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My school, a private semi-religious, school in Georgetwon taught presentations to 3rd graders, and I'm 31. While it seems crazy, it's not so much of a stretch t

• joezydeco 10y ago
  It's interesting to see how kids have adapted to the slide deck as a form of writing documents. It seems to be a lot more intuitive and creative for them (draw a text box here, drag-and-drop a picture there) than the traditional word processing model, which was taken from typewriters when you think about it. We're two generations past using those anymore. At first glance my thoughts were "shit, we're raising a generation of kids that will communicate solely through awful Powerpoint presentations and clip art", but in reality they've just adapted the tool that works best for them.
  • ghaff 10y ago
    Further degradation of writing skills seems a legitimate concern. Having said that, slide format really does seem like natural way to communicate many types of information. In fact, I see a general trend toward delivering things like survey results in the form of a slide deck even though the format isn't such that it's really designed to be presented in its raw form. This reflects attention spans and it's just increasingly difficult to get people to read 8 page papers. So I'm not really against slide decks per se. But what does happen a lot is that contents (information density, etc.) don't get tailored for the use and audience. A keynote at a conference and the full results from a detailed survey may both be delivered in slide form but they should have a look and feel that are a lot different.