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February 2011 | Volume 68 | Number 5
Teaching Screenagers Pages 74-76

How PowerPoint Is Killing Education

Marc Isseks

When teachers reduce curriculum content to bullet points, student learning suffers.

In the old days (10 years ago), school supervisors and administrators used to ask teachers, "Are you using technology in the classroom?" No need to ask any more—in the last decade, the tech race has gotten into full swing. With regard to classroom lessons, however, this trend has not been entirely positive. In classrooms across the United States, overheads have been scrapped and replaced with digital projectors and PowerPoint presentations. The lights have gone down, and the curtain has gone up on the bulletization of education.

In a field driven by essential questions, many school leaders and teachers have forgotten to ask the essential question, How are you using technology?

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