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How to avoid Death by PowerPoint [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_layout=”light” text_font_size=”18px” text_text_color=”#777777″ custom_margin=”-35px|||”]<\/p>\n Death by PowerPoint<\/em>, in which the words spoken by a lecturer are simultaneously presented on slides, is endured by many learners the world over.\u00a0 When learners are expected to listen and read at the same time, the technique is not teaching and simply becomes an ineffective form of telling. \u00a0Ineffective because it attempts to force two modes of language through one route, resulting in interference and reduced processing.\u00a0 The image below refers to an overuse of the language channel described in How Adults Use the Visual Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.92″ src=”http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Gif-lecturer-3-Jan.gif” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” custom_margin=”-20px|-80px||” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.92″ src=”http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Arrow-right-2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” custom_margin=”15px|||50px” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.92″ src=”http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Text-lorry-crash2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” custom_margin=”-50px|||-100px” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_layout=”light” text_font_size=”18px” custom_margin=”-30px|||”]<\/p>\n Yet this flawed approach is not inevitable; lecturers who wish to display text can allow their students time to read text in silence, and then comment on the points using different words to avoid redundancy.\u00a0 Notes can be provided separately with gaps for students to fill in, while the lecturer concentrates on delivery.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.92″ src=”http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Churchill.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” url=”http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/?page_id=342″ \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_layout=”light” text_font_size=”12px” custom_margin=”-25px|||” text_line_height=”1.4em”]<\/p>\n Click on the image to see how PowerPoint affects Winston Churchill’s 1940 ‘Fight on the Beaches’ speech…<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_layout=”light” text_font_size=”26″ saved_tabs=”all” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font=”|700|||||||” custom_margin=”-50px|||”] How to avoid Death by PowerPoint (and still provide notes\u2026) [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_layout=”light” text_font_size=”18px” text_text_color=”#777777″ custom_margin=”-35px|||”] Death by PowerPoint, in which the words spoken by a lecturer are simultaneously presented on slides, is endured by many learners the world over.\u00a0 When learners are expected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/249\/revisions\/513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicknapper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(and still provide notes\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n