic Success Videos
- Time Management (18 minutes)
- Note Taking (8 minutes)
- Stress Management (10 minutes)
- Reading Improvement (11 minutes)
- Strategic Learning (9 minutes)
- Teachers As Trainers: High Schools That Work (Northwest Ohio)
Development of the Self
Overview
- Various Authors: The Greatest Enemy: Ego
- Video clip (2 minutes)
- Joseph Chilton Pearce: Educating The Whole Child (Part 1) (Part 2) (2004)
- Guest Lecture (10 minutes each)
- Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD): The Whole Child (2007)
- Professional Video (6 minutes)
- OnlineMotivator.info: Self Development Quotes (2007)
- Video Slideshow (4 minutes)
- Beyond The Looking Glass: Body Image and Self-esteem (Quicktime) (1999)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Beyond The Looking Glass: When Food Becomes An Obsession (Quicktime) (2004)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Beyond The Looking Glass: Emotion and Pain: Understanding Self-injury (Quicktime) (2004)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Maya Carlson: Self-Efficacy (2008)
- Interview (8 minutes)
Student Learning Disabilities
Human Development
Overview
Brain Development Adolescence Language (Including reading, etc.) Play Evolution and Origins of Life
Brain
and Biology
Overview
- Carl Sagan (PBS): Cosmos: A Personal Voyage--The Human Brain (1980)
- Professional Video (clip-10 minutes)
- Annenberg Media: The Brain--Teaching Modules (1997)
- Professional Videos (32 modules of varying lengths)
- Discovery: The Brain: All You Need To Know (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
- The Brain (TeachersTV): The Learning Brain (2007)
- Professional Video (15 minutes)
- Michael Dowd: Thank God for Evolution (workshop presentation, 2008)
- Ginger Campbell: Brain Science Podcast (2007-2009)
- Episode 53: Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? [Book Review] (2009)
- Oliver Sacks (PBS): Musical Cognition (2009)
- Professional Video Clip (1 minute)
- Oliver Sacks (PBS): Is the Brain Wired for Music (2009)
- Professional Video Clip (2 minutes)
- Vilayanur Ramachandran (TED): Mirror neurons: The neurons that shaped civilization (2009)
- Conference Presentation (8 minutes)
Genetics
- The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves (2006)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Woodrow Williams: Zen DNA (DNA-Based Art) (2007)
- Professional Video Art Project (6 minutes)
Structure
- How The Body Works: Professional Video Segments (Varying Lengths) (2007)
- Brain Lesson 1
- Professional Video (2 minutes)
Function
- Discovery Channel: (2007)
- Neurons and How They Work (5 minutes)
- Brain Plasticity (6 minutes)
- Nature:
- Brain Cell On-Off Switch (2008) (6 minutes)
- The Frontal Lobes: Cognition and Awareness (2007) (9 minutes)
- Annenberg Media: Discovering Psychology (1990, 2001)
- The Behaving Brain (29 minutes)
- The Responsive Brain (27 minutes)
- Helen Fisher (TED): The Brain in Love (2008)
- Conference Presentation (16 minutes)
- MaryMary Helen Immordino-Yang (USC Rossier School of Education): Social and Affective Neuroscience in Education (2008)
- Guest Lecture (75 minutes)
- Jill Bolte Taylor (TED): My stoke of insight (2008)
- Conference Presentation (22 minutes)
Brain and Spirituality
- Isabelle Raynauld, Director (National Film Board of Canada): The Mystical Brain (2006)
- Professional Video (52 minutes)
Consciousness
Overview
Near Death Experience
Spirituality
- Father Thomas Keating: Religious, But Not Spiritual? (2007)
- Conference Presentation (15 minutes)
- Ken Wilber: The Spirituality of Tomorrow (2007)
- Conference Presentation (18 minutes)
- Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion (2008)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Karen Armstrong: Making the Case for God (2009)
- Interview (10 minutes)
Science and Spirituality
- Ken Wilber: Spirituality and the 3 Strands of Deep Science (2006)
- Conference Presentation (8 minutes)
Spirituality and Education/Schooling
Science and Design
Science and Religion
- Jeffrey Kasser: Problems With Social Constructivism and Post-modernism (2008)
- Course Lecture (6 minutes)
- Gretta Vosper (CFI): With or Without God (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (2008)
- Guest Lecture (19 to 30 minutes each)
Religion and Schooling
- Rick Warren (TED): Living A Life of Purpose (2006)
- Conference Presentation (21 minutes)
- Dan Dennett (TED): A Secular, Scientific Rebuttal To Rick Warren (2006)
- CoConference Presentation (25 minutes)
- The Big Debate: Religion in School (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (2008)
- Professional Video (10 minutes each)
- MSN Video: Teaching The Bible in Public Schools (2008)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Education Week: U.S. Life From Muslim Students' Viewpoints (2008)
- School Life (1 minute)
- Views of the U.S. (1 minute)
- Being Muslim (1 minute)
GeneticsThe Body
- James Watson (TED): The Double Helix and Today's DNA Mysteries (2005)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
Nutrition
- Dean Ornish (TED): On Healing (2004)
- Conference Presentation (17 minutes)
- Dean Ornish (TED): The World's Killer Diet (2006)
- Conference Presentation (3 minutes)
- Mark Bittman (TED): What's Wrong With What We Eat (2007)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
- Ann Cooper (TED): School Lunches (2007)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
- Jamie Oliver (TED): Teach Every Child About Food (2010)
- Conference Presentation (22 minutes)
Academics
- Sarah Ray: The Positive Influence of Physical Activity on Academic Performance (2009)
- Presentation (12 minutes)
Learning and Development Theories (Overview)
Behavioral Learning Theories (Classical and Operant Conditioning)
Sensation, Perception, and Awareness
Cognition, Thinking, and Knowing
OverviewInformation Processing
- Steven Pinker (TED): The Stuff of Thought (2005)
- Conference Presentation (17 minutes)
- Michael G. Harmon (BigThink): The Host of Reason (2008)
- Talking Face (11 minutes)
- Michael Wesch (EduTube): Information R/evolution (2008)
- Amateur Video (6 minutes)
- Tom Wujec (TED): Three Ways The Brain Creates Meaning (2009)
- Conference Presentation (6 minutes)
Cognitive and Concept Maps
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: Cognitive Processing
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Annenberg Media: Discovering Psychology (Professional Video; 28 minutes each) (1990, 2001)
- How The Body Works: Human Information Processing (2007)
- Professional Video Segment (2 minutes)
- Robert Sternberg: (Interview; each clip about 3 minutes) (2007)
Multiple Intelligences
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: Multiple Intelligences (2003)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Dr. Louis Pugliese (interview) (VideoJug) (2007)
- Types of Intelligence (12 minutes)
- Helping Your Child Learn (12 minutes)
- Middle-school Verbal and Mathematical Skills (12 minutes)
- Middle-school Rhythmic and Spatial Skills (12 minutes)
- Middle-school Inter- and Intrapersonal Skills (12 minutes)
- David Elkin (Davidson Films): Piaget's Developmental Theory: An Overview (1989)
- Professional Video (4 minutes)
- Examples of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
- Student Video (4 minutes)
- Davidson Films: Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Conservation
- Professional Video Segment (1 minute)
- Davidson Films: Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Non-conservation of Length
- Professional Video Segment (1 minute)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Pre-operational Stage
- Student Video (3 minutes)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Conservation of Mass (4-year-old)
- Professional Video Segment (2 minutes)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Conservation Tasks (4-year-old and 7-year-old)
- Student Video (5 minutes)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Concrete Operations
- Student Video (11 minutes)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Concrete Operational Child
- Professional Video Segment (1 minute)
- Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Abstraction and Hypothetical Propositions (15-year-old)
- Professional Video Segment (2 minutes)
- Davidson Films: Vygotsky's Cognitive Developmental Theory: An Introduction (2004)
- Professional Video (4 minutes)
- Linda Elder (The Foundation for Critical Thinking): Mission and Purpose (2008)
- Professional Video (5 minutes)
- Richard Paul (The Foundation for Critical Thinking): On The Elements of Thought (2008)
- Professional Video (5 minutes)
- Richard Paul (The Foundation for Critical Thinking): Standards of Thought (Part 1) (Part 2) (2008)
- Professional Video (9 minutes each)
- Richard Paul (The Foundation for Critical Thinking): Critical Thinking and The Intellectual Traits (2008)
- Professional Video (10 minutes)
- Linda Elder (The Foundation for Critical Thinking): Critical Thinking for Children (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (2008)
- Professional Video (5 minutes each)
- Pamela Idahosa: Critical Thinking: A Reasoning Experience (2007)
- Faculty Video (5 minutes)
- teacher.tv: The Case for Creativity in [Primary] School (2006)
- Professional Video (15 minutes)
- Edward de Bono: Creative Thinking (2006)
- Interview (4 minutes)
- Edward de Bono: Six Thinking Hats (2008)
- Interview (3 minutes)
- Edward de Bono: Lateral Thinking (Part 1) (Part 2) (2008)
- Interview (12 minutes each)
- Amy Tan (TED): Where Does Creativity Hide? (2008)
- Conference Presentation (23 minutes)
- Tim Brown: The Powerful Link Between Creativity and Play (2008)
- Conference Presentation (28 minutes)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (TED): Nurturing Creativity (2008)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: Metacognition (2003)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Annenberg Media: Discovering Psychology--Judgment and Decision Making (1990, 2001)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Barry Schwartz (TED): The Paradox of Choice (2005)
- Conference Presentation (20 minute)
Wisdom
- Wisdom: directed by Andrew Zuckerman
- Interviews; Segments of 60 minute professional video (10 minutes)
- Barry Schwartz (TED): The Real Crisis? We Stopped Being Wise. (2009)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
Affect and Emotion (Emotions, Socioemotional Development,Values)
Overview
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: Emotions and Learning (2003)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Dacher Keltner: Human emotion (2006)
- University course -- podcasts of course lectures (approximately 45 minutes each)
- Dan Gilbert (BigThink): What is Happiness? (2007)
- Interview (6 minutes)
- Richard J. Davidson (Edutopia): The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning (2007)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
- Edutopia: Why Champion Social and Emotional Learning? (2008)
- Professional Video: Introduction to Multiple Resources (30 seconds)
- Paul Ekman: States of Emotion Moods, Traits, & Disorders (2009)
- Interview (2 minutes)
- PBS: This Emotional Life: Overview (2010)
- Professional Video (3 part series; each about 50 minutes)
Emotional Intelligence
- Edutopia: Emotional Intelligence: An Overview (2001)
- Professional Video (20 minutes)
- Edutopia: Smart Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning Overview (2007)
- Professional Video (13 minutes)
- Daniel Goldman, D. (2007). Selling SEL (2007)
- Interview recorded at CASEL Forum (6 minutes)
Facial Expressions and Emotion
- ABC Australia: Smile School: Japanese Are Taught to Smile (2000)
- Professional Video (7 minutes)
- Sarah Oh: Micro Expressions: The Face of Deception (2006)
- Social Psychology Project (6 minutes)
- Paul Ekman: Lie Detection (2007)
- Video Clip (2 minutes)
Compassion and Empathy
- Daniel Goleman (TED): Why Aren't We All Good Samaritans? (2007)
- Conference Presentation (13 minutes)
- Jeremy Rifkin (RSA Animate): The Empathic Civilization (2010)
- Animated audio presentation (10 minutes)
- Jeremy Rifkin (Vision): The Empathic Civilization (2010)
- Conference Presentation (51 minutes)
- Paul Ekman: Darwin and the Dalai Lama, United by Compassion (2010)
- Video Segment (8 minutes)
Happiness
- Dan Gilbert (TED): Why Are We Happy? Why Are We Not Happy? (2004)
- Conference Presentation (21 minutes)
- Matt Harding and Melissa Nixon: Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth (2008)
- Dances Around The World (5 minutes)
- Dr. Lynn Ianni (VideoJug): Get Happy
- Interview (6 minutes)
- Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark (2008)
- Anthony Grayling: Happiness versus Flourishing (15 minutes)
- Sonja Lyubomirsky: Happiness and Human Flourishing (16 minutes)
- Srikumar Rao: Plug Into Your Hard-wired Happiness (2009)
- Conference Presentation (17 minutes)
- Daniel Kahneman: Happiness: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory (2010)
- Conference Presentation (20 minutes)
Forgiveness
Optimism
- Sherwin Nuland (TED): A Meditation on Hope (2003)
- Conference Presentation (12 minutes)
Positive Emotions
- Helen Fisher (TED): The Science of Love, And The Future of Women (2006)
- Conference Presentation (16 minutes)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow (TED) (2008)
- Conference Presentation (22 minutes)
- Barbara Fredrickson: Positivity (2009)
- Interview (26 minutes)
- Sanford Danziger: Staying Positive: Becoming a Totally Responsible Person (2009)
- Workshop Presentation (30 minutes)
Resiliency
Subjective Well-Being
- Daniel Kahneman: Explorations of the Mind: Well-Being (2007)
- Invited Presentation (60 minutes)
- Yasmin Vossoughian (Gallup Poll): Global Well-Being
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Daniel Kahneman: The Well-Being Explosion and What's Next (2009)
- Interview (5 minutes)
Values
Affect/Emotion & Learning
Humanistic/Open Education
- Center for Inquiry (CFI): Robert Green Ingersoll: Secular Humanist (2008)
- Professional Video (8 minutes)
Positive Psychology
Conation, Volition, and Self-regulation (Paradigms, Goals/Needs, Will)
Social Learning and Social Cognition
Relationship of Cognition, Affect, and Conation
Moral Development and Character Education
Overview
- Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 (2007)
- Jonathan Haidt: Enlightenment 2.0 Requires Morality 2.0 (30 minutes)
- Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark (2008)
- Jonathan Haidt: When Righteous Minds Light Candles: A Few Cautions (24 minutes)
- Sam Harris: Can We Ever Be Right About Right and Wrong (21 minutes)
- Marco Lacoboni: The Evolutionary Precursors of Human Morality (22 minutes)
- Patricia Churchland: What Can Science Teach Us About Morality (16 minutes)
- Michael Sandel: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009)
- Harvard University Course (each segment 55 minutes)
Theory
Programs
Specific Virtues, Values, Attributes
- ESPN (KarmaTube): Sara Tucholsky's First Home Run (2008)
- Channel 8 News (KarmaTube): Pay it Forward at the Pump! (2008)
Human Flourishing
Curriculum and Lesson Planning
Overview
- Annenberg Media: The Science Of Teaching Science, K-8 (1995)
- Professional Video (8 90-minute programs)
- Annenberg Media: Case Studies In Science Education, K-8 (1997)
- Professional Video (25 30-minute programs)
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: Cognitive Apprenticeship (2003)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Richard Baraniuk (TED): Good-bye Textbooks, Hello Open-source Learning (2006)
- Conference Presentation (18 minutes)
Kindergarten/Elementary
- Annenberg Media: Teaching Math: A Video Library, K-4 (1997)
- Professional Video (6 15-minute programs)
- Annenberg Media: Science K-6: Investigating Classrooms (1999)
- Professional Video (9 programs of varying length)
- From Good to Outstanding (TeachersTV): Classroom observations and discussions (2007)
- Improving Primary Math Instruction (30 minutes)
- Improving Primary Reading/Language Arts Instruction (30 minutes)
- Improving Primary Science Instruction (2008) (30 minutes)
Middle Grades
- Annenberg Media: Teaching Math: A Video Library, 5-8 (1997)
- Professional Video (6 fifteen-minute programs)
- Annenberg Media: The Missing Link: Essential Concepts For Middle School Math Teachers (2000)
- Professional Video (8 one-hour programs)
Secondary
- Teachers As Trainers: High Schools That Work (Northwest Ohio)
- Annenberg Media: Teaching Math: A Video Library, 9-12 (1997)
- Professional Video (6 fifteen-minute programs)
- Skills Championships (TeachersTV): Developing World (Vocational) Skills Champions (2007) [USA organization]
- Professional Video (30 minutes)
- From Good to Outstanding (TeachersTV): Thirty-minute classroom observations and discussions (2008)
- Improving Secondary English Instruction (2008)
- Improving Secondary Geography Instruction (2008)
- Improving Secondary Math Instruction (2008)
- Improving Modern Foreign Language (German) Instruction (2008)
- Improving Secondary Science Instruction (2008)
- Getting Help from Voice & Communications Expert (2008)
- Tim Bedley: Constructivistic Social Studies Lesson (Grades 4 & 5) (2008)
- Faculty Video (4 minutes)
- Uncut Classrooms (TeachersTV: Fifty-minute uncut classroom observations
- English (2008)
- Science (2008)
- Modern Foreign Languages (Italian) (2008)
- Business and Economics (2008)
Considering Individual Differences
Overview
- Annenberg Media: The Learning Classroom: The Structure Of The Disciplines (2003)
- Professional Video (28 minutes)
- Future School (TeachersTV): : The Curriculum Challenge (2006)
- Professional Video (15 minutes)
Mathematics
- Arthur Benjamin (TED): Lightening Calculation and Other "Mathemagic" (2005)
- Conference Presentation (15 minutes)
- M. J. McDermott: Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth (2007)
- Faculty Presentation (15 minutes)
- Pearson: The Next Generation of K-6 Math Instruction (2008)
- Professional Video (15 minutes)
- Dan Meyer (TED): Math Class Needs a Makeover (2010)
- Conference Presentation (12 minutes)
- Keith Devlin (DGREE): A Dilemma of Improving Math Education (2010)
- Conference Presentation (13 minutes)
Reading/Language Arts
- Children of the Code: The Challenge of Learning to Read and Write (2007-2008)
- We Have A Problem (13 video segments)
- Causes and Contribution Factors (13 video segments)
- Read-I-Ness (7 video segments)
- Shame (8 video segments)
- A Brief History of the Code: Part 1 (6 video segments)
- A Brief History of the Code: Part 2 (7 video segments)
Science
- Marian Diamond: General Human Anatomy (2005) #1
- Lecture (39 45-minute lectures)
- Videos relating to physics: from Andrea de Copa
- Various sources and times
- TeachersTV: Primary Science (15 minute professional videos) (2006)
- Periodic Table: Ferocious Elements
- Demonstrating Chemistry: Exciting Elements
- Science Learning in Second Life (2007)
- Professional Video (4 minutes)
- Ed Evans: Innovative Science Teaching in Rural Schools (2008)
- Interview (5 minutes)
Second Language
- Susan Weaver: Strategies-Based Instruction: Teacher-Training Video
- Professional Videos (14 segments--examples for Hebrew, Spanish, Italian & Hindi)
English as a Second Language
Social Studies
- Tony O'Driscoll: Virtual Social Words and the Future of Learning
- Professional Video (10 minutes)
- Constructivist Social Studies Lesson Grades 4/5
- Student Interviews (4 minutes)
The Arts
- Annenberg Media: The Art of Teaching the Arts
- Professional Video (8 60-minute programs)
- Becoming A Teacher: Employing Drama in the Classroom (2006)
- Professional Video (3 minutes)
- Oliver Sacks (PBS): The Importance of Early Music Training (2009)
- Professional Video Clip (2 minutes)
Vocational/Technical
Classroom Management
- U.S. Consumer Product Product Safety Commission: Multiple Videos
- Professional Videos (Various Lengths)
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB): Multiple Safety Videos
- Professional Videos (Various Lengths)
- Public Safety Information Network: Multiple Videos
- Professional Videos (Various Lengths)
- National Ag Safety Database (NASD): Be Safe and Sound (Says Safety Hound) (2002)
- Professional Video (13 minutes)
Compensatory Education and Drop-out Prevention
Assessment, Measurement, and Evaluation
Data-based Decision Making
Teacher Education and Teacher Certification &
Teacher and Faculty Performance
Dr. William G. (Bill) Huitt
Dept. of Psychology & Counseling
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698-0001
(229) 333-5930