Tyler DeWitt

Making science easier to understand for a younger audience.

USING PHYSICAL EXAMPLES AND SIMPLE

ILLUSTRATIONS, DEWITT CAPTURED THE

ATTENTION OF EVERYONE IN THE ROOM AND MAINTAINED THE

ENGAGEMENT OF THE AUDIENCE WITH HIS EXAGGERATED HAND MOTIONS AND USING A VERY

ANIMATED VOICE TO EXPLAIN HIS THEORIES.

INSTEAD OF GIVING A CLASS OF TEENSA CHAPTER TO READ, DEWITT CREATES

A WHOLE NEW WORLD WITH THE INFORMATION TO MAKE IT EASIER TO UNDERSTAND WHILE AT THE SAME

TIME MAKING IT FUN.

Thou Shalt Tell A Story

5FOR USING A VARIETY OF VOICES AND INFLECTIONS, HAVINGMULTIPLE EXAMPLES USING PROPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, STORIES,

AND EVEN SMALL SCALE EXPERIMENTS TO FURTHER ILLUSTRATE HIS POINTS I WOULD DEFINITELY GIVE DEWITT A

FIVE. HE WAS UPBEAT, ENERGETIC AND CLEARLY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THROUGH THE ENTIRETY

OF HIS PRESENTATION AND KEPT MY ATTENTION THE WHOLE TIME

Tips From Duarte

DeWitt followed several DeWitt followed several tips from Nancy Duarte tips from Nancy Duarte including, keeping the including, keeping the

slide clear of clutter and slide clear of clutter and junk. All of his junk. All of his

information came from information came from his speech and all that his speech and all that was on the board was was on the board was

aids to the things he was aids to the things he was talking about. Just very talking about. Just very simple illustrations and simple illustrations and

short quotes.short quotes.

From DeWitt I learned that it’s important to make things as easy to From DeWitt I learned that it’s important to make things as easy to understand as you can without leaving any information out while understand as you can without leaving any information out while presenting an idea. Keeping a positive attitude throughout your presenting an idea. Keeping a positive attitude throughout your

presentation seems to give you more credibility. presentation seems to give you more credibility.

Compared to Sir Ken Robinson...Both talk about how the way kids are taught these days is being gone about all wrong

They agree that creativity is almost forbidden in core classes like math and science.

Tips To Classmates...Make sure to be direct and not wonder off to other subjects while presenting to your audience. They will lose focus and get distracted from what you’re trying to tell them.

Tips To Classmates...

Be passionate and animated about what you’re talking about and make sure to use clear and to the point wording.

Tips To Classmates...

Use illustrations, experiments, props and other visuals to keep the audience engaged and interested throughout your presentation.

Tips To Classmates...

Make sure you’re not using language that’s hard for some of your audience to understand. If you’re presenting to a younger audience, you don’t want to use a complex vocabulary, but if you’re presenting to an older audience you don’t want to make it sound like you’re trying to “dumb it down” for them.

Tips To Classmates...

Don’t put too much on a single slide for your presentation. Get all the information onto notecards and memorize that for your speech. Use your slides for images, titles and topics.

Image Citations

ScreenShots from: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

ScreenShots from: http://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_dewitt_hey_science_teachers_make_it_fun.html

Image at: http://personnel.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/C696FCD2-B869-4BA1-BF43-C52E0DC722C3/0/AliLonnieAli.JPG