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Enhancing lectures or presentations
From the course: Teaching with Technology
Enhancing lectures or presentations
- Whether you find new digital content or make it yourself, it's common to use that content to enhance a lecture or presentation. That content might be anything, really: a data visualization, a video clip, a 3D object or image you can manipulate, or a collection of tweets. Let's take a look at some reasons and methods to do that. As for the reasons: improve your attention, save yourself time, increased interest and motivation, and emphasize description over depiction. And here are some of the methods: provide content for student review, incorporate reusable content, introduce real-world elements, vary media types, and use digital content to help convey complex ideas. Humans are not like computers with multiple processors. We're not designed to multi-task. A scientific term for trying to multitask is continuous partial attention. In other words, we stop doing one thing briefly to do something else, and then go back again. Why is this important? Because teachers ask students to…
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