Week 2
I’ve seen this Ted Talk twice in two separate education courses at Trinity. I think this particular speech is so powerful and meaningful to everyone. It relates to how cultures are seen and perceived throughout the world and in education. The woman who is giving the speech uses humor and she really connects to her audience. Her eye contact and gestures are relaxed and she instantly captures your attention the minute she begins her speech.
This speech is very important and can help educators dive deeper and take a closer look at the resources they are using and what they are providing for their students. Another reason I love this speech is because it reminds everyone to tell their own story. Everyone is so different, but telling your story to the world can help open the minds of others and it can help make the world a better place.
Wow! This was incredible to watch!
ReplyDelete"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly.” Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story."
Indeed, stories do matter. A one sided story can and will break a dignity of a people. What listening to both sides of any stories can do to humanity!
Everyone is definitely an individual, and we all have stories to tell! I love hearing my students' stories because I have always felt that people are like a jigsaw puzzle--many pieces make up the whole. I haven't had the chance to watch your TED talk yet--but I will definitely do so sometime today!
ReplyDeleteI really like the way that the speaker incorporated humor into her speech. I think it really draws in the audience's attention. Often I find relaxed, humorous speakers to be the most interesting to listen to.
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