Ted Talk Analysis

This Tedx talk was by Ron Espiritu, an educator of ethnic, Chicano and African American studies for high school students in south Los Angeles. He has found that ethnic studies is empowering, liberating and transformative for young people. Ron talks about researchers finding that ethnic studies has positive academic and social results for students of all races and ethnic backgrounds. He talks about his grandmother being forced to wear a sign on her chest saying she won't speak Spanish. I never knew that schools were against different languages to this extent. I thought it was acceptable to speak different languages, I was very wrong. Ron goes on to talk about his mother who used her mother as an inspiration. He talks about his mother becoming

In the Ted Talk this week, Rebecca Onie, discusses how Healthcare could be altered to instead work towards creating long lasting impacts towards the road to health rather than simply alleviating illness. To be able to do this we must first understand why are some patients unhealthier than others and what do we need to change in our current health care to implement healthy practices.

Scott Dinsmore's Ted Talk was a inspiring Ted Talk one of the best ones that I watched. College students believe they know what kind of job they want, but when they start they realized they hate. Okay, now it's time to answer the question. The work that I can't not do is film. You don't need to look to far to be inspired all you have to do is go on Youtube and thousands inspirational videos appear. Thats what I want to do with my videos inspire people so they can do something great.

Moreover, Carol S Dweck and her team set out to determine the implications of growth mindset vs fixed mindset individuals. After typifying each student and determining their role in the group, her article “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” had proposed, “How can the education system implement and teach growth-mindset tactics to teachers, parents and students as a means of increasing student success?” Teaching students that intelligence is malleable is the next step in helping children understand their full potential. To address this point, David Paunesku, Stanford behavioral scientist, created an online method of conducting controlled, randomized experiments. His team enlisted 1,594 students from 13 US high schools, 2% of which were under-performing. The students were divided into two groups, one of which watched a video on

The author of this Ted Talk is Charlie Todd, who titled it “ The Shared Experience of Absurdity. Charlie has been doing improv astonishingly for 10 years since he decided to move to new york with an interest in acting and comey. When TOdd moved however he didn’t have access to a stage as you can imagine. Determined however to make due with what he had he took to the public; filming his humorous improv acts with citizens. SInce taking to the streets in improv he has filmed well over a 100 videos, impressively racking up over 400 million views.

This was a very interesting Ted talk. If you are not really paying attention to the video you would think tomato sauce, mustard what is this guy talking about? But if you are closely listening you begin to hear the deeper meaning of his presentation. In my opinion Gladwell central argument in the Ted talk video, is humans are a diverse race who happiness cannot be measured, because deep down humans are unsure of what they want. Therefore when given options, their opinions will change. Gladwell uses Howard Moskkowitz food studies as an example to argue his case.

Starting off with why I chose this Ted Talk video, is because when I was first shown this video a few years ago, I was immediately intrigued. Prior to that video, I had not heard many success stories about someone being able to continue living their life with a mental illness, such as schizophrenia. What makes this video even more remarkable, is that we were first-hand able to witness someone who has schizophrenia speak about their mental illness. In my opinion, this is completely different than hearing about schizophrenia from your teachers or from books. As we all know, schizophrenia impacts lives in a multitude of ways and unsurprisingly, can ultimately ruins lives. Elyn Saks made a comment that “The schizophrenic mind is not split, but is shattered” really puts into perspective what someone with schizophrenia feels or experiences. As did the entirety of her speech.

Why having a growth mindset is good for someone. This helps people thrive on challenges. If people develop a growth mindset it could help them embrace their challenges. Embracing challenges could help people reach higher level of achievement. “Those with a growth mindset, on the other hand, were keenly attentive to information that could help them expand their existing knowledge and skill, regardless of whether they’d gotten the question right

There has always been this issue that the Christian faith and the natural sciences cannot intersect with one another. This is even emphasized more when it comes to the ideas of evolution and faith. One has always been told to chose the belief that the world was created through the basis of natural science or the creation story in the Bible, found in the book of Genesis 1. To get an understanding on the perspective of how earth and evolution was viewed, Karen Strand gives us a biblical interpretation as a biblical scholar, while April Maskiewicz gives us biological view as a biology professor. Despite Strand and Maskiewicz being from different academic disciplines, their arguments complement each other in the aspect that they both acknowledge

"Mom, Dad, can we talk? I have something to tell you. I am gay." Those words are the nightmares of many parents, religions, and even the persons proclaiming it. Does one just wake up one day and decide, "Today, I want to be gay.", or is it after agonizing years of contemplation, second guessing what you feel inside, and what your brain is telling you? Sexual orientation is not a choice, but rather predetermined in the womb.

This is a video was posted on the khan academy’s website where the founder, Sal Khan interviews Carol Dweck a professor of psychology, Stanford. The main aim of this interview is to inform all people about growth mindset and how you can grow and challenge it. Deweck described growth

The study shows every time when pushing the students out of their comfort zone to learn something new or difficult, they neuron become new stronger connections. Over time, the students can get smarter. What can we do to help? Created the kids who are hardy and resilience, not praise the intelligent or talents because this has been failed. We as the teachers should praise the process for the students to increase the learning ability to engage, effort, strategy, progress, and improvement. We should make the students think they have the power to believe that they can improve and challenge themselves. Instead of telling a student or showing the grade that they are failing the class, we should tell them that they are not yet. Not yet doesn’t mean they are the failures, they are moving on to challenge

To highlight the ideas Nancy K. Baym addressed in her chapter, Communities and Networks, I found a TEDx Talk by Rosianna Halse Rojas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JmFXtbsL2g), an online content producer who looks at online communities as having a positive impact. Rosianna Halse Rojas is a YouTuber with 42,000 subscribers who, in the TEDx Talk describes herself as an active member of an online community (YouTube). In her TEDx Talk, she describes how her love for Harry Potter fueled her interest in online content and online communities.

Kate Simonds’ Ted Talk speaks out the truth of inequity towards young people, especially on teens in regards of voicing and expressing their thoughts and ideas without being neglected. It discusses the challenges of teens’ voice being heard due to the societal perception towards the insignificance of young people’s voice as they are labeled as “naive and ignorant”. Kate Simonds’ stated on her Ted talk that “the only qualification to being a TED speaker is to have an idea. An idea you think is worth spreading” which she stated to be a problem due to her age of 17 which will lead to her idea being accounted to be worthless. To further emphasize her point of unfairness, She added humor on her speech saying “you’re only respecting me because I’m on this stage. Maybe it’s because you like my extremely high heels” which somewhat makes her acceptable to the society to be heard of as she wears “high heels” which can represent maturity because it is most common and norms for an adult to wear heels. Her introduction was well executed as she was able to outline and introduce the problem, thus, leading her to state her opinion on her thesis that “any idea should be respected no matter the age of who it comes from.” Furthermore, she discusses how unfairness towards teens are present in many different situations where adults neglect and don't respect her voice and it was stated that “according to a Life Science article from 2008, that because [she’s] a teenager, [she] can’t experience empathy which is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” Also, argues that students are being looked down upon and she talks about the expectations from students such as following the system education and how they are not expected to oblige. Overall, this discusses how young people are often told “You don’t get it, you’re 17. You don’t deserve to have the control over what you learn” this statement is contributing factors to why many voices are often unheard because others are ignorant.

Can architecture heal, or is that just a myth? According to Michael Murphy’s TED Talk, healing is most definitely possible with the proper use of architecture. He gives several examples where architecture, either he or another architect designed, healed multitudes. He includes in the talk a personal story as to how his father was “saved” from terminal cancer, along with many other firsthand accounts of this situation all around the world. Murphy uses pathos throughout his talk to emphasize the importance of architecture in healing that many people tend to overlook or do not even realize it exists.