Essay On Eliminate Poweroint In The Classroom To Facilitate Active Learning By Gary W Lawson

Gary W. Lawson main purpose for writing the article “Eliminate PowerPoint in the Classroom to Facilitate Active Learning" is to encourage teachers to take on a more active teaching strategies and techniques in hope to increase students learning experience in the classroom. Lawson’s fundamental idea of the use of a PowerPoint in a learning environment changed on his first day of teaching as a part-time professor. Despite, his well-prepared PowerPoint, passion, and storytelling performance, Lawson present was hardly felt as students fell asleep or failed to pay attention. Consequently, Lawson banned the lackluster software and took on a new approach to seek his student’s attention and participation.
Lawson placed the attention on his students thus enforcing personal interaction, creating meaningful discussion, and continually challenging his thirty-student’s thinking for 3-hours. He followed three class rules of “No cell phones, computers or electronic devices; no PowerPoint; Come to every class on time, leave on time and participate” Lawson found incorporating policies such as “Allowing Choice”, “Self-Direction”, and “Guided Learning” helped build a fun and balanced classroom (Lawson, G. g. 2013). Therefore, he pursued his mission to create classroom

Ultimately, Researchers found no significant difference in the performance of students who were taught using PowerPoint and those who were taught without PowerPoint (Lawson, G. g. 2013). Moreover, they suggested that the difficulty of the material and the quality of the instructor may be more important (Lawson, G. g. 2013). The research indicated the quality of the instructor could be the major difference in student’s performances than the technical software so Lawson developed six active teaching