Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
It turns out that even when students understand that retrieval practice is a superior strategy, they often fail to persist long enough to get the lasting benefit. For example, when students are presented with a body of material to master, say a stack of foreign vocabulary flashcards, and are free to decide when to drop a card out of the deck becaus
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better strategy is to space your reviews out, a little bit each day, so that the same amount of time has a greater impact.
Scott Young • Get Better at Anything
Spaced repetition uses flash cards and asks you to keep the hard words you didn’t remember at the top of the deck and push to the bottom the words you already know. Essentially, the quicker you remember a word, the deeper in the deck it ends up. With physical flash cards, this is implemented by you. You make sure any “hard” words you didn’t remembe
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Finally, new tools for thought help users learn and recall information, often by using spaced repetition, whether through flashcards or daily digests
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The state of personal knowledge management
“Repeated exposure to information in specific time intervals provides the most powerful way to fix memory into the brain.”