Practice 9: Analyzing a TED talk

Analyzing a TED talk

  1. What’s the topic of the TED talk? What’s the main idea? When does the speaker introduce the idea? How?
  2. What are the means of support used by the speaker to convince us that his opinion is right? Provide examples
  3. Whats the speakers conclusion? How does he conclude?

  1. The topic of the TED talk is children’s creativity, being the main idea how the school system negatively affects to it. He introduces the idea during the first few minutes of his speech, after a joke, by saying that society is educating children for a future that is unknown.
  2. The speaker uses examples, quotations or personal experiences to prove his point. For instance, he talks about a school play in which his son took part and soon after he quotes the UNESCO.
  3. His conclusion is that humanity has started treating the concept of a 'bright mind' as it treats natural resources, which will bring bad consecuences for the future. He concludes by talking about what TED talks is.

Opinion paragraph

Ken Robinson defends that schools are killing children's creativity, saying that society is mining intelligence as it mines natural resources. I share his point of view. While I was rewatching the video to make a great paragraph I realised most of the comments where written by students that were forced to write a paper about the speech. Hypocritical, right? Taking into account his TED talk is to emphasize the importance of creativity during childhood, would not making children come up with their own proyects or TED talks be a better idea? After a fashion, this is how schools are killing children creativity.

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