PowerPoint Is Evil

Is PowerPoint really evil? I do not think so. In other words, I strongly disagree with Edward Tufte. In the article, he mainly talks about possible disruptions of using powerpoint when one makes a presentation. As an example, too many visual aids can cause negative effects to the audience regarding undestanding of the content. Also, some other effects such as noisy sound and moving characters can harm the audience to concentrate on the content. I know what he is saying but I believe those effects are actually helpful for the audience to understand what a presenter want the audience know. The reason is that those effects make the audience more aware of the content and let them know the importance of it. In reality, espeically these days, many people prefer to use a Microsoft Powerpoint because of not only its convinience but also its effectiveness of explaining the content to the audience. Personally, I can undertand and concentrate to the content more when a presenter has a well-designed powerpoint slides. I also admit the argument that some people insist the ability of a presenter is matter not ppt slides. However, in my opinion, powerpoint slides at least help us to know about the content more in addition to a presenter's explanation.

On the other hand, even though I mostly disagree with him, I agree with him on one point that use of powerpoint slides can cause negative effects to children. I believe high shcool and college level are fine to use ppt slides anytime if a presenter think it is needed. However, I think it is better to recommend lower than those levels such as middle school and elementary school not to use powerpoint slides. The main reason is that they are the one who started to study basic materials so they should have an ability to write anything in order to express what they know.
Either high school and college level students are considered to know the materials so it is ok to focus more on look nice and how effectively they can present those. But, young children should learn to write what they know first. If they are not educated like that, they might not be able to presnet what they know exactly when they become either high school or college level. In fact, I personally think young children should follow traditional way of learning.

Overall, each level has its own best way to learn and express the content. Therefore, it is not an issue to argue whether use of powerpoint slides is good or bad. We should rather focus on the right way of using it and develop it continuously as we wish to use.