Speaker: Clifford Stoll

Title: Throw Away Your Computer and Get an Education

Date: January 20, 2004

Venue: The January Series of Calvin College

Clip Length: 3 min 7 sec

(Clip courtesy of The January Series of Calvin College)


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Questions

1) What do Stoll’s comments about slideware, teaching, and human relationships suggest about his control beliefs? (42, 46)

2) In what ways might his own verbal and nonverbal expressiveness support his contention that PowerPoint cannot substitute for in-person, "embodied" education? (46)

3) Does his own use of some technologies (e.g., audio amplification, lighting, and the overhead projector used in another part of the speech but evident on the stage) suggest that his argument against slideware relies more on pathos than logos?

4) Would you like to take a class with Stoll? Why or why not?

Page numbers in above parentheses are from Quentin Schultze, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking.
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