O1-Module1
Memorization
Any teachers/trainers want their training to have long-term effects on their learners : about their knowledge, skills or behaviors.
Basically, a training course whose content is offered at one time is often just a starting point for learning. To turn it into a sustainable asset, we have to come back to it many times.
Forgetting Curve from Hermann Ebbinghaus
According to the results of a study by the famous German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, after 20 minutes of class, the student forgets 42% of what he has learned.
Without further revision, 24 hours later, almost 67% of learning is lost and 79% after one month and 90% after two months.
But the forgetting process can be slowed with the repetition. As the saying goes, "Repetition is the mother of all learning".
Discover below some practices, rooted in the digital area in order to optimize the effects of the repetition on the long-term memorization.
Innovative practices, rooted in the digital area
Recall just before forgetting with Anki flashcards
The interest of this digitized practice
Anki Flashcards is based on three principles :
the active recall : By using flashcards with a question on one side and the answer on the other, learners force themselves to try to recall the information.
the spaced repetition : Anki manages the review schedule thanks to a spaced quizzing algorithm for optimal long-term memorization. If you can answer a question correctly, the time interval between reviews gradually expands. But if you miss an answer, the question will be repeated in a shorter interval.
the form of the repetition : a same information can be introduced under different forms. Text, image, sound, diagram, ... can be easily added on each flashcards.
Repetition and long-term memorization: the contributions of the cognitive sciences
The active recall testing
Active recall is very efficient in consolidating long-term memory. Research revealed that it is the quickest, most efficient, and effective way to study written materials.
The active recall testing is characterized by three steps :
ask ourselves a question,
reflect to the answer,
feedback and correction.
The spaced repetition
Spaced repetition is a learning technique that incorporates increasing intervals of time between recalls in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect.
Two important principles emerge :
- Repeat very closely at the beginning: because the "trace of new information" is particularly fragile at first.
- Repeat by increasing intervals. It must be repeated with increasingly larger intervals. This is consistent with the fact that taking the time to forget requires a more intense effort of restitution. We forget very quickly in the beginning, then more and more slowly over the consolidation.
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