Dave Eggers- TED Talk #6

What are you take-aways from this video? What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques? What is his/her presentation style? What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?



Through this video, I believe Dave Eggers wished to encourage communities to get together and work towards the goal of improving the youth's education and confidence. He urged business owners to reach out to public schools and work one on one with its students. This human interaction would enable students to learn at a better rate as well as gain confidence in the subject they're being tutored in. I think he wished to share the idea that education must be combined with the idea of fun and extravagance, rather than just being related with the word "boring." Through his ideas, he encouraged support throughout a community which would ultimately contribute to the community's unity.

Egger's speaking techniques involved using visual examples which aided his speech. Through these pictures, he was able to portray the environment of his tutoring center, which contributed to the understanding of his overall objective. Egger's was also able to relate his ideas to the pictures which helped lead his discussion. Throughout his TED Talk, his nervous behavior also led to many openings for jokes which eased the audience and make the TED Talk more enjoyable. This paralleled his ideas of integration with entertainment and information.

Dave Egger's ideas about coming together as a society supported the ideas of previous TED Talk participant, Shirky. They believe that if the world collaborates through an organized objective, modern day's society will improve and progress in a positive way, hopefully portrayed in today's youth. This new method of combining the ideas of fun and learning, as Eggers says, would change the perspective of education. Working one on one to create a comfortable environment would ultimately lead to the children's success in subjects needing improvement. He believed that this human interaction is beneficial to the developing minds of children. If this method becomes prominent in our society, the idea of school would change. Instead of expecting lectures, one would look forward to individual, possibly hands-on learning. I believe this type of learning would show the most advantages in the right brained thinkers. Through visual and interactive methods, these children would learn in ways that they learned best, rather than molding every child into the note-taking, A plus student. Personally, I support Egger's determination to create a tutoring program that targets certain children's interests. His ability to relate and connect to the young mind enables him to create a diverse form of education, which I believe will greatly benefit our future education system.