Quizlet is an AWESOME web 2.0 tool that helps students of all kinds learn and study just about anything! It is an interactive flashcard site that has a large group of flashcards made up, but also allows you to make up your own. Whether you are a teacher or a student, most of us have some experience with using flashcards as an excellent study tool, but have you tried it online? If not, Quizlet is the site for you.
This interactive platform really draws you in with self-tests and games. A graduate student, Andrew, at MIT who is actively working on making this site better and more user friendly all the time, started this site. In a recent blog post (Sept. 9, 2010), gave the statistic, “if you add up the length of each quizlet visitor’s study sessions in a single day, you get 1008 days, or about 2.9 years.” (The Quizlet Blog, 9/9/10) That is an amazing statistic and speaks to how engaging and interesting this site is. I found myself looking at Spanish word flashcards and then taking the “tests” to see how much I learned, or what grade I could get.
I ultimately found a set of wonderful cards, which I will be attaching to my class site Moodle, the Fertile Crescent. The existing card set matches perfectly with the chapter the 6th grade social studies class is learning and this tool will hopefully only enhance that learning. I also plan on continuing this connection throughout the year and encourage the students to explore this site and test their knowledge on whatever might peak their interest. I have to go now, get back on Quizlet; I may have found a way to study that inspires learningJhttp://quizlet.com/
Pictures: Screen shots of cards made by Tiffany Jones on quizlet.com
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