a sumary of ted talk- how to learn? from mistake by diana laufenberg

This ted talk is entitling with how to learn? From mistake

From the title above, we can imagine that what talk that she gives us, it is about learning, the speaker was born in a family who highly love education and learning. Told by her that, when her grand mother went to a school for geting information and continued by her father, h also went to a school just for getting an information and save the knowledge in brain. That’s how the information is transmitted from one to another. And when she was young, there is an encyclopedia in their home that make feel happier and better that other children, it because she can get lots of knowledge and how to interact with others well.

In her teenagehood, her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, she begin to teach at school which governed ny american system and quite bored. In the second year, she started to think that, the system must be changed, students have to acquire knowledge by themselves.

Again, from kansas, she moved to Arizona, there she challenged the students to create their own story, like a video of their life and said it is their very first experience, no one knows how to create it but really interested in it. The students energically create it and dubb the sound by their own sound which become an amazing video.

Then, she moved to pensylvania, where she remained stay, there, she also teach students and changed an old paradigma that, school for getting information. Based on her grand mother and father’s experiences, she would like to make students become creative and able to get the information bythemselves. They can get it everywhere not only in the school,they can learn everything from every where.

The main point is that, if we continue to look at education as if it's about coming to school to get the information and not about experiential learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure,we're missing the mark. And everything that everybody is talking about today isn't possible if we keep having an educational system that does not value these qualities, because we won't get there with a standardized test, and we won't get there with a culture of one right answer. We know how to do this better, and it's time to do better.

a summary of ted talk- 3 ways to speak english by jamila lyiscott

Honestly, when i watch and listen to the talk, i merely listen to her words not the meaning of it, she is an amazing tri-tounge orator. She actually want to deliver a message about three ways of speak english. She said that she is a tri-tounge orator because she can speaks differently in different people, to her friends, in her classroom(with teacher) and with her parents, that’s all because she is articulate. When her friend ask her something, she easily answer it because sheis articulate, so does when her lecture ask a question, inteligently she answer it by tainting with a connotation of urbanized suggestion with There’s no misdirected intention because she is articulate as well. Furthermore, whe hre father asked her, her articulate never go, it still the same. but who controls articulation? Because the English language is a multifaceted orationSubject to indefinite transformation. She herself control the articulate that she has, she also put an ability of tri-tounge orator in her job application in order to help to diversify your consumer market and later, if she is called to do an interview, she would be lovely to do it.

That’s all my summary about this topic, i m sure that it sounds weird but, that it is..

a summary of ted talk-dont insist on english by patricia ryan

Patricia ryan is a language teacher that has been in gulf for over 30 years, she has seen a lot of changes there. She along with her friends was brought to teach English because the government wanted to modernize the country and to empower the citizens through education. The major change that she has seen is, how can english become a massive international bussiness from being a mutually beneficial practice.  it has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth, So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. The speaker see it as a weird condition, when someone wants to continue a study in U.K or U.S, one must able to speak english even s/he is really genius in scientific computer, but s/he is still rejected just because they don’t have English as guidance. The speaker love having a global language but hate if it is as a barrier for another else.  There are lots and lots of tests of English. And millions and millions of students take these tests every year.but because the test taker are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. So immediately they are being rejected.

Some people might think that, by english, they can give their children the best chance in life.here is  story,  There are two English scientists. They were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of animals. But they couldn't get the results they wanted. They really didn't know what to do, until along came a German scientist who realized that they were using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not differentiate and neither does German. So bingo, problem solved. If you can't think a thought, you are stuck. But if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more. When a language dies, we don't know what we lose with that language.

This is an advice from patricia ryan : People who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know. Let us not keep them and ourselves in the dark. Let us celebrate diversity. Mind your language. Use it to spread great ideas.

a summary of ted talk -The linguistic genius of babies by patricia kuhl

Usually, if we see a baby, what comes to our mind is  her eyes and the skin we love to touch but the speaker has different mind in looking them, it is all about what we cannot see, that’s what is in their brain. This ted talk tell us how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition.

The speaker said that in india, there is a mother who speaks koro, a newly discovered language, she teaches it to her baby in order to preserve the language, he choose baby because of their brain, it has to do with brains. Language has systematic period i learning and The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven so that is why, babies and children will easily absorp a new language.

She has been studying the babies using a technique that we're using all over the world and the sounds of all languages, babies tested in Tokyo and the United States and she got the result that  at six to eight months, the babies are totally equivalent. Two months later, something incredible occurs. The babies in the United States are getting a lot better, babies in Japan are getting a lot worse, but both of those groups of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn.

 During the production of speech, when babies listen,  they are taking statistics on the language that they hear. and those distributions grow able to let us know that babies are sensitive to the statistics. babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners but  adults are no longer absorbing those statistics because they has been governed by representations in memory that were formed early in development.

a summary of ted talk-The Enchanting Music of Sign Language by christine sun kim

Artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life, that it was a hearing person's thing.  she believed it to be true. Yet, she  realize now that that wasn't the case at all. Sound was very much a part of her life, on her mind every day. As a Deaf person living in a world of sound, it's as if she was living in a foreign country, blindly following its rules, customs, behaviors and norms without ever questioning them. The question is, how she understand sound? She learn from how people behave and respondcto sound, it seems like her loudspeaker. She learn and mirror that behavior. At the same time, she has learned that she create sound unconsiously and people also respond to her.

In Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to sound. This is a sign for "staff" in ASL. A typical staff contains five lines. One day, she has travelled to berlin, Germany and visited several public places like museums or gallery spaces, At that time, sound was trending, and that struck her, because everything was auditory.

An idea come up one day, then started thinking, "What if she was to look at ASL through a musical lens? Because, she works with ASL interpreter  and claimed that their sound is her identity. Asl gives her so much benefits and experiences that is able to make her to socialize with other people and such a pleasure to see asl is stiil alive and thriving, just like music. For short, in this ted talks, christine sun kim, Through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized that sound doesn't have to be known solely through the ears — it can be felt, seen and experienced as an idea. In this endearing talk, she invites us to open our eyes and ears and participate in the rich treasure of visual language.

a summary of ted talk-texting is killing language by john mc whorter

 In this ted talk, the speaker was john mcWorther , his idea is about texting is killing language. He said that, basically, language has existed for about 150.000 and since that time people talked. That's what we're probably genetically specified for. That's how we use language most while writing come along severalr years later.  So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. Speaking is very different to writing, we see language written so often, tthat's what language is, but actually what language is, is speech. They are two things. After that, the speaker start talking about an old history about writing and speaking which is quite long. Then,  texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts. No body thinks about its structure when texting bt now we can write the way we talk. And it's a very interesting thing, but nevertheless easy to think that still it represents some sort of decline. for example, there is in texting a convention, which is LOL. Now LOL, we generally think of as meaning "laughing out loud." And of course, theoretically, it does, and if you look at older texts, then people used it to actually indicate laughing out loud. But if you text now, or if you are someone who is aware of the substrate of texting the way it's become, you'll notice that LOL does not mean laughing out loud anymore. It's evolved into something that is much subtler. Another example is "slash." Now, we can use slash in the way that we're used to, along the lines of, "We're going to have a party-slash-networking session." That's kind of like what we're at. Slash is used in a very different way in texting among young people today. It's used to change the scene.

The way  the speaker is seeing texting nowdays is  seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills,and that means that they're able to do two things. Increasing evidence is that being bilingual is cognitively beneficial.

a summary of ted talk- learn to read chinese with ease by shao lan Hsueh

            Chinese characters are part of a beautiful language, but to outsiders can be difficult to learn.Chinese language “seems to be as impenetrable as the Great Wall of China,” says ShaoLan Hsueh in today’s talk, given at TED2013. Hsueh’s mission over the past few years has been to break down that barrier, making reading and writing in Chinese accessible to people who didn’t grow up doing it. So what is her solution? Chineasy!! To achieve basic literacy, Hsueh says, you need only know 1,000 characters, and the top 200 allow you to comprehend 40 percent of basic literature. Chineasy involves pairing characters with facial expressions, body movements and images that conjure up words in English.

. Shaolan goes through 8 basic characters and explains how to chain them together to form more complicated characters. rom top left, left to right

• Fire – think of a person flailing their arms while on fire
• Tree
• Sun
• Moon
• Person
• Mouth – open wide
• Door – looks like a Wild West saloon door
• Mountain

These eight characters “are the building blocks for you to create lots more characters,” Hsueh explains. Using Chineasy’s simple, beautiful illustrations, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to many other words and phrases. In this talk, Hsueh takes us through almost 30 characters; here, some more examples based on those foundational eight.

from the first 8 radicals (parts of a character), we have formed 30 characters. We can then chain 2 characters together to form phrases. For example a fire mountain is a volcano

Japan is the land of the rising sun, so sun character combined with foundation. If you take these characters and add ‘person’ character afterwards, it becomes Japanese person. Chinese emperors used to send their political opponents across the mountains, to exile – so mountains represent exile. An opening (mouth) that leads to exile is the exit.

a summary of ted talk- why X always represent unknown?

Why is it that the letter Xrepresents the unknown? Firstly it appaear in math class, but now has been in culture. And it has become a problem to the speaker and tries to find the answer. He got the answer when firstly leaned Arabic language. As we know that, Arabic language is very complicated, every part of it has meaning and information. He also said to write a word or a phraseor a sentence in Arabicis like crafting an equation. In golden century of islam, there are a golden knowledge, books were written in Arabic and translated by many countries such as spain and America. But there is a problem when translating them, because not all Arabic letter is in Spanish language. For example: the word Shalan, the letter Sh, Sheen, It's also the very first letter of the word shalan,which means "something"just like the the English word "something" —some undefined, unknown thing.So as-Shalan means the unknown thing. And when medieval Spanish try to translate it into their language, it becomes a problem because their language doesn’t have such sound, then they simply changed it into ‘ck’ sound, which is borrowed from greeklatin. Later, when the material is translated into European language, lets say latin, they also simply replaced the word and sound ‘ck’ with X, so that’s why, now X is represent as unknown thing, from the word Shalan (means something), Sh to  Ck  to   X, it is also because they cannot say Sh in Spanish. 

a summary of ted talk- how to make stress your friend by kelly Mc gonigal

How to make your friend stress by Kelly McGonigal

Kelly is a health psychologist who want to help people be happier and healthier, but now she has a fear about what shehas been telling to people, it has to do with stress. She always said that stress make you sick, and it increases someone’s illness from fever fo example, into cardiovascular desease. It far from good. And now she has changed her mind about stress after she know a study that made her rethink about the approach to stress. She said that people would die if they think that stress is harmful for our health, the data shows like that but People who experienced a lot of stressbut did not view stress as harmfulwere no more likely to die. And over 8 years people died prematurely, not because of stress but because of the beliefe about stress is harmful. So, what it is needed now is how you change your mind about stress make you healthier?And here the science says yes.When you change your mind about stress,you can change your body's response to stress. Then, to imagine how stress is , the speaker do a study with participants come into laboratory and have two part of test, math test and unknown test. And what she got is,in math test,  the participant who take the test might seem be stress by looking the respons and heart rate goes up,and blood vessels constrict hard. But different to the participant who participants viewed their stress response as helpful,their blood vessels stayed relaxed like this.Their heart was still pounding,but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile.It actually looks a lot like what happensin moments of joy and courage.

Her goal now is not getting rid  of stress anymore, but want to make the people feel better when s/he stress And when s/he view stress in that way, body believes ,and the stress response becomes healthier. Stress also has to do with some hormones and oxytocin .being socialized with neighbor, friends, family might decrease stress as well because it has access to heart. he compassionate heart that finds joy and meaningin connecting with others,and yes, your pounding physical heart,working so hard to give you strength and energy.And when you choose to view stress in this way,you're not just getting better at stress,you're actually making a pretty profound statement.You're saying that you can trust yourself to handle life's challenges.And you're remembering that you don't have to face them alone. So, it’s all about beliefe, if you believe is in positive side, your body will respond to everything positively and if you believe in negative side, your body will also respond negatively. 

a summary of ted talks- the world's english mania by jay walker

Recently, our world has several manias, such as beatlemania where some teenagers  arehisterically screaming and crying, or other mania such as sport mania, it is about getting a ball into a net or religious mania. there's rapture, there's weeping,there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly. But now we have a new mania, it is learning English. This video also shows how chinese students practice English, by screaming it. English is spoken in all counties over the world, In Latin America,in India,in Southeast Asia,and most of all, in China.If you're a Chinese student,you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year,China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.

The question is, why English?? In a single word: opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a job,to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. The speaker also said that when someone want to take  a giant test, they prepare it well in English because Twenty-five percent of her/his  grade is based on English, and 80 million high school Chinese studentshave already taken this test.

So is English mania good or bad?Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation —a global conversation about global problems,like climate change or poverty,or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it,but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.

For short, English represents hopefor a better future —a future where the world has a common languageto solve its common problems.