Providing the opportunity to forget…and remember

a close up of an elephants face

Over this past summer, a couple books that focus on the role of recall in learning came to my attention. Make it stick (Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (2014)) and Small Teaching by James Lang (2016) both claim that retrieval practice is essential for durable learning. The authors argue that practicing recall builds strong connections in…Continue Reading Providing the opportunity to forget…and remember