The two texts pick up and continue the two earlier ones in some sort of fashion because one is against and the other is for PowerPoint, they are like a detailed extension of why or why not we should use PowerPoint. The first text states that digital technology can only enhance student learning if the technologies capacities can actually affect teaching to make it better for students to understand. This is not the case with PowerPoint but at stead electronic communication has great potential to enhance our learning. The author of the text is a teacher that wants his students to apply what they learn to their lives and he identifies several characteristics that are very pedagogical in contributing to meet his goals for teaching. Among these are: Courses should focus on learning rather than teaching, Interaction with the material should be student-controlled rather than teacher controlled, content delivery should be based on student knowledge, driven by frequent formative feedback, courses should be structured so that students interact with material in a pedagogically sound way and it should all be done in the most parsimonious way. The author compares how PowerPoint and electronic communication can help him achieve these five goals. Electronic communication is controlled by the students. Students can interact with the material when and where they want. This helps them to interact with each other regarding what they’re learning and they have more time to spend on their work. PowerPoint in the other hand is more teacher-controlled and cannot be affected by the students. It denies interaction between students and teacher in class because they are all staring at a screen. If a student didn’t catch something then he missed the slide and will have to wait until next class period. The author states that when PowerPoint is used in class it doesn’t necessarily make you bad but it shows that you are more concentrated on the quality of your presentation rather than student learning. The other text tells us how to love PowerPoint. PowerPoint is cheap, easy to use and is very limited. However we live in a world where convenience in price beats quality in every case. The content in PowerPoint is in the medium itself because it is easy to pick up things in the simplest manners such as through pictures and videos. The Author shows some laziness in stating that the application is good because it can be run by itself. Even without text there can be a lot learned.
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I think that your post on the articles is very informative and readable. You summarize the articles that you read in a very professional manner. I happen to disagree with what you said about Power Points making a class completely none interactive . In Geography, we talk quite a lot about things which came up through questions in response to the slides. Apart from that I think you did quite a nice job of it. You too used a variety of large and slightly complex vocabulary. You definitely appeared to have put in quite some thought into your posts.
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