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Finally, Education Technology based on real research
- tokenadult 14y agoI like this author a lot. The original article she cites http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628965.000-app-for-quizzing-your-way-to-being-a-mastermind.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628965.000-app-for-q... was submitted to HN (no comments) a little while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993060 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993060 after I saw the author post it to Facebook, where she is my friend. We may as well discuss the report here in this thread.
- kylemathews 14y agoUhhhh... there's a gazillion products based on "spaced repetition" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
- cicero 14y ago"I haven’t seen any commercial products that put together all these different things" (emphasis mine). There appears to be more to Cerego than simple spaced repetition, but I can't tell exactly what right now because it is in limited beta. I used "Mental Case" on the iPhone a few years ago, and it had a simple implementation of spaced repetition, but it did not adjust itself to my progress very well. I would like to find something better; if you know of anything specific besides the Wikipedia article, please post it.
- Turing_Machine 14y ago"The amount of information we need to retain is growing rapidly" Like the capital of Maryland? I would argue that the need to retain that type of information is in rapid decline, not rapid growth. The likelihood of me needing to know the capital of Maryland in a situation where I don't have access to Google is minute. Seriously, I have computers and books to offload this type of trivial information. That said, I learned the state capitals in third grade and do and still remember them. I just question whether that was a good use of my prime learning years.