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Powerpoint and Pedagogy: How To Teach Effectively With Powerpoint

PowerPoint and Pedagogy discusses how to effectively teach with PowerPoint. It suggests that PowerPoint fits pedagogically by engaging students through hearing concepts, seeing demonstrations, doing problems, and teaching others. The goal should be to maximize learning through engaging students in all four of these areas. PowerPoint works well by incorporating text, images, video, and interactive elements to involve students at different levels.

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Powerpoint and Pedagogy: How To Teach Effectively With Powerpoint

PowerPoint and Pedagogy discusses how to effectively teach with PowerPoint. It suggests that PowerPoint fits pedagogically by engaging students through hearing concepts, seeing demonstrations, doing problems, and teaching others. The goal should be to maximize learning through engaging students in all four of these areas. PowerPoint works well by incorporating text, images, video, and interactive elements to involve students at different levels.

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PowerPoint and Pedagogy

How to teach effectively with PowerPoint


• Where does it fit Pedag • Why you say teaching c
ogically? an be better
• How do we learn best? • How PowerPoint fits
• What should be our goa • Can they hear you
l? • Can they see what you
• Teaching to learn are saying
• Productivity experts • Can they participate
• Order the student tasks • Can they teach it
• Additional resources

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Where does PowerPoint fit
Pedagogically?
• Current thinking says students must
construct there own knowledge not be
s____ f____.
• Colored chalk story
• Is knowledge inert (Instructivist) or
relative (constructivist)?
• There is a place for that kind of piano
playing I just don’t know where it is.
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Lets change the question to:
How do we learn best?
We learn 100
approximately 90
80
• 25% of what we 70
hear 60
50
• 50% of what we see 40
• 75% of what we do 30
20
• 100% of what we 10
teach 0
Hear See Do Teach

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What should be our goal?
•Students hearing a concept
•Students seeing a demonstration
•Students doing a problem
•Students teaching themselves or others
You say:

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What should be our goal?
•Students hearing a concept
•Students seeing a demonstration
•Students doing a problem
•Students teaching themselves or others
You say: Teach Are you right?
Would most practicing teachers agree? (Count)
Would most pedagogical experts agree? (Count)
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The Radical right answer
Current practice is mostly hearing and seeing
(Instructivist)
Current theory says doing (constructivist)
Do we say student teaching (Reteachivist)?

The truth is we need to have students engaged


in all four things to maximize learning
(hearing, seeing, doing and teaching)

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Learning Productively
• Productivity experts in business tell us
that we spend approximately 80 percent
of our effort on areas that generate only
20 percent of company profit.
• What do you think they suggest we do?
• How could this be applied to Teaching
and Learning?

7
Put the following in order of
importance
40 Teaching myself or a fellow student

30 Doing a problem in a workbook

20 Seeing a video presentation

10 Hearing a concept explained by an instructor

8
Explain why teaching can be
better than just doing?

They master the skills and the knowledge in


order to teach.
They have to learn how to listen

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How PowerPoint fits
• PowerPoint works easily with hearing (text on
page and audio)
• It works well with seeing (images and video).
• It can be used to get the students doing
something (Class discussion and sorting
items)
• It can be used by students to create
presentations (teaching others)

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Can they hear you
• Backgrounds need to contrast with text well
(watch your colors)
• Keep text moving
• Font size and type (keep them consistent and
readable)
• Keep in point form (don’t put everything on slide)
• Don’t read word for word
• Don’t put to many points on a single slide
• Keep audio clips short

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Can they see what you
are saying
• Don’t flash pictures
• Use graphics to explain concepts
• Color coding story
• Story and concept connections
• Text and Image on same page
• Use movies to demonstrate processes

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Can they participate
• Hyperlink to additional material (web
pages)
• Add an index for major topics (Master)
• Text boxes
• Drag and drop text
• Leave blanks

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Can they teach what you have
taught them
• Have I left anything out that really
helped me learn the concept?
• Have I provided resources they can use
to further research the topic?
• How are they going to teach themselves
or others (Presentations)?

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Additional resources
• Contructivism and Instructivism
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/teach-
with-web/analysis/inst-const.htm
• PowerPoint and Cooperative Learning:
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/featured/1997-
07.asp 
• PowerPoint and the Classroom
http://www.up.net/~mdeyoung/digital/TE602
PowerPoint research final with tables.htm

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