PowerPoint bad for brains

I couldn't resist sharing this link from Alain Depocas--jon.

Research at the University of NSW, Sydney, Australia, claims the human brain processes & retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time. More of the passages would be understood &
retained if heard or read separately. "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 & decreases your ability to understand
what is being presented."

This new insight clearly puts the recent report about using Powerpoint in Parliament speeches in a new perspective.

[ http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/04/powerpoint_bad_for_brains.html ]http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/04/powerpoint_bad_for_brains.html