Juan Enriquez gave a speech called “Will our kids be a different species?” The main topic of this speech is, are we changing over time?

Juan Enriquez maintained the attention of the audience in his introduction by telling a story in a comical way in his introduction. He gradually got more serious so he wouldn’t lose or confuse his audience until he hit his main point and hit the audience with a question to think about at the end. “Will our kids be a different species?”

Evaluating Juan Enriquez on his speech, I would give him a 5 out of 5 because he’s giving the audience so much information, and the way he explains it makes it easy to understand and follow.

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What I’ve learned from Juan Enriquez after hearing his speech is that short pauses and jokes can mean a whole lot of a difference of the audience understanding and maintaining the information. Giving all the information at once can make you lose your audience in what you’re talking about and eventually, lose interest.

Comparing Sir Ken Robinson’s videos, “Schools Kill Creativity” and “Changing Education Paradigms”, we’ll have to start with they both have similar arguments on what’s wrong with our education system such as the education system is becoming less and less creative and more repetitive. As if we’re making copies of every child instead of inspiring them to become unique and their own person

Similarities

In “Schools kill Creativity”, he talks about changing the way education is taught so creativity can grow and the future generation can better prepare themselves for what lies ahead. In “Changing Education Paradigms”, it was all about proving that our civilization’s teaching methods are old and not useful for our time period, which needs to change for a better future.

Differences

The most important tip I can give from Juan Enriquez’s speech is if your speech has a lot of technical or important details to tell, try to break it up and make the mood less serious at times so the audience has time to retain what they just heard.

While listening to Juan Enriquez’s speech, I was thinking about the difference between the generations in my family. From my parents, to my grandparents, and I realized that there’s definitely a chance in the way we think and act.

When Juan Enriquez talks about our brains processing data and how it’s evolving to process more. I’m not too sure that’s true in my experience. Each generation had their own knowledge to remember and their own responsibilities. What seemed hard then and easy now is just because of technology today that does most of the work for us.

I do believe humans as a whole are changing as a species because of the world we created for ourselves. As any animal, we evolve to our changing environment.