Try Teaching Naked
Now here is an educator who is doing it right. I found this via my college alma mater website - "Professor suggests teaching naked -- without computers." The premise of Jose A. Bowen's, a dean at Southern Methodist University, plea is to leave the computers out of the classroom. Have the students watch the presentation at home and come into the classroom ready to discuss what they've seen or heard. If a professor simply shows slides for the full 50 minutes of face to face time, they have wasted an opportunity to be better than simply having the student watch a webinar at home. Why pay thousands of dollars a year to attend college full-time when you can get the same information at your house for much less or maybe free?
It's worth a look in a quick 4 minutes.
Video from The Chronicle of Higher EducationLabels: "Jose A. Bowen", computers, education, naked, school, SMU, teaching
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I agree. Wile my work doesn't need as much "presentation", I suspect that it is because I've developed a style that doesn't use them.
I find that conversation is an important tool for building training that gets retained.
In the rare cases where visual aids will help, I prefer to do them as I talk in front of the participants (not students - student's is passive), rather than arrive with them.
Sometimes, we will, as a group add to them till they include all that we think is important. I find that this helps participants remember much better, and its not uncommon for a participant to refer to or question, with great detail on the third day of a programme about a chart that was created on the first.
I will go out of my way to make the presentation memorable and avoid computers like the plague. Anything is better than people staring passively at a screen - charts on the floor, drawing in the sand, human sculptures....
Vidyut,
Thanks for your comment. What subjects do you teach?
I especially liked the line about them being participants rather than students.
Best,
Kari
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