Pranav Mistry

My take aways from this video are my thoughts about how I can't wait for this technology to have mainstream usage. It is an incredibly intelligent and useful idea and will be very useful in the future. Pranav's effective speaking technique is using hand gestures and being exactly on with his slides, in order to have an effective, ordered, and intelligent presentation. His presentation style is his bounty of evidence he puts forth to the audience. What matters here is human progress. Sixth-sense technology will make humans much more "evolved" and be able to do much more. It's also convenient compared to current systems. At this point in time, to take a picture, you have to take out a camera. To play a game, or make a call, you need to pull out a phone. With this, you can conveniently do everything efficiently.  The future will change the lives of all, and it will be all for the better.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Dave Eggers

My take aways from this talk is how strong it's message is. Reaching students for education is something that really matters. Students shape the future because they are the young adults of tomorrow. If schools all took an intelligent approach like this, America's position in the world. Extensive teaching and opportunities make students' progress rise incredibly in learning. Eggers' effective techniques are making sure he has a truckload of interesting information in his TED talk. Dave's presentation style is laughing along with the audience, making it seem like he's the audience member's best friend talking to them on the weekend. What really matters from this video to education and the world is how the kids are taught. They are children who don't do many productive/mentally enriching things at home, and after being tutored, are excited about writing. Some children don't know how smart and intelligent they are, and only through education can it be brought out. Dave Eggers' TED wish was something that was really different compared to all other TED talks I have seen. He had a powerful call to action that should make people inspired to hopefully change the world.

Joe Smith

 My take aways from this video are how ridiculous and very smart this TED talk was. This talk was about how to only use one paper towel. Joe was effective because he interacted with the audience. This made them remember what he said much more effectively than if he had just talked. Smith's presentation style is hands on activity that the observers can watch. This means the people are more engaged, trying to see what he's doing. This video was a very different TED talk, because it was about paper towels. That by itself was hardly an idea worth spreading, but the underlying idea was that americans waste far too much paper. Billions of pounds of paper towels are used every year, and this TED talk discussed how to save millions of pounds per years by drying hands with one paper towel. Earth's natural resources will run out eventually at humanity's current rate, but if we slow down our usage, we can renew everything we need.

http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_smith_how_to_use_a_paper_towel.html

Lucy McRae

My take aways from this video are how amazing the idea of body formation being changed is. Humans being able to change ourselves physically is something that could change all social thoughts the human race has. Physically we could talk to each other ,and not need to bother using more modern methods of communication. Lucy's effective speaking technique is how she is so passionate about her work, and that makes her TED point come across all the better. Her presentation style is to show many pictures and videos and then describe them. This works well since McRae is talking about a subject that is very visual. What really matters to the entire world in this video is how humans developed language and writing to communicate, and new technology might make it obsolete. Animals such as squid and peacocks communicate using color on their bodies. Humans could not do this and therefore needed a way to get ideas across. As a result, language was developed. Now with technology, humans may evolve backwards to work the way less sophisticated animals do. This is a very feasible idea in the future, and will very likely happen.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body.html

RIchard Baranuik

What I took away from this video was thoughts about my experience with open source content. I have read books listened to music and heard sound effects that  are open source. They can be legally changed and copied. Richard's effective speaking techniques are walking and always facing the audience. He's also always smiling and is ready to speak about his subject. His presentation style is to mostly give a speech with limited assistance from a projector, in order to display pictures to the audience. What really matters is how effective open source learning is/would be. Students have free things to work with and learn more effectively then they are today by a large amount. Education is tedious, but incredibly important because the youth inherits the earth and must know what to do, and go beyond that, improving on what the previous generation did. Open source is a brilliant idea that must stay in the world and develop to many things. Authors and artists must know about this, and do something about it, adopting open source to their own works. The world doesn't stand still, and must go on, with new ideas to run it.


http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html

Clay Shirky

What I take away from this TED talk is how true it really is. Cognitive surplus does lead to creativity and there is not enough civic value in it. People need to spend the trillion hours per year on more intelligent things. LOLcats are hilarious in my opinion, but it's ridiculous how many such things are online. Shirky's effective techniques are that he uses popular culture to illustrate his point quite well. His idea of cognitive surplus comes across much more effectively because of this. Clay's presentation style is to speak to the audience while using a projector to show examples of his ideas. This is usually highly effective in all speakers. What really matters from this video is how the world is wasting a lot of valuable time humans have, and it shouldn't be wasted like it is being wasted now. In the world, laws and restrictions suppress creative techniques that can help others in our 21st century. Education, countries and people can all change more intelligently to use our cognitive surplus to benefit all.

Daniel Pink

What I am taking away from this video, is how shocking the results are. Almost everyone believes that larger rewards cause better performance. The fact business needs to change is very obvious after watching Pink's ideas, but it's not likely to happen soon. The fact it won't happen is a bad sign for the future,  and needs to be changed differently. Daniel Pink's most effective technique is appealing to the audience's intelligence by discussing a high level topic and talking sense with it. This advanced thinking helps make Pink's point come across much more effectively, and his TED worthy idea will get more attention to it as a result. His presentation style is to have practiced his talk so many times, that he can speak and express what he wants to casually yet professionally and effectively. What really matters is the idea that worldwide business is failing, and is doing so right after tough economic times for the US and a lot of the rest of the world. The failing business could be recovered by taking what science knows and applying it to everyday interaction with other businessman to make everyone's day simpler and more profitable. The world cannot just sit by and let 2000 years of human progress end, so we must change. Take what science learned almost a century ago and finally use it in everyday life, to make life generally better and more stable for the 7 billion humans on planet Earth.

Sir Ken Robinson

This was a very interesting TED talk. It discussed how people must be wrong to be creative, and how education suppresses that idea. This talk was effective because Robinson was very casual and joking about his subject. It felt like he was talking to a small group of his friends. He presents his ideas by getting up on stage and giving stories, metaphors, and reasons. This video talks about how public education's current principles will collapse if they are not changed. Schools need to change how they work in order to keep the United States youth afloat in the future. Robinson's stories from his own life is something everyone can relate to. They also are related in each other to his idea of education. Sir Ken Robinson's main idea is that schools suppress creativity and that must be stopped. The human imagination is the most powerful thing on earth, and we have to be careful with it's power and how it develops. Mathematics, English, science, and history are all very important, but other things are just as important. Ken asks why dance is not a class in school. There is no sensible reason why this couldn't be a class for children who wish to express their creativity physically. By adding such courses to the public school system, the US would find their kids being much more successful in life than they are now. The future is coming, and it won;t get here any slower, so we all need to change in the changing world of tomorrow. Time waits for no man, and the world changes quickly.