[zeehio]

When I had to study and memorize some text at school I used to remember the page where the text was written and then mentally read it. Some of those pages are still in my head (for instance multiplication tables).

Once I was on an exam and I could not understand my own writing in the page I was remembering because I had written it too small on the corner. It was frustrating to not be able to answer the question. Afterwards, when I went to my real notes and I struggled to understand what was written there. I was happy that my memory image was accurate although frustrated for not managing the space in the page properly.

I thought everyone could remember things in this way.

Sometimes I have to write things down to see them and remember them, because mental speeches are harder (and less efficient) for me to remember.

I guess there are many ways to learn and remember stuff we just have to find the one that works better for us.

Being a teacher should require knowing about all this learning diversity I guess.

[thinkingemote]

I find reading from paper books better than digital for this reason. Spatial memory. Its quick for me to find a passage as I seem to know where to look. I don't remember the words or the passage I want but I know where to locate it. The section of the page, the bit of the chapter, the pattern and shape of the text (better if there's illustrations) the weight of the pages. I imagine it would be a little bit of a jump to use it to memorise the words themselves. I should give it a try with some bible verses but thinking about it all my bibles are formatted differently depending on translation edition etc. Different than most books.

With digital this seems to not be active and instead I have to guess the likely words and jump around the search results.