While reviewing a past article in The New York Times (“Forgot Where You Parked? Good”), we thought about the many things we’d learned in the past, then quickly forgotten. These include: 1) how many dimples are in a golf ball, 2) what is the capital of Wisconsin, and 3) who wrote the story “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” This information will be forever forgotten, since there’s rarely a need to remember it. Other, more important information (to the instructional designer, at least)