222. Powerpoint - Form & Content
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2022-03-28

Could certain FORMS of media, the details of how their textual CONTENT is instantiated, reliably affect the MEANING of the messages they convey? Put another way: is PowerPoint making us stupid? 

- Links for the Curious -

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint - https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/tufte-powerpoint.pdf
PowerPoint Presentation Technology and the Dynamics of Teaching - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10755-006-9017-5.pdf
PowerPoint, habits of mind, and classroom culture - http://www.maxvanmanen.com/files/2014/03/Adams-PowerPoint-Habits-of-Mind-Classroom-Culture1.pdf
Rick Kleffel’s “The Agony Column” - A 2016 Interview With Edward R. Tufte
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/28645971 
Stick Figure Hamlet - http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com/ 


Concept Mapping in the Age of Deleuze: Fresh Perspectives and New Challenges - https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/education/education-10-00082/article_deploy/education-10-00082.pdf
Strategy and PowerPoint: An Inquiry into the Epistemic Culture and Machinery of Strategy Making - https://web.archive.org/web/20190307232942id_/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e8e0/bc88abb97a926ecc7629244122b9cd542b05.pdf
Information retention from PowerPoint™ and traditional lectures - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131508002017
Against the Tyranny of PowerPoint: Technology-in-Use and Technology Abuse - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yiannis-Gabriel/publication/45110025_Against_the_Tyranny_of_PowerPoint_Technology-in-Use_and_Technology_Abuse/links/004635195cecb6360c000000/Against-the-Tyranny-of-PowerPoint-Technology-in-Use-and-Technology-Abuse.pdf
To Slideware or Not to Slideware - Students' Experiences with Powerpoint Vs Lecture - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole-Amare/publication/250145788_To_Slideware_or_Not_to_Slideware_Students'_Experiences_with_Powerpoint_Vs_Lecture/links/5435543a0cf2bf1f1f28eb09/To-Slideware-or-Not-to-Slideware-Students-Experiences-with-Powerpoint-Vs-Lecture.pdf  
What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm
PBS Idea Channel - But Wait: Are You Hot, Or Is Your Media? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNcy24WD4yk 
Form is Content - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-yDxfDGxk 
Hamlet, First Folio - https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/pdfs/F-ham.pdf 
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A BBC Radio Classic Drama - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbdcD5SAD7Q
Hamlet 1.5 - Hamlet and Ghost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05x9X7mpcY 
Fonts Matter - https://pics.me.me/fonts-matter-eaxl-be-mine-youll-always-be-mine-13040857.png 
3M is Rewriting Business Planning - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip-Bromiley/publication/13117772_Strategic_stories_How_3M_is_rewriting_business_planning/links/5736570e08ae9ace840af43d/Strategic-stories-How-3M-is-rewriting-business-planning.pdf?_sg%5B0%5D=started_experiment_milestone&origin=journalDetail