quizlet - free flashcards from paper!

quizleta ‘web 2.0’ app for your teaching
Matthew Allen, ALTC Teaching FellowCurtin University of Technology

quizlet
quizlet is a flashcard production and use system, with inbuilt group and collaboration features and innovative ways of testing knowledge

Quizlet – first look
Facebook login as well as normal signup; this, plus services like OpenID are making student identity management easy

Quizlet – a flashcard set
Note the live chat feature; handy for collaboration in real-time
Digital form makes flash cards much more usable: it’s a database, underneath the output

Quizlet – inbuilt testing
Very good testing environment – many options and easy to control tests; users can track their statistics too!

Key features...
Simple-to-create and manage flashcards, including images (either public or provided by user)
Testing (very rich array of options) as way of learning, including tracking of success
Groups, comments, online presence indicator, enable collaboration
Everyone is both a designer and a user

Quizlet – creating flashcards
Control over who can see and who can edit; a critical element in all effective web 2.0 – read/write when appropriate

Quizlet – creating flashcards
Images can be added automatically (from flickr public source); text entry ‘bigger’ than just a few words; easy to build over time

Quizlet – groups matter
Groups can share cards, co-create cards, discuss; groups create a ‘modified public’ enabling publication in a safe form.

Ideas for using...
Students create flashcards as if they were to use them in primary education; other students use flashcards to learn basics of subject areas
Flashcards created by teacher to get preliminary basic knowledge learned rapidly; later assignments tease out relations between concepts and ideas summarised in this way
Teacher creates ‘blank’ flashcards for students to complete: each student ‘copies’ the blanks and creates their own.

quizlet
Flashcards are not commonly associated with deep learning, since they focus on memorisation. However, because quizlet has a lot of design flexibility, it can provide a useful mechanism for making connections between the simple memorisation form of flashcards and more complex analytical operations.
The constrained design format of flashcards can challenge students, when required to create flashcard sets, to think about the way to capture and express complex knowledge relations in a ‘two-sided’ form
Digital form enables co-authoring, between teacher and students, in which different roles are played by each - the provision of partial information by one (not necessarily the teacher!) can either prompt learning or direct teaching.

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