atw: Re: The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts ...
- From: "bja" <moo-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:10:29 +1100
Sorry Bob... I didn't remember any more with the second block of text. That
is the standard I usually get from developers and BAs so I'm used to it. :)
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Trussler
Sent: Friday, 14 January 2011 9:24 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts ...
This reminds me of several things.
Is this effect related to the old saying of (apparently) Benjamin Franklin -
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The ugly fonts are a kind of involvement I suppose.
I worked with some functionally illiterate people years ago.
When they read something, or if you told them something, they HAD to
remember it. Reading was a slow and laborious process for them.
I was a bit more literate and wrote notes, remembered little, and referred
to my notes if I needed to.
The problems arose when changed things on the run.
"We need to change that to 150 metres"
"But you said 120 metres yesterday"
"Yes, but we now need it to be 150 metres"
"But you said 120 metres yesterday"
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Or if you prefer
This reminds me of several things.
Is this effect related to the old saying of (apparently) Benjamin Franklin -
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The ugly fonts are a kind of involvement.
I worked with some functionally illiterate people years ago.
When they read something, or if you told them something, they HAD to
remember it.
I was a bit more literate and wrote notes, remembered little, and referred
to my notes if I needed to.
The problems arose when I changed things on the run.
"We need to change that to 150 metres"
"But you said 120 metres yesterday"
"Yes, but we now need it to be 150 metres"
"But you said 120 metres yesterday"
Bob T
On 14 January 2011 15:01, Neil Maloney <maloneyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
" ... making material harder to learn - what the researchers call disfluency
- can actually improve long-term learning and retention ...."
at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/the-benefit-of-ugly-fonts/
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Bob Trussler
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