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Learning through
Presentations
"How many of you have done the 18 minute,
right
before class, copy and paste, plagiarized,
bullet point, turn and read off the
screen
PowerPoint Presentation? Be honest."
Every hand in the room goes
up.
We know it as educators, kids know it as
students.
The presentation really is about finding
information, putting it on some slides,
add some
transitions and then telling the rest of the class what it is
you
found.
Then
there is the audience who
is suppose to take notes on the information. A.K.A. copy the bulletpoints in
bulletpoint format onto a piece of paper. Because there is so much learning in
copying words from the slide to paper....NOT......and of course as you are busy
copying the words you're not listening to what the presenter is saying...not
that it matters they're just reading the words off the slides
anyway.
Bob Abrams on 07 Sep 11This is a 20 minute video and was worth every second. o Look at time index 5:45 for a discussion of biomolecular interactions o Look at time index 8:15 for an AMAZING visual animation of the Pythagorean Theorem. o Look at time index 9:35 for 6 year olds discovering 1st and 2nd order discrete differential equations. o Look at time index 12:20 to see how the discrete diff. eq. transform into visual concepts for velocity and acceleration. o Look at time index 15:00 for more acceleration demonstrations.
