Benjamin Keep, PhD, JD | The Drawbacks of Flashcards @benjaminkeep | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Flashcards are helpful. But not that helpful. They have a lot of limitations that prevent them from being an all-purpose, go-to learning tool. Learn why flashcards aren’t so hot, and what some good alternatives are in this video.
00:00 Introduction
00:15 The forgetting curve and flashcards
01:32 Cued recall is not the greatest
03:07 Creating structure in the brain
04:56 Lack of context and application
07:11 Some alternative to flashcards
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The “word association” map (of colors), I pulled from Guo, J., Guo, H., & Wang, Z. (2011). Word activation forces map word networks. Nature Preceedings, 1-1. Just as an illustration of how the brain likely structures these things. nature.com/articles/npre.2011.5764.1.pdf?origin=ppub
Flashcards are helpful. But not that helpful. They have a lot of limitations that prevent them from being an all-purpose, go-to learning tool. Learn why flashcards aren’t so hot, and what some good alternatives are in this video.
00:00 Introduction
00:15 The forgetting curve and flashcards
01:32 Cued recall is not the greatest
03:07 Creating structure in the brain
04:56 Lack of context and application
07:11 Some alternative to flashcards
Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: benjaminkeep.com
The “word association” map (of colors), I pulled from Guo, J., Guo, H., & Wang, Z. (2011). Word activation forces map word networks. Nature Preceedings, 1-1. Just as an illustration of how the brain likely structures these things. nature.com/articles/npre.2011.5764.1.pdf?origin=ppub
