teaching someone to fish…

EDFS 203: Social, Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Education


Teaching Someone to Fish…

Bill Clark EDFS 203: Social, Historical & EDFS 203: Social, Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Philosophical Foundations of

EducationEducation


Give a man a fish and you feed him

for a day. Teach a man to

fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

--Chinese Proverb


Effective Ways to Create and Use

PowerPoint Presentations


30 million!


MEGO Effect

“My eyes glaze over”


90 Seconds


PowerPoint: Presentation Tool

• Speaker support– Same value as flip chart or chalk


Point B

• What is the objective?


Persuading an Audience

Point A• Uninformed• Dubious• Resistant

Point B• Understand • Believe• Willing to act

Move to Point B


WIIFYs

• Audience Advocacy

• What’s in it for you?


Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

A new atlas has larger type and brighter colors

It’s easier to read and use.

Scissors designed for left-handers

Eliminate struggle to use regular scissors

Digital camera can download images to a computer

Saves money on film processing, provides pictures faster


Chalk

Feature• White • Visible• Easily corrected• Long-lasting

Benefit• Inexpensive tool • Avoids photocopying• Uses one blackboard• Rewards students


Less = More

• Data Dump– At the Brainstorm stage


FreeWrite Brainstorm


How Not to Fish …

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Subtitle that adds new information

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Single Line Title

• First bullet • Second bullet• Third bullet • Fourth bullet


“Crossword” Format

• Four lines down• Four lines across• Provide a quick snapshot• Six lines down option• If the subject warrants• Add two more lines

How Not to Create a Presentation

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Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication

Abraham Lincoln


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Agenda

Met on battlefield (great) Dedicate portion of field - fitting! Unfinished work (great tasks)


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Not on Agenda!

Dedicate Consecrate Hallow

(in narrow sense) Add or detract Note or remember what we say


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Review of Key Objectives& Critical Success Factors

What makes nation unique– Conceived in Liberty– Men are equal

Shared vision– New birth of freedom– Gov’t of/for/by the people


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Organizational Overview

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New Nations


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Summary

New nation Civil war Dedicate field Dedicated to unfinished work New birth of freedom Government not perish


Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


Space Shuttle Columbia1 February 2003

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Subtitle that adds new information

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• The comes the second bullet, a full sentence• And the third bullet is also a full sentence• The wing is going to fall off on re-entry.


Social Justice and PowerPoint

• Collaboration = best decision

• Open up debate

• Use the group

• Build new ideas

• Visually convey information

• Avoid an impression of “solution”


PowerPoint for First Graders

• Different kind of fish

• Grab

• Navigate

• Deposit


Learning to “Fish”

teaching someone to fish…

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