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Stephen Downes

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I don't agree at all with the theory presented in this article, but you'll see it a lot in discussions of technology design. "The purpose of this series of blog posts is to highlight three potentially useful connections between these research areas:  selective attention, encoding/deep processing (the topic of this post), and retrieval practice." According to this article, "Teachers have to make hundreds of instructional decisions that impact what kind of cognitive 'work' students do in their working memories. This deliberate attention to cognitive work in working memory is also relevant to feedback decisions."

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