ByRyan Abriani

Mitch Resnick

serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program at the MIT

Media Lab

His Talk, titled “Let’s Teach Kids to Code”, Mitch explains thatkids today are familiar with the interactivity of technology,

but not fluent in creating these technologies!

Thesis: help young people become fluent, soThey can write and be creative and express

themselves with these technologies using coding

Mitch captured the audience by

showing how creative kids can be with

coding

Mitch kept the audiences attention with an interactive

game built by code using their voices and participation

Mitch has obeyed all TED Commandments

His passion and curiosity has lead him to

create fun filled learning

programs that teach kids to

code

Mitch produced some laughs, but could have exercised

commandment VIII a little more, adding

more humorous stories in his speech

Dynamism 3.8/5Mitch is very passionate about

his main topic, he is highly educated in his field and he is able to articulate his findings very fluently. Although he is a

leader in his field I felt that Mitch could of brought more humor in his presentation, at

times his delivery felt dry.

Mitch followed Nancy Duarte’s rule 2 by spreading his ideas of what he

was passionate about and moved the audience using is interactive

presentation

He also followed Garr Reynold’s principle of restraint by identifying what is important and

communicating that to the audience.

Even though you have an important topic or idea you may want to spread, getting your audience

engaged interactively is key to getting your message across

Mitch and Ken are very similar in how passionate they are about their topics and how they relay that

passion as data to their audience

One key way these two speaker’s are different, is that Ken Robinson

incorporates a lot of humor and witty banter in his presentations

Tips for my classmates:

Laughter is the best medicine

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