When the usual way of doing things is flipped around, students can benefit.
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“Flipped classrooms” aren’t yet common around Africa, but a partial flip that marries technology and collaboration has real potential.
How well do students learn when a lesson is mainly in PowerPoint?
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Slideshows, when designed right, can be a useful part of online instruction. But they shouldn’t be the main, or the only, method of instruction.
PowerPoint isn’t the problem, it’s the way it has come to be used.
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Recent articles calling for blanket removal of PowerPoint from education erroneously blame the tool for mistakes made by the user.
Reading off a PowerPoint slide doesn’t make you a teacher.
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Powerpoint has no proven efficacy in learning, but the kids like it because it seems to make things simpler.