Clay Shirky (Ted Talk 4)

Clay Shirky's ted talk taught me several things. The most important thing that I took away was that once a punishment is created, the amount of people doing the crime, increases. This to me was important and also very puzzling. I was not really sure why this was. It makes no sense at all. Shirky's speaking techniques werenn't extremley easy to spot. The only one I picked up was that he was very monotoned and spoke very slow. This was helpful because it was clear what he was saying, however it also made it very difficult. This was difficult because it was hard to tell weather he was happy, sad, etc. about the situation. He aslo had some presentation techniques. These included: examples, visuals, hand gestures, and steady movement. Of all these things, the most helpful to me was the hand gestures because it demonstrated his thoughts and helped me connect to them more. This video is related to education because it showed similarities like how when kids are graded, they are more likely to do worse. This video also relates to me becuase it described my exact personality. When someone tells me I can't do something, I want to do it even more. This video also relates to the world because it shows why we may be comitting crime, etc. This video was kind of boring and it was not my favorite that we've watched. However, it had a good messege.