[poindexter]

PowerPoint is the enemy of learning.

I’m a teacher at the college level. When I lecture, students engage (usually) and take notes. When I run a PowerPoint presentation, they put their pencils down and act like they’re watching TV.

[twigs]

I teach students how to use powerpoint. I also caution them to only use it when it’s necessary. Sometimes visuals help students, anyone, understand what is being said. But unfortunately, it is way overused and often, poorly designed.

[oh8eleven]

When I run a PowerPoint presentation, they put their pencils down and act like they’re watching TV.
And when the TV goes on, the brain gets turned off.
When voters were asked who won the Nixon-Kennedy debate, TV viewers picked JFK ... radio listeners picked Nixon.

[swain_forkbeard]

Aren’t you lecturing when you run a Powerpoint presentation? You’re not just reading the screen are you?

[rhombus]

I’m a teacher at the college level. When I lecture, students engage (usually) and take notes. When I run a PowerPoint presentation, they put their pencils down and act like they’re watching TV.

I spent years in college classrooms on both the undergraduate and graduate level. What a waste of time it was for me to sit there and take notes on what the professor said. I much preferred the professor who would assign reading and just give me his/her notes instead of presenting them to me and making me write them down Class room time should be for discussion not taking dictation. All too often I suspected it was professorial ego which made them insist I write down what they said. Give me PowerPoint!