{"id":646,"date":"2014-01-29T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-08-14T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:53:36","slug":"aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldrich on educational engagement (and PowerPoint)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"top-20\"><p>Simulations are powerful when students need to be engaged more than they are. Clearly, this is an area in which distributed classrooms have suffered, as <span class=\"quote-large\">death by PowerPoint<\/span> has not just been refined in many programs but <span class=\"quote-large\">almost weaponized to military specifications<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-right top-50\">&mdash; Clark Aldrich<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-646\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-646\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-646\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simulations are powerful when students need to be engaged more than they are. Clearly, this is an area in which distributed classrooms have suffered, as death by PowerPoint has not just been refined in many programs but almost weaponized to military specifications. &mdash; Clark Aldrich<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-646\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-646\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-646\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-educational-engagement-and-powerpoint\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[69,96,31,5],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-content-strategy","tag-design-thinking","tag-education","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aciW-aq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49,"url":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/aldrich-on-leadership\/","url_meta":{"origin":646,"position":0},"title":"Aldrich on leadership","date":"May 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Leadership is the big skill of getting groups of people to complete the right work. \u2014 Clark Aldrich","rel":"","context":"In &quot;inspiration&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/www.aeoneal.com\/blog\/fun-is-fundamental\/","url_meta":{"origin":646,"position":1},"title":"Fun is fundamental","date":"June 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Fun is a seriously undervalued part of user experience (perhaps of any experience). 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