Many animals ignore anything that does not move or makes at least some sort of weird noise. As if we are all wired to give more attention to dynamic elements in our environment. I know that for me to sit and stare at a book and remain focused and actually try to remember what I read is not always easy. The external world many times manage to distract me.
What if we created a learning environment where facts would automatically get accompanied by a shape and a color and would zoom in-front of us from side to side. Would we manage to take note of them and remember them better than static book bullets?
How many of you can recall tiny objects from games you played years ago but cannot recall something you read yesterday?
I hope it is interesting enough for someone to further explore and I hope they update me or at-least send me a download link to a multimedia application that generates these kind of dynamic presentations from written texts.
I think that the usage and memory retention data can be very interesting.
