Synopsis: Chapter 6
“Harnessing Humor”
In reading Chapter 6, we find out again that we as presenters do not want to make our audience fall asleep. Therefore, we need to implement humor into our presentations. We need to make sure to make our audience have a memorable and meaningful presentation. How do students or our audience learn? Well, they learn by laughing, doing, and laughing some more.
Burmark states the definition of humor as being, “Neoteny (childlike exuberance), surprise (unexpected detours), and historical perspective (as in “someday you’ll look back on this and laugh”).” We need to be funny as educators because we need our students to laugh. We can use funny pictures that will help them remember the content and when they bring about the humor into it they have made a connection and will remember any meaningful information that you are trying to reach out to them. Remember that it’s their laugh that makes knowledge stick.
Burmark, Lynell, (2011)- They snooze, you lose: the educator’s guide to successful presentations/Lynell Burmark.
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