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A lengthy but information-packed paper on the nature of games and the use of play in education. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but it seems like there is a lot here. I got it from a neat organization called The Education Arcade, which I'll bookmark above.

This is a video that breaks it down into more simple means for the students to understand how we categorize our memory when learning.

The importance of technology to learning and how children learn from television is explored.

What is knowledge and how does it work? This provides different types and gives examples and definitions.

Claymation video of synaptic plasticity. In simpler terms, synaptic plasticity is the rearranging of neurons that can signal onto one another in order to increase brain function and to help create successful long term potentiation of signals (memory!)

This website gives a more scientific overview of why memory occurs. Which is in part due to long term potentiation of synapses.