Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledgeFacts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject..
Slow looking is the practice of observing detail over time to move beyond a first impression and create a more immersive experience with a text, an idea, a piece of artArt refers to a diverse range of human intellectual and expressive activities and the outcomes of those activities. Within this context art is further defined..., or any other kind of object.
A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow-looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinkingThe ability to reason, ask questions, debate and challenge what is presented to you. that may not be possible through high-speed means of information delivery.