JOurnal Of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice

As a society we should be mindful that PowerPoint, in concert with allied computer and Internet-based technology, is having a profound effect on higher education. PowerPoint is not merely a benign means of facilitating what educators have always done. Rather it is changing much (perhaps most) of how we engage with our students and the disciplines which we profess. We should be curious as to why this is so. Russell Craig and Joel Amernic (2006) Something odd started to happen in my classrooms through 2012. Something strange emerged in my public presentations. While I was speaking, students would jolt up their arms like a periscope on a submarine. They were not asking a question or gaining permission to go to the toilet. In their fist was a smart phone. This was not a spontaneous and resistive gesture against the alienation of the web or the privacy breaches of geosocial networking. Instead, this raise