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Sep 19, 2026
Can Humour Make People Want to Learn?
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Dave CrisanteHOST
And I guess what I'm wondering is why is it valuable to bring entertainment into learning? I mean, it sounds obvious that we all should, but I'm curious as somebody who is actually coordinating and curating things, what are you looking for and what's driving this interest in for getting humour and entertainment into these learning programs?

Ellen WorganGUEST
I mean, a big part of it is obviously we want people to enjoy our activities and enjoy our events.

Ellen WorganGUEST
So obviously adding some humour and some entertainment really helps to do that.

Ellen WorganGUEST
But I think also, I mean, you know, my experience teaching like right you know right back at the start of my career was that like you can stand up and you can give the best possible explanation of something um but if you do it in a really sort of dry unengaging manner um it is not really going to sink in for a lot of a lot of students um and high school students are an excellent audience to train on because they are very unforgiving with their attention spans.

Ellen WorganGUEST
And humour is a very good way of connecting with that attention span and holding it for a bit longer.
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Dave CrisanteHOST
What about you? Have you experienced any events or activities where you've maybe thought humour and entertainment was not necessarily the right way to go?