What are you take aways from this video?
I learned so much from this video! Mrs. Cooper was very good about using staggering statistics to persuade her audience. Much of what I learned was these truly amazing stats. The U.S. uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides each year. This means that on average, one human may consume up to 5 pounds of pesticides in their everyday food, each year. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) said that of those kids born in the year 2000, 1/3 Caucasians, and 1/2 African Americans and Hispanics will have diabetes sometime in their life, many before they graduate from high school. This disease is mainly caused by poor health which greatly encompasses food choices and habits and this starts as a child, at school. Ann brought up a great point that really made me think, why do we teach our children that chicken looks like animals, hearts, and stars (while this shaped chicken rarely contains true chicken)? (I’m talking about the chicken nuggets that are shaped in objects which companies target kids with.) This isn’t healthy! Lastly, Ann mentioned that schools spend less that $1 per day per kid on lunches. We spend more on a single coffee than a children’s lunch! Lastly, this advertisement amazed me. The things people and companies are willing to do (this was actually published by the USDA in a magazine!) :
The statistics are great and all, but what do the all really mean, to me? What did I learn? The statistic open my eyes to the world of school lunches, the terrible deprived world of school lunches that is. I am aware of something I never really gave much thought! I not only leared terrifying statistics, but I am now aware of this topic of school lunches, is in need.
What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
Ms. Cooper's speaking tactics were soulful, powerful, and moving. Ann spoke about her topic of school lunches with such great passion that it rubs off on the audience, and it made me want to look into what could make a change and opened my eyes to the problem within cafeterias lunch food quality. Ann's soulful, passionate, powerful speaking gave her the advantage to persuade her audience, to get them on her side, to make them want to make a change. Ann can’t be alone in this adventure to change.
What is his/her presentation style?
The presentation style of this Ted Talk was very similar to that of the first Ted Talk. Ann was very casual, not very formal in her speaking and presenting tactics. She wore her chef's outfit that I'd have to guess she wears during her work in a school cafeteria, but maybe not. To me, this gave her a sense of being someone who actually cooks children's food, a key point of her Ted talk, instead of the lunch ladies who opens the boxes and cans and heat the processed food that’s been delivered. She wanted to prove a point of making the food she serves, versus most schools that serve packaged, processed, unhealthy warmed foods. She had a slideshow behind her (just like we will when we perform our final Ted Talk) and she used these slides as a persuasion tool. Ms. Cooper showed pictures, slogans, and an advertisement to sell her point to those watching. However, she did not rely on it to heavily. She glanced at the slides ever so often to make sure she spoke corresponding to the slides. Ann also used a lot of gestures. These gestures weren't really specific to her topic but emphasized her point, they gave her even more passion than she already possessed. (Much like Mrs. Moritz) Lastly, Ann asked many great question like: Will there be a generation that all lives a life shorter than that of their parents? and, Where is the socialization, family time, and talking in children today? These questions made the audience think, and form and opinion while she expressed her solid opinion upon them.
What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
This video matters for everyone. If the health of our planet doesn’t get better, children will begin to live a life shorter than their parents! Terrible! The health of an individual comes down to teaching them habits as a child. Teaching children in school that plastic packaged burritos, processed can foods, and heart shaped chicken are food we should eat a lot is wrong. This is not true, and needs to change or our generations will begin to live less long, maybe come down to not at all. As far as education is concerned, this is all about education. School cafeterias are not getting enough funding, as are most parts of education, and this is leading to unhealthy generations. Around the world, Ann never mentions specifics about overseas places, but I’m guessing that their lunchrooms are all organic, super healthy. I think all lunchrooms all around the world need to make a change, this change needs to come from the people and possibly the students.
-Mikaela M.
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