More than 400 million copies of PowerPoint are in circulation and about 20 and 30 million PowerPoint-based presentations are given around the globe each day

You are not welcome because you are not wearing shoes?

To appear at a meeting without PowerPoint would be unwelcome and vaguely pretentions, like wearing no shoes.

Chalk

-and-talk

era

PowerPoint Slides era

35 mm slides for about100 years in geography and art history

PowerPoint is a drug?

drugOne-site

Cross-sectional analyses

Small classes

taught by principal researche

rs

UK and US

noveltyavailability of printed handouts of PowerPoint slidesEntertainingenhancing claritycapturing attentionaiding recall of subject matter

Victimology (taking away personal responsibility of the user)Dialogue, interaction, and thoughtful consideration vs animation clear thought vs and ten-words bullet pointsSubstance vs tacky , confusing style

BadEvilsundo

Metaphors: approaches to teaching

the transfer conception: knowledge is a commodity to be transferred from one vessel to another, a concept consistent with Reddy’s conduit metaphor (1993);

the shaping conception: teaching is usually directed to developing the minds of students;

the travelling conception: the teacher leads students into new territory and, in doing, so, gains new perspectives, too;

the growing conception: the teacher is a nurturer.

Effects on

student learning

The dynamic

s of teaching

Orality, visuality,

and liteacy

Effects on student learning

No any significant effects on student learning

No better student

academic performan

ce

Professors’ improvement and/or

modernization of classroom performanceStudents’ preference for

PowerPoint lectures

Are presenters concentrating more on formatting slides because it’s more fun to do than to concentrate on what is going to say?

How educators can convert the generally positive disposition of students to PowerPoint into significant better learning and performance?

Effects on

student learning

The dynamic

s of teaching

Orality, visuality,

and liteacy

The dynamics of teaching Pedagogical issues

The role of the Instructor

Center of attention or more of a stagehand

More direct, more human, less pre-mediated and less structure relationship with students

To make students actively engaged or passively engaged

What do we do if an unplanned, yet, fruitful, discussion demands that a PowerPoint presentation be stopped dead in its track?

Must a pre-planned schedule be followed rigidly because “no matter what, get through all the slides”?

Has the PowerPoint slideshow become the curriculum?

Where should PowerPoint stand?

1

Linear, slide-by-slide format

Free association and creative

thinking

2

Over-simplifications

and gross generalization

Logical thinking

3

given-and-take exchange of ideas and information

Springboard for conversation and

cognitive development

Effects on

student learning

The dynamic

s of teaching

Orality, visuality,

and liteacy

Orality, visuality, and literacy

orality

• Gregariousness• Group learning,

cooperation, and a sense of social responsibility

visuality

•The visuality of printed words•Introspection and isolation•Individualized learning, competition, and personal autonomy

1. Incidental stagehand2. Irrespective of discipline, learning objectives, and type of

learners

Visuality

• Devoid of paragraphs, pronouns, punctuation, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and articles

• Full sentences (optional)

• Spelling of polysyllabic words (PowerPoint-induced abbreviations)

Literacy

• I removed a lovely book from my syllabus because I couldn’t figure out how to PowerPoint it. I gave my students a recommendation to read this good book and moved on to the next bullet point.