A problem arises when one has to learn new material. For many of us, actually writing the material down makes us retain it better. And for me, at any rate, writing it down in longhand works better for the memorisation of facts than typing things in.
I wish I knews of studies of retention like that. I'd really like to know why it is that this is so, in order that we can make sure we do not cheat our students of the tools they need to learn things. It is complicated by the fact that people differ in this matter, from the people with eidic or near eidic memories, who don't understand why people need tricks to learn how to memorise things, to people who can remember things that they read easier than things that they wrote, to people who can remember neither of those well, but do remember the spoken voice well. Why are we like this? Has anybody figured this out yet? Laura _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
