And the importance of teaching for Automaticity becomes more important than ever, when even instant-recall is no longer enough to help our children to get ahead.

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While it may seem counterintuitive, the fact is that experts are just people who have learned the basic facts of their discipline cold enough (they have developed a level of Automaticity with basic functions) that actually makes it distracting to consciously consider these details.

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Now that tablets have proliferated widely both at home and in schools, and students really can learn any time, any place, so long as they are motivated, the next logical question becomes: How do we build content for mobile platforms that is personalized enough, engaging enough, adaptive enough, and rigorous enough to make kids the drivers of their own advancement towards Automaticity, and beyond?

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