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In her poetry class at Columbia University, she makes all her students memorize poems, an experience, she says, in an age where memorization is frowned upon, that irrevocably changes them.
Scientists educated in "countries where memorization is a common pedagogical technique are sometimes surprised by US expectations that they cite sources for all direct quotations," they add.
"English is just memorization, just memorize it!" she taunts.
Where students who were intrinsically motivated to understand content perceived an assessment to require memorization, they would memorize facts after having first understood them (Tang 1994).
Use your favorite memorization technique to memorize it.
The piece takes a look at what the future of education could be in our networked society and presents fundamental divergence from previous methods of rote memorization -- in favor of tailored education where memorization may no longer be necessary for sake of pervasive information.
We have started to reinterpret our first studies on slow potentials, on tasks involving explicit memorization, stimulus comparisons, categorization and feedback anticipation, where the same multifocal, complex, highly variable sources of slow potentials were always observed.
What is involved is not "memory," the ability to remember things, but "memorization," the ability to memorize things by an act of memorization.
In courses where there is not mere rote memorization, grading is often highly subjective and arbitrary.
