Flashcards

1. FLASHCARDS
By,
Shefi Varghese
Homescience

2. What is FLASHCARD…?
a card containing a small amount of information, held up for
pupils to see, as an aid to learning.
OR
a card bearing words, numbers, or pictures that is briefly
displayed (as by a teacher to a class) usually as a learning aid.

3. MAKING FLASHCARDS…….
• choose the category of information for your deck of flashcards
• Select the most important information within that category
• Personalize the card to make them unique to you.

4. MERITS…..
One of cheapest and effective way to
teach and study
Easy to use
Using flashcards can be a very effective in self testing approach
The act of making flashcard is a way to work the
information,challenging you to think about which information to have
on one side and related description on the other side.
Flashcards allows to take advantage of short amounts of time.
Flashcard can be fun

5. DEMERITS…..
• Some lexical fields cannot be illustrated
• They can become boring when using repetively
• Difficult words are not easy to study using flashcards

6. Powerful Flashcards
1. Retrieve(don’t cheat)
2. Re-order(shuffle and interleave)
3. Repeat(at least 3 times)

7. APPS for making flashcards….
1. Tinycards - Flashcards by Duolingo.
2. Quizlet.
3. Flashcards+ by Chegg.
4. StudyBlue.
5. Flashcards with Cram.
6. AnkiApp Flashcards.
7. Brainscape - Smart Flashcards.
8. Flashcards Deluxe.