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- Mar 2020
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"We tend to be economical in terms of how we use our brain, so if you know you don't have to memorize the directions to a certain place because you have a GPS in your car, you're not going to bother with that," Small says. "You're going to use your mind to remember other kinds of information."
The brain is eminently efficient. It doesn't work hard unless we ask it to. It's the deeper processing (need to know, new contexts, connections to existing knowledge) that correlates with learning.
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Now we're moving on to the next thing instead of really rolling around with this idea and trying to understand it."
Yes, it's that deeper processing that we can aim for. Developing the kinds of critical thinking tasks that foster reflection, investigation, and redjusment.
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But she's also addicted to her phone."
What we sow is what we reap!
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