Sent to Scientific American, July 27, 2015
The idea that we remember things better when we retrieve them more frequently from memory, as claimed in "Building The 21st-century Learner," (July 15) applies only to facts and concepts that are irrelevant to us. When a fact or concept solves a problem that is of genuine interest, one exposure is enough. That's why this poem is nonsense:
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once.
But I forgot.
Let's stop worrying about better ways of getting students to master material that is irrelevant to them. Let's make school more intellectually compelling.
Stephen Krashen
original article:
http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.uvm.edu/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n2/full/scientificamerican0815-54.html
For full text of the article, plus Susan Ohanian commentary: http://susanohanian.org/show_research.php?id=583
The idea that we remember things better when we retrieve them more frequently from memory, as claimed in "Building The 21st-century Learner," (July 15) applies only to facts and concepts that are irrelevant to us. When a fact or concept solves a problem that is of genuine interest, one exposure is enough. That's why this poem is nonsense:
Do you love me?
Or do you not?
You told me once.
But I forgot.
Let's stop worrying about better ways of getting students to master material that is irrelevant to them. Let's make school more intellectually compelling.
Stephen Krashen
original article:
http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.uvm.edu/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n2/full/scientificamerican0815-54.html
For full text of the article, plus Susan Ohanian commentary: http://susanohanian.org/show_research.php?id=583
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