Monday 22 March 2010

Death to Powerpoint

It's fake education. It implies that everything important can be reduced to graphics. It moves attention from the educational process, which exists in the space between the teacher and the student.

Someone else agrees:

Edward Tufte's thoughts on Powerpoint are here.

1 comment:

intelliwench said...

Oh, fantastic! I'd post a more coherent comment, but -- guess what? -- I've got to complete my power point for a talk on "Transfer of Learning."