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One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with is in improving their notetaking to help them manage the “fire hose” of information.
If you use edtech in your classroom, you’ve probably seen at least one of the tools you use recently advertise their brand new “AI feature.”
At Podsie, the core of what we’re building has always been research-driven, so as the AI hype rages on, …
The first flashcards were probably etched on small stone tablets by anxious cave-students. Innovations since then have included printed cards, new fonts, color, and the ability to design flashcards on-line. But I’m here to tell you about what I (humbly) consider the best innovation ever: The 5-sided flashcard.
Like many students, I have highlighted and underlined, reread my notes, and summarized the material; but, what I have found to be most helpful is retrieval practice (also known as the testing effect). Retrieval practice as a form of studying and learning ...
The purpose of today’s post is to give students a resource to help them take charge of their own learning. We’re going to do a series of these over the next few weeks; today’s post is about retrieval practice – a useful method for studying any material ...
Many languages require the conjugation of verbs if they follow a pronoun. An effective way to study and learn these different conjugations is to use two stacks of flashcards simultaneously. One stack will consist of verbs, and the other stack will be the pronouns. ...
