Educational theorists say that memorization is on the way out in the modern day classroom.
According to modern thought, there is no room for rote work when you have activities to complete such as problem solving, creative work, and cooperative learning. Rote memorization is put on the back burner because of its inability to produce authentic learning opportunities. This article also gave some ideas about how memorization can be made more enjoyable. Another approach suggested that bizarre associations between two trigger words can help in the memorization of two other words. A technique that is even more fun to do includes making a sentence out of the first letter of the words of the list you are trying to memorize or a sentence made up of words starting with the letters of the word you are trying to spell.