Common Question and Answer Problems

  • In a typical question-and-answer session, the speaker calls out, “Who has a question?”, guess who raises their hand, and the dialogue begins.
  • Those who were trying to think of a question are interrupted before they can organize their thoughts. Because they want to hear the dialogue.
  • Those unfamiliar with questions need time to organize their thoughts and formulate questions.”
  • As soon as the dialogue is over, they call out, “Next questioner~,” so there is no time to think.
  • If the content was flowing all the time, I would be too busy listening to it to gather my thoughts.

improvement plan

  • Start with one minute of thinking time
    • Raise your hand if you have a question.
    • He shakes the number, “Then you’re number three.”
  • After the thinking time is over, ask and answer questions in turn, “Okay, number 1 person -“.
  • When it’s all over, it’s time to go back to thinking time.

I devised and tested it in my lecture Intellectual production techniques of engineers and physical education-type classes. image The presenter must also remain silent during the one-minute thinking time. There is no point in speaking if you let the anxiety of silence get the better of you.

reverberation

relevance - slido style - During the above experiment, the question was “raise your hand, orally.” - Wouldn’t it be better to digitize that too in the first place? - Using sli.do


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