2. Paul Pimsleur studied memory recall and
found that for a memory to really stick you
have to be reminded of it at certain intervals
(2) –
2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour,
5 hours, 1 day, 5 days, 25 days,
4 months and 2 years
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3. In days gone by rapid learners used
paper flashcards and flicked through
them on a regular basis to help the
content on them sink in.
This has now become obsolete.
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4. We can now do an even better job using
software. The benefits are –
• Automatically sorts cards that are ‘due’
• Holds cards back that are well remembered so you can
focus on the ones that need work
• Additional resource links can be added
• Available (and synced across phone, web etc)
• Can include sound and video
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5. Spaced repetition learning works
because we’ve evolved only to focus on
the things that really matter to us.
Otherwise we’d have to go through
millions of references of information to
make each and every decision.
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6. Things (data) that we come across ‘often
enough’ stick in our brains because
we’ve evolved that if something happens
often it’s important.
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7. Spaced repetition software upgrades this
mechanism as it calculates ‘often
enough’ for us so we get the optimal
retainment of data without wasting time
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