Alien Pedagogy

More and more, I find myself trying to break students from falling back on bad Power Point presentation habits. I do think students should present with a visual aid, but that aid should be an aid — not the presentation.

So at the start of our current unit, I asked students several questions. One was “what is more important in delivering a great presentation: the slide or the person speaking?”

Every student said the person. So I asked this:

How often do we spend more time preparing the slides than our conducting research or rehearsing our speech?