You might have been watching a quiz show or been at pub trivia, heard a question and thought, ‘the answer’s on the tip of my tongue. I’ll know it if I hear it.’
This is the difference between recalland recognition.
Recall represents the deeper and more difficult type of learning. It’s the ability to retrieve information in detail, without prompting and to do this it must be more ingrained in long-term memory. Read More...
Over the past couple of years I have been working with a group of friends on a computer game – a political RPG set in classical Rome during the dying days of the Republic. When I started, I was doing piecemeal writing of short events, a few hundred words here and there, for modest, but appreciated pay.
Halfway through last year though, I finished my Master’s, was looking for something to do, and there seemed to be way more programming work to be done on the game than my friend could do alone, so I took up programming for the game as well. Read More...
I resent that Facebook mediates so much of my interaction with others.
I read Facebook regularly – as in many times a day – which means that I see a great deal of content I wouldn’t really choose to see . . . except that I do choose to see it by looking at Facebook.
That’s the Newsfeed which is under the most central control. I use Messenger a fair bit. Read More...
