TED Talk #1: Sir Ken Robinson

1. What are your take-aways from this video?

• You shouldn't be afraid to be wrong about something. Most children aren't afraid to be wrong and we should learn that from children.
• Why shouldn't dance be taught at schools like math is? You can easily make a career in dance as you can in math or science.
• Humans are separated from animals because of our creativity in the world.

2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?

• Sir Ken Robinson's speaking style is funny. He uses humor throughout his TED talk to keep his audience involved and interested in what he's talking about.
•  He uses many references to things that everyone knows about and can relate to. He challenges the audience to imagine William Shakespeare as a little kid to tell his information about children. 
• He uses his personal stories to make a point.

3. What is his/her presentation style?

• Robinson doesn't move around a lot on the stage. He stays where he is but he does use his hands sometimes to emphasize a point.
• He changes topics a lot but each topic is closely related to the other and stays on the main idea of what he is trying to talk about.
• He wasn't holding a note card and he didn't stand at a podium. His performance was very casual.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?

•  This video matters because Robinson talks about how the world is changing.
• This video matters to education because he says how education in schools shouldn't just focus on math but also the arts like painting and dance.
• This TED talk matters to me personally because I really enjoy the arts so these ideas that he is talking about really excite me because I feel that my future may be more open to careers in the arts.
• This video matters to the world because it demonstrated how the world could change in the path of creative thinkers.