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Tools like Microsoft PowerPoint negatively impact student learning
- psyklic 17y agoMisleading title -- the article talks about ANIMATIONS in presentations ... and frankly neither the study methodology nor the results are given in enough detail to make any conclusions. Lectures can be poorly designed in any medium.
- biaxident 17y agoThey've provided very little evidence for their conclusion. For a far better criticism of powerpoint check out Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
- chanux 17y agoI'm not in love with MS powerpoint but, "It's not the tool. It's the people who use it" And here's the original research document. http://isedj.org/7/82/Mahar.j.txt http://isedj.org/7/82/Mahar.j.txt And one more thing. The article provides very poor referencing. I couldn't find the real source by following the link they have given as the source. In contrast following article is better IMHO. http://www.hg2s.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-danger-of-gratuitous-animation/ http://www.hg2s.com/blog/2009/06/11/the-danger-of-gratuitous...
- jonsen 17y agoThe kind of animation described here imposes a process on the learners brain. If it's too demanding, it leaves less room for the learning process. The art of teaching is not to force a process in the learners brain but to motivate and support it.
- rg 17y agoA similar complaint about misusing presentation bling was made in Communications of the ACM recently by the inventor of PowerPoint: http://www.robertgaskins.com/pages/gaskins-ppt-at-20-cacm-vol50-no12-dec-2007-p15-p17.pdf http://www.robertgaskins.com/pages/gaskins-ppt-at-20-cacm-vo...