TED Talks: Dave Egger talks about a new learning environment

1. What are your take-aways from this video?

Kids want the instructors who can care about their personal success and learning. When students are given this opportunity to work on only homework when they want to be there right after school, they get done without procrastinating.

2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?

He diffuses the fomality of the event by saying how nervious he is to talk at the event. He makes jokes about himself and his own follies to make him seem more personable. He tells what is going through his mind, such as telling that he wanted to swear but did not see it fit.

3. What is his/her presentation style?
He talks for a very long time about his story with virtually not pointfir the first half of his talk. He makes a fool of himself to make the audience warm up to him with this story, full with pictures and jokes.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?

This seemed like a good idea. Students who are given the opportunity for one-on-one work on their homework do their homework well and quickly without distraction. However, when he begins talking about how the students became more engaged when they "wrote a book as a class", this type of teaching style is sure to come out with engaged, unknowledgeable students. Traditional education works. Tutoring is an invaluable tool to have, however.
Also, I did see that students are more engaged when the envronment of the classroom is more whymsical and fun-loving. This makes sense. Stoic rooms to not make students want to be in the classroom. The world needs to know that the world is a better place when it is more asthetically appealing.