I was checking facebook and had a news feed posting (terminology?) from NCTE about this article. Of course, any article that encourages teaching naked: 1. piques my interest and 2. makes me very happy to be a verbal not a visual person.
Having listened to Dr. Pelligrino's presentation last week (was it only a week ago?), nothing in the article is surprising. Did he not decry the same boring PPt lectures? Still, it was validation to read the struggle from another learned person's POV. I also enjoyed the comments at the end.
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Very interesting article, Teri. I think it confirms what many of us already know (and what Jeffrey spoke about), that power point is being used as a crutch in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as a slow writer, I must confess that I am grateful for lectures that follow power point visuals. I am able to check my notes against the slide to make sure that I wrote down all of the important parts. Or my personal favorite is when a professor posts the presentation early, so that I can print it out and take notes on the actual slides.
I am concerned that SMU is throwing the baby out with the bath water...that they are doing away with a valuable resource because a few professors are not trained in using it properly. Perhaps the problem falls not in the technology, but in the application of it.