Powerpoint is Evil

        After I read the article, I agree that "Powerpoint is Evil" by Edward Tufte and the NPR story which is about powerpoint use. I found the important point that powerpoint is always one of the parts of students learning and powerpoint is also useful for a presenter not for the audience.

There are different opinions about the use of powerpoint, some people think that powerpoint helps students with their presentation by bringing information from different sources into each project that they have to present in the classroom, but others will disagree that powerpoint does not help the audience understand the presenter point. Powerpoint is one of categorized as a media, however, I think technology can be both teacher-centered and student-centered for education learning.

           In my opinion, teachers should only use technology when they want to demonstrate something that will engage the class into the lesson. As well as students should only use technology to gather information for a specific class project, When a teacher depends on powerpoint too much, is giving away his or her role of teaching, having students accomplish what it's expected. Powerpoint cannot be the only strategy to teach a lesson, a teacher needs to take responsibility at teaching and making sure students have understood the lesson.

In conclusion, I agree with what Edward Tufte said at the end of his article. He said, "PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content." Powerpoint should only be used as a tool to help teachers engage students in the lesson as well as helping students gathering information from a variety of sources.