The other day when I was walking past some classrooms, I heard a student giving an end of the semester presentation. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gone to school in the past several years, you know precisely the kind of presentation it was: PowerPoint, loaded with statistics and numbers, given in a monotone, and probably thrown together the day before.<\/p>\n
It made me wonder: why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t students actually think before creating presentations. They give presentations that are simply a compilation of statistics and dry facts, guaranteed to put their audience to sleep within a few minutes.<\/p>\n
Yet the students who create such dust dry presentations seem to be the students most likely to complain about the teacher, and how boring the class is. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hypocrisy, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even realize the contradiction, though about five seconds into the presentation one begins to wish they would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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