Ted Talks that Benefit Students

Four ted talks that can help students

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Students deal with things ranging from public speaking to stress. These four talks come from TED-Ed, TEDx and Stanford Graduate School of Business where professionals present their research and strategies that can benefit students.

 

Title: TED’s secret to great public speaking

Speaker: Chris Anderson

Duration: 7:55

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_teds_secret_to_great_public_speaking

Chris Anderson explores the topic of keeping a speech’s subject interesting. He expresses how the goal of a speech giver is to get everyone who is listening to be focused of what’s being said, or as he puts it “on the same brain wave”.

 

Title: Make body language your superpower

Speakers: Matt Levy, Colin Bailie, Jeong Joon Ha, and Jennifer Rosenfeld

Duration: 13:18

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLjudWTuGQ

This talk was given by four Stanford Graduate School of Business graduates. It goes into detail about how to use hand gestures and posture as well as how to engage an audience, skills applicable to speeches and presentations.

 

Title: How to make stress your friend

Speakers: 14:28

Duration: Kelly McGonigal

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend

McGonigal is a health psychologist who studies stress. She explains how to use stress as a motivator. She gives ways to use stress as an advantage- because as much as students want to not have any stress, most people cannot escape it.

 

Title: How to develop good study habits

Speakers: Advice From Justin

Duration: 6:01

Link: https://ed.ted.com/on/e8kFMOh6#watch

Although Advice from Justin is a YouTube channel, and not a TED talk, this video can be found on TedEd. He explains how location, sleep, location, food, study groups and more can help create good study habits.