I feel that using presentation software in Elementary Classrooms definitely has both positives and negatives. On the positive side, presentation software provides a method of demonstrating lessons to younger children who often learn better when they have a tangible example to go off of. A negative might be younger children's inability to maintain attention for long periods of time, making it hard for them to pay attention to a power point presentation.
Teaching students about an assignment they have using a power point presentation can be effective at any age level. Because the assignment will vary depending upon the grade level, the presentation will vary in length and vocabulary. Power point could easily be used to teach a second grade classroom about an assignment on different kinds of animals or to teach a twelfth grade class about a research paper they've been assigned.
I'm curious to know more about schools that use iPods as a method of learning. I've seen theam at some of the schools I've worked in, and they ususally have lessons on them, however I don't feel that they're so effective that we should use thousands of tax dollars on them.
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