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When Academic Memory and Life Skills Don't Connect

My son learns multiplication tables instantly but cannot remember to put his backpack by the door and I do not understand how memory works.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different types of learning and memory systems operate independently without integration across contexts.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning theories — behaviorism through constructivism?”

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