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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Memory Test - How to Make Gestures Work

Students are used to learning and being tested. And the material we gave them is varied. We never suggested that gestures would be helpful. But about 70% made lines for paths and dots for places. The way you would do if you were drawing somebody a sketch map of how to get from one place to another, they remembered better.

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