http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/03/07/the-shortest-blog-post-ever/ Thoughts on education and educational technology. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:06:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/03/07/the-shortest-blog-post-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-12686 mrsdurff Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:50:39 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/03/07/the-shortest-blog-post-ever/#comment-12686 If one remembers the material this term, it is safe to say it is in short-term memory, hence learned. But is the information in long-term memory, hence in life-long memory? That is where information is truly useful. I cannot remember what I had for dinner last week (can you?) but I remember how many rimes are contained in the English language, how many English words are produced in those rimes are combined with different onsets, and in which book I read that and who wrote it. The difference is short-term memory versus long-term memory. That information was useful to me. Einstein, a rather knowledgeable guy, didn't know his phone number. It wasn't useful to him. Anyone see a pattern here? If one remembers the material this term, it is safe to say it is in short-term memory, hence learned. But is the information in long-term memory, hence in life-long memory? That is where information is truly useful. I cannot remember what I had for dinner last week (can you?) but I remember how many rimes are contained in the English language, how many English words are produced in those rimes are combined with different onsets, and in which book I read that and who wrote it. The difference is short-term memory versus long-term memory. That information was useful to me. Einstein, a rather knowledgeable guy, didn’t know his phone number. It wasn’t useful to him. Anyone see a pattern here?

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