John Hunter TED TALK #5

After listening to John Hunter talk about how the future of our world being in our children's hands, He really shows that the kids have the right ideas, but we need to teach them how generate these ideas into solutions for today’s problems. After listening to John talk, I can't help to think that personal problems get in everybody's way. While looking at the way that the United States Congress addresses the issues of our country, their politics and family matters get in the way. This is John theory, and to tests his theory, John gives his 3^rd grade classes a list of the issues. While a 40 Year old has lots of issues to interfere with his decision making, a 3^rd grade boy only takes in the facts and says what he thinks about it. The simplicity that the problems are addressed with causes the children to look at the issues with best intentions in mind. While almost everybody with power would look at a solution that they can benefit from, children do not look at their decisions on the broader scale. The future does not have as big effect on their thoughts. So I encourage you to listen to John’s TED talk and think about, “if you were to have the power to make decisions for the world, would personal issues influence you?”

Sir Ken Robinson

After listening to Sir Ken Robinson Speak about the different ways in which modern school systems take creativity out of their students, I also took away more then just what he said. I learned the best strategies in a TED talk. The best strategy that Ken uses best, is the use of comic relief. The joke that lighten the mood, yet still keep the topic very serious. this keep the audience interested while also adding a person touch into the entire speech. His topic in this particular TED talk was the ways school systems take kid's creativity, and "mold their brains" into what the teachers want instead of whats best for the student. He brings up the scenario of a dancer who couldn't sit still as a child. The unusual ways of diagnosis in which the doctor gave her intrigued Ken since instead of just giving her medication for A.D.D., the doctor turned on music and watched the end result. He saw none of this happening in school systems, and just the ordinary teaching strategies. He believes that if teachers were use other teaching strategies, that the future wouldn't look so bleak for our generation.