Dave Eggers Recreating Education

Take Aways
I take away from this video that there is a gap between teachers and students. Teachers have hundreds of students and would have to almost double their work hours and double the teachers to have just one hour of one-on-one time with each students. Even when Dave created his place for students to connect with one-on-one tutors they had trouble having enough kids coming. I also noticed that students were much more interested in school when they went to the tutoring and got the human contact. The environment around them made them keep coming back and kept everything new.
Speaking/presenting techniques
Dave Eggers was a very effective and natural speaker. He didn’t go out of his way to make his speech humorous which I think was the downfall of some of the other speakers I have seen. He told a story about his program for the majority of the speech and let humor naturally fall into it’s place. As far as presenting went *** used a lot of slides of pictures of students from his tutoring and the tutoring environment. For almost all of his speech he was telling his story or similar stories and for the final segment challenged the video audience. His challenge was brief and straight to the point so that it was clear how the whole speech applied to you.
Application to education/me
I think that this TED Talk is a quite obvious applier to education since that was the base of the speech. But I think that another application is having one on one time with students be on a smaller scale. Instead of having teachers of classrooms with the one on one time there could be parents, or even students teaching each other. This way more and more kids could be receiving one on one teaching and they would be at the same level so they could help each other at the same time.
Connection
I think that Dave Eggers’ speech connects to the overall design of education similar to the design chapter in AWNM. Eggers challenged the appearance of education by creating an outside source for editing and helping students. He used a story (the design of the actual tutoring area) to attract kids and enthrall them with their learning.