Hello, I'm Brazilian and teach English as a foreign language down here in Brazil. The students I have introduced SRS to like it, but only one or another has adopted it in their daily routines, and those were the more studious ones.
Regardless of that, I use Mnemosyne wilth all of them in class at the beginning of each class in order to review vocabulary and structures, especially but not exclusively those they ask for while they are doing a conversation activity, as those are the ones they generally don't care to memorize. All my students recognize how important and useful that technology is, as it guarantees frequent review and better retention. And better than that: they just love it! Two of them even call it "The Game"... But there are "philosophical" reasons why that technology is not more widely used, as it goes against the dearest mainstream theories of learning and education. I believe SRS would face the same reaction Direct Instruction has, and DI, by the way, seems to be the educational theory that adapts the best to SRS - or the other way round, in fact. Check out: http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/387/OpenModules/Engelmann/ <http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/387/OpenModules/Engelmann/>And especially this link: http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/387/OpenModules/Engelmann/evidence.shtml <http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/387/OpenModules/Engelmann/evidence.shtml> Hugs, Caio On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Peter Bienstman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wasn't able to easily find the metrics you are referring too, but I > > personally find 100 000 a big number :-) > > I linked directly to the section, so it should've been hard to miss > the table. I recently added some aggressive caching headers, so maybe > a force-refresh would help. > > > I'm all for introducing more people to the SRS philosophy, but I would be > > hesitant to *enforce* it in e.g. language schools. > > 'code is law'. If you read my previous link, you'd see that SRS can be > integrated into tests/quizzes and teaching. This is not *as good* as a > user-specific deck with customized spacings, but it is a great > improvement over current techniques. (And as I pointed out, this flaw > could be fixed by any computer-based learning. The class could proceed > on a crude average SRS schedule of review & learning new material, and > individual students get touched up by individually-generated tests.) > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
