PowerPoint No, Cyberspace Yes vs. Learning to Love PowerPoint

According to Tom Creed, PowerPoint is not productive for teaching at all. Email or any electronic communication is the way to get students involved. Creed is all for technology and digital education, however, he believes that PowerPoint is not the kind of technology that promotes interactive learning. PowerPoint presentations are "teacher-controlled", "teacher-centered", and do not tell about what the students are getting from the lecture. Email and electronic communication are "student-controlled", "student-centered", and inform the teacher about student progress and understanding. Teaching should be all about the students' learning, not concentrated on the teacher and what they can teach.
On the other hand, David Byrne encourages people to use PowerPoint and finds many positive aspects in the application. PowerPoint is convenient and fairly easy to use, which has become the definition of something good. Quality does't matter as much as simplicity in a set and organized way. For content, Byrne did not find much use in it, however, for art, PowerPoint became very useful. Creating interesting art can be used with PowerPoint. Other than that, Byrne found nothing revolutionary about the product.