Reading & the Lenses Part.1
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2 min readNov 20, 2014
How can digital photography help students with text-based reading?
“…having a camera has turned a person into something active”
(Sontag, 2008)
Taking photographs ≈ Active
Photography requires photographers to focus his/her attention and make decisions upon how a photograph will look.
Research on the enactment effect by Roediger & Zaromb (2010) “has shown that people better remember actions that they have performed than actions they have only thought about or observed.” (cited by Henkel, 2013)
Hence, taking photographs may improve memory.
However, photography has one ironic disadvantage.
ALTHOUGH YOU BECOME MORE OBSERVANT WHEN PHOTOGRAPHING,
YOU NO LONGER OBSERVE THE SURROUNDINGS OUTSIDE THE CAMERA’S FRAME
When might you want to
ignore the surroundings,
eliminate distractions,
and focus your attention
for educational purpose?
…
..
.
READING?
COMMON ISSUES FOUND WHEN
STUDYING & READING INCLUDE:
LACK OF PURPOSE
EXTERNAL DISTRACTIONS
MIND WANDERING
LOSS OF CONCENTRATION
