As a student, I learn better when a blend of presentation activities are part of the curriculum. Power points work well as long as the instructor is not reading to me. If the instructor is going to give some notes using power point, I learn more from the experience if it is loaded onto Black Board and I read it myself. Usually I will take the information and arrange it into meaningful notes. It is equally helpful when the power point is on Black Board with voice over. I also benefit from the power point presentation when it is used for pictures or tables and graphs to emphasize the information. It can be a powerful tool for helping me to visualize what is said during a lecture.
In addition to some small amount of direct instruction, I benefit as a learner from interactive opportunities using technology. As an undergraduate student taking chemistry I was required to complete a certain number of chemistry problems every week using the computer lab. It was an interactive program that helped me to visualize the problems being asked and required me to work the problems. I also enjoyed an interactive computer program that allowed me to perform physics labs. We could then use the program to graph the data gathered through the computer. The interactive nature that technology offers helps me to learn material and commit it to long term memory quickly.
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