12 November 2006

Memory is All In The Packaging

The upshot is, not surprisingly that
“You can’t get out of memory what you didn’t put into it. It is not possible to remember things later if you didn’t pay attention to them in the first place.”

What this supports, I think, is that the idea of sharing the learning objectives in a learning situation is helpful because it helps to direct attention and primes the relevant mechanisms for recall.
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