As Benedict Carey put it in How We Learn, “The brain does not store facts, ideas, and experiences like a computer does, as a file that is clicked open, always displaying the identical image. It embeds them in networks of perceptions, facts, and thoughts” (Carey 2014a p. 20). An easy way to illustrate this notion of networked knowledge is to point to the difference between an expert in a subject (such as you) and a novice learner (such as your student). When your student encounters facts in your discipline for the first time, she picks them up as fragmented, isolated units, almost like dates of
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