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Welcome to the FlashTime wiki!

Features

  • Personal Login feature for each student to make sure flashcards are kept safe
  • Create and study your own digital flashcards for free
  • Quiz yourself
  • track your progress (by indicating if you answered questions on the flashcards incorrectly or correctly)

Our Goals

Learn Faster

  • We can create digital study materials to help students understand and memorize info faster

Stress Less

  • You can access your flash cards regularly (Flashtime recommends using the pomodoro technique (30 minutes of studying + 5 minute break)

Maximize Free time

  • Digital study tools take less time than writing each flashcard on paper; making learning more efficient; allowing you to enjoy other activities

Metacognitive reflection

  • In order to retain the content from your course material flashcards permit students to interact with information to make it easier to remember. When you flip the answer side of a flashcard; students tend to ask themselves “How did my answer compare the correct answer?”
  • This type of self reflection is metacognition
  • This aids to ingrain memory of the study material deeper into our brains

Confidence-based repetition

  • Our app separates the flashcards you answered right and wrong; this allows you to focus on the flashcards that were wrong.
  • The more times you review a concept, the stronger your memory will be.
  • By studying the flashcards you answered incorrectly; this will essentially result in efficient learning
  • This practice of confidence-based repetition is proven by decades of research to be the most scientifically optimized way to improve memory performance

Active Recall

  • The flashcard format requires learners to look at one side of the card and recall the information from the other side.
  • This process engages a mental faculty called active recall.
  • You are remembering a concept from scratch rather than simply staring at text in a book or selecting from multiple-choice options.
  • Active recall creates stronger neuron connections and enhances memory.

Focused Learning

  • rather than trying to memorize a 20-page chapter in a textbook, digital flashcards break information down into bite-sized chunks of learning
  • Digital flashcard holds a single concept from course materials
  • A deck of flashcards contains similar information on the same topic. This focus allows you to absorb and retain information more easily
  • In addition, students will be more motivated when they see their results improving after each session of quizzing themselves