Apr

6

PowerPoint rots your brain

Filed Under Communication, Tools and applications, Events 

 

Well, not quite but according to Aussie researchers it’s official: PowerPoint is bad for brains. "Death by Powerpoint" - that glazed and distant feeling that overwhelms you when some sales droid starts their presentation - has biological reasons.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia found
the brain is limited in the amount of information it can absorb - and
presenting the same information in visual and verbal form - like
reading from a typical Powerpoint slide - overloads this part of memory
and makes absorbing information more difficult.

Professor Sweller said: "The use of the PowerPoint presentation has been a disaster. It should be ditched.

I don’t use words in my slides and recently have stopped using any if I can help it. It is sad that any conference organiser will automatically ask you for a presentation, usually months in advance. I always feel uncomfortable about them ’serving’ their audience potentially out-dated stuff. 

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