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- 1. Guidelines for Effective Instruction
- 2. 95% of lectures SUCK
- 3. WHY?
- 4. Â
- 6. But there is Another Problem!
- 8. Information dump Cognitive overload
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- 10. Â
- 11. Message Design is Important!
- 12. Guideline 1 Keep it Simple
- 14. Guideline 2 Use Good Design
- 15. The Rule of Thirds
- 16. Focus Points
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- 19. “ Be more decisive!” -Dave’s Mom
- 20. “ Be more decisive!” -Dave’s Mom
- 21. Guideline 3 Promote Active Learning
- 23. What they do should be measurable
- 24. Whether it is scoring points or creating widgets…
- 25. Or coming up with new ideas…
- 26. Conclusion
Editor's Notes
- Have class briefly introduce themselves. Introduce yourself. Review what this presentation is about and what it is not about. Importance of engaging students How PowerPoint can help or make it worse Innate problems with using PowerPoint for lectures Basic slide design principles and presentation principles 3 questions we must answer How to apply this to learning situations
- What is wrong with lecturing? It is one of the oldest forms of teaching. But today is different….
- Most students have the attention span of a goldfish. I know because this photo so called is actually the results of a cat scan on my brain from Wheeling hospital …. This is what printed out.
- Using technology like PowerPoint can help! Visuals can help lectures … or can they? The intent is to make lectures less boring and more palatable.
- We have poor design skills
- We try to cram too much in at one time…our students get overwhelmed. Often we think more information is better…
- What are we forgetting? Sometimes we forget what it was like to be students. We forget that certain concepts may not be intuitive to the novice.
- But what also happens with information dumping? Is this what education is about?
- (Reiser, R. A., & Dempsey, 2012)
- I am not a graphic designer…so bare with me. The rule of thirds is about the “Golden Mean” In short, if you divide your slide both vertically and horizontally into thirds you get this.
- Evidently, these focus points are areas that that we as humans are drawn to. By putting our content along the lines or near these focus points, we make our content appear much better.
- (Moore, 2012)
- Active learning is more user centered. Students learn better when they have to “do” something.
- In the end it really comes down to having our students do something about what they know. Whether it is getting better exercise or diet.
- Or programming widgets.
- Or coming up with new ideas…