With hearing Rab’s talking about what he taught through this term, I felt that this term was different from other term’s ARW. We learned normal education of ELA (reading, writing, and speaking) in spring and autumn, then in a sense, those methods were challenged by Rab. We were confused. However, now, It was good opportunity to know the diversity of education.
By the way, yesterday, I talked with my friend who was a student of Rab’s R&P class. He said, “ Rab’s presentation style is not necessarily effective because what audience hope for presenter is different according to the situation.” I think this point is important. In short, Rab's presentation is appropriate for presentation in company or TED in order to stimulate audience and get interest. However, in some case, such a presentation style is not wanted. For example, some presentations want presenters just to summerize what they research and consider. In this case, creative presentation is not effective. Therefore, we should know that presentation has diversity and Rab's is not always best.
Actually my presentation methods are based on scientific research on memory. If you have a non creative presentation and slides full of text and read to the audience you create a cognitive interference. That makes it difficult for the audience to cognitively process you information and the audience remember less, and the purpose of ALL presentations is to transfer information. So if you fail to do that in a way the audience can remember then you have failed even if the style is what the audience wanted.
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