"We are in the midst of a generational shift in cognitive styles that poses challenges to education at all levels, including colleges and universities."
Introduction
- Shift is already present in college students.
- Effects will be fully present when 12 year old children reach higher education.
Hyper Attention and the Challenge to Higher Education
- University of Southern California, under the direction of Scott Fisher.
- Laboratory that experiments with new methods to provide greater stimulation.
- 14 large screens on the walls for display space.
Interactions
- Google Jockeying: Speaker makes presentation, participants search the web for appropriate content to display on screens (e.g. examples, definitions, images, other views).
- Backchanneling: Speaker makes presentation, participants write comments and notes.
Participant Feedback
- Backchanneling: "The speaker function becomes more about seeding ideas and opening up discussion."
- Share responsibility of comments.
- Challenges the audience to pay attention, speaker to hold attention, and interact towards a shared goal.
Other Experiements
- The Education of Henry Adams: Dry wit, historical details, demands deep attention.
- Self-presentation at Facebook introduction to help anaylze text and assign students to compose Facebook enteries for the book's ironic persona.
- Computer game Riven: Five islands where brothers compete for dominance.
- Access to narrative can be gained by solving games puzzles.
- William Faulkner's novel Absalon, Absalon!: Solving puzzles of identity, motivation, and desire.
- Emily Short's Galatea: Engage the artificial intelligience in realistic conversation to understand her backstory, motivations, and pyschology.
- Richard Power's Galatea: Use the interactions of the protagonist with the artifical intelligence Helen to understand his backstory, motivations, and pyschology.
- "These differences notwithstanding, the challenge implicit in both works is for the reader or player to understand the personae through narration, a perspective that brings into view common ground between hyper and deep attention.
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