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Matt Renwick's avatar

Thank you Terry for breaking down the importance of memory, knowledge, and perceptions, and how they interact.

When you said "teaching students to rely on documented evidence rather than remembered impressions is crucial for literacy education," I wondered: how are students being taught to document what they learn? To what end?

Embedding instruction around learning as a process seems more important than ever. I'm doing a deep dive into the Zettlekasten method for note taking and writing. Technology supports the cognitive work needed to build one's own knowledge base. https://zettelkasten.de/

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Terry underwood's avatar

Looks interesting, Matt. Let me know what you learn. Contemporaneous notes are powerful—diaries, journals, poems even. It’s odd to realize that’s it’s impossible for me to think of a world without Trump. It’s weird to think that how I recall the past ten years is so far removed from the collective memory of MAGA.

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