Entertainment is an action, event or activity that aims to
entertain, amuse and interest a public. ("public" can consist of one
person). How
wonderful to teach through fun!
I mean using teaching songs, games,
music, jokes, stories and humorous acting. The teacher must play the
role of an actor, or a clown in the process of education, inside the
teaching halls.
School activities outside the process of education are a
kind of entertainment. They include school trips, school parties, the
library activities, doing festivals, traveling, playing music,
singing, computer skills entertainment and accessing to the internet.
What is Entertainment Education:
Entertainment-Education is the
process of purposely designing and implementing a media message to both
entertain and educate. This is done to increase audience members’
knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes and
influence behavior and cultural norms.
Entertainment-Education (EE) is a communication strategy that
aims to alleviate a social issue or educate the public through a
custom-tailored piece of entertainment.
It is defined by a set of
techniques and methodologies which all aim to use various levels of mass
media to communicate social and behavior change.
Make Education Fun and Engaging
1-Break Up Your Lessons. Many lessons, especially when you're
introducing a new topic, involve a lecture. ...
2-Give Your Students Choices. ...
3-Incorporate Games. ...
4-Create Group Time. ...
5-Get Up and Move. ...
6-Incorporate Hands-On Learning. ...
7-Be Open to Creativity. ...
8-Schedule Field Trips.
Humor in presentation:
I define humor broadly as an event that elicits laughter. It is not
limited to jokes or humorous stories but can include props, puns, short
stories, anecdotes, riddles, or cartoons. It can be anything that
creates a positive feeling in students and makes them smile and laugh.
Humor captures their attention and is memorable.
How
wonderful, if you as a teacher, use media and technology in
presentation. Learners are attracted to teaching if it is presented
through using jokes, funny stories, puns, caricatures, drawings,
paintings, miming, TV, Movie maker, electronic programs, story
telling,using a projector , a video, a CD, a recording tape Or through
acting the scene of the lesson practically in the classroom.
Learners
feel excited, interested and joyful. All of them are engaged and
involved. Using entertainment in teaching is better than circulating
around class to know about each learner's progress and managing each
student's behavior.
Humor in educational settings
Humor in educational settings serves a variety of positive functions
beyond simply making people laugh. Humor builds group (as in class)
cohesion. People respond more positively to each other when humor is
present. It brings them together.
Humor can facilitate cohesion by
softening criticism. There are many different types of humor that have been identified and
explored in research.
Among those listed in a comprehensive table in the
article are humor related to class material, funny stories (hopefully
related to the content), humorous comments, self-disparaging humor,
unplanned humor (spontaneous, unintentional), jokes, riddles, puns,
funny props, and visual illustrations.
Humor related to course material,
funny stories, and humorous comments are almost always appropriate.
Humor In the classroom
In the classroom, besides getting everyone's attention, humor goes a
long way toward fostering a healthy learning environment. For one thing,
it’s an ice breaker.
It can help open the floor up to a free-ranging,
topic-oriented discussion in which students relax enough to become fully
engaged.
