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Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn’t important. Perhaps the things we learn — words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details — don’t really matter. Facts can be looked up. That’s what the Internet is for. When it comes to learning, what really matters is how things fit together. We master the stories, the schemas, the frameworks, the paradigms; we rehearse the lingo; we swim in the episteme.

dailymeh:

Really interesting article on what science tells us about memory and learning — as well as a portrait of Piotr Wozniak, who has completely devoted himself to his approach to learning.
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    The problem of forgetting might not torment...so much if we could only convince ourselves...
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    Wow. Nice. I am SO using this in my teaching… somehow.
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