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This 3 page paper opposes Tufte's critique of PowerPoint. Reasons as to why it is a good tool are explored. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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at least by this author. Tufte (2006) describes the disruptive nature of the slide show created by a power point presentation, suggesting that one is shown slices of information that
attracts attention but then goes quickly to the next thing. The author seems to prefer handouts to what is found in the context of the PowerPoint Presentation (Tufte, 2006).
But the author goes on to say that the presentation created by a PowerPoint show is actually not as good as is good teaching (Tufte, 2006). This is an interesting
point. Does an instructor who uses PowerPoint displays shirk his responsibilities as a teacher? Is such a teacher relying on a less valuable method of teaching by using this type
of software? There do seem to be two major points to emanate from the Tufte piece, one of which is the fact that PowerPoint presentations have aesthetic problems and so,
they are uninspiring, and the other is that they are not as good as good teaching and are therefore deficient. The points are well taken. PowerPoint is simply a software
that helps to organize material and is not used by artists for example. It is software that is utilized by the general public to spout tid bits of information. That
said, in an ordinary teaching environment-from the board room to the class room-Powerpoint is useful. It may not be the most aesthetically pleasing piece of software on the market, and
it certainly has its faults, but different people learn through different methods. For example, some people are visual thinkers and others learn better through audible channels. Because everyone is different,
not everyone learns well by listening to a teacher present a lecture. The visual displays of the Powerpoint presentations do offer a distraction, but it is a good distraction. Sometimes,
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