PowerPoint Prevents Learning?

I remember it like it happened just a few months ago: It was the end of my last day of high school, and I was sitting in the back of my school bus as it pulled out of the parking lot. I looked back at my high school and triumphantly thought to myself, “I’m never, ever going to have to sit in a classroom again!”

Eight years later, I started college.

For nearly another decade, I sat through classes for an undergraduate degree, a graduate degree, and a doctorate whose coursework I completed, but for which I chose to not write a dissertation.

Needless to say, I’m a very experienced student.

But I’m also a very experienced teacher who has taught or trained over 3,000 people at several colleges and corporations, and has helped thousands more as a writer, consultant and advocate.

Here’s what some of them have said about me.

As both a student and as a teacher, I agree with the college student who wrote Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating.

But if you read the comments that follow it, you’ll see that not everyone feels the same way.

What do you think?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm.