Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Using Comedy for Teaching

Lisa Chesser has built an impressive and useful list of ways to incorporate (engender) laughter in the classroom. Her list focuses on K-12, but it's easy to imagine most of these also in use at the college level.

I do some of them myself (self-deprecation, comic strips, music) but there are others in here I've never thought of and will definitely use. I love the idea of using tongue twisters as a quick break from the content and re-set of the attention clock!

See her list here:

http://newsroom.opencolleges.edu.au/features/comedy-in-the-classroom-50-ways-to-bring-laughter-into-any-lesson/#comment-40651

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