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Sunday, November 11, 2007

PhotoReading

PhotoReading is a commercial learning product of Learning Stategies Corporation. The corporation sells Photoreading seminars and home courses that claim to allow people to photoread, a term coined for a step in which one subconsciously intakes information. By that claim, the reader's speed of absorbing words is directly dependent on the amount of information on each page and by page-flipping rate.
Alex K. Viefhaus and others on the Learning Strategies Forum have stated that reading and Photoreading are two different things; traditional reading actively intakes information through the conscious mind while photoreading passively utilizes peripheral vision through the other-than-conscious mind.
The distinguishing feature of PhotoReading is that the readers allow the unconscious mind to rapidly absorb material and then logically or consciously recapture the information they photoread through multiple perusals, as opposed to conventional reading or speed reading, which relies solely on the conscious mind to sort information through one passing conscious mind.

That was what wikipedia said about photoreading... it's an advanced way of reading by trainig your mind and eye to retrive a pice of information or a word you read un-consciously in a dictionary or a book or something.
Photoreading is based on some concepts that helps in reading fast anyway... here is some :)

-Books are 10% content, 90% fluff.
-Visual memory is superior to auditory memory, so use both instead of only reading to one's self
-The Visual memory retains information better than the auditory memory—think of your home; an image will pop up.
-Readers are taught to read and understand material rather than reading the information given and allowing their own insights or ideas of a subject to come forth.
-Humans learn unconsciously first, then consciously, then unconsciously again.
1)Unconscious Incompetence (No idea what is going on)
2)Conscious Incompetence (One knows he or she does not know what is going on)
3)Conscious Competence (One knows what to do)
4)Unconscious Competence (One does things automatically with little to no thought)
-Learning, understanding, remembering and creating are done within a relaxed state, not in stressed states.
-A purpose for reading any given book must be given or the mind will not process efficiently.
-Comprehension is a 4-step process:
1)Awareness of material (First encounter)
2)Familiarity with material (Generalized idea)
3)Knowledge of material (Detailed recollection)
4)Expertise of material (Application or mastery of subject)
-People are taught to read with their left logical minds, neglecting the Right Creative mind.
-Speed reading must be honed and practiced even after mastery or the skill loses effectiveness.
-Strategies never lose their effectiveness because they are not a skill; rather, they offer a different view point.
-Traditional reading unfortunately stresses gaining multiple learnings in one front-to-back reading of a book.

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