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Sparking Interest, Reducing Learning? The Hidden Drawback of Fun Facts and Other "Seductive Details"
Download full textSundar, Kripa – American Educator, 2020
This article describes "seductive details" as attention-grabbing, irrelevant pieces of information. They can be words, illustrations, photographs, animations, narrations, videos, or sounds. Studying the effects of seductive details is a growing area of research--but it is far enough along to merit teachers' interest: there are over 20…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Attention, Attention Control, Student Interests
