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Scientists As Educators
Mohamed Zahran
[email protected]://www.mzahran.com
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Richard P. Feynman
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Your research
idea
Do your
research
Publish
Is that all??
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Publish
Your peers
BUTUsually research papers do not explore broader
applications
of your idea.
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have
postulated
immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the
genetic information.
James Watson and Francis Crick (Nature magazine 1953)
The onlysentence that discusses the implication of the DNA
structure,in the seminal paper.
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How to reach
researchers in other fields?
funding agencies
policy makers students
lay-person
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Are You a Bad Speaker?
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Three Lessons
Use visual aids where you can
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
The rule of three Aristotle wrote about it
People tend to easily remember threethings.
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Examples of The Rule of Three
Veni, Vidi, Vici(I came, I saw, I conquered) - JuliusCaesar
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen lend me your ears" -William
Shakespeare
"Our priorities are Education, Education, Education"- Tony
Blair
A Mars a day helps you to work, rest and play-Advertising
slogan
Stop, look and listen - Public safety announcement Even in film
industry: "The good, the bad and the
ugly"
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TIME
Concentration
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TIME
Concentration
How to deal with this?
How long is this?
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Timing
Your MAIN constraint
NEVER exceed it
better to under-runthan over-run
Must feel it
Plan based on it
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Contents
Do not say everything Goal: make audience interested in your
work Know your audience
Experts Intermediate
Beginners Repeat! Jokes!
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How to React?
Voice
Movement
Murphys law
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How to React? -> Voice
howyou say it is as important aswhatyou say
Listeners have one chance to hearyour talk
hard distilling work down to 20 or 30minutes... or less
Avoid constant tone
Do not flood the audience with moreinformation than they can
absorb.
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How to React? -> Movement
Do it if you have the chance
Hands are useful
Eye contacts Source of feedback
Relationship with the audience
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How to React? -> Murphys Law
Projector does not work
Powerpoint crashed
Mic does not work etc
Learn from Steve Jobs!
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How to be a good speaker?
Know your material
Know your audience
Know the rules of the context Being afraid of audience is
normal
Prepare a scenario in your head
Make it human Be humorous
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Book
How to reach keyaudience to advanceyour work?
Communicationsskills for scientists
http://dennismeredith.com/explaining-research_397.html
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Book
The author has aPhD in Biology fromHarvard, thenbecame a
professorat New HampshireUniversity.
The became afilmmaker!
Very well qualifiedthen to explain howto explain
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Book
How to engage youraudience and explainwhy a particular
finding matters? advice from
journalists, decisionmakers, new media
experts, bloggers, ..,and scientists ofcourse!
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In Conclusion
Lay-level communications contributesignificantly to your ability
to carryyour professional duties.
As educator, you have much widerinfluence!
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Will be happy to hear from you!
[email protected]
http://www.mzahran.com
