Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
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Matuschak compares mentally anticipating a diagnosis with flashcard practice. Both can involve retrieval, while recalling an isolated word and using it in context exercise different relationships.
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there's like covert retrieval happeningstudying individual vocabulary words on flashcards often misses kind of integrative opportunities