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Originally Posted by masraum
Powerpoint kills brain cells. It's horrible.
I really love it when the "presenter" essentially reads the slides to you, not adding anything, just a verbatim reading.
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The best is when this is in a college classroom where you're paying a few hundred dollars for the "privilege" of sitting there to be mindlessly read to.
I had a structures professor kinda' like this. Guy was older than dirt - had been around a long time and clearly knew structural engineering inside-out and backwards, but couldn't teach to save his life. He'd written a book a few years prior (thankfully with the help of someone else, so the content was organized and able to be followed). His lectures were LITERALLY just him reading out of his own book and working the example problems that were in the book, with the help of an overhead projector (worse than power point IMHO). After the first week of class I'd identified the pattern and said "screw this" and stopped going. I took the book home and worked it cover-to-cover in about two weeks, doing every practice problem and end-of-chapter exam, etc. I didn't waste my time going to his class anymore. I just had someone else who was still going tell me when I needed to show up for quizzes & exams. I was always the first or second person done and never got below a 97. I finished the course with an "A" and was told I earned the third highest average score he'd ever seen in his years of teaching.
Moral: Motivate yourself - don't look to power point or other stupid "spoon-fed" information to try and plant knowledge/information into your head. It doesn't work that way, much as Bill Gates will claim (for $400 a seat) that it does.
Power point and overhead projectors should be banned from college classrooms entirely, IMHO.