...Connect, But Alone Does too much of a good thing ever become a problem? Sherry Turkle was trying to answer that question in her TED Talk, “Connected, But Alone?” Turkle was once a huge fan of the innovations of the Internet and she was also in awe of it but she realizes the negative effects of having an instant connection to anyone, anywhere, anything. Turkle gives examples from research she performed to show that technology has become very addicting and that we have become very secluded because of our overuse. She also gets her audience to examine their own personal experiences. What Turkle is showing from her research may make a lot of people unhappy. People will be unhappy because no one agrees to have a problem, especially in the case of addiction. Turkle wants to shine a spotlight on technology addiction, though it may not be as bad as a drug or alcohol addiction. Nevertheless, it is still an addiction. Turkle knows she has to establish credibility in order for her to diagnose mankind with this condition. Turkle uses two different appeals to make this happen. Her first appeal was to use emotion, while her second was informing the audience of who she is by sharing her background with them. In her first appeal, she shared a text from her daughter at the beginning of her presentation. The text message read, “Mom, you will rock.” “I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug,” she told her audience (Turkle). Just by sharing that little conversation between her and...
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...Assignment 2: Ted Talk Analysis IST 235: Gender and the Global Information Technology Sector Spring 2016: Kayla Booth This is an exercise in applying class material to understand and challenge ideas about masculinity and femininity in the workplace. This assignment requires an analysis of two Ted Talks: “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders” and “New Data on the Rise of Women.” You are being asked to demonstrate critical thinking about the arguments being made in each talk and how they relate to one another. Additionally, you are to discuss how each speaker uses data to support her points and how each talk relates to class concepts. To complete this assignment, listen to the two Ted Talks posted in Angel. The links are located in the “Assignments” folder under the “Lessons” tab. Write a 3 page (double spaces, 12 point, one-inch margins) paper addressing the following items: 1) In what ways are the arguments made in these two Ted Talks similar / different? For example, do they build on or refute one another? What would be an example? Which argument do you agree with and why? 2) Compare the data presented by each speaker. What insights have you gained about the way statistics can be collected, used, and interpreted to make an argument? 3) How does the argument made by each speaker relate to one or more of the concepts surrounding masculinity and femininity discussed in class? Cite the date of the specific class lectures in which these concepts were discussed...
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...2015/4/7 TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience TED Talk Takeaways: 8 Ways to Hook Your Audience By Gavin McMahon on July 30, 2014 | 8 Comments “You will live 7.5 minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk.” This was the claim that video game designer Jane McGonigal presented to the crowd during her June 2012 TED talk. As the camera panned over the members of the audience, their faces showed universal skepticism: Was this lady serious? There was something else interesting about that crowd. Despite their doubtful visages, everyone in the audience was drawn in by McGonigal’s words. No one was checking their email, talking to their neighbor or looking at the camera circling in front of them; all eyes were fixated on the (potentially crazy) speaker. Great hooks, like McGonigal’s provocative opening statement, get audiences on the edge of their seats and give them a sense of what’s coming. They allow you to win a crowd’s attention right away and give you a legitimate chance to have a lasting impact. Consider the alternative: Have you ever witnessed a presentation where a colleague starts by saying something like, “OK, so we’re going to run through a few major takeaways from last quarter and hopefully be out of here within the hour?” Snooze! All that has you thinking about is whether you should go to the bathroom now or in 20 minutes. Starting your presentation in an unorthodox way provides your audience with...
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...資管一 李坤樸 B00705031 未來人機介面互動模式 頁 1 目錄 前言 3 第一章 淺談人機互動模式--------------------------------------3 第二章 多元的人機互動-----------------------------------------4 第一節 逐漸實際的體感輸入---------------------4 第二節 聲控互動--------------------------------------5 第三節 腦波互動--------------------------------------7 第四節 結合螢幕即鍵盤的新界面---------------9 第三章 數位世界---------------------------------------------------10 結論 12 參考資料 圖片來源 13 14 未來人機介面互動模式 頁 2 前言 就現代而言，資訊科技顯然已經滲透人們生活的各個層面，影響之深、之廣 遠超出過去人們想像力馳騁下的世界。隨著科技日益進步，各式涵蓋精密結構、 晶片的機器推陳出新，逐漸便利人們生活、改變人們生活型態、甚至影響全球產 業的發展。目前人們生活上已很難脫離這類機器，未來這類機器想必更加融入我 們生活中。因此，人與機器的互動逐漸成為不可漠視的議題，每一次人機互動模 式的革新都可能影響全世界的走向 因此 以下探討未來人機互動的形式 應用。 ， ， 、 第一章：淺談人機互動模式 過去－現代－未來 18 世紀中葉，英國因應人口增加、勞力 過剩的問題，率先發展成熟技術，造就影響 深遠的工業革命，世界各國也爭相跟進，製 造產業因此蓬勃發展。人們拋棄費時費力的 手工加工製造產品、取而代之是已電氣化的 大型機具，當時人們以手動控制機械，期盼 機械的效率 持續性可以大幅降低生產成本、 、 增加利潤，大型機具的確達成人們需求，但 機具輸出不僅僅大量作功、連帶排放出廢氣 黑煙、混濁汙水，嚴重影響人們健康及生態 環境。 近代環保意識高漲，工業時代下的人機互動早已不合時宜，而電腦這項跨時 代、革命性產品的出現，衝擊了全球生態、改變你我生活。早期電腦科技應用十 分侷限，主要應用於簡易計算、資料處理方面。資料主要以打孔方式儲存、必須 經由 1 至 2 天的工作時間，處理結果才會出來，然而除了電腦專業技術人員外， 一般人根本無法勝任打孔作業程序、讀懂資料結果，因此，當時也只有技術人員 可以與電腦進行互動。直到螢幕顯示器、鍵盤及滑鼠的出現，人們藉由游標選取 物件、鍵盤輸入訊息，最後在螢幕上顯示執行命令所造成的改變，人機互動趨於 未來人機介面互動模式 頁 3 頻繁，人們也逐漸習慣這種互動模式，沒有重大的突破，反而著墨於人體工學的 研究，企圖改善長時間使用電腦造成的文明病；追求更高階的螢幕顯示技術，滿 足需求漸大的視覺享受；研發讀 寫速度更快的技術，滿足產業上 需求。除了電腦之外，一般家電 大多靠遙控器進行遠端控制，互 動模式基本上也與電腦類似。此 時，人機互動模式發展趨緩，一 方面因這種輸入輸出模式，操作 上並無太大問題，大多數人早已 習慣 另一方面因技術尚未成熟， ； 導致一些想像力創造出的理論， 當時還沒有能力付諸實現。 最近幾年間，技術彌補實行上困難，科學家已有能力實行一些前所未見的互 動模式，包括聲控、體感輸入、虛擬實境、甚至僅以腦波進行控制，這些長久以 來，只在科幻場景中出現的技術，隨者科技不斷進步，終於不再遙不可及，或許...
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...Memes What are memes? I remember hearing a TED talk with Richard Dawkins (he coined the word) where he explained that meme is simply a rogue cultural variant. My curiosity was peaked and had to find out more. Memes surround us like the air we breathe. We don’t realize it but memes are present when we wake up pour the first cup of coffee of the day and turn on the news, drive to work, take the train, memes continuously embed themselves into our subconscious every day. Memes are simply “pieces” of culture. These pieces or units range from political To shoes to the frivolous and every place in between. Memes are absorbed through our cultural consciousness where they evolve, mutate, compete or simply die or lie dormant. Search Terms: Richard Dawkins Lumsden and Wilson Cultural Transmission Recessive Memes Meta Representations Culturegen Distin 'unit of information residing in the brain' that is dependent on representational context’ = Dawkins definition of a meme Representation of a representation is a meta representation. Memes unlike genes cannot reproduce themselves, our culture is the physical manifestation(phenotype) of the meme. Memes can be compared to heuristic algorithms within a computer program that influence the culture in which it is created. This leads to future iterations of memes. I think of memes this way. Years ago I went to an in-service training entitled “effective communication strategies in management”. We did this...
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...AEIS 102 Summer 2015 TED Talk Directory You will listen to one of the following talks. Look at the talk titles and descriptions. Go the survey site and select on that has not been chose. Then go to |# |Title |Description | |1 |Could your language affect your |What can economists learn from linguists? Behavioral economist Keith Chen introduces a fascinating pattern | | |ability to save money? |from his research: that languages without a concept for the future -- "It rain tomorrow," instead of "It will| | | |rain tomorrow" -- correlate strongly with high savings rates. | |2 |A mini robot – powered by your phone |Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. Keller | | | |Rinaudo demonstrates Romo, the smartphone-powered mini robot who can motor along with you on a walk, slide | | | |you a cup of coffee across the table, and react to you with programmable expressions. | |3 |The emergence of “4D printing” |3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next | | | ...
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...TED - Ideas worth spreading This fascinating website stands as an open-minded organization in which powerful different perspectives are shared by individuals interested in helping society for better knowledge, education, behavior, and reflection to the global community. It surely embraces the nature of ideas for communities or individuals who embark spreading the power of an opinion at a proper understanding. It brings together such a diverse variety of knowledgeable individuals who discuss twenty-minute talks that have an impact spiritually or mentally while invoking vivid imagery and potential persuasion. The rhetorical aspect of Ted talks is to spread the beauty of powerful ideas,...
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...“THE SHIFT” IN EDUCATION Children in modern world surf internet for lots of purposes. Among those children I am also a one person who searches internet a lot. I definitely use to search interesting videos in YouTube. Ted Talk’s in You Tube is one of the most popular lectures that all people listen. I also listen to them, there are lots of lecturers who do Ted Talk’s, and among them Sir Ken Robinson is my favorite lecturer. Among his lectures “The Shift in education” is the lecture that took my personal respect. In this Ted Talk he talks about the culture of American education contradicts three principles that make human life thrive: diversity, curiosity and creativity. Humans naturally embody those qualities, but school has become a system based on conformity and testing, qualities that don’t use the natural learning tendencies that every child has. In this lecture he makes an argument about the individualized learning, but also for valuing teachers and thinking their skill and professional development as a future investment in children. According to him teachers should be facilitators in the class rooms instead of been instructors with which I can agree more. According to my point of view flipped classrooms helps teachers to transform their class rooms and use the time for group works and to interact with the students more. We've probably reached an environment in which children are some much bombarded by stimulations on a permanent basis some very appealing, psychologically...
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...JT McCarthy Mrs. Thrash English 1113 October 29, 2015 Ted Talk What we want in life is something that goes through my head almost every day. The wonder of what happens after someone dies or the wonder of what we are actually doing here in life. BJ Miller made his speech very well on these subjects. He lost his two legs and an arm in an accident that occurred his sophomore year of college. BJ works at Zen Hospice Project and thinks deeply about how to make a dignified, or graceful end of life for his patients. He says that many people want comfort, respect, and love. He talks about his accident and how it made him, in a way, face death and really think about what he wants in life. It’s very interesting to think about, especially in a personal sense. What I would want are probably the simple things that he mentioned, and maybe help people along the way. The way he presented his speech was very laid back and calm, kind of like a casual talk with a friend. He made a few funny comments which got the crowd laughing a little bit and kept them engaged. The way he put talking about death into context made the speech not as depressing as it should be. Also he was very calm throughout the speech which made it pleasurable to watch him. Watching his speech was very informative and made people think. His speech gave very good points and made sense. He also talked about making the most out of being dealt a bad hand and is in a way an example of that. He shows great leadership...
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...Heather Jervey Paul Allen and Miller Hane University 101 September 2 2014 Now is the time to change When psychologist Meg Jay’s TED talk, “Why 30s are not the new 20s” went public, there must have been much controversy on the validation of her points. Is this real? What happened to ‘Thirty Flirty and Thriving’? Life begins with college graduation and not one moment should be wasted with the excuse, “Oh, as long as I figure things out by the time im thirty”. Resumes don’t get any better, your memory doesn’t get any sharper, and you don’t get any younger. When looking for a job later in life, your employer will know these things. Meg describes her personal “Ah ha!” moment, when finally comprehending that no relationship, no bar tending job with the plan to “do better next year” will actually go anywhere. As Meg draws attention to, in her opinion, the benign neglect that so many twenty-somethings struggle with, she suggests what the consequences for such could be. Job rates decreasing and unhealthy marriages being the most prominent. Psychologists, Sociologists, Neurologists, and Fertility specialists all have evidence to back up the theory that these years mark the pivotal movement of one’s life, and the key developmental stages of their body. “You’re not getting any younger!” Starts to become a joke among friends, while its seriousness is often overlooked. Fertility, being a prime example, becomes increasingly more difficult with age, and a lot more complicated. On another...
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...Watch this Ted Talk. Do you agree or disagree? Support your opinion with our learning to date. After watching the video, I agree with Bill Gates’ that the United States needs to make a commitment to increase educational spending for younger generations. In recent years, state governments have been making significant cuts to state education in an effort to work to reduce the United States’ 10% deficit per year. Bill Gates argues that the long term equity from spending on education and healthcare far outweighs the equity from spending in other governmental areas. Gates’ solution to the problem is simple. His first proposal revolves around the idea of upgrading our tools and technology. In a country that spends more on education than most other countries, his ideas here are well deserved. Next, Gates believes that accounting for schools should be closer to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and should be clear and honest. Gates argues that the current accounting method for schools follows a “buy now, pay later,” mentality. And, finally, Gates preaches that Politicians should be rewarded for their efforts to reduce the deficit. States have used many different methods to hide their ‘budget balancing’ accounting practices. Moreover, in future years, educational spending is projected to go up, perpetuating the already monumental educational budget deficit. This ongoing ‘debt clock’ should raise red flags to State Legislators to this systemic problem. Unfortunately, the...
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...The danger of single story when it comes to judging people or made any perspective towards others we generally very quick on it. Whenever any story, news or information about something comes to us, we generally believe in this story and make respective about it in the same way. People make their perspective towards other and judge them before even they actually meet them. In this TED talk, Adichie talks about how she become a victim of a single story of others and how others were a victim of her single story. Throughout ted talk, she explained it in very well-mannered fashion by giving the examples from her personal life experiences. I choose this topic because this topic is related...
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...Ted.com Ted.com (Ideas worth Spreading) is an online learning website which primarily presents short lecture videos from worlds brilliant thinkers on several topics. Presenters include Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners. Originally it started with the idea of Technology – Entertainment – Design; the website today covers a lot more topics and has videos of several leaders from different aspects of life. It’s a free world of free knowledge for everyone who wants to know more about a certain topic or wants to share and engage in discussion with others with similar interests. The website is well organized in terms of layout and intuitiveness. The topics covered were of interest to me and anyone interested in science-technology will surely find them exciting. Also there are so many other topics including global issues, humanities, arts, etc. The topic on the page which I visited “http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_blum_what_is_the_internet_really.html” was very interesting. The author put everything in the right perspective and overall it was very informational and easy to follow. The best feature of this website is that it has the videos for approximately 18 minutes, not too long to get boring, nor too short. It was enough time to express the complete idea and let the audience grasp it. Also there are several other features which are pretty basic and common with some...
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...Ian Gilbert Words by Sylvia Plath is a powerful poem that strikes at the very meaning of words and their potential. At first glance, feelings of strength and energy wash over the reader. When reading it out loud its almost impossible not to picture an overdramatic actor clenching their right hand and looking up to the sky. The use of the word indefatigable makes this poem quite self evident in the power and emotion spewing from that word. The emotion throughout the poem is almost direct pain. This is shown immediately with the first word “Axes.” After reading it a few times this word is still the most striking because words are like axes. They can be very painful. This pain can also be seen in the lines “Wells like tears” meaning more pain caused from words. From this the reader can infer that Plath was probably recently struck down by words. The next striking visual comes from the use of sound and the way sound acts. “Echoes traveling off the center like horses” giving the reader a great sense of indirect onomatopoeia and a stunning visual. A rock dropping into water gives a similar visual with the use of circles, making another reference to the way sound can have an impact. The final three words of the poem sum up at least some of the meaning within the poem. “Govern a life.” This is very accurate for the majority of us. We try not to, but we live the majority of our lives according to what we hear people say about us and what we should do. All these things that she described...
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...Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson By Mitch Albom Courtesy: Shahid Riaz Islamabad – Pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com “Tuesdays with Morrie” By Mitch Albom 2 Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the enormous help given to me in creating this book. For their memories, their patience, and their guidance, I wish to thank Charlotte, Rob, and Jonathan Schwartz, Maurie Stein, Charlie Derber, Gordie Fellman, David Schwartz, Rabbi Al Axelrad, and the multitude of Morrie’s friends and colleagues. Also, special thanks to Bill Thomas, my editor, for handling this project with just the right touch. And, as always, my appreciation to David Black, who often believes in me more than I do myself. Mostly, my thanks to Morrie, for wanting to do this last thesis together. Have you ever had a teacher like this? The Curriculum The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience. No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor’s head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his...
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