TED Talk 2010: Adora Svitak - Kids Eye View

Shes a precocious learner, TED speaker, published author and teacher of other kids. Twelve-year-old Adora Svitak talked to us for a few minutes about how she ended up at TED, what interests her in technology, and why she likes Twitter.

During her time on the stage at TED, Adora advocated a sort of Kids Rights sentiment, arguing that adults should take young people more seriously and be more interested in learning from kids to foster a more reciprocal relationship between age groups. She says that because kids tend to be less constrained by social norms than adults as we get older, young people can often offer a unique and perhaps more creative, out-of-the-box approach to problems.

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Education

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• TED
• TED Talk
• zyozy
• zyozy foundation
• Adora Svitak
• millennial
• youth
• kids

[televisionsux]

This tweener is awesome. Her vocabulary is better than some full grown adults I know. It's hard to believe she is just twelve.

[OrangeYoshi]

How much will she have accomplished by 30?

[cayterr]

this makes me smile:] what a wonderful thing

[BravoT]

She made a mistake damnit! A MISAKE! @ 3:40

She's human afterall xD

[christiandoritos]

@t2008r she was 12

[t2008r]

How old is she?!!!

[oliviapogo]

very impressed Adora :) fabulous

[carrerasrivera]

She just said something that we the adult can hear because she speak our language.... so why the adult don't talk the language of the kid. we forget? what happens to our inner peter pan.

I'm just happy she like what she do.

[franzartan]

she sounds like an adult!

[loyesj]

she talks really fast

[mindfiddler]

She won't go into politics, she's an artist...

"Art is a form of seduction. There are rapists in the intellectual world, they become politicans. The seducers become artists." - Robert Anton Wilson