Recent study by australian researchers show that it’s more difficult to process information if it is coming at you in the written and spoken form at the same time.
John Sweller, from the university’s faculty of education, developed the “cognitive load theory”.
“The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster,” Professor Sweller said. “It should be ditched.”
“It is effective to speak to a diagram, because it presents information in a different form. But it is not effective to speak the same words that are written, because it is putting too much load on the mind and decreases your ability to understand what is being presented.”
Rather than ditching powerpoint, I believe this research makes it even more essential to keep the presentation as simple as possible and preferably with pictures/graphs etc to illustrate your point(s) rather than long bulleted lists. If you don’t or can’t use visuals, then use the text as graphics - similar to the “Takahashi Method”.
Via LifeDev and DownloadSquad.
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