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cognitive mode has advantages and limitations. Deep attention is superb for solving complex problems represented in a single medium, but it comes at the price of environmental alertness and flexibility of response. Hyper attention excels at negotiating rapidly changing environments in which multiple foci compete for attention; its disadvantage is impatience with focusing for long periods on a non-interactive object such as a Victorian novel or complicated math problem.” She further believes that the “pedagogical challenge” for teachers, in the foreseeable future, “will be to combine hyper ...more
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
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