Power Point Is Bad for Brains

Power point is ominous program. I've hardly been to any presentation where it wasn't used. I'd count on one hand presentations I've given without power point. I have my set of guidelines I use when preparing presentations: people don't think in words, 80% of human communication is nonverbal, it's what I say matters, not my power point slides. And of course Seth Godin's rules: no more than six words on a slide. EVER, no dissolves, spins or other transitions, don’t hand out print-outs of your slides.

Power point is useful but used in a wrong way can be deadly. Here is just another reason why found at Power Point is bad for brains

Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia found
the brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb - and
presenting the same information in visual and verbal form - like
reading from a typical Powerpoint slide - overloads this part of memory
and makes absorbing information more difficult.

Professor Sweller said: "The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched.

Via Media Influencer

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