Clifford Stoll on education My PSP1303 slideshow.

1. Clifford Stoll:
The call to
learn
Liz Defilio

2. Thesis; “If you really want to
know about the future, don’t
ask a technologist, a scientist,
a physicist. No! Don’t ask
somebody who’s writing code.
No, if you want to know what
society’s going to be like in 20
years, ask a kindergarten
teacher.” - Stoll

3. To capture his audience
Stoll shows his true
personality. He moves
around the stage as he
speaks.

4. He lets his audience
know what he is thinking
by using hand gestures
and many facial
expressions.

5. Stoll actively explains his
thinking. With story telling and
past reference.

6. Stoll engaged the
audience with his
“hand notes.” He
noted the key
points of the
speech.

7. Stoll preaches both
commandments 8 and
9. He obviously wasn’t
reading a script, but
actively creating one.
He also made the
audience laugh a lot.

8. While he followed
the commandments
pretty well he did
break one. He sort
of plugged his book
and made it known
he has more then
one.

9. On a positive
note, he told a
wonderful story
of his youth.
About how he
befriended
Moog.

10. He also spoke of
both he failures
and his
achievements.
When he spoke of
these he kept
everyone
engaged.

11. I give Stoll a 4/5 in
dynamism, he
sometimes got
jumbled in what he
wanted to speak
about.

12. Stoll has taught me
to be persuasive and
show all the energy I
have on the topic I
choose to present.
He moves with his
speech keeping the
audience interested in
what he is doing.

13. How was my presentation?
Overall I think his
presentation was
entertaining and
interesting. I don’t the it
follows Nancy Duarte’s or
Garr Reynold’s rules too
closely, however.

14. What’s the difference?
Ken likes to stay on a
given topic, and tends to
stay in one spot for
most of his talks.
While Mr. Stoll likes to be active,
almost bouncing around the stage.
He is a little scatter-brained at
times.

15. Cedits
I used snapshots from the TED talk for the
slides. I felt that is where I could find nicer
pictures of Stoll.
http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_eve
rything.html