Sarah Gershman, Harvard Business Review 2019. Even the most confident speakers find ways to distance themselves from their audience. It’s how our brains are programmed, so how can we overcome it? Human generosity.
Our minds are wired for story. Many of us think in narrative and enjoy consuming content in story form.
While there’s nothing wrong with PowerPoint as a tool for classroom learning, slides should not be designed to replace the educator—the storyteller. Instead, they should complement the story.
Although the audiences and goals of a presentation may differ, the skills and techniques required to pull it off are similar. So what differentiates a good presentation from a bad one? How can you up your game in front of the audience? And is being able to impress an audience really all that important?
Journals
npj Science of Learning is an online open access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing papers on all research areas related to how the brain learns, from the molecular level of understanding how the cells in the brain work to understanding how children and adults learn through experience and formal educational practices.
PechaKucha: 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each
PechaKucha is a storytelling format where a presenter shows 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each. The video below is a PechaKucha presentation about PechaKucha.
