The curriculum genre of parent/child reading is an intricate interplay of managing attention, engagement, anticipation, modelling and imparting knowledge, and sourcing meanings in text and images (Rose 2010, Williams 1995).
It's becoming increasingly clear, in fact, that many of the most crucial limiting factors in modern computing are no longer related to speed, cost, capacity or connectivity, but rather to us – and the all-too-human limitations of our capacities for attention, engagement and action.
We introduce the notion of attention dissonance, where the subsidiary within a headquarter-subsidiary relationship feels that headquarters' attention at the cognitive level, reflected in its strategic intentions (attention perspective), is not aligned with the routine actions the headquarters performs vis-à-vis the specific subsidiary (attention engagement).
Foer is absolutely correct when he notes the importance of attention, engagement, and depth of processing for recalling information.
We can now report that Waldrep's effort was a successful one, as few poetry collections published this century as capably cleanse their readership with unerringly collapsing waves of sound and meaning--just the sort of phenomenon that commands the constant attention, engagement, and admiration of readers.
These materials facilitate inquiry, engaging learners in asking questions such as "What happens if I do ____?" "If I do ____ what will happen with ____?" Such questions, expressed overtly or subliminally, facilitate attention, engagement, and learning.
What gets my attention is engagement: how frequently an application is used and how engaged those users are.
The "zero deforestation" effort, championed by Greenpeace and others, has driven attention and engagement to a critical international issue.
Its blunt evocation of the inhumane treatment of would-be immigrants strikes despairing chords, but Ms. Niles's focused, emotionally resonant performance compels attention and engagement, at least for the first hour.
