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![What the professor loses
Nass: As a professor, “What I miss is, when I used to
lecture without PowerPoint, every now and then I’d
get a cool idea...[and] I just went for it —twenty-five
minutes. And to this day students who were in that
class remember it.
Now, that couldn’t happen because students will ask:
‘Where the hell is the slide?’](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/apowerpointagainstpowerpoint-key-101210102146-phpapp02/75/A-powerpoint-against-powerpoint-key-16-2048.jpg)
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A powerpoint against powerpoint.key
The document critiques the use of presentation software like PowerPoint, arguing it conditions users to focus on content delivery over genuine engagement. It emphasizes how such software diminishes the interactive nature of conversations and the cognitive processes involved in learning and teaching. The author suggests that reliance on these tools may mask logical flaws and hinder creative thinking among both students and professors.
A powerpoint against powerpoint.key
- 1. Reasons to Avoid PresentationSoftware Dangerous Visual Compulsions
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- 4. Opportunity vs. Compulsion “The opportunities to produce further and further ‘generations’ of contrivances are indistinguishable from the compulsions to do so.” (Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History, p. 396.)
- 5. A Few Worriesabout Powerpoint-style Why I worry about using powerpoint or similar methods of pedagogy in classes. Not why EVERYONE should worry
- 7. Remember “conversations”? Beforethere were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights.
- 8. Powerpoint conditions usto "deliver content" helps you make a case, but it also makes its own case: about how to organize information, how much information to organize, how to look at the world.
- 9. Conditions Users’ Frame Shepherdsusers toward a staccato, summarizing ...frame of mind.
- 10. Bad Result: Distances presenter from audience Instead of human contact, we are given human display. BUT: Real conversations involve give and take to arrive at a new answer. Powerpoint encourages us to present to each other, instead of taking risks and engaging.
- 11. Bad Result :Wastes Prep Time with formatting Talented and highly paid people spend hours formatting slides Rather than concentrating on what to say. Imagine: 100, 000 professors and executives pondering: Arial? Times Roman? Twenty-four point? Eighteen point?’
- 12. Disguises or hideslogical flaws
- 13. Disguises or hideslogical flaws
- 14. Information Conveyor ProfessorClifford Nass at Stanford: For the student... PowerPoint “lowers the ceiling”
- 15. What the studentloses "What you miss is the process. The classes I remember most, the professors I remember most, were the ones where you could watch how they thought. You don’t remember what they said, the details. It was ‘What an elegant way to wrap around a problem!’ PowerPoint takes that away. PowerPoint gives you the outcome, but it removes the process.”
- 16. What the professorloses Nass: As a professor, “What I miss is, when I used to lecture without PowerPoint, every now and then I’d get a cool idea...[and] I just went for it —twenty-five minutes. And to this day students who were in that class remember it. Now, that couldn’t happen because students will ask: ‘Where the hell is the slide?’
- 17. Information is notall Professors can and ought to be: rhetoricians storytellers poets as well as "content providers."
- 18. In other words “Expertise”must be... ...an adjective which applies to a whole range of abilities
- 19. Lesson: Let’s beCareful out there!