Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge

What do you think of when you hear the word contagious? Most likely the main ideas that pop into your mind are disease, sickness, or other negative things. Contagious can also be positive! Kiran Bir Sethi reminds us of the healthy contagious things, such as laughter, inspiration, and ideas. Kiran Bir Sethi believes in the "I Can" bug. Her goal is to spread it all around the world. The "I Can Bug" is inspiration. The purpose of it is to motivate people, starting with children.

To capture her audience's imaginations, Sethi jumps right into her presentation with a story. She tells the tale of when she became infected with the I Can bug. Kiran Bir Sethi was 17 years old, and was a student as a design college. She was inspired by her teacher. You might be thinking, "What is the I Can bug? Why is it important?" The I Can bug is to motivate people to perform at their best. To help others and succeed at whatever they do. Using a story shows the audience that this is not a far fetched idea, Sethi has experienced it herself. The infection takes place in three stages; aware, enable and empower.

Once again, Kiran Sethi's idea can be tied to the other TED talks I have blogged about. Sethi explains about her dream to first empower the children, and improve their focus on education. Ken Robinson and Dave Eggers are also interested in motivating children. Ken Robinson, like Sethi, is focusing on changing the education system to engage the children.

Kiran Sethi uses pictures of words, such as "I Can" and "Aware, Enable, Empower" to illustrate her point. By using visuals, she is furthering her point, which will make it more memorable to the audience. Kiran Sethi spoke form her heart, and inspired the audience to go out and apply her goal. Her ending message was the goal of infecting the world's children. What do you think of now when you hear the word contagious?