#5: Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet.html

 1. What are your take aways from this video?
         My takeaways from this video are limited. I did take away the fact that it's very interesting how a marshmallow can influence a decision with the little kids. This video showed how so many four-year olds were put in a room  with one marshmallow. If they did not eat it in fifteen min, then they would get another one. 2 out of three kids ate the marshmallow before the fifteen min. were up, and only 1 out of 3 did not eat it. The results showed after many years of following the children that the ones who did not eat the marshmallow were more successful than the ones who did. I thought this was very interesting, and I would have liked to have this happen to me when I was four to determine whether or not I would be successful; if the results were 100% accurate.
 
2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?
        The speakers effective speaking techniques include connecting with the audience and providing humorous videos to make people laugh.    

3. What is his/her presentation style?
          His presentation style includes having a friendly voice in a semi-causal tone so that people do not get bored or intimidated.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
           This video has a few meaningful takeaways. This video connects to me personally by allowing me to wonder what would I do if I had taken the test; would I have eaten the marshmallow or waited for a second one. I personally think that I would have waited, but ten years ago my opinion might have been different.  To education this could have the possibility of being effective in whether or not some students need more help in some areas or if they will be successful on their own. To the world it is significant in the matter that it is the same results around the world. This makes me wonder if this test, or one like it, could possibly be in the school system in a few short years.

#4: Clay Shirky

1. What are your take aways from this video?  
       I take away fromt his video two things: 1. How there are two sterotypes of people (Civic and communal) and 2. Are all humans sterotyped into two categories or do we have the option of doing "our own thing?" According to Clay Shirky, people's products are either Communal, meaning that they are created by the people for  the people, or Civic, created by the person for the whole people. He uses an example that a day care center starting fining the parents for being late on pick up. After the fines ended, the rates stayed the same; the parents were still picking up their kids late. When you think about it, you realize that we never know these things until a real study is done. This makes me wonder, personally, if I fall into the category that doesn't change after the fines are taken away. It actually makes me nervous in a way, because I would rather be looking from the outside in as Clay Shirky does, as in knowing whats going on with these people, rather than be on the inside where everyone is somewhat oblivious to their actions.
2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?      
    The speakers effective speaking techniques include connecting with the audience in real life situations such as the website and "Lol cats". This really allows the audience to connect with the topic and relate it to their life, for example if they liked LOL cats then they could realte to the way he was connect them to his topic. 3. What is his/her presentation style?      
     Clay Shirky's presentation style is summed up by visual and specific. He is very visual in this examples by showing powerpoints with websites and specific topics, and is specific on these powerpoints. I did not care for his visual effects because they had many facts that I had no previous knowledge on and therefore I was very confused. Also, he went way to fast and lost many of his viewers including me.
4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
    This video has a few connections to the world. To the world it connects through the map that he showed; it shows different facts about what it is used for. The world also has many personal connections because he used his example of a day care center which happened to be in Israel. This is a world wide study that can really relate to any family-- from the US to Israel. He also connects to me personally when he says the importance of working together as a cognative surplus in which the world population volunteers to global progress. I like group projects more than indivudal projects, which is a smaller version of what he is talking about. I feel like if the community works as a whole then more progress can be acheived. That is what matters from this video; that the society needs to work as a whole in order for great progress to be acheived. We work better when we like the topic that we are working on (very important in an education perspective), and that is essential for creating a better world with better products.



Notes:

1. less than 3 years-global deployment
2. cognative surprlus: worl pop. to volunteer to global progress
3. 1. free time/talents -over a trillion hours of free time a year
4. 2. modern tools- large scale efforts
5. no matter ow stupid- put forward to the public
6. doing anything or doing nothing
7. design for genorsoity: how much we do things because we like to do them
8. we are all rational
9. social constraints makes a community more generous
10. communal (by participants for others) vs.  civic (created by participents but enjoyed by society as a whole)
11. civic value- change soceity

#3: Daniel Pink

1. What are your take aways from this video?  
    My take aways from this video are many emotions, especially from Daniel Pink's quote, "The mismatch between what science knows and what business does." This quote makes me think about whether or not I believe in more science or if I am effective in a business sort of way. There isn't a need to take sides at all, but in a way it makes me wonder if there are two groups in a sense that you may be one who is very logical and uses straightforward direct facts or one who uses information to make progress. I take that away from this video. 


  2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?      
 The speakers effective speaking techniques include humorous jokes to make the audience more comfortable and many jokes. He also made his voice louder on important parts so that it emphasizes the point. 


    3. What is his/her presentation style?      
Daniel Pink's presentation style includes many slides and many important key points in order for the audience to get a clear picture/understanding on what topic is being presented. 


    4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
There are many things that matter from this video. One is the fact that there is a fine line, or mismatch, between what science knows and what business does. When a person has a narrow focus, he/her will work well. This also ties in with rewards. Education and the world needs to understand, and I do too, that there are different tactics for different forms of work and how to get said work done. to do so we all must realize that we cannot entice others with sweeter carrot or threaten with a sharper stick, but we need to work on understanding certain people's focus so that the work can be done efficiently. 

        

Notes:

1. the candle problem
2. human motivation: extreient and intreient. mismatch between what science knows and what business does
3. simple set of rules and a clear destination
4. narrowed focus= work well
5. Reward narrows our focus
6. the higher the pay the better the performance in matience
7. higher incentives led to worse performances
8. entice with sweeter carrot or threaten with a sharper stick
9. autonomy: engagement=self motivation
10. science: naturla parts of business barley work
11. if then reward destroy cretivity
12. secret of high performance is the unseen drive because they matter

#2: Dan Ariely, "Are we in control of our own decisions?"

1. What are your take aways from this video?
         I take away from this video a sort of nerves and fright. In this video, Dan Ariely explains how we are much influenced in our decision making; more than we may know. In a way it frightens me to think that my decision making and free will is in a way limited when it comes to decisions with options. It also makes me think about how irrational behavior is proving to people that we were deceiving ourselves. Our intuition deceives us, because when we have options and one is more pleasing than the other, it immediately makes us think that one more dominant and we block out other options. This sense makes me wonder if my decisions have been blocked by one option more dominate, and therefore I may have possibly immediately blocked out an option that might have been more successful than the one I chose.   
2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?
          This speakers effective speaking techniques were his ability to put a person in a long train of thought in which he provided examples to allow the listener to understand the concept and relate it back to his/her life. 

3. What is his/her presentation style?
            His presentation style included many examples and many person-to-person ways in which people could connect. 

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
             From this video, many things matter. However, one important concept should be taken out. That concept is that when it comes to building the physical world we come to know our limitations.

Dan Ariely said, "If we understood our limitations, we could design a better world." This is a very important concept to me personally because I try to understand my limitations while at the same time I try to conquer anything that comes my way. This Ted Talk is amazingly honest in telling people that yes, we are all human and therefore we are not superman, we are just people. He compares some to Homer Simpson in saying that if we understand our limitations and what we are capable of, we can understand how to achieve greatness in our world. That is an important concept to take with us in the world, our lives, and in education. 

Notes:
1. Stop learning from people
2. Irrational behavior: proving to people that we were deceiving ourselves. 
3. Intuition fools us
4. "Decision Illusions"
5. Decisions are not residing inside of our, they are decided by those who decided the form. 
6. Inferior options- make the higher option more dominant
7. Useless options- no one wanted it- but useful in helping people decide what to chose. 
8. Slightly uglier- more dominant in the pretty person.
9. When it comes to building the physical world we come to know our limitations
10. "If we understood our limitations, we could design a better world."
           

#1: Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Robinson Ted Talk Response:

1. What are your take aways from this video?
            I take away from this video that Sir Ken Robinson is very interested in the idea of education in children because the world is unpredictible; he said that in 5 years we have no idea what the world will be like. He also said, "we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it". 
He also expressed the importance of intellegence through many points, for example how intellegence is distinct. He says we have to re-think the fundumentals that we use in educating our children. Our job is to make something of our future, and we need to help the next generation prepare for an unpredictable future as well.
 
2. What are the speakers effective speaking techniques?
            He takes many real life stories to realte to the subject. He also tells stories that everyone can realte to so that they can take something away from it and relate it to the subject so they can understand it better.

3. What is his/her presentation style?
            Relaxed, humorous, and comfortable. He can also be serious when need be in order to prove his point. This proves very effective in getting through to people. He's not in a very formal suit, he is in a regular business man outfit.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to your personally? To education? To the world?
           This Ted Talk reflects edudcation in our soceity and our future in our children. He somewhat supports a right brained sort of thinking, especially when he says that math is very important, but so is dance. He believes that logical subjects are very important, but so are creativity classes such as dance that can allow us to express ourselves. It connects to me personally because I am right-brained and I do personally believe in creativity classes being in our school systems. Our education should realte by having many creativity classes in order for us to reach our academic ability. Also in the world, he says that "degrees don't mean anything anymore". So many people are graduating from schooling and colleges that everyone has a degree; if we are not abstract and creative then our regular degrees mean nothing anymore. This especially makes me wonder about my future and what I will make of myself; will the world be a right-brained universe or will the left-brained soceity "rule"?