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My teaching style is unusual within Computer Science. I do not use
presentation software like PowerPoint. I teach using the white board.
I believe that teaching and learning are interactive processes that
require give and take between the instructor and the students. Hence,
I insist that students be active learners in my classroom. They take
notes, and they pose and answer questions. They are not merely
passive observers. To lecture in the dark is invite students to
slumber the class time away! Not only does light help engage
students, the whiteboard facilitates creativity in the classroom in
ways software presentations do not. The whiteboard naturally fosters
classroom interactions that are not static---adhering to a rigorous
pre-defined agenda---but rather, they can be dynamic in that
they can accommodate interesting digressions; and they can be
non-linear, that is, the instructor can easily build on
material presented any time during class, not only on the last few
slides. In contrast, PowerPoint presentations often fail to support
interactive learning.
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