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Meet the Anti-Cram: Time- Spaced Learning In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet , the character of Hamlet has about 1500 lines. Wow, that’s a lot to remember! Have you ever been in a play and had to memorize dialogue? How did you do it? How are actors able to remember so many lines? To memorize dialogue, actors instinctively use the kind of study techniques you will learn in this lesson. Actors know it’s impossible to learn all of their lines in one study session, so they space their learning over time. They review at intervals, recite, and self-test to learn lines. This is time-spaced learning. As you move up through high school and into college, content will be more difficult and there will be a lot more of it to learn. Time-spaced learning is an excellent method for improving your ability to retain learned information. Knowing why and how to create a time-spaced learning plan is an excellent study skill for high school and college readiness.
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Alas, poor Yorick!
Time-spaced learning, sire!
How will I remember
all my lines?
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Learning Goals By the end of this chapter you will be able to: 1. Describe how learned information is forgotten over time, as illustrated by The Forgetting Curve. 2. Explain how time-spaced learning improves retention of content. 3. Create a time-spaced learning plan using repetition at intervals, recitation, and self- testing.
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