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Originally Posted by thrawn_aj
That's interesting. I would doubt it, based on what I recall from Ellard's book about how human beings navigate. We seem to be built around some very uniform principles (landmarks vs. turn-based nav for example) that leads me to suspect that our ways of finding our place in a book may be quite slow to change. OP's article seems to bear this out. Of course, I have no idea how slow this transition may be.
Perhaps you are right and web 2.0 has been busy preparing the next generation (and even this one for that matter) to use keyword-based navigation (in the sense of "marking" passages or lines using keywords instead of their place in the physical book). Keyword-based bookmarking (I haven't seen this yet - just thinking out loud) may be a nice way to "find your place" in ebooks. |
What an interesting sounding book, "You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall", thank you. It was fun to read some of the listed tidbits on that page:
# Food-storing birds can remember the hidden locations of about 80,000 food stashes in a single fall season.
# The wood mouse actually makes its own direction signs by leaving twigs at important decision points on its travels.
It will be interesting to see if or how the next generations do change how they learn.
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Originally Posted by Soldim
Heh, I was told the same, but never did 
Now, I am telling students to pre-read; I've never had positive proof of a single one doing it  Great to hear there's some saint-like people around  |
Not so much saint-like as a survival skill that was learned just to understand. Plus, having teacher/professors that would add test questions based on side notes, end notes, and the text under charts/tables or pictures.
