If you are new to the class, please explore TED.com and the various speakers, themes, and options you can select, such as subtitles, translations, and (interactive!) transcripts.
For everyone, please respond to the following questions with at least 1 paragraph per question. (Like the last time, I would like 5-7 sentences minimum per paragraph). Please answer thoughtfully and thoroughly.
1. How well did you understand the lecture? What did you think of the speed of his speaking and his accent? Did learning about the main ideas and some of the vocabulary help you understand it better? Why (or why not)?
2. Go to 7:40 (to about 9:50). What do you think about what he says?
3. Go to 11:00 (to about 12:15). What do you think about what he says?
4. What are your thoughts on the topic?
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1. Actually, the speed of his speaking is so fast for me, and his accent is British, so it's very hard to understand without subtitle. But I like his lecture and humor. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd the main ideas are very useful because those are like summaries of his lecture. Further, I reviewed the vocabularies before watching that, so it was very helpful to understand that.
2. I completely agree with his opinion. In Korea, the public education is so similar his saying. In korea, only Korean, mathematics and English are important, and next subjects are history and science. Even when I was senior in high school, in gym class and music class, my school imposed to study the important subjects. Why did they do? Because my school was new, so they wanted to make the students enter the high level universities. I didn't know that it's the same situation in the other countries, but I was nodding during that time.
3. I agree with him again. :) When I was in university, I belonged to a dancing circle and I saw lots of people who were talented in dancing. But they had to quit dancing because if they kept dancing, they couldn't get a job. Almost all companies want to select people who have high credits in their majors. Now they are missing dancing but they can't do that any more because they lost their feeling.
4. I totally agree with him but I think it's very difficult to change the education system at once.
Everybody wants to enter the universitiy but it's more harder to get a job after graduation because everybody has a degree. So I think we have to develop the hidden talant of children more and more. We have to offer a lot of opportunities to them. As his saying we can't see far into the future.
1. It's sometimes a bit difficult because he talks with a variant debit and he somtimes speaks so fast, especially when he makes jokes! For his accent, the english one is pretty easy to understand, I think or at least for me. It's really helpfull to get to main ideas and some of the vocabulary before because we can read it first, quietly, we can understand the topic the unknown words, the listening is in fact prepare.
ReplyDelete2. He's right. Don't really know why, but he is! In Europ it's like this and apparently in UK and in the USA too. Math, language and sciences are the big ones. Maths because it forms the mind, language because you have to speak the right way and the sciences because you have to know ... that's what people told me at school when I asked why. Because "you don't live of art", because you get real jobs with these, and if you get any interest in these ... you're lost!!!!!!!
3. Once again, right! School trains us to get us to a point, that is not the goal for everyone. Not everyone wants to go to university, and not because you're not able to go there, but just because you don't want to, you don't get any interest in. Now you have to fight really hard if you want to live from a job that you don't learn in books. And I think it's very frustrating.
4. I've never thought about it, but I think now he's totally right! Exemple: Give a white piece of paper at a hight school class ask to drawing whatever they want and more than 50% of them have no idea of what to do, do the same thing in kindergarden and in 15 minutes you'll have minimum one drawing per kids! We don't really have choice at school, thought you're require to go there. You don't learn what you want to, what you're good in. That's why, I think, it's so difficult for some people to know what they want to do after Hight School. It is my problem. I really don't know what I want I just know what I don't want because I tryied it at school.
1. I think I understood what he said. Maybe I didn't understand some words but with the context I understood everything. But I understood better with the subtitles when he spoke quickly. I can understand the British accent but the main difficult thing is the fact that he spoke very fast sometimes. For these moments I needed to read the subtitles but in general I tried to listen and understand without subtitles and it was more or less okay. I didn't need to check in the vocabulary list.
ReplyDeleteI think more we watch series or movies in english, british, american or with actors from different countries who speak english, it can help us to understand better. Personally, I often do that and I'm used to listen to british english because I had roommates from Scotland or England.
2. I totally agree with what he says... In Switzerland, the education system is the same and I always thought it was not a good system because everything is based on this fact: "If you're good at school (so in maths, literature or sciences) you're valuable. If you're not good, you should try to reach the others and work for being good at school" Nobody tells you that if you are goods in sports you can take these notes to compense with your bad notes in math for example. Moreover, you have no chance to develop creativity at school. Okay you can drawn...but you can't learn photography or cinema and try to express yourself like that... You have just drawing and painting...and sports. And theses activities are always considered like "to relax your brain" and the notes are not valued like the notes for maths or literature...
So it can make the children feel bad, guilty and they can loose their self-confidence. Also, it gives us a closed image of society. You have to be good and make studies if you want to be good in the society.
3. I also agree with him. I think he speaks right because now although you have a MA, you won't automatically find a job... I realized that a few years ago and so I decided to not do a MA. To become a journalist and moreover learn how to film I don't need theories about the history of communication for example... I just need the rules and then I learn by practicing. And first, I thought that I should do a MA. And everybody in Switzerland asks me sometimes: " Why you don't do a MA?" Because everybody does like that in Switzerland... They just follow what people do. It's because we are educated like that. So I think he's right because if we change the way of educate children in the world, then could see maybe other perspectives than "to be good in maths or literature" and then then can choose. To choose isn't easy but if you try a lot of things you can see what you are good for and what you really like.
4. I think we should change the education system and a lot of workers and researchers in pedagogy made a lot of articles about the education system. The problem is always the government and the budget that they want to save for education. A teacher in psychology, researcher in pedagogy that I had in University told me once how much the swiss government put for education. I don't remember exactly but I remember the difference between the budget for school and the budget for transports or for the army. I think in America, it's maybe the same. And it's not easy to reform the education system because a lot of government don't put money for that. I know just one who do that, Finland. I saw a report about their good education system...where every children can express themselves with music, arts etc. And they can do that because the government put money for them. Maybe there are more countries but I don't know.
1. I coud hardly understand at first because of his speed of speaking and his accent. His speed of speaking is very fast for me. So I got just few words when he said fast. And because he is a British, his accent is more hard to understand. Learning about the main ideas and vocabulary help me a lot to understand. Because if I get them, I already know about what he will say. That means I have background information much more then before.
ReplyDelete2. He said about the education system in the world. That has the same hierarchy of subject. I think so too. What we tink of less important subject to succeed for example, art or dance can be the most important capacity to someone. Because applicabe capacity is all different between every person. For example I can say about Kim Yeona who is the heroine of korea. She found her capacity early when she was young and developed it. It is not the subject which is at the top of the education system. But she did very well now. Anybody can decide what is the most important subject.
3. I agree with him. All of students in korea step same stage of education. whether someone who likes drawing or someone who likes sports, it isn't considered. All are educated just in the same way. And of course the most important subjects are math and languages. And all of student study for university though they don't know what they want to do in the future. It's like making a machine which have to go university.
4. I agree with his thought. But I have thought that it was just the problem of korea. It's surprised that it happened in all country in the world. The problem seems to be in just one person but it's not. It's the problem of the society and the world. But it's hard to be changed because it's already deep rooted. And many people think degree is the most important to be high evaluated in society and it's almost true now. But it must be changed for the future. Education system should be changed. We should educate all students differently depend on their capacities or interesting parts.