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Matthias Melcher offers a critique of: Stephen P. Anderson; Karl Fast; Christina Wodtke. Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding. It sounds like a good read, though it's a book you have to pay for, so I don't expect to read it any time soon. But there are some good thoughts here. Like this: "the notion of information as a resource that can be interacted with. And this interaction is not the usual sequential one such as in: 'action and then the response' (p. 255), or read then think then write, or the question then answer dialog by teachers (or their digital simulation in H5P interactivity, which may help retention but perhaps nothing else). Rather, it is simultaneous and a 'tight coupling'..

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