MAKING MEANING & MENTAL REHEARSAL.
MAKING MEANING & MENTAL REHEARSAL.
CONNECTING NEW LEARNING TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE | HOW WE LEARN | PAGE 16
To remember important ideas, you have to invest effort in making them meaningful in the first place. We make meaning when we connect new ideas to relevant ideas we already know — the more relevant the connections, the better. They help to anchor the new ideas so we don’t forget them and enable us to build upon ideas to form more complex understanding.
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