August Teaching Center Workshop
August 14th & 15th, 2007
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator for the Net Generation
Presented by Ron Berk
Today's students are super-savvy with technology and are experiential, participatory, visual, kinesthetic learners who crave interaction with other students. Their world evolves around music, movies, music videos, PC and video games, and TV programs. Ron Berk's workshop will examine the characteristics of these Net Geners and demonstrate how you can use humor and leverage the music to which they are listening, the videos and TV programs they're watching, and the games they're playing as teaching tools in a learner centered environment. This a MUST ATTEND session.
BONUS PM SESSION: The morning session's concepts will be extended to the creation of parodies of TV programs, such as Deal or No Deal, CSI, and Masterpiece Theatre, movies, such as Mission: Impossible, Star Wars, and Titanic, and Broadway shows, such as The Odd Couple, Chicago, and Les Miserables. For what purpose, you ask? Parodies can hook students on new topics by presenting a humorous visual image of a verbal or quantitative concept. Your class will never be the same.
