TED+Talks

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This was a very interesting video. Being a recent undergraduate, I have seen the affect that video games can have one people. People are obsessed with video games I mean the video said 70 million people play Farmville and 10 million people are playing World of War Craft. People love the awards that video games provide fro accomplishing a task. The speaker feels that engagement can be improved through providing these awards for task completion. There is a lot of research both psychologically and physically to be done by observing people playing video games.

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Johnny Lee has been doing research to help make technology much more accessible to the general population. He has taken a Wii remote and turned it into an interactive white board at about 1% of the cost of a traditional one of these. This is great for schools that have budgeting issues and lack technology such as the one I am at. This will allow for learning through technology in which a lot of students would not have been able to experience.

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Sir Ken Robinson believes that education is hampering student’s ability to be creative. This is important point he believes because he feels that as educators were are preparing students for jobs that do not even exist yet. Creativity is an important ability that education should develop within students, and he points out that this cookie cutter mode of education that currently exists is hurting student creativity which he believes is one of the most important skills a person needs to develop.

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This TED tells the story of how social media helped in bringing awareness upon a situation. In this case it was a company called Greenpeace which was trying to stop the Japanese wale hunting. This news took off like crazy, and the social media site Reddit.com had a naming contest for the wale. Although, Greenpeace was upset at losing some control of the situation and at what they considered making light of the situation the social media effort did have a big impact on the wale war situation in Japan. This goes to show you the power and lack of control of social media in today’s world. It can be used both for good and bad.