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: 7 min 2 sec

(Clip courtesy of The January Series of Calvin College)


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Questions

1) What is the relevance of the story of Faust to Stoll’s speech? (71)

2) Which elements of storytelling does Stoll use well? (70, 71)

3) How effective is Stoll’s storytelling? Does it please the audience? Does it give the audience a better understanding of the Faustian bargain he thinks is taking place by having computers in the classroom? (70)

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