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Memory and learning · Learning it

Teach it tonight

Explain what you learned today to your partner, a friend, or the dog. Your own words, two minutes, no notes.

2 minEvidence: decent

Students who actually taught what they'd studied still did better on a test a week later. Just expecting to teach helped on the day and had worn off by the week. The doing is the point: to explain something you have to find the gaps, and finding them fills them. Evidence: decent

Small student samples, one physics lesson, and a week is as far as anyone followed it.

If nobody's around, say it out loud anyway. The gaps show up just the same.

Source: Fiorella and Mayer, 2013, Contemporary Educational Psychology (link)

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