This week’s readings were very good and applicable immediately. I think most people, at least to a degree, have suffered from PowerPoint overload. We have been on the receiving end of it and have probably made more than a few students endure our own presentations that were, in hindsight, poorly put together.
The way I would go about defining and demonstrating these principles is, oddly enough, a PowerPoint presentation. I think it is important to show a good and a bad way. I would design a presentation that explains each of these principles, using the proper principles of course. After each point, I would take one of my own presentations for my classes and show both the traditional (or old fashioned or wrong ) way of presenting the material. I would explain why it was not a good slide Then, I would contrast that slide with one following the proper principle we were discussing at the time. At that time, I would try to encourage discussion on why the new slide is better than the old slide.
To close, I would explain to my colleagues that we have got to re-evaluate how we are teaching. When preparing a lesson, we have got to have these principles in mind and constantly eliminate the material causing an extraneous load on our students. In combining that line of thinking with these principles, I think our students would have a better overall learning experience
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