Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Techniques

Re:Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Tech... by thundergolfer on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:38AM (#34984368)

> ChatGPT seems to be very good at generating cards btw

So you can get very good at memorizing occassionally incorrect information? If I'm going to put in the effort to drill information into my brain with spaced-repetition, I have a high bar for the accuracy of that information.

I hand write all my cards, and think it's commonly accepted that the manual process of producing the cards is an important first step in the memorization process.

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Re:Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Tech... by david_allison on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:18PM (#34985054)

You can prompt ChatGPT to convert existing information into Q/A or cloze style, which saves time for some workloads.

I wouldn't trust it to generate cards from scratch.

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Re:Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Tech... by eric__cartman on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:51PM (#34985638)

I'm not sure if this really saves time in the end. At least for me the part of taking a lot of information and thinking about condensing it in a few sentences is the most important part of making flashcards or similar summaries.

A lot of the time I end up never reading them, or reading them once because I already indirectly studied everything in the process of making them in the first place.

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Re:Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Tech... by gowld on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:53PM (#34985676)

There are many free flashcard making tools that are optimized for purpose.

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