Flashcard For Learning

The other day I bought my daughter a flash card with different images that you can see everyday and at the back it has the name of the image and what letter the word starts with. I figured that since she is into he ABC's now, it would help her more to have images of objects that that starts with the letter. Sort of association.

Flashcard is widely known as an aid for studying. I started using flashcards way back when I was getting my degree for Computer Science. And now that I am back in school trying to finish another degree I started using it again.

For young children who is starting to learn their abc, words, name of objects and animals and numbers this is a great way to make learning fun and at the same time using visuals to help them learn more.

"A widely used method to efficiently use flashcards was proposed by the German science popularizer Sebastian Leitner in the 1970s. In his method, known as the Leitner system, flashcards are sorted into groups according to how well you know each one. This is how it works: you try to recall the solution written on a flashcard. If you succeed, you send the card to the next group. But if you fail, you send it back to the first group. Each succeeding group has a longer period of time before you are required to revisit the cards.

For example, suppose you have 3 groups called Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3. The cards in Group 1 are the ones that you often make mistakes with, and Group 3 contains the cards that you know very well. You might choose to study the Group 1 cards once a day, Group 2 every 3 days, and the Group 3 cards every 5 days. If you look at a Group 1 card and get the correct answer, you "promote" it to Group 2. A correct answer with a Group 2 card "promotes" that card to Group 3. If you make a mistake with a Group 2 or Group 3 card, it gets "demoted" to Group 1, which forces you to study that card more often.

The advantage of this method is that you can focus on the most difficult flashcards, which remain in the first few groups. The result is, ideally, a reduction in the amount of study time needed(Wikipedia)."

So if you are looking for something to help you and your child develop their learning skills, start with those colorful flashcards.

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