{"id":5172,"date":"2019-11-25T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:18:41","slug":"more-about-macbeth-and-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/more-about-macbeth-and-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Macbeth and Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/tea-and-macbeth-autobiographical-vs-semantic-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earlier this month<\/a>, I wrote about the distinction between <strong>autobiographical<\/strong> memory and <strong>semantic<\/strong> memory.<\/p>\n<p>Both kinds help us live meaningful lives.<\/p>\n<p>But, schools focus on <strong>semantic<\/strong> memory: we want our students to know facts and skills over the long term.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t really need them to remember the class or the exercise (or even the teacher) who taught them those facts and skills. That&#8217;s <strong>autobiographical<\/strong> memory.<\/p>\n<p>That blog post was inspired by Clare Sealy&#8217;s recent essay ironically entitled &#8220;Memorable Experiences Are the Best Way to Help Children Remember Things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Happily, Sealy is the guest on a recent EdNext <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/ednext-podcast-key-to-helping-children-remember-memory-sealy\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>: you can hear her in-depth explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Equally happy, that podcast includes Sealy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/best-way-to-help-children-remember-things-not-memorable-experiences-excerpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>To understand Sealy&#8217;s argument, and its full implications, you can both have a look and have a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I wrote about the distinction between autobiographical memory and semantic memory. Both kinds help us live meaningful lives. But, schools focus on semantic memory: we want our students to know facts and skills over the long term. We don&#8217;t really need them to remember the class or the exercise (or even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice","tag-long-term-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}