I found "Death by PowerPoint" far more interesting than "PowerPoint Magic" mainly due to the fact that I felt challenged as a powerpoint user. Having years of experience of using powerpoint i've come to understand the benefits the program and take full advantage of it, especially while being a student. Generally powerpoint usuage is popular in schools, maybe even more in colleges because there is so much more information that is being given. Both students and teachers take use of the program the one's that still use the tranparencies are considered old fashion. For the most part there is little complaints about the usage of the powerpoint program unless someone is having difficulties in using it.
As student i know more benefits as to why I should use the program but very little reasons for why it should be limited. This is the main reason why i felt that this article challeneged me. I agreed with what was mostly argued such as creating more ways other than relying on powerpoints to engage students. Eventually students will get accustom to using powerpoint and it wont be as engaging. The main purpose of this article to acknowledge that yes the use of powerpoints can be engaging but dont bank on that being your method of keeping students engaged all the time. Instead use other methods that are creative and is going to work because it's more spontaneous which can always keep people engaged.
No comments:
Post a Comment