![]() ![]() The longer and deeper we think about something, the more likely we are to commit it to memory the more aspects of an idea we uncover, the more easily we can connect it to other parts of knowledge and retrieve it in the future. This means that the next time a similar topic comes up, like classifying invertebrates, the student will now have multiple ways to access the information (number of legs and body parts), thus achieving a deeper understanding of spiders, insects, and the categorical differences between the two. How is a spider not an insect? This question prompts more informational tags that provide more potential points of connection, such as spiders have eight legs while insects have six or spiders have two main body parts while insects have three. ![]() This means the student answering it has fewer opportunities to connect that informational item to similar ones in the future.
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