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As we plunge into a new world of infinitely connectible and accessible information, we risk losing our means and ability to go beneath the surface, to think deeply.
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Data begin to outstrip the making of meaning, in part because our technologies create an unending stream of information that reveals new arenas of human ignorance…
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Whether we’re looking for information on a diagnosis of cancer or writing a work report, uncertainty is an essential component of the process, not an unwelcome impediment to learning.
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Keeping stores of information may be the least of our challenges. Understanding what we’ve saved will be a far trickier task.
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We surely need to wisely preserve our digital heritage so that we don’t become either informational amnesiacs or mindless hoarders of life’s minutia. But we need a past to learn from.
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The brain selects meaning-laden information for further processing and leaves the rest alone.
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The more a learner focuses on the meaning of information being presented, the more elaborately he or she will process the information.
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The events that happen the first time you are exposed to information play a disproportionately greater role in your ability to accurately retrieve it at a later date.
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…repeated exposure to information in spaced intervals provides the most powerful way to fix memory into the brain.
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…reading is a relatively slow way to put information into the brain.
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