The truth is... I love it!
It requires your attention for the entire 10 minutes. One may say that it's only 10 minutes. True... we could make quite a decent piece of academic 90minutes-borring-to-death-lecture out of it... The topic itself would not allowed it to be borring? One of my friends gave a 1,5h presentation on the sexual liberty in 18th Century France with some explicit picutres... I almost felt asleep...
The problem is in my opinion that many great scholars and scientist are poor teachers. Changing a lecture to a multimedia powerpoint presentantion will not profit to greater attention of the students without teaching the teachers how to teach. The sharpest sword is just a big kitchen knife in a hands of a Stepford Wife...
And honestly, can you imagine the "when I was a student" professor to show a cartoon during his class? He is a scholar (behave yourself young man)!
I consider myself to be already a part of that "FLASH" generation which attention span is to be compared with a gold fish... We need stimuli, sensetions more and more (and more and more)...
Just like "I could eat an entire Galaxy" Jean "Phoenix" Grey...
Hi :-)
OdpowiedzUsuńI love that lecture too! It's informative, it's demanding, it's stimulating, it's fun. But wouldn't it be too much to demand such lectures on regular basis? Not everyone is born to be a star. Not every lecturer, for sure. And this lecture is an example of a proper show. Eh well, maybe education should have more to do with show business? (:-) (nowadays ?)
I do not know if it should but it's obvious that it does :)
OdpowiedzUsuńTrue. I guess E. Goffman and his "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" are known to you. With the reflection you are already filled with you could consider developing a post "Education, new media and the concept of a stage". It could be interesting :-)
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