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Month: March 2018

Helping students’ memories – utilising elaborative retrieval

March 21, 2018 paulgmoss

‘A heart whose love is innocent!’ This is the last line from George Gordon Lord Byron‘s poem “She Walks in Beauty”. It’s a significant line

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