The pedagogic strategy of breaking down information and concepts into bit-sized chunks is so interwoven with the striptease function of PowerPoint that we can confidently judge them to be jointly culpable for the current reign of the bullet point
Quoted from From: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Education-Cyberspace-Ray-Land/dp/0415328829
What is Authentic Learning
Some articles I found (but didn’t get to read yet)
1) http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli3009.pdf
The one below is really excellent
2) http://plpnetwork.com/2011/04/21/what-do-we-mean-by-authentic-learning/