Your eyes are pretty amazing. In fact, in near darkness your peripheral vision will still have a strong ability to detect motion. It’s crazy stuff.
Like your peripheral vision, service learning is pretty amazing. See, our natual bias is to ourselves. We care about ourselves, so we focus on ourselves and what we want. When you ask a student to redirect their focus, to help someone else, you give them the opportunity to look at themselves through their peripheral vision. It gives them a better sense of where they are and where they’re going.
Anyways, just a thought.