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Lazy Professors and PowerPoint

From a University of Texas student’s opinion piece about his junior year there:

The structure of [one] class was a bit difficult to deal with at times, as the professor often put a ridiculously large amount of information on each of his powerpoint slides, filling up each slide and making it look almost like a wall of text

Margaret Soltan, December 27, 2009 8:55AM
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  2. Karl Magnacca Says:

    People always complain about Powerpoint as if this was a new issue. How is it any different from a transparency crammed full of information that would be flashed onto a screen for a few seconds before being replaced with another? Or for that matter, a blackboard filled with illegible handwriting? Bad teaching is bad teaching no matter what you use, and I don’t see that Powerpoint has made it any more widespread.

  3. Rohan Maitzen Says:

    If all you do is show it and move on, or read it and move on, I agree it makes no sense to cram a slide full of text. But sometimes if you want to work through a passage with a class, it is helpful to have it in front of everyone while you talk about it…as with all technology (including a whiteboard, or transparencies, as the previous comment remarks), surely everything depends on how you use it.

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