According to new research by a University in New South Wales, Australia (reported here), it is more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time.
Well, duh!
As a result of this ingenious discovery, the article says the death of the PowerPoint presentation is imminent. It reports one Professor Sweller as saying "The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched."
Hardly.
The point of such books as Beyond Bulletpoints and sites as Presentation Zen is to decry the use of boring, illogical, text-filled screens that are simply read to the audience. Ideally, the audience should be focused on the speaker and his speech, not attempting to read what's happening on a cluttered, mostly irrelevant slides.
I know the Aussies are on the underside of the world, but one wonders: does news filter through to Australia so slowly that these "researchers" haven't heard of these books, sites, and other resources? What's next? They discover Google?
6 comments:
hope the american dont say they actually came up with this in some few years the same way they claimed they did/invented many things
"the american"? Who is that? ;-)
You're not being clear. PowerPoint was invented by an American company. What's your point?
point is powerpoint is dead, the discovery is ingeniuos and would soon be claimed by the americans!
Oh, I see. You believe PowerPoint is dead? H'm, I doubt there's any amount of logic I could muster that would change your mind. Good luck to ya.
PowerPoint is not dead, it is abused and misused. People don't seem to understand its intended purpose, they have resorted to using it as a teleprompter of sorts, which is just bizarre.
Thank you, M. My point exactly as well...
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