With text or with pictures or with landscape, there seem to be natural bites, amounts one can hold in memory accurately, turn over in one's mind, respond fresh to. Take in just a bit more, and one can watch one's mind shifting to another mode of processing, a more distanced mode.
The dialogue in education is between apprehending bites and apprehending larger masses of stuff. College often presses people to read their first big books before they have had the experience of reading bites, and to write big papers before they have written bites. And the panic in education happens when people feel one sort of grasp slipping away, without being sure what will replace it.
Posted by shea0017 at October 7, 2004 7:53 PM