If you don't mind me asking, Randi, what would your perfect cards contain ?
I ask because mine would contain video clips, with the words to be remembered hidden in the Q and shown in the A. It could be a song, too. I use a nice font for my kanji, so that makes them graphic, they are pictures. I am unable to learn programming, so far: but might try making pictures of the txt one day. Perhaps Mnemosyne 2 will take video files? Would it help your CS studies to get materials from a much more challenging project? You could then tell yourself that Leo da Vinci actually studied very hard: but not baby stuff for school. Doing enough real projects would cover most of what is done at school if you are lucky in choices. G On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Randi H. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. > > -- > 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. 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