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I don't get it. Powerpoint is just a software package. I wasn't taught how to give presentations until I took a 3-day course in a corporate training class. The use of an overhead projector and foils was a given. What's the difference between this and doing hand-written stuff on separate pieces of paper?
Kids should be taught some of the things I got in that class. Targeting the presentation to the expected audience or purpose, a 'mind mapping' exercise, eye-contact and personal presentation, getting your attention off yourself and onto the audience--these are all useful things but propably outside the scope of a 6th grade book report on the latest Harry Potter book.
Blaming Powerpoint because kids are using it in school to organize their classroom presentations is not the problem.
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