I have a theory of why so few people use it in their daily routines...
Personally I would really like to use it for my official studies of
computer science, but as of yet it has not really been a succes for me.
At present I use SRS only for my self study of Japanese, which is less
than part time due to my full time study and my work taking most of the
time.
Personally I'm damned lazy but also very easy-learning which leads to me
not studying very much and still getting the next to highest grade in
almost every exam... I know I could do the top grade if I took the time,
and I try every once in a while but always end up doing everything
except studying and then quick-study the day before exam (as today) and
getting the next to highest grade... It's hard to do your best when your
worst gives almost the same results.
So as to my theory it concerns learning to do nice flash cards. No one
ever teached me, and yet I haven't had enough practice to feel very good
at it either. I have a hard time making the flash cards in the first
place, which results in me ending up not making them. Doing the reps
every day is very easy, if you have nice flash card which make you feel
they help you remember the important stuff. But how to pick out the
important stuff?! I don't really know.
So start teaching people how to smoothly and easily choose what to put
in a flash card and the good and bad forms of flash card instead of just
presenting them with a technology capable of making learning efficient -
I feel lost in how to make the creation of flash card a smooth part of
my daily routines.
Mvh.
Randi
Den 19-03-2011 22:09, Caio Rossi skrev:
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/
And especially this link:
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Peter Bienstman
<[email protected] <mailto:[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.)
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gwern
http://www.gwern.net
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