In all the discussion about Prezi and PowerPoint and which is a better tool, the basic fact remains: if you use either badly the result will be learners who are bored and turned off:
 A learner overwhelmed by PowerPoint |
 A learner overwhelmed by Prezi |
Jokes aside, students of education technology can learn a lot from analysing these two tools and how they can be used. A comparison allows for exploration of concepts such as:
- The use of technology as a tool – as opposed to a ‘teaching machine’
- How a tool is used is a crucial issue – tools have a degree of neutrality as well as bias
- The use of technology as a cognitive tool – to aid thinking
- The use of technology by learners to author and publish content – a constructionist learning strategy
- Strategies for expressing information – eg visual metaphors and structured text
- The role of media (eg sound, graphics, animation) in the expression of information – what helps and what hinders?
- The advantages / disadvantages of cloud computing
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