This is an interesting crash-course in spaced repetition, a method where you break topics you want to learn down into small, connected, & meaningful index cards and spacing out your testing+review...
This is an interesting crash-course in spaced repetition, a method where you break topics you want to learn down into small, connected, & meaningful index cards and spacing out your testing+review of these index cards by increasing gaps. I've heard about it in the past, most recently in a failed attempt to learn Japanese—I just made index cards but didn't adopt a solid review strategy, but I've never applied spaced repetition. I'm slightly convinced that this would have made me a better student if I was ever exposed to it while I was in school.
After going through Nicky's interactive comic, I think I'm going to try to commit to adopting this. I'm still debating whether I want to make Leitner box, or use an app like Anki to review. My immediate impulse is to make a Leitner box, because I'm a bit old-fashioned and like pens and paper, but I also strongly suspect I'll have a better pickup rate by using a flexible system that travels with me, by using the Anki app. (In a way this relates to how I'm in the kindle ecosystem, so I can read a book on my Kindle, Mac, iPad, or iPhone; my read state syncs everywhere. Even though I prefer reading books on paper, I can churn through way more eBooks because they're always available.)
Anki works quite well in my experience, but depending on what you're trying to learn it can be a little difficult to find (or make) a set of cards related to the subject.
Anki works quite well in my experience, but depending on what you're trying to learn it can be a little difficult to find (or make) a set of cards related to the subject.
This is an interesting crash-course in spaced repetition, a method where you break topics you want to learn down into small, connected, & meaningful index cards and spacing out your testing+review of these index cards by increasing gaps. I've heard about it in the past, most recently in a failed attempt to learn Japanese—I just made index cards but didn't adopt a solid review strategy, but I've never applied spaced repetition. I'm slightly convinced that this would have made me a better student if I was ever exposed to it while I was in school.
After going through Nicky's interactive comic, I think I'm going to try to commit to adopting this. I'm still debating whether I want to make Leitner box, or use an app like Anki to review. My immediate impulse is to make a Leitner box, because I'm a bit old-fashioned and like pens and paper, but I also strongly suspect I'll have a better pickup rate by using a flexible system that travels with me, by using the Anki app. (In a way this relates to how I'm in the kindle ecosystem, so I can read a book on my Kindle, Mac, iPad, or iPhone; my read state syncs everywhere. Even though I prefer reading books on paper, I can churn through way more eBooks because they're always available.)
Anki works quite well in my experience, but depending on what you're trying to learn it can be a little difficult to find (or make) a set of cards related to the subject.