.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThat\u2019s it. The challenge is to come up with the day\u2019s word before you run out of your six allotted guesses.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat prompted me to write this piece was the realization that just a short time after successfully completing the puzzle on any given day, I usually have absolutely <\/span>no<\/b> idea what the solution word was.\u00a0 For the life of me I just can\u2019t remember.\u00a0 This is interesting to me, but does it have any significance?\u00a0 Let\u2019s think about it.<\/span><\/p>\nTo successfully arrive at a solution, one needs to perform some fairly significant strategic thinking.\u00a0 Wordle is basically a self-contained hypothesis\/feedback loop. It temporarily locks our brains into the task of rapidly generating possible letter combinations based on the specific set of information available at each point in time. The skills that we develop through practice on tasks like this (hypothesizing and responding to feedback) are ones that we can hold on to and re-apply in many other situations\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAs best I can theorize, our brains (generally) are only engaged with <\/span>the word<\/b> itself for that <\/span>brief<\/b> moment when we either experience triumph or suffer the ignominy of a shattered Wordle \u201cstreak\u201d.\u00a0 This brief moment of closure gives us no real reason to dwell upon the target word at any significant length.\u00a0 This leaves this memory (if we ever had it at all) susceptible to rapid degradation and loss.<\/span><\/p>\nSo what <\/span>can<\/b> we learn from Wordle?\u00a0 The thinking processes behind activities like this need to be practiced frequently by students in a variety of settings and applications.\u00a0 These have \u201clegs\u201d that can carry students far into the future.\u00a0 Memories, on the other hand, are hard work to build in the first place and even more difficult to maintain over extended periods of time.<\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d love to hear what you think about these thoughts and conclusions. And may your next Wordle streak go on and on and on and…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by: Paul Lindgren Wordle is one of those near-perfect online puzzles. It\u2019s new every day.\u00a0 It is very engaging.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t take a huge amount of time, and when… <\/p>\n
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