Critica del PowerPoint
Tema già accennato, qui e altrove (in un forum ormai morto). Per dirla con Julian Morgan, “Teachers should teach, not write terrible Powerpoint shows” (vedete, correggo il mio inglese).
Ci ritorno solo per un link: “Powerpoint is evil”, argomentava Tufte nel 2003 (ringrazio Nico Narsi per la citazione).
Resta in tema didattico e (si parva licet) conferma le mie critiche allo “stile cognitivo” ppt, ma dal punto di vista degli studenti:
Particularly disturbing is the adoption of the PowerPoint cognitive style in our schools. Rather than learning to write a report using sentences, children are being taught how to formulate client pitches and infomercials. Elementary school PowerPoint exercises (as seen in teacher guides and in student work posted on the Internet) typically consist of 10 to 20 words and a piece of clip art on each slide in a presentation of three to six slides -a total of perhaps 80 words (15 seconds of silent reading) for a week of work. Students would be better off if the schools simply closed down on those days and everyone went to the Exploratorium or wrote an illustrated essay explaining something.