TED pt I - Ideas worth Spreading?

 

1) What is the TED organization about?

• is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading -- through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events

2) What is the purpose of their website and how does the functionality of their site support that?

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
Quote :

• "TED is a think tank for humanity. It is a gathering of exceptional individuals, all with the ability to make a difference. We come, we listen, we participate, we learn, we apply and we improve. At its core, TED is a community built on innovation and invention, and this is consistent with our principles. We also sponsor TED because it inspires us and helps inform our thinking, both personally and professionally, throughout the year."
• — Don Levy, Senior Vice President, Sony Pictures

3) As Engineers and Problem Solvers, which topic areas (the choices from the "Show talks related to:" section on the sidebar) are of most interest to us? Justify your answer.

• On the side there are six listed and out of those six I would have to say  Technology , Design and Science.Technology is related to engineering because we use it everday to create new things and learn more about engineering. Design is the skill we use to create newer technology. Also Science what would we do with out it. Science helps us move forward with techology and design as we learn more from it.

4) Based on your previous answer, what are 3 talks (videos) on the site that appear like they would be of most interest to you as an Engineer/Problem Solver? Justify your choices.

 

• Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
  
  At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.
• Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
  
  Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
• Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
  
  Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
   

 

 

5) Each student will watch a unique video. Claim your video on the following period specific posts: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. If no one else has claimed your video, leave a comment on that post to call the one you want. If someone else has already claimed the talk, go back and pick another one. Watch the video. Embed the video in your blog post and create a bulletized outline of the key issues presented in the talk.

• Technology: Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
• http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html

6) How could you get involved in the field/technology/issue you chose to hear about? What experience/skills/training/education would you need to learn to get involved with this field?

Part II of the TED activity will have you negotiate within a group to select the "best" video to represent the group. The student with the chosen video will recieve extra credit. The group will then prepare a short presentation that summarizes the talk and will present to the class. The class will choose the best presentation and that group will recieve extra credit.

 

• To get into this feild i would have to do 4 years of college and after that it depends on what kind of doctor you want to be varys from 6- 8years and 2 years on an internship. To do this job you would have to maintain a very high level of grades throughout high school and college including medical school.