PowerPoint slides are toxic to education for three
main reasons:
1. Slides discourage
complex thinking. Slides encourage instructors to present complex
topics using bullet points, slogans, abstract figures and oversimplified tables
with minimal evidence. They discourage deep analysis of complex, ambiguous
situations because it is nearly impossible to present a complex, ambiguous
situation on a slide. This gives students the illusion of clarity and
understanding.
2. Reading evaluations from students has convinced
me that when most courses are based on slides, students come to think of a
course as a set of
slides. Good teachers who present realistic complexity and ambiguity are
criticised for being unclear. Teachers who eschew bullet points for graphical
slides are criticised for not providing proper notes.
3. Slides discourage reasonable expectations. When
I used PowerPoint, students expected the slides to contain every detail
necessary for projects, tests and assignments. Why would anyone waste time
reading a book or going to a class when they can get an A by perusing a slide
deck at home in their pyjamas?
Paul Ralph
Do you really believe that watching a lecturer read hundreds of
PowerPoint slides is making you smarter?
I asked this of a class of 105 computer science and
software engineering students last semester.
An article in The Conversation recently argued
universities should ban PowerPoint because it makes students stupid and
professors boring.
I agree entirely. However, most universities will
ignore this good advice because rather than measuring success by how much their
students learn, universities measure success with student satisfaction
surveys, among other things.
What is so wrong with PowerPoint?
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Para
continuar a leitura, acesse http://www.businessinsider.com/universities-should-ban-powerpoint--it-makes-students-stupid-and-professors-boring-2015-6?utm_content=bufferaf4ac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti
Paul Ralph – 23.06.2015.
In Business Insider.
