As Bartlett demonstrated in the 1930s, people do not ordinarily remember much of the exact information they read. They use selected portions of the information to address issues important to them. For all practical purposes, the vast bulk of information one reads is simply forgotten. Learning takes place when the new information becomes a part of the existing knowledge network. When elaborated and richly integrated, the new knowledge becomes meaningful and useful .
Meaningful knowledge is filed and cross referenced with other knowledge to which it is connected.
Useful knowledge is filed and cross-referenced so that you can find it when you need it. Some of these points may seem obvious, but studies strongly suggest that this kind of mental housekeeping makes the difference between good and poor readers. Note 16 Steps 6 and 7. Recall and Reconstruction People apparently do not store knowledge as long, complete strings of text but rather in a dynamic, interlinked network in which the elements have been analyzed into categories linked by multiple relationships that may be organized as schemas, scripts, narratives, or other forms. The organization of memory seems to be a good deal more like multidimensional hypertext than like paragraphs of linear prose.