Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring:
Presentation software ‘toxic to education’ by Bent Meier Sørensen
“…to be interesting and relevant in a lecture, teachers need to ask questions and experiment, not provide solutions and results. Unfortunately, PowerPoint is designed to provide just that.”
This opinion piece from The Independent Education may raise a few eyebrows among my teaching colleagues. I certainly did a double-take; I’m a librarian but whenever I ‘teach’ I almost always use PowerPoint! đŽ
Sørensen argues that the basic problem is that a teacher should never be selling ‘bullet point knowledge’ to pupils, rather they should be making the pupils encounter problems –  “Such a learning process is slow and arduous, and cannot be summed up neatly. PowerPoint produces stupidity, which is why some, such as American statistician Edward Tufte have said it is âevilâ.”
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