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2022 - 10 - 17

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Taking photos of slides helps students remember (UC Riverside)

Taking camera-phone pictures of instructional slides helped students better retain content, not only for the slide information, but also for spoken-word ...

The study did not determine why the photo-taking helps ; Ditta said that will be addressed in a planned follow-up study. In both experiments of the two-part study, students were asked not to study the photographs before testing. But Ditta’s is the first study that specifically considered the lecture slides students photograph as part of their academic studies. In the second experiment, half of the 108 study participants could photograph their choice of slides, as long as they photographed about half. Half took photos of the even-numbered slides; half took photos of the odd-numbered slides. A first-of-its-kind study answers the question, finding that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides they did not photograph.

Photo-taking helps students remember slide content: Taking camera ... (Science Daily)

A new study finds that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides ...

"They were wrong about that," Ditta said regarding the spoken content findings of the second experiment. The study did not determine why the photo-taking helps ; Ditta said that will be addressed in a planned follow-up study. In the second experiment, half of the 108 study participants could photograph their choice of slides, as long as they photographed about half. In both experiments of the two-part study, students were asked not to study the photographs before testing. But Ditta's is the first study that specifically considered the lecture slides students photograph as part of their academic studies. A first-of-its-kind study answers the question, finding that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides they did not photograph.

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