Tuesday, May 3, 2011

TED talk #7

After watching My seventh TED talk on Mr. Arvind Gupta, I realize that many people in todays society do not have the necessities that a human being needs to survive. His talk incorporates the thought that if other meet the needs of others, He creates toys out of trash that help people learn. Living in India, Arvind realizes the stuggles that many poor families face everyday. The fact that he uses essentially trash inorder to teach science, math and basic shapes, helps the children that learn with visual techniques better then just a teacher writing and explaining what the words mean. The most break through toy he shows to me was the wool drawings. This may not sound very "breakthough" but with the 12 billion blind children in the world, this drawing pad theaches them to draw and lets them figure out the different shapes needed to create these images. This cheap tool may not only revolutionize the future for kids  with disabilities, but may also lead to the advancements so that children with disabilities can live a life extremely close to a normal kid without disabilities. growing up with friends effects by these challenges makes me think, "if only this someone had thought of this ten years ago. If only someone had looked through the trash instead of asking for more funding from the government, would kids i grew up with would have been 'normal'."

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