With the tools and techniques available to us today, we should be able to deliver direct instruction far better. Start with a big, bright Interactive Whiteboard, they're all the rage in schools these days. Design some slick slides. Use a technique or two to help the kids retain your content. Pace it like a Pecha Kucha. The students minds (blank slates) should be filled up in half the time! That'll save plenty of time to work on the obesity epidemic!
Showing posts with label PowerPoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PowerPoint. Show all posts
Apr 1, 2010
Nov 12, 2005
Is PowerPoint Crippling Our Students?
November’s Learning and Leading with technology had a great point/counterpoint discussion of the question, Is PowerPoint Crippling Our Students? In my mind, the tool itself is not the problem. What we ask students to do with the tool may be a problem. But, if it is pushing students to think and communicate, it is probably serving an educational purpose. If we can get students to the next level of deciding when it is and when it isn’t appropriate to use the tool, (regardless of how someone else views it “should” be used) then we really will have educated our student.
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